Youtube now boasts an amazing billion videos watched every day. In fact, Youtube is now the second largest search engine, just behind Google. If that wasn’t enough, since Google owns Youtube, they place a high rank on videos appearing in their search engines. Because of these facts, your business could be using Youtube to effectively …
Category Archive: Hints and Tips
Nov
22
5 Ways To Find Profitable Niches For Affiliate Marketing
Finding a profitable niche for your affiliate marketing campaign takes work but landing the correct one has the possibilities to earn you hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars. In a nutshell, a niche is a highly targeted interest for a product or service. Instead of reaching for a large market dominated by corporations, niches allow …
Jan
17
Blogging Burnout
Whenever I have posted about how to blog I have always emphasised the importance of regular posts, indeed how critical it is that you are able to come up with a decent list of posts before you even setup your blog. However there is something that until recently I have not considered. That is Blogger …
Jan
15
Recession proof your affiliate business
How can you recession proof your affiliate business? Well there are several hints and tips that I can think of. Don’t keep all your eggs in one basket – If you try to have all your time and effort places in once niche or on one project then, if things go belly up in that …
Jan
13
Disaster – Lessons learned
Regular readers will know that, I have recently suffered a hardware failure on my Web/Mail servers. This then turned into a disaster due to the time of year, state of backups and other issues. As an IT Project manager, I am used to having lessons learned reviews and I thought that it would be useful …
Jan
08
Blogging and the importance of regular posting
I have been looking at the Analytic stats for this blog and my other blogs (Matt Houldsworth.com and our wedding blog) and I have noticed that there is a clear correlation between visitor numbers and new posts. This may be an obvious observation, however this has got me thinking about how I can achieve a …
Jan
06
Recession – an affiliate marketing opportunity?
I have been doing allot of thinking about how the economic down-turn will affect our affiliate and web marketing industries. The one thing that this industry as with all others will feel the downturn. However, I am always looking for opportunities, and perhaps the very down-turn that will cause so much trouble and pain could …
Jan
01
Down time and Disaster recovery lessons
If you have tried to get to this blog or any of my sites in the last week you will have noticed that they have all been down, this was due to a major hardware failure on my server, thus meaning I had to re-build the servers, not only that, but once I had done …
Aug
05
Consistency in your link back strategy continued
Following on from my post about consistency in your link back strategy which was a brief post looking at what URL you give you when asking for a link to your site, and suggesting that the best thing it to be consistent. Our discussions have moved on and have highlighted an error, perhaps a fundamental …
Resources
Jun
05
How To Use Blog Commenting To Drive Incredible Traffic To Your Website
by Digitalquill
Everyday thousands of blogs appear on the net, giving each writer a voice and a platform for readers to share their opinions. The fundamental difference between a blog and a static website is the interaction. Blog commenting gives readers the ability to continue a topic of discussion while simultaneously promote their own links. Proper and …
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