Video mailbag: Theresa Chow answers your questions
June 22, 2006 by Gaman · Leave a Comment
The first video post from Inside Google AdSense blog where Theresa Chow of Google AdSense support answers three frequently asked questions from publishers.
How to Easily Back Up Your Wordpress Data Automatically
One feature that I hope will be implemented in the future version of Wordpress is the automatic backup function.
Currently, if you want to back up your Wordpress database, you’ll have to do it manually. But wouldn’t it nice if it can be done automatically in the background?
Fortunately, there’s a painless way of doing this as described by SEOlogs.com
All you have to do is download and install two plugins, WP-DB Backup and Wp-Cron and change some settings and you are good to go.
For a complete instruction head over to SEOlogs.com
30K Daily Visit From Google For One Popular Keyword
Christ Smith of naturalsearchblog has written an interesting post about his experience securing the top position on Google for a very popular single keyword.
According to him, their site receives approximately 30,000 visitors on average per day from Google for a keyword he called Term X so as not to reveal propriety information.
When Term X dropped to second spot on the SERP, they lost approximately 18k of visits per day. So the difference between the number one spot and the number two spot for a major keyword term comes to about a 60% change in visits.
10 Worst AdWords Campaign Mistakes
June 21, 2006 by Gaman · Leave a Comment
There’s an interesting article over at Sitepoint about Google AdWords.
From the article:
With the cost-per-click (CPC) prices available through various PPC search engines always increasing, it’s essential that you avoid certain mistakes that will undoubtedly result in poorly performing PPC campaigns. The mistakes that you should avoid include:
- creating a long list of less than targeted keywords
- failing to identify unique aspects of your product or service
- a lack of keywords in your ad text
- directing users solely to your home page
- creating single ad groups
Free Download: Affiliate Marketing Guide Ebook
June 21, 2006 by Gaman · 4 Comments
Andy Williams, who has created a long, extremely useful course for affiliates, has now turned it into an ebook and is giving it away.
The ebook is one of the best affiliate marketing guides around and it won’t cost you a penny.
Head over to Creating “Fat” Affiliate Sites to learn what it’s all about. There’s a table of content included on that page for you to review. If you like it, you can proceed to the download page to get it.
My Blog Traffic: From 0 to 1400 Daily Visitors In Less Than Two Month
June 21, 2006 by Gaman · 12 Comments
I am happy today to see my blogs traffic continue to climb up. One of them is really starting to take off as you can see from its Sitemeter stats below.
That particular blog has 800% more traffic today than it was just a month ago. At this rate, I’d have 10,000 visitors per day in a couple of months from now, I wish 
So how did I do this? I have been giving out clues which are sprinkled all over in this blog. If you are a frequently reader, you might know how I do this.
How to Get 35.8% More Downloads From Your Landing Page
June 20, 2006 by Gaman · Leave a Comment
Marketing Sherpa has published yet another useful case study to help marketers optimize their landing page.
This time, the case study tested various landing pages to find out how to convert people who clicked on your ads but didn’t convert in the past. Other neat results - how to increase your software download rates
If you sell software and trying to get more people to download your desktop application, the findings from the study suggest you do the followings:
- Use the word “download” somewhere in your headlines
- Include benefit oriented subheading instead of just instructional download-oriented subheading.
What Does The Gates Retirement Really Mean?
June 20, 2006 by Gaman · Leave a Comment
So what will happen to Microsoft without Bill?
“The press is going to write about this, but I don’t think Gates stepping away is that big a deal in terms of business impact,” IDC senior research analyst Richard Shim told internetnews.com. “If Steve Jobs said he was going to leave Apple, that would be huge because he makes a lot of the decisions. Gates’ last big development decision was probably Windows 95.”
So no impact? I suppose this is because Microsoft is so big, decisions are made at all levels. Most of the pivotal decisions weren’t made by Bill Gates alone, so people are used to having or rather not having Bill Gates visible upfront everytime a major decisions are made.
Karen Shacham from CNN Pipeline is Reading My Blog?
June 20, 2006 by Gaman · 3 Comments
Well, I wish that’s true but this post is not about my pride for having my humble blog visited by CNN staff
Actually, I was surprised or rather puzzled by a comment left by someone named Karen Shacham in one of my blogs at OffbeatEnough.com
The comment is in context and doesn’t look like it was left by some bot just unloading its spam cargo as it travels around the net.
Karen writes:
Hey There,
My name is Karen Shacham and I work with CNN Pipeline in Atlanta.
32 Ways to Promote Your Website
June 19, 2006 by Gaman · Leave a Comment
Dr. Ralph F. Wilson of Web Marketing Today has updated The Web Marketing Checklist: 32 Ways to Promote Your Website. This year it has 32 ways instead of 31.
The list includes new advice to keep up with changes in the fast-moving world of Internet marketing. You can read the updated 19-page Web Marketing Checklist in HTML format as an article or PDF format as an e-book.
If you have been involved with web promotion for a while, you’re probably doing many of the techniques already. Nevertheless, it’ll still make a great refresher.
