I my opinion, social media sites tend to be severely overhyped. Facebook, MySpace, etc tends to be frequented by horribly invaluable traffic. There are a few exceptions to this, and StumbleUpon is a big one.
In the last year I’ve been doing a lot of work with affiliate marketing. In that time I’ve run campaigns through Commission Junction, Azoogle, Neverblue, Rocket Profit, CPA Empire, and World Dating Partners. While each network has it’s own strengths, in my experience Neverblue seems to be the best for the beginning marketer.
This post aims to cover a few mistakes to avoid when starting a new site. They are mistakes seen all the time, and have been committed by most people.
Shoemoney has a great post about a new (well, kinda new) way to spam your links and not get caught. Basically, you get your site ranking first for any random keyword, then pass your link as the "I’m Feeling Lucky" link through Google. To show an example, see the following:
Just for fun I thought I’d search for "search engine" at the major engines. Here is what I’ve found.
We had a website ranking #2 for one of our targeted keyword phrases in Google. We ranked #1 way back when, and have been at #2 for a few months. Last week I decided that I needed to do something about that. We have a main site, with a page at www.site.com/xxxxx_xxxxx.html. We also own xxxxx-xxxxx.com which was a forward to our www.site.com/xxxxx_xxxxx.html page, and that is what was ranking.
With Joomla 1.5 fast approaching, they are in the middle of a template contest. All entries have been submitted, and now it’s up to the core team to whittle it down to 5 templates for the masses to vote on. If I were in charge, here are the 5 I’d choose:
AdSense can be a great way to add some additional revenue, and fortunately adding AdSense to your Mambo or Joomla site is very easy. Some people prefer to use one of the ready-made modules, but I prefer to do it more manually. There is no real reason, but I like as much control as possible.
BlogRush is a new service that allows you to gain more exposure and traffic to your blog. Like many of these traffic exchange type systems, there is a chance for abuse, but it is being developed by internet marketing giant John Reese, and is getting positive reviews from Shoemoney, Andy Beal and John Chow. BlogRush works by showing headlines from 5 other blogs in the same general field as yours on your site, and giving you credit for showing them. It then shows your headlines on other blogs.
Well, WordPress 2.3 has now been released. This blog is still running on 2.2.3, but I did give 2.3 a little trial. The feel is exactly the same as we’re all used to, which is very nice, but they added in a few great features.
- Tagging is now included in the core.
- Update notifications of any plugins hosted at wordpress.org
- Automatic rewriting to www or non-www version of your site based on your settings.
- Improved draft management
- Updated blogroll - Matt’s gone
