About a year ago, Twitter instituted a no follow policy for all of the links on the site. Every link on Twitter is prevented from passing along the SEO juice to the sites it links to. Whether you believe that Twitter did this to curb spam on the system, or that they just cowed to[...]

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Much of this blog is dedicated to driving traffic to your site. But there’s another really important part of the equation: Conversion Rate. Making money online is defined by this equation: Traffic  x  Conversion Rate  x  Price  =  How Much Money You Make Online (1000 visitors  x  2% Conversion Rate  x  $100 Product = $2000[...]

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The new Dan Brown bestseller came out last week. “The Lost Symbol” managed to break nearly everyone’s one-day publishing record for adult fiction selling millions of copies in the first 24 hours. But unless you’re one of the few best-selling authors anointed by both the mainstream media and the big name bookstores like Barnes and[...]

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It’s safe to say we’re at a point in the web where every “easy” business model has been tried by a thousand people. If you want to sell toys, or shoes, or books, or electronics someone has a huge lead on you. They’ve built a store, refined it a few dozen times, battled fierce competition,[...]

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One of the most important criteria for search engines to find your site is number of quality incoming links. We know that incoming links are essential to your SEO campaign, but often it is hard to know exactly which links to go after. If you’re just trying to build links in the dark, you’re going[...]

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