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You have to start thinking of constantly re-optimizing your site's SEO in a consistent manner so the new content on your site is reflected on your site's SEO.

I believe that in today's society, everyone needs to consider how they engage and market themselves in social media marketing since it is here to stay. It does not matter if Facebook may not be the leader, but there will be some other online venue.

I strongly advise you to think who is your business target group and use the social media that can best reach this group. If you are trying to reach teens for your business, then myspace would be a good option.

This is really good. I have personally researched into survey monkey and recruiting survey takers via craiglist. If the site you mention is true, then it is worth it.

I believe that there should be a base initial fee followed by monthly updates.

Unfornately, this happens more often than one would thought - it happens with Linkedin, AOL, Amazon, etc. That is why it is really important to look at the address of the redirect - not the address that the email claims it will take you.

That is why it is really important to optimize your SEO in a constant basis so it can fit more with your content - especially if you have a blog.

I agree with Marck. I also say that there are times when you write have such great content that others will blog about it. I have seen this happened to friends. For example, one of my friend's blog content was plugged by Perez Hilton (did not even know him) and sure enough this created lots of traffic and higher PageRank.

I tried using Joomla and I did not find it too easy to use as others claim it was. I will check out the others. Thanks.

PPC campaigns require constant optimization to ensure you dont run out of campaign money with little results. :-(

Just remember that to promote your website, you need to do it in a consistent basis. If you need to create reminders on Outlook - do so. You need to make it a weekly priority - either through social media, strengthening your backlinks, and re-optimizing your relevant content and SEO terms. Its like a plant, you need to nourish it so it can grow.

Also, even if you use a WordPress ecommerce template, you still need to customize it for your needs by recoding some script.

Unfortunately, the spammers know that some people will click. Even with a CTR of 3% which is industry norm for links in emails, it is still about 1500. This is significant.

BP is just trying to save face and most important, retain the value of its company in this dire situation. It has been over a month and improvements have not been evident. The worst is that the environment of not-so near states have not been affected. BP is leveraging any means possible to demonstrate dominance in spinning their information. But the facts are the facts. BP was cheap/negligent to maintain the pipes and now, look what happened. Online Paid Campaign can not put a plug in this situation.

Very excellent point - Canada Fred. The spiders are looking for quality backlinks that are related to content of the site.

Thanks for sharing this. It does have very obvious conversion methods - kudos for that.

Also, remember that you do need to recode some script if you do buy or download a free template. I explored some WordPress ecommerce site but it does need some customization.

Remember that using LinkedIn for site promotion requires you to do the following:
1. Insert URL on your personal profile
2. Create a business page with the business URL
3. Create event with the business URL (only if you have an event - if its only online).
4. Join and participant in groups and plug your URL

It all depends on the quality of the software and if its a trial use only or the real deal.

It all depends on your site's goal and the campaign goal. I personally vote for PPC since it may be cheaper than pay per view. Also, will your ad be text or video related since video model is usually pay per view like VideoEgg.

No. Impressions does not mean click on the advertisement. There are three terms you should know for PPC.
1. Impressions - the number of times your term/ad was served/visible to the audience. That is it. Popular terms will have a higher visibility than others.
2. Clicks - when a viewer actually clicks to the impression.
3. CTR - click through rate - the % of times of clicks over impression.

Another reason can be if your site uses any Black Hat SEO. You have to make sure your site does not use any which affects why Google is not indexing your pages.

It all depends on your niche and target group - are they more of a facebook group or a twitter group? Also, will your content be more appropriate for Facebook or twitter. And most of all, once you put it on Twitter - you have to be sure - it does not get lost in the Twitter Sky. Facebook is more push and visible for this end.

This is a great post because it touches on certain issues that are over looked in today's "Let's push the Numbers" mode. First, the data is only relevant for the represented sample. This reminds me the days when clinical trial results were advertised on commercials denoting safety and efficacy, mind you, the trial was only run on healthy males.
Second, remember - junk in is junk out. That means if data is not cleaned and sliced and diced appropriately, it will affect the quality and veracity of the results.
Third, The Vendor's goal is to push the product so be very cautious about the survey results....

I have used reciprocal links in the past and I have not seen much lift in traffic. You have to think why do you want to use this approach.

Remember that many of the above tactics may drive traffic in huge spikes for a brief time and others are just small gains in short term but you can see significant growth in long term.

Having good content on the site is the glue that will create a stickiness with your audience - you want to make sure your site keeps this coming!!!

I would say - Daniweb.com!!!

What is really important to remember when using social media as a way to bring traffic to your site is that you need to establish a connection with your audience so they feel compelled to:
1. read your posts/comments
2. participate
3. link to the site. :-)

Yes and your type of site needs:
1. Constant buzz
2. Needs to create some value that readers feel compelled to come back and convert
3. You need to link up with other local/community groups and promote your site - both offline and online

You need to:
1. Create more content on your site
2. Update your meta tags and description to reflect the content on your site
3. Do more external and internal links.

Let us know how these changes helped!

It depends why you are pursing an online degree in the first place. For example, if you need it to get a state or governmental job, then an online degree fits their college criteria. If it is to work in a top financial firm, an online degree may not get you an interview.

In this society, people will always find another person or entity to blame, especially if there is a large pot of gold possibly at the end of the road. In this case, the plaintiff should have realized that Google Maps or GPS is not the same thing as just looking at the road and seeing it yourself.

This is a good observation and we know that once a celebrity buzz winds down on social media, it also indicates shifting interest to another celebrity.

E-zines are good for SEO. Do remember that e-zines require constant content creation so your readers will look forward to read it.

Just make sure that the site you create does not violate any of the Apple's TOS. You dont want your hard work to be quelched by Apple.

I have heard the term "White Papers" for a long time and businesses create it to:
1. Strengthen readers' recognition that this business knows it stuff
2. Increase the knowledge base of readers
3. For SEO purposes
4. For lead generation.

First of all, social media per se have existed since people have communicated. But I do think you mean Social Media 2.0 (or is 3.0 now). The ROI that corporations have seen and the ways how social media 2.0 have brought people together have cemented its presence and influence in this society.

Make sure that the subscribe box is prominently advertised on your site. I could not find it. Also, add some other subscription options. I hope this helps.

Yes, this is a fine example that if executed properly and (of course) if talent is remarkable, people will notice and the viral power of social media content is unleashed.

Very good point, Jenny. I also agree with the SEO name comment. I also wonder if Google intentionally restricts those types of site that practice illicit activities.

I also recommend that optimizing SEO on your site should be done at least on a yearly basis, especially if the content on the site changes.

Very good article. I also say that keeping separate lives in this digital age is very difficult and that the ways of living using a manual typewriter wont happen again.

Hi
Im a little confused. So you want to create an account to have PPC ads on your site or do you want to have a PPC campaign?

I have seen that people and it can be two things:
1. Lots of spiders and robots visited your site
2. Your site could have been under spam attack.

I actually used Google's sitemap site to create a sitemap. http://code.google.com/p/googlesitemapgenerator/

Remember if you are outsourcing the code, it is good to have a code auditor to ensure that the codes are working. The worst scenario is to have a site where visitors come and they are turned off by them unable to load properly.

Yes, I agree with you. Twitter does bring people together and it also helps brings value to both the consumer and the business. But it is not an overnight success. It takes time to nurture relationships with members of your community.

Your goal with Facebook is that Facebook will drive consistent traffic to your site, thus, you need to constantly engage with your friends and Facebook fans by contributing relevant content that has a high share value.

Yes, the above mention tactics are great. I also recommend the following:
1. Commenting on relevant bloggers (and hoping they will allow your link to appear on your comment).
2. Constantly engaging with high twitter celebrities and their followers will see the comments and check your profile and increase your site's visibility.