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30 December
Next Article from Search Engine Strategies Coming Soon
Stay tune for another article about search engine strategies in Chicago. This one I will go over what we heard about from the Dealing with Contextual & Other Non-Search Ads.
This was an interesting session with representatives from both Google and Overture. I will just say the speakers didn't seem impressed at all with Google Adwords.
29 December
How should you use your affiliate links?
When building traffic to an affiliate site it may be better to redirect your affiliate links to your own site.
It is better to put a page on your site about products/services, good seo. Then from your main domain link to the affiliate landing page.
2 good reasons:
1. To bring the traffic to your domain instead of someone elses. You keep control of your traffic. If an affiliate program disappears, you can usually find another to replace it with. But if you have building up sending the traffic direcly to the affiliate system, it will take more time to recover.
2. Some affiliate programs only count sales from the domain name you gave them when you signed up. So if you are promoting on a different domain you are losing sales and probably don't even know it.
27 December
Week 5: Alternative ways to market your products, services and web site
Are there any other ways to market this product or service? Places you can sell the product or services at, paid listings, auctions, using search engines to find new customers, etc. Can you upsell, cross sale or offer alternatives?
Feel free to join us at
Internet Marketing Forum to discover more about marketing your goods and services.
25 December
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone :) I hope your Christmas day is great :)
23 December
Tips from Chicago Search Engine Strategies - Part 2
The next session that I enjoyed was
Shopping Search Tatics at Search Engine Strategies.
Chris Bowler,
Media Director and Search Practice Lead at Itraffic.com,Laura Thieme,
President and Founder of Bizresearch and
Craig SnyderEVP of Marchex were the speakers
.Detlev Johnson,
President of Technology, SuccessWorks Search Marketing Solutions, moderated the Forum
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I have chosen to go over Mr. Bowler’s part of the session. This was by far one of the best speakers I had heard all day. Probably because it wasn’t as much theory, it was based on a client case. He gave detailed enough facts that you could understand and grasp the shopping engines potential.
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22 December
MSN Beta Preview Released
If you haven't seen what the new MSN Site will look like, then here is your chance to take a peek.
MSN Beta Preview.
It doesn't mean they will release it looking like this, but this is what we see now. Only time will tell what will happen.
I'm hoping they release it out of beta January 1st. Keep your fingers crossed for me ;)
21 December
Tips from Chicago Search Engine Strategies – Part 1
The first meeting I went to for the day was
Organic Listing Forum at Search Engine Strategies.
Bruce Clay,
President of Bruce Clay, LLC and
Mike Grehan,
CEO of Smart Interactive (and Author of Search Engine Marketing: The Essential Best Practice Guide) were the speakers.
Detlev Johnson,
President of Technology, SuccessWorks Search Marketing Solutions, moderated the Forum.
Each speaker gave a presentation for a few minutes and then they went to questions. Here are some of the questions and answers that were given (they are not word for word).
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20 December
Week 4: Tweaking, Testing and Link building.
Suggestions to help make your web site convert better. Other things you can try in order to sell your products or services (like product test pages). How do you find related links and other places you can submit your web site to? What other things can you do to help increase links to your site?
For directory linking,
Directory Archives is a good place to start. You can easily find free, recip and paid directories to get links from.
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19 December
SEO Guy Web Directory
All SEO's, Web Designers and Web Hosting companies can now submit their sites to SEO Guys
Web Directory.
It should be a good free link for those looking for additional links to their sites.
Also, if you are looking for more links I recommend you look at
Directory Archives by Aaron Wall who has a great list going. Each link in the directory lets you know if they are free, paid or recip type directories.
18 December
Online Marketing Board Make Over
Today I took some time to work on my marketing forum
Digital Marketing Online Forum. This board has been around over a year, I just haven't had time to work on it.
Any members that were signed up on the old board, need to sign up again. Everyone else is welcome to join in :)
I will work on putting up links to the free directories and articles from the main page on the site later this week.
Stop by and register or bookmark my
Digital Marketing Online Forum.
17 December
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16 December
Google Backlinks Update
It looks like Google is updating backlinks right now.
Just a little note today :)
15 December
Week 3: Building a site to sell those products or services.
What do you do to promote your products or services you offer. During this week we will go over ways to build your site to get indexed, but also to help increase your click through ratio.
We are still discussing marketing online at the
Internet Marketing Forum. Please stop by and join us.
14 December
Tanya Martin is NOT looking for a job
I have been contacted several times by companies and head hunters in the last few weeks. I'm not interested in a full time job with another company. If you have found my site and interested in working with me, you may email me at tanya@overthemark.com. I will not take a full time job for another company.
I will not relocate to the west or the east coast. I'm where I'm at. If you want me to work on your companies project then talk to me about that.
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13 December
No Longer Taking New Clients
Over The Mark is no longer taking on new clients.
WE ARE CURRENTLY NOT TAKING ANY NEW CLIENTS OR OFFERING THE FREE EVALUATION. WE STILL OFFER LINK BUILDING.
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12 December
Tired of reading search results?
Speegle is the first speaking search engine. Speegle offers 3 different voices that read the search engine results to you.
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11 December
Ad Coop by Digital Point
Yesterday I setup on the
Ad Coop that digital point offers. It is a free ad network that allows text link ads. This is setup to help increase your ranking in search engines.
It is free and from post on the board it seems to be working really well. I will let you know how it does for me. Want to test it out for yourself?
Free Text Ad Coop sign up now and give it a try.
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08 December
Week 2: Where do I find those products or services?
Week 2: Where do I find those products or services?
Affiliate programs, warehouses, drop shipping, other companies, yard sales, estate auctions, your mothers’ garbage can, etc. We will look at payouts, where the traffic would go, how the processing is done, etc. Basically anything that will have an impact on the conversion of your traffic.
New Thread going over at the
Marketing Forum. Feel free to join us.
07 December
I have missed a few blogs :)
Christmas season is here, keeping everyone busy including me.
Last week I was on dial up, the satellite in the sky wasn't playing nice. Now I'm playing catch up. :)
To anyone that has submitted to my directories, links were approved tonight. Sorry for the delay. If you haven't but would like to submit your site, here are the
Free Directory Listings.
