Monthly Archives: September 2011

Wife Demands a Stop To Internet Marketing

Back in 2007 Kevin was living the dream.
A Masters of Business Administration graduate, Kevin was earning two hundred thousand plus a year living the good life.
Kevin would take frequent business trips with his family, owned a wonderful home and the headhunters called weekly.
But this all changed in 2008 when our economy crashed.
After losing his job the phone calls from recruiters came to a screeching stop.
Now desperate to earn a living to provide for his family, Kevin turned to Internet Marketing.
“I began by buying those too good to be true programs that promised fast and easy money on the Internet. Then ... Read More

SEO Mom is Devastated!

Imaging your 19 year old son who just graduated high school at the top of his class, who also has scholarships to attend a prestigious university tells you that he wants to put his education on hold because of some “crazy” new online business that he had started.
Wouldn’t this just devastate you as a parent?
This is exactly how Andrew Polanski’s mother felt just a few weeks ago.
Let me explain.
Back in April Andrew was one of our students attending the Local Search Workshop. In May he came back for our Affiliate Marketing Workshop.

In June Andrew called me. He was very excited ... Read More

How to Recover from Panda

Has your site taken a dive in Google’s SERPs?
If your website experience a sudden drop in Google’s Search Engine Results pages for your main keyword terms, it could be due to a number of issues.
But chances are if your decrease in your websites ranking has happened within the past six months the likely culprit is Panda.
First, here is the current timeline of the Panda updates.
Panda 1.0 – 2/23/2011
Also called the “Farmer Update” Google’s first Panda update went live on February 23, 2011 within the U.S.A. and Google related that this algorithm change impacted over 12% of the results in their ... Read More

Pecha Kucka Your YouTube Videos

Are you looking for ways to make your YouTube videos more interesting and engaging to your audience and ultimately get more traffic?
If so Pecha Kucka them.
Pecha Kucha is a presentation mythology in which 20 slides are shown for 20 seconds each and are typically done live during a multi-speaker event called a Pecha Kucha night.

A Pecha Kucha event consists of around a dozen presentations with each speaker having only 6 minutes and 40 seconds explaining his or her ideas with the slides forwarding automatically on screen.
And after each presentation is done, the next speaker takes the stage.
Today it’s a worldwide ... Read More

The Getty Images Demand Letter

During our SEO Coaching Session last week a member revealed that they had received “the letter” from Getty Images notifying him that their e-commerce site was infringing on their copyrights, demanding that they produce a valid license for the image(s) within the next 14 days or remove the image along with paying Getty $700 for using the image without permission.
Our member was shocked to say the least since he had outsourced development of the website to a US based web developer who he paid several thousands of dollars to.
When he followed up with them after receiving “the letter” the developer’s ... Read More