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Say No to Pagerank

Posted in Internet Marketing by alex on the July 29th, 2007

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It’s that time again where Google updates the silly green bar so many webmasters misconceive.

Don’t let it happen to you, say no to pagerank, yes to life.

Here’s how to participate: (more…)

Six Degrees of Suck

Posted in Internet Marketing Reviews by alex on the July 27th, 2007

This is a new feature on Net Frontier Marketing, where I rate recent discoveries on a scale of suck from not at all to grapefruit through a garden hose: (more…)

Cheap Lazy Bastards Get What They Deserve

Posted in Ramblings by alex on the July 25th, 2007

It wouldn’t be fair, and likely legal, to reproduce here some of the emails I get from readers and customers.

Therefore I’ll rephrase and refrain from calling out anybody in particular:

“Can you give me some advice plz?”

Hey Alex,

I’ve been reading your blog for a while and I think it’s great. There’s tons of real info here and I always discover new things.

I really want to make money online so that’s why I’m writing to you for some advice. (more…)

4 Ridiculous Linkbait Myths

Posted in Internet Marketing by alex on the July 21st, 2007

Linkbait is the New Viral Marketing. Same principle, new buzzword. More goal oriented. The one major objective, as the name implies, is gathering a slew of editorially given backlinks for your site.

There are few SEO tactics as rewarding as a successful piece of linkbait. For that reason, it has been discussed heavily on A-list blogs and beaten to death in every corner of the web. (more…)

8 Random Things

Posted in Ramblings by alex on the July 18th, 2007

I have been tagged by Cord for the 8 Random Things Meme, where you spout off little known tidbits about yourself.

When tagged, you must also pass the ball to 8 other bloggers.

Ladies and gentlemen, let’s get ready to Rambbbllleeee… (more…)

Make a Tough Marketing Decision

Posted in Internet Marketing by alex on the July 14th, 2007

Let’s postulate the following:

You are developing a piece of software that helps companies improve the efficiency of their business processes.

You know for a fact that your competitor is working on a piece of software that has the same proposed use. (more…)

How to Write a Sales Letter Part 3

Posted in copywriting by alex on the July 12th, 2007

If you’re just joining up, you’ll want to read up on How to Write a Sales Letter Part 1.

Once again we’re jumping right in because this is another “postzilla”.

As a reminder, the sales letter is in regular text and my comments are indented in blockquotes: (more…)

How to Write a Sales Letter Part 2

Posted in copywriting by alex on the July 10th, 2007

For those of you just joining the program, you can find the first installment here: how to write a sales letter part 1.

In it we discussed summarizing your offer and coming up with a title. As you’ll see below, I’ve stuck with one of the existing ones and made a very small tweak based on one reader’s suggestion. (more…)

Link Trident of Doom

Posted in Black Hat SEO by alex on the July 3rd, 2007

After Project Black Mask, a lot of you have written in concerning Forum Equalizer, asking if we could come up with a special rebate like we did for many other important pieces of the puzzle.

Since the product is already very low priced at $77, we could only ask for a small reduction and I wasn’t quite happy with it.

So Rod and Jeff have done something far better… (more…)