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Alexa Rankings Suck.

By on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 | 5 Comments

I am no longer using Alexa rankings in any serious way when I analyze a website. I used to love Alexa rankings, and checked the cool little Alexa bar on the bottom of my Firefox browser every time I went to a site. But unfortunately, it’s just not very accurate anymore. Whether it ever was, [...]

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Free Article Submission Directory

By on Thursday, December 31st, 2009 | 9 Comments

Looking for a free article submission directory? Don’t look too hard, or too far. The good news is there are very few that get real results, so don’t waste your time submitting to a zillion places, when a handful of highly trafficked, high page rank sites will do the trick. If you are a spare [...]

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Understanding Alexa Ratings

By on Thursday, December 31st, 2009 | No Comments

Alexa ratings are a very handy and useful way to gauge how much traffic a site gets. The premise is very simple. Alexa dot com tries to measure how much traffic all sites get in relation to each other. For example, currently they rank Google as number one, followed by Yahoo, Facebook, and Youtube. But [...]

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Seth Godin On Blogging

By on Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 | No Comments

I’m a big Seth Godin fan, so when I discovered this Seth Godin, Tom Peters clip on Nancy Johnson’s blog (turnonyourlight.com/blog) I had to grab it… there are some surprising, simple insights about blogging: Sooooo, if YOU aren’t blogging yet, get with the program! Be assimilated by the borg! Go for it! (By the way, [...]

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The “2 Month Rule” Of Blog Success

By on Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 | No Comments

People ask me all the time how I got my blog in the top 100,000 on Alexa. And as much as I’d love to say it’s because of great content, or some special skill, I have to admit that the biggest reason is simply time and consistency. And after coaching hundreds of clients in blogging [...]

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Hi5 Social Networking Site hits 17 On Alexa

By on Monday, December 28th, 2009 | 1 Comment

While Facebook continues to get all the media attention at number 5 on Alexa, the Hi5 social networking site has quietly risen to number 17 (17th in over-all traffic of all sites online). If you are going to follow the rule “Market Where The Traffic Is” you better pay attention to the Hi5 social networking [...]

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A very cool blog

By on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Just a quick post to point you to a great blog. The blog is by Seth Godin, and he really “gets it.” The blog is interesting, entertaining, and provides tons of value: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ It’s also got a page rank of 7 (yes, I’m envious) and ranks very high on Alexa.com. Why? Because it’s flat out [...]

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Where to submit your press release

By on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Wondering where to submit your press release? Well, in my never ending quest to find the laziest methods of marketing (Is it weird to work your butt off trying to be lazy?) I have FINALLY become converted to press releases. Why? Because last week I met with Steve A (name is abbreviated to protect the [...]

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Facebook- online network marketing dream

By on Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 | No Comments

Did you know Facebook is BIGGER than GOOGLE! Wow! As I write this, Facebook sits at number 7 on Alexa, and has 60,000,000 users and growing like crazy! If you are in online network marketing, but aren’t using Facebook, you are leaving a lot of money on the table. Not that I’m recommending you jump [...]

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