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I'm a Canadian guy who lived in China for the past 5 years, but gave it all up for a nice little house on the hill overlooking the beach in Costa Rica.
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Re: Build a website that focusses on fulfilling customers needs, do not focus on money first. Invest in quality designs and marketing to build up your audience. Research keywords, affiliate systems, PPC arbitrage opps, CPA... This is an effective long term money maker... if you do things quickly then quality will … | |
Re: Magento is the best stand alone ecommerce CMS. Has lots of free themes and features. Whatever you do don't go with oscommerce... outdated and don't know why anyone would recommend them. If you have a community social network site then have a look at Joomla with the Virtuemart add on | |
Re: PayPal on a Wordpress blog template is very easy. Magento is the best overall ecommerce CMS Joomla with Virtuemart is great if you build a social community site | |
Re: Google is the market at the moment because Yahoo and MS are too slow and stupid to roll out their ads to webmasters. But when the MSyahoo merger finalizes the bing network should be a nice alternative to G | |
Re: Facebook will gradually loose market share. I think in 2-3 years we should see the next greatest social network take over the market. Or it could grow into a fragmented widget/app market... going to be interesting! | |
Re: First, your domain looks a little spammy and hard to understand. Would you purchase from a domain that looks like that? Second, your design looks like it could use a little more professionalism. Would fix the above before even trying to get traffic because making sales means everything. How to … | |
First it was geocities, then myspace, then facebook... with the current backlash against Facebook selling out and ruining peoples privacy it looks like Facebook is going to loose customers. Did you know that almost anyone can see anything about your profile - pics, feeds, comments, etc through Facebook new privacy … | |
Re: here's a few more: - article submissions - comment on blogs - classified ads - directory listings - link exchange - forum posting - press release - social groups - facebook, linkedin, etc - social bookmarking --- | |
Re: Google finds you... you don't find Google Can't believe this thread is so old and people are still posting... | |
Re: sold on Google for $99.44... but if you get clicks on your site you would only get a small % of that. Google is really starting to get cheap with their payout % | |
Re: Also helps to register for Google webmaster tools. Submit sitemap and set crawl rate. | |
Re: Research the market, industry, competitors, etc and find high PR, [I]relevant [/I]links that provide value to potential customers. There is no formula but look into the number of outgoing links on the page and if they are 'do follow' links. 1 PR 6 related link can be worth more than … | |
Re: PRweb is the best but it costs $$$ Free PR... has to be done yourself. There's tons of tricks | |
Re: Most CMS have this feature built in... maybe look into upgrading to the new versions of modx, joomla, drupal or wordpress | |
Re: Could be bots or people that will wait and post later... either to build up age recognition for future spamming efforts.... or legitimate people who just want to be members everywhere and will post when they have time. No SEO juice at all just signing up. | |
[B][I]PayPal[/I][/B] If you just have a few products and don't need the full features of a shopping cart CMS then have a look into PayPal 'buy now' buttons. This is the easiest platform to get started with - all you do is copy and paste some code into your website … | |
Re: If you're just starting out then forums and blogs are the way to go. Lots of the info is out of date as internet marketing strategies change all the time. My advice is to start a quick site to practice on while you're learning. | |
Re: Nice basic list to get started with... thanks for sharing. Driving traffic to your site is about attracting quality potential customers and delivering with top notch information to keep customers coming back. Integration of all these elements into a comprehensive marketing plan gives the best results | |
![]() | Re: good tutorial but flash is not the best for menu because of SEO and bots having a tough time with it. Personally I would stick with CSS/HTML for menu |
Re: Wordpress wins hands down... largest support community, huge addon capabilites, very easy to setup and run, and tons of free templates for the beginners. | |
Re: It is possible depending on your niche and project management skills. I know of single persons that run 1000 sites at the same time... For highly competitive niches you might want to focus on only 1 site to start off. When you get first rank then move onto another site... … | |
Re: Rule #1 online: Don't pay to make money....especially survey sites or ebooks! | |
Re: Things to keep in mind when selling online: • Who is the customer? • What do they typically buy and how do they hear about it? • How do they like to buy this type of product or service? • How often do they buy? • How can the company … | |
Google is turning into a corporate cheerleader where large US companies dominate the rankings (revenue grab? knocking out the small business?). Type "e" in the new instant search result recommendations and I got: ebay, espn, expedia. "s" - skype, sears, staples. Randomly type 2 letters: "be" - best buy, bed … | |
Re: Trial and error... but from experience if the video adds value to customers then put in the keywords and traffic starts coming in. Value = Creative and fulfills customers needs Work on creating something that goes viral. Start off with strong marketing in the beginning to get your video count … | |
Re: Start off building your portfolio by doing some free work and offer to rebuild a local NGO, business org/assocation website. These are great networking tools and can give you great leads. If you do a great job kindly ask what they think the website redesign is worth... go from there. … | |
Re: better late then not at all... imagine this poor guy sitting around waiting for 2 years to get a response... funny stuff ![]() | |
Re: check out w3c and go through a couple tutorials if you're getting started with div/css. It won't take much time and overall div are much better than tables. Imagine if your site is 1000 pages, trying to change individual table elements would drive you crazy. Of course there's lots of … | |
Re: polls and questions in forums is a great place to start. do a little research on marketing plans and you'll find out that there's tons of areas to consider... it's not just about customer profiling. some other areas: competitors industry trends pricing promotion and marketing strengths weakness opportunities threats etc. | |
Re: There is no way to get PR asap... it takes time. You could always do blackhat SEO to get quick PR but you'll probably get in trouble and long term will not work. Quickest way is to have a marketing plan and focus on a quick and powerful launch that … | |
Re: Have a look at MOdx. Researched them all and Modx is great! Ajax, internal SEO, no outdated systems... Joomla, Drupal and wordpress are not ideal for designers building in their own designs... takes too much effort if you don't have tons of time | |
Re: First of all you would have to pick a market that is large enough... there are lots of keywords out there that would not bring in that amount of traffic. If you did the proper keyword research and analysis before starting the website you should be able to get a … | |
It's no secret that getting quality of back links helps boost website traffic. Here are some techniques to help you get started with link building and SEO: - article submissions - comment on blogs - classified ads - directory listings - link exchange - forum posting - press release - … | |
Re: You can get your website indexed in less that a week in todays market. Submit your sitemap through Google webmaster and build a few very high quality, relevant backlinks.... but it takes time and energy to see PR or high rankings in search engines. Make sure you pick keywords wisely | |
If you are looking at making money on the Internet seriously consider investing in a professional website. No matter how great your product is it will not sell if you don't take the time to build up the platform. - Market research - analyze your keywords, industry, competition, customers, Revenue … | |
Re: PPC for lots of beginner companies is a complete waste of time because their pages are not keyword optimized and they end up paying more than they should for hits. Also their wording is not optimized and they usually chase after the wrong keywords. PPC performs extremely well and has … | |
Re: research and analyze the keywords and phrases that will bring in the most traffic through search engines (with least competition). Insert these keywords in page title, url, hi, and throughout the beginning and end of the content in a totally natural writing style. Big tip - most keywords in big … | |
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Re: They both suck but Myspace is really bad. Facebook will die someday and get replaced by a better social network... | |
Re: Social media marketing is a great way to waste time and money if not done professionally. For some industries social marketing actually has little value compared to the alternatives. | |
Re: SEO is changing gears fast with the new redesign of google search results. For some industries SEO is dead and you will not see much value from getting on the first page because of the addition of brands, shopping, images, maps, etc... small shops are getting pushed way down the … | |
Re: You're after a complex answer which nobody will be able to answer for you. Nike site is not built by an amateur and incorporates many professional aspects of design/coding. To start off Flash tutorials are your friend. Once you get Flash mastered then move onto the more advanced features. | |
Re: Have a look into Pay Per Click (PPC) programs... sometimes more effective than affiliate networks. If you really want to get into the business it requires a little creativity. Why not set up your own affiliate system? Contact programmers or designers that don't have the skills for copywriting.... set up … | |
Re: Market research - find out who your customers are and where they are on the internet. After that research your competition and find out where they are getting traffic from. Try to duplicate some of their success and then get creative to get a lasting edge and increased traffic... | |
Re: It has nothing to do with Baidu having better local search results. Google was late into the market and didn't promote well enough with their market entry strategy. G just thought their international reputation would win the market in China.... Also Chinese are very patriotic and anything 'made in China' … | |
Re: By the time a book goes to print it's outdated. Stuff on the internet is general at best. PPC results vary dramatically and involve different methods depending on numerous factors such as: keywords, competition, niche, etc. Honestly the best way to learn is to loose a little money and learn … | |
Re: Forum posts on the big sites with sig will help you out lots. Create articles on frequent questions in your industry and market teasers from them everywhere with link back to the full article. Options are endless for your industry... just have a look at what some of your competitors … | |
Re: All depends on your target market, keywords and industry. Good benchmark would be to check the CPC at Adwords. Then research the competition and see what they're charging. If you're in a completely unique market then possible start an auction for your ad space | |
Re: THere's numerous other methods of segmentation....maybe break it down by perceived positioning: • By product difference • Product attributes or benefits • Product-users • Product usage • Against a particular competitor • Against an entire product category • By association • By problem | |
Re: Google has very in depth research and knows which ads work best on what pages... some images, some text. All depends on the niche of your topic and the pool of advertisers. I would rather have straight text because it doesn't clash with the rest of the page design if … |
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