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As 2009 winds to a close, we look to 2010 with antici…….pation and enthusiasm.  It’s a whole new year with a clean slate.  And with the new year comes a reflection on where we’ve been and where we’re going.  The web has changed drastically and that changes the way we, as internet marketers, do business.
2009 [...]

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Upgrade Day!

by Michelle MacPhearson

This entry is part 4 of 23 in the series 31 Day Internet Marketing MakeoverWelcome to Day 4 of the Internet Marketing Makeover (#31DIMM for short)!
In the same spirit of preventing our attention from being spread across too many progect, to-do’s and tasks as yesterday’s “Cull the Herd” assignment, today we’ll be removing even more [...]

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As if to put a little exclamation point on Saturday’s post, “Twitter’s DOS Attack (And Why Social Media Sucks)” the URL shortening service Tr.im announced Sunday that they’re closing their doors.
We marketers use different methods to shorten URL’s, and for different reasons.
While on Twitter, we may shorten a long URL just so it doesn’t take [...]

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Systematic Wordpress Success

by Michelle MacPhearson

I use and adore Wordpress (and you should too), because:

Google loves Wordpress blogs, indexes and ranks them quickly
There are a crapload of plugins available so you can make it do just about anything
It’s already in your Cpanel’s Fantastico so it’s a breeze to install

On the pages linked here there is a step-by-step system for using [...]

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WP Adsense Auto – Magically

by Michelle MacPhearson

There’s a plugin I use on market testing blogs I wanted to share with you that adds Adsense blocks automatically to your Wordpress blog.
The process goes like this:
Start a Wordpress blog on the niche of your choice, optimize on-page, bookmark it, get it indexed, do some preliminary link building.
Once the site is indexed, add the [...]

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Methods of Marketing Online

by Michelle MacPhearson

Ok, there are guru (and non-guru) products launched every week teaching you different methods of marketing online.
Learn as much as you can about 1 before moving on to another. Jumping from method to method, product to product will do you no good.
Let’s take a look at some basic methods of marketing online:
Blackhat v. Whitehat: [...]

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Custom Site Building Script

by Michelle MacPhearson

There’s a new site building script available, and tonight I was finally able to test it out.
It’s I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E!
I really can’t say enough how much I enjoy working with this script.  It’s entirely customizable (I saw their claims that it was and didn’t believe it, but really, it’s entirely, 100% customizable) and doesn’t take a scripting [...]

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Social Wordpress Plugins

by Michelle MacPhearson

Wordpress, or blogging in general, is a perfect entry into social media marketing. The interaction with visitors available just via comments is very Web 2.0, and there are hundreds of plugins that help socialize one’s blog even further.
A few that I use and recommend:

AutoSocialPoster: Automatically submits new posts you write to social bookmarking directories.
Popularity [...]

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I discussed Blog Rush & Traffic Jam in a recent post, and Andy Beard has followed up with a comprehensive pros-n-cons look at the services from John Reese.  One tool he mentioned was the Blog Rush Click Maximizer plugin for Wordpress.
This plugin allows you to change your post title to something a bit more BlogRush [...]

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