If you’re an affiliate marketer, you’re probably getting ripped off and you don’t even realize it. There’s a simple trick affiliates use to steal money from the merchants they’re promoting and it’s unbelievably widespread. It’s called ‘URL hijacking’ and also known as ‘direct linking.’ It works like this. Your affiliate makes an ad that is […]
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Offering Mobile SEO Services to Offline Businesses
Offering SEO services to offline businesses is a great business opportunity. If you know how to drive traffic to a site and get ranked in the search engines, there are lots of offline businesses that could use your expertise. Offering mobile SEO services in addition is a great upsell or unique twist to put on […]
Link Building to Improve Local Rankings
These days, local search is off the charts. People use the Internet like they used the Yellow Pages in years past, to find local businesses catering to their needs. But local SEO is still uncharted territory for many marketers.Many of the link building techniques we use for regular SEO apply here but there are some […]
Making Money Online the Ethical Way
It’s no secret that lots of online marketers use some pretty shady practices to get traffic and make sales. To some extent, everybody has to define for themselves what’s all right and not all right, but actually there are some clear guidelines. In the world of the Internet, we split everything into three categories: white […]
Spying on Your Competitors through Social Media
In order for any business to succeed, it needs to know what its competition is up to. There has never been a better time in history for doing this thanks to the miracle of social media. Social media is great for spying on your competition because you can see exactly how they’re marketing to their […]