best affiliate networks

Affiliate Marketing without a doubt is one of the best ways to make money online. Note that I said best and not easy. As with anything else, affiliate marketing requires a bit of effort and while they are many ways to promote and convert traffic into sales, I won’t go into those details as the [...]

social media optimization

Social media optimization is never straightforward. That’s the whole point. You are trying to get your core audience to do your ranking work for you – rather than paying link farms to stuff your site full of inbound links from heaven knows where, you get genuine, solid referrals from actual humans, plus loads of chatter [...]

Google Privacy Changes, Trust Triggers, SEO, Speedlink 04:2012

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Hello everyone. Hope you all had a great week. Following last weeks buzz about Google’s algorithm changes, Matt Cutts has clarified the issue about displaying too much ads above the fold. What it boils down to is that it is really not the quantity of the ads that matter, but rather the “space” those ads [...]

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Best SEO Plugins For WordPress 2012 (part 2)

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Following my recent post about the best SEO plugins for WordPress (part 1), this is the second and final part of the series. Again, before anything else, please ensure that you are not “exaggerating” on the amount of plugins you are using, as excessive plugins may slow your site down and that is bad for [...]

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Ads Galore, Google+ SEO, SOPA, Social Web, Speedlink 03:2012

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Hi everyone! Hope you all had an awesome week. SOPA issue undoubtedly has dominated the buzz this week, and you may have noticed that there were sites, such as WikiPedia, Craiglist, etc., that went dark for a whole 24 hours. All in protest for the proposed Software Online Privacy Act and the PIPA (protect IP [...]

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Audible’s Affiliate Program, A Sneak Peek

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Not so long ago, I have written a post about how to find products for those who are into affiliate marketing. Part of the method I recommend to pinpoint opportunities is by looking at trending products. Rather than going directly for those products which in many occasions are highly competitive, I instead use the reverse [...]

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Is Google’s AdSense Really Worth It?

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Have you stopped to think that the reason why you are not making money with Google AdSense is maybe because it is not the program that is not performing well, but rather the way you use it and going a bit further, your own website? Yeah, AdSense is not good for useless and low quality [...]

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Pinterest, Google+ Search, Social Web, SEO, Speedlink 02:2012

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Hi everyone! Hope you all had a great and productive week. Undoubtedly, one of the most noteworthy news this week was about Google+ Search Your World. This move from Google appeared to have “pis*** off” a lot of people, most particularly Twitter, who publicly announced a statement to various news outlets, Tuesday afternoon. Google responded [...]

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6 Essential Social Media Tools for Local Businesses

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In the past, local businesses would rely on traditional marketing campaigns to reach their local audience. Newspapers, television ads and radio segments were common mediums through which small businesses would target potential customers. Today, nearly every small business has integrated social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Yelp into their marketing practices. However, one mistake [...]

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Best WordPress SEO Plugins For 2012

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If you read my previous post about the best SEO practices, I mentioned that one of the most important elements to search engine optimization is on-page (or on-site) optimization or, for the purpose of this post, the part of WordPress that deals with the “code”. WordPress is a great platform and takes care of about [...]

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Rich Snippets, Blogging, SEO, Social Web, Speedlink 01:2012

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Hi everyone! Welcome to my first SpeedLink of 2012. Hope you all had a wonderful new year! For those of you who are not familiar with SpeedLink, it is nothing more than a weekly roundup of the most interesting posts, webmaster help videos, etc.., I have stumbled upon during the week. Essentially, I find, read, [...]

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How To Find WordPress Plugins That Affect Your Sites Performance?

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WordPress plugins are great and using the right ones can enhance your WP powered websites in so many ways that you can think of. If you are looking for Ad management tools to help you manage your ad spaces, there are plugins for that, if you want to provide an easier way for your audience [...]

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