What It Takes To Succeed In Internet Marketing


Succeeding in Internet Marketing or SEO involves a variety of activities – there’s no ONE magic task or program that works.  Like any other marketing, it involves a team effort.  The “team” being the following… 1) Content If you’ve done any Internet marketing in the past you may have heard the term that “Content is [...]

Reviews and Google Rankings


I was reading Blumenthals.com today, catching up and read an  article posted in July. “Google is clearly reducing their reliance on third party reviews and increasing the prominence of their own reviews. That is obvious and it makes sense from their self interested point of view now that they are garnering adequate volumes of reviews [...]

You’re One Of A Kind – You Just Don’t Know It Yet


Years ago a friend (a great Internet marketer himself) told me that I should write an ebook about Internet marketing.  He told me that I knew more about the subject than most people he meets in that industry.  I was flattered, of course, but my immediate response to him was…”I can’t write an ebook, who [...]

What Is The Expected ROI From Your Internet Marketing?


I just finished reading an entry at a social media site from an Internet Marketer who had recently left his employer because the ROI wasn’t what the employer had expected.  The Internet marketer was using SEO (search engine optimization), social media marketing (via Twitter and Facebook) and blogging.  These three factors put the site in [...]

Really, Really, Really Comprehensive SEO


As I was having my breakfast this morning I was catching up on the latest SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Internet Marketing news. I came across this little gem… “Ten years ago, the SEO process included a monthly analysis, recommendation and implementation plan; a purely human-based process. This is no longer enough. Businesses need daily [...]

Keyword Themes – A Top SEO Technique


A Top SEO Technique is the use of Keyword Themes I know that if you’ve been reading about Internet marketing you have a grasp on the concept that it’s all about the keywords. The words that you have on your website pages will make or break the success of the marketing campaign. I mean if [...]

Tweeting and Marketing


According to a Pew Research Center study released yesterday (Wednesday – June 1st 2011) – 13% of online Americans use Twitter.  That doesn’t seem like much, but that’s a 5% increase from November 2010.  And, the demographics that pushed this up is younger adults (ages 25 – 34). If this trend continues, basically, every 7 [...]

Lights – Camera – Action – The YouTube Angle


If you get monthly marketing reports from Eckweb then you know that we’ve been advising you to create videos.  Whether they’re videos of you talking, how-to type of videos, entertaining videos, whatever – aim the topic to what your audience is looking for and YouTube it! An article from Mashable that I just read reports [...]

Review of Article on SEO Tips


One of my favorite online reads is SEODesignSolutions.com – the articles they publish are so “to the point” and pragmatic that it’s refreshing! Anyway, Jeffrey Smith put together a great article on 20 SEO Tips You Either Forgot or Didn’t Know. I thought this would be a great article to share with you. Some of [...]

5 Great Questions To Ask Your Social Media Consultant


Got another great article from my business coach, John Miller. We all know that the Internet is still fairly new, but even newer is social media. And, human nature being what it is, there are those out there who will try to sell you some snake oil service – hoping you won’t ask any questions [...]