Category Archives: Internet Marketing

Analysing Your Website Visitors For ‘Commercial Intent’

I just came across a very interesting analysis tool for internet marketers that analyses a webpage URL or a search term to give you the ‘Commercial Intent’ of a visitor to that page, or searcher of that term. Using the … Continue reading

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Are Your Sites Suffering Patternitis

One of the first things one learns as an internet publisher is the importance of building inbound links. However, do the job too well and it seems you can endanger your rankings rather than promote them. I was just reading … Continue reading

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Google Slamming Social Network Site Links

Google announced recently that it would be discounting links for social networking sites in an apparent effort to negate those grey hat tactics by internet marketers to boost their page rankings by opening numerous account on social bookmarking sites and … Continue reading

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Internet Marketing Holding Ground During Recession

Like most business people, you have probably been wondering how you will fare if the USA [and the rest of the world] slip into a deep depression. Certainly some industries are more recession proof that others, some even perform better … Continue reading

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Microsft Ditching Old Web Analytics Model For Engagement Mapping

Microsoft has announced plans to test a new way to measure the effectiveness of Internet advertising. This will challenge the existing industry standard adopted by Google and Yahoo. The focus will be on “Engagement Mapping” with a key difference around … Continue reading

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Does Google Really Care?

Over the next week, we are going to profile the most successful media company ever – Google. In just 10 short years it has grown from a campus challenge to an international conglomerate that threatens to totally control the online … Continue reading

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Top Online Search Terms For December 2007

Clickz latest ratings are out showing who topped the charts in the most searched terms for December 2007 in main online categories. The new leaders going into 2008 are: IT and Internet – ‘paypal’ with 6.58% total search Automotive – … Continue reading

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Search Engines Not Well Aligned in Search Results

Over the holidays I take the opportunity on catching up on background reading that may reveal some more hidden secrets on improving the organic performance of my websites. I came across this interesting report by Dogpile that concluded that searchers … Continue reading

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Email Spoofing Attacks

DISCLAIMER Electrosmart has been the victim of an email spoofing attack over the past few weeks, using the email address webmaster[at]electrosmart.com. As there is little one can do to stop these unscrupulous practices by morons that are too incompetent to … Continue reading

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Michael Cheney Talks Traffic Interview

Michael Cheney, one of the most-respected names in Internet marketing, has been online since 1995 and is the man behind the 6-Figure launches of AdSense Videos and 11 Days To List Profits. He has unveiled a new videos product – … Continue reading

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