December 2010

lead conversion image

A lot of online marketers battle to break even after they spend some money on marketing tools and strategies. Many are told a bunch of hype (and lies) about internet marketing techniques and how they can easily make money online. I can honestly say most of what you hear about traffic generation is only a part of the whole process of building a successful business. So, what’s still missing?

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facebook commenting EIF tribe

Looking back at the start of my blog this past July, I am completely blown away with how fast it’s grown. Apparently, you are too since the questions of how I did it keep pouring in. I am always happy to oblige my audience, so in this post I’ll talk about how I created a [...]

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blogging distractions

I hate shopping at the mall. I hate it because the mall’s entire purpose is to ambush me and make it way too easy for me to spend all my money. I can’t just walk through the mall to get to where I need to shop; I have to run the gauntlet of ten thousand [...]

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ebay traffic generation

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about possibilities of using Ebay for link building and even list building. Take a look at the result of my research: Ebay For Link Building: Going Once, Going Twice… And It Works! I wasn’t surprised to hear that not too many of you heard of this [...]

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blog audit friday susanna hess

And so it’s Friday again - a beautiful day here in sunny Arizona, I might add. Allow me to introduce the target of this Blog Audit Friday: Susanna Hess and her blog SusannaHess.com SusannaHess.com December 10, 2010 From the laptop of: Ana Hoffman Dear Susanna : Congratulations on your one year blogging anniversary - quite [...]

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blog better than website

Listen Up and Say Ahhh… Okay, before any of you go into a web frenzy and begin to thrash my title and protest, let me explain… First: Yes! We all know that a blog is a website. No argument here. Second: The invisible yet operative word is - OFTEN. But in my personal case it’s [...]

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make money blogging piggy bank

I get asked a lot how I make money blogging. And I completely understand why. That’s precisely what I wanted to know when I first started my online business a year ago. Turned out that the formula for making money online is fairly simple in itself; just 4 simple steps paved the way. 4 Steps [...]

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google pagerank signs

Links, Pagerank and the Semantic Web – A Prediction Most bloggers do their own SEO, often in combination with plug-ins, such as All in One SEO Pack or AVH First Defense Against Spam. Still, it behooves each of us to have at least a working knowledge of what the search engines are looking for and [...]

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search engine optimization out of the box

The Internet is so overwhelming that surfing really is about finding a few places to hide out. A few places that offer meaningful information. The issue is that every other blogger is writing about the standard search engine optimization tips. Like installing the All in One SEO plugin among other things. So there aren’t really [...]

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blog audit friday

Fridays are quickly becoming my favorite blogging days. Maybe because that’s when I go to people’s blogs, tear them apart, and REALLY let them know what I think about them! And they even ask me to do that… No pain, no gain, I suppose… But all jokes aside, I really do enjoy helping other bloggers [...]

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