While I really like the principal behind GW I’m yet to be convinced that the current implementation will be good enough to replace email and instance messaging.
I do not say we are successful but we always place our website URLs into any print advertising or printed material; especially material related to a particular campaign.
Both Adsense as well as affiliate marketing have their own advantages and disadvantages. The best approach would be to balance the two to maximize your income potential online.
As far as I understood the traffic rating. The rating was dependent on the amount of people that visited your site with the Alexa toolbar, if they don't have the toolbar, it will not be counted in the rankings.
It seems to me that social media presents some great opportunities and the possibilities are wide open, but that making effective use of them requires some knowledge of both the intended audience and the network in question.
I use Skype on a daily basis. I like that I can choose to either chat, talk, or video conference all from the same application. Less logins, less applications running.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but I second InsightsDigital's post that last tip violates Yahoo's TOS. I think if you are funny or worth watching, you get views... so, make sure you are worth watching and you WILL get views.
It depends on how good we are on our fields. You will get paid what you are worth irrespective of what you choose to do. Don’t go into a field just because you heard there was money to be made. Job satisfaction plays an important roll in your career decision.
I agree with most of the people answering this question. Buying traffic is a bad idea. There are many other ways to get traffic to your website and if you are willing to pay money. If you have money to burn, then buying traffic is for you, just think of all the free ways you can target traffic if only you apply some planned effort.
To get traffic from twitter you need to get a lot of followers, who follow you and then they can retweet your story. If your story is interesting then you might get more twit.
My advice is start out on small projects. Building a professional web browser is a huge undertaking and it could take you years to catch up to the level of complexity that FireFox, Opera and Chrome have.
They work if your list is captive, like they know who you are already, you'll get a much better response than you would with a blind mailing. Of course, your offer has to be unique, engaging, and professional.
I would second SEO like others suggested... This is about achieving top rankings on the major search engines. To achieve top rankings you need to convince the search engines that you are the most relevent site for the keywords that you are optimising for.
Its better if they cooperate to really improve their website. It takes deep understanding of the Internet, of site building and optimization, of your industry and of people.
One best thing you can do is ensure that you're adding search engine friendly content regularly. Crawlers love fresh content, but just be sure that you're not utilizing duplicates or keyword stuffing.
Get your A+ and get an entry level position as a helpdesk tech/PC tech. The A+ should be enough to get you in the door. I wouldn't look at certs as the way for you to get a job. They should compliment your experience and hopefully you'll learn something new and possibly apply in real life at your job.
The fastest way to get your site ranking is by using a strategy that includes a number of carefully planned tactics. If you want to have long term success though you should avoid spammy or blackhat tactics at all costs.
I think social bookmarking would help you much in your SERP but not PR for so many Social bokmarking site have nofollow their outbound links, thus no values for your PR.
Also the biggest disadvantage of email marketing is that your emails will sometimes be deemed as spam. Email service providers have taken action to enforce more powerful spam filters. Although spam filters are good at blocking spam mails, sometimes they also block legitimate emails too.
