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2 September 2009

Print headline sells the news, optimized web headline tells the news

This is a guest blog post by Ahteram Uddin, who runs online marketing for the Times of India, the largest newspaper in the world. Yes– bigger than New York Times.

If you are into News aggregating business or your…

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3 August 2009

How to grow your SEM business in Asia

Guest Post By Gerald Neo, Who runs  GeraldsHeralds.com

SEM in Singapore is just starting out. Lots of companies have just started to realise the importance of SEM. For those, that have started for a few years, are only…

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3 August 2009

I will do a SEO analysis of your site for FREE!

A few days ago, I offered to perform a SEO analysis on the website of one lucky winner– something at BlitzLocal that we normally charge between $6k-10k to do.  There were 23 responses and I’m choosing BusSongs.com, which

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24 July 2009

The 3 types of Facebook traffic– what is best?

My apologies in advance for the math here– I’ll keep it to a minimum to explain the points.

Below is a Google Analytics screenshot from a funeral planning site.  Facebook traffic represents sources 4, 5, and 8.

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23 July 2009

Are you going to ThinkTank in San Diego– September 17-19th?

I am pleased to be invited to ThinkTank, which takes place in just 2 months.  It’s invite-only and is nearly sold out– but if you ask one of the attendees like myself, you might still get a spot. …

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25 June 2009

Google Template Center– want to clone your PPC accounts?

We’ve been testing Google Template Center since November 2008.  As you would imagine, if you want to multiply clones off a master template, this is the tool for you.  You can create a master…

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14 June 2009

Raining money from the sky

Golf-ball sized hail is coming down right now in Boulder- our yard looks like a driving range littered with hail chunks. As an internet marketer, instead of hearing hail pelting our windows, I hear clicks from people typing in “Denver…

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27 May 2009

Funeral marketing is no grave matter

We’ve been selling discount caskets and headstones online. What’s interesting is that we do the PPC for a wrestling company, for which we bid on the term “undertaker”.  Now which undertaker is the one that you’re searching for– the one…

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16 January 2009

Display ad prices drop 50% in Q4

Pubmatic released a report covering the massive drop– Q408 average CPMs are at 26 cents.  Before folks claim economic peril, let’s consider a few other factors.  The mix of inventory for ad network has shifted…

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3 January 2009

Does your site suck?

Have you seen YSlow? It is a Firefox plugin that extends Firebug’s functionality to show some interesting information, such as page load times, and the heaviest parts of the site. You can use the information gathered to increase performance…

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