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3 Reasons Why Google Needs to Buy Twitter in Order to Survive
As you know, Google is the search engine and controls an obscene amount of traffic on the web. In fact, it’s not uncommon for many users to spend at least 25% of their time online on Google properties like Gmail, Google maps, and news. Wi...
6 Crucial Steps to Prepare Yourself for the Twitter Facebook Real-Time Search Integration
Real-time search is all the rage these days and it looks like it will only get bigger. Just last week, Microsoft Bing announced that it will be integrating both Facebook and Twitter status updates into its search results. Minutes later, Google foll...
How to Develop an SEO Link Building Strategy That Delivers the Goods (Link Value)
Links are king when it comes to SEO. Search engines view links as votes for a site and the higher the quantity and quality of links your site has, the better your chances of ranking for related keywords in the search results (Google, Yahoo, Bing). ...
3 Hacks Old School Marketers Can Use to Cash in on the Internet
This is a guest post by Raza Imam, a Chicago-based marketing consultant who also owns an offshore software development company. Doctors, consultants, lawyers, and web designers all live and die by their reputations. Marketing any kind of profession...
How to Solve the Biggest Challenge For Your Online Startup Business
Every startup business, online or off, has challenges – that’s just the way it is. But it doesn’t always have to be a bad thing. Struggles and obstacles are essentially growing pains that help new companies build character and est...
Teaching Sells – Why You Need to Ditch Free Content Blogs For Paid Membership Sites
If you’ve been following me for some time now, you know that I’m a big fan of membership sites and continuity programs as an online business model. Not only do they offer lucrative income streams, but they’re relatively easy to set...
5 Crucial SEO Tips For the New Binghoo (Microsoft Bing Overtakes Yahoo Search)
As you’ve probably heard from various sources around the web, Microsoft and Yahoo have officially agreed on a search deal that will inevitably change the landscape of the industry and greatly affect the jobs of many SEOs. To recap, some of the...
7 Red Flags that Reveal to Google You’re an SEO Criminal – Avoid These!
If you label yourself as an SEO or openly engage in aggressive link building tactics, watch out. Google will treat you harshly and judge you on a different standard, similar to the way the law deals with known criminals. Don’t believe me? Lea...
Which Came First, the Traffic or the Search Engine Rankings?
“Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” This is a common expression in philosophy which I’m sure you’ve heard before in one form or another. The phrase essentially describes a situation of circular cause and consequence....
Winners Circle is Now Live! Sign Up Now for Exclusive Internet Marketing Case Studies
The wait is over – Winners Circle is now live! In case you didn’t know, Winners Circle is a new kind of Internet marketing training program & community that uses case studies, interviews, and examples to show you how to create winnin...
3 Important Factors in Selecting Your Internet Marketing Strategy of Choice
As you’ve seen from my book, The Winning Way - Ultimate Checklist of 500+ Proven Internet Marketing Strategies, there isn’t a shortage of methods to market your online business and drive traffic. In fact, the opposite is true. There are...
Boost Sales & Downloads with a Killer Guarantee - Benefits & Risks
Do you believe in your product or service enough to guarantee satisfaction? Believe it or not, people respond to your perception of your own offer. If you’re confident enough to give some sort of guarantee where you take on the risk, potentia...
41 Essential Wordpress Plugins - Everything You Need to Run a Blog Like Mine
One of the most frequently asked questions I get here on Winning the Web is “what Wordpress plugin are you using to do X?”. I’ve been pretty generous in responding to emails and giving away my plugins, but unfortunately it does ten...
6 Powerful Principles of Persuasion for Influential Internet Marketing
Frank Kern, Jeff Walker, Eben Pagan, Mike Filsaime… These are all big name Internet marketers with huge audiences and million-dollar information product businesses. In fact, if you’ve been involved in the industry for even a short amoun...
3 Easy Steps to Test and Tweak Your RSS Link Locations Using Google Analytics
If you’re a blogger, you know that RSS subscriptions are important. It’s one of your most effective content distribution channels - so you should be heavily advertising your feed, right? Last week, I outlined the 8 prime locations to pro...
8 Prime Locations to Promote Your Blog’s RSS Feed - What Are You Missing?
Every blogger knows that an RSS feed is essential to the success of a blog. RSS enables readers to stay connected and conveniently view content through other channels like feed readers, email, and mobile phones. It’s one of the key features t...
Don’t Just Make Money Online - Build Business Assets that Last
The Internet holds a giant online marketplace and there are obscene amounts of money to be made, especially as more and more people adapt and get accustomed to the web as a daily part of life. If you’re an entrepreneur, you know that opportuni...
The Biggest Internet Marketing Opportunity Yet - Membership Sites
If you’ve been following Winning the Web for the past year, you know that I’m a huge fan of membership sites and the business opportunities that they present. If you don’t quite understand what they are, membership sites are essent...
A Headline Title Trick to Maximize Social and SEO Traffic - The One Two Punch
Social media is all the rage these days. Everyone wants to get in on the game and promote themselves on networks like Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, and Digg. Social media, when done right, is a proven method of Internet marketing that can send ho...
How to Take Your Product Offering From Good to Great - Without Actually Changing It
A few days ago, a friend and I were discussing ideas for possible new online business ventures. We were looking for ways to expand our market and create new streams of stable income. While the discussion was productive, we constantly got stuck on o...
3 Reasons Why It Pays to Go Niche (Literally) - Smaller Niches, Bigger Profits
With each passing day, the Internet is getting more and more competitive as online businesses attempt to gain market share and claim their piece of the pie. In fact, you might remember that I wrote about how the window of opportunity for independent...
HTML is to SEO as Anatomy is to Doctor - Big Requirement for SEOs
What does it take to be an SEO? What do you need to know and be good at? Last week, Edward Lewis aka PageOneResults wrote an article called HTML 4 SEO that listed out 50 or so HTML elements related to SEO. Does one actually need to know how to use...
DiggBar, the Game Changer - 4 Ways Internet Marketers Can React
If you’re a Digg fanboy (or girl) you know that the social bookmarking site implemented a significant change last week that generated a ton of buzz in the online world - the launch of the Diggbar. It’s something so simple yet it has the ...
How to Harness the Power of Twitter in 4 Easy Steps
By now I’m sure you’ve read my case study on how I used Twitter to generate 35,967 extra hits to my site in just 14 days. Want to achieve the same explosive results? I admit that much of the viral content on Twitter currently favors tec...
Case Study: How I Used Twitter to Generate 35,967 Extra Hits to my Site in Just 14 Days
Even with Twitter’s immense popularity and quickly growing user base, there are still quite a few naysayers and skeptics of the social networking site. For example, I still hear that “it’s a waste of time with nothing but useless c...
April Fools’ Jokes Just Fun and Games? 5 Components of a Viral Linkbait Prank
Everyone loves a good laugh. In fact, we have a whole day dedicated to practical jokes and pranks. In case you missed it, April Fools’ Day was just upon us and the online world was abuzz with tons of fake news, pranks, and jokes. If you were...
6 Spicy Ways to Use Hot Topics & Trends to Explode Your Traffic
A few days ago, I went over the 3 biggest sources for uncovering hot topics and trends online. Apart from trying to be “hip” and with the in-crowd, you may be asking why you would even want this information. How can knowing about Britney...
The 3 Biggest Sources for Uncovering Hot Topics & Trends Online
If you’re like most people, you love to follow the latest news and keep up with the most popular stories happening around you. Whether you like it or not, breaking news catches up with you pretty quickly as TVs, computers, and mobile phones co...
4 Deadly Traps to Avoid in Building Your Online Business During the Recession
A few days ago, I described how to build wealth online amidst financial chaos. Even though the economy is falling apart around us, it doesn’t mean you can’t take advantage of an emerging medium (the Internet) to build and grow your busin...
How to Build Wealth Online Amidst Financial Chaos - The Opportunity of a Lifetime
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past couple of years, you know that the world is under a large-scale global recession. Countless companies are scaling back and hundreds of thousands of people have already been laid off from thei...
