As with all user generated content sites, purging the submitted garbage is a never ending process. Additionally, as with all things the more automated it can be, the better. TheBitBot.Com Article Directory, one of our historically highest traffic establishments, has continually changed over time as have the submission rules and requirements.
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Sticky: SEO Has Changed – So Should Yours – TheBitBot.Com Article Directory New Rules
Posted by Mark on February 21st, 2012
Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Article Directories, Article Marketing, Article Spinning, Branding, Content, Content Management, Conversion Rate Optimization, Copywriting, Duplicate Content, Guest Blogging, Indexing, Internet Marketing, Keyword Rankings, Link Building, Link Development, Marketing, Monetization, Niche Marketing, Outsourcing, Research, Search Engine Marketing, SEM, SEO, Site Performance, Syndication, Traffic Generation, Uncategorized 
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No Comments »Sticky: SEO 2012 And Beyond – Leveraging Niche Sites And Private Networks
Posted by Mark on February 18th, 2012
Its raining outside where I am at this morning, so I am feeling a little blue…blue hat that is. This is one of those “bean spilling” posts that nobody is supposed to write and you’re DEFINITELY not supposed to read because it will make your virtual existence just a little more dangerous, but I am [...]
Sticky: SEO Ain’t No Magic Bullet…Just Sayin’
Posted by Mark on February 17th, 2012
OK. I guess it could be labeled as one, under the right circumstances, but for all practical purposes, its an industry that sells dreams, dreams of search engine rankings and money to boot. Does SEO work? Well sure it does boys and girls, SEO does indeed work. But understand that SEO alone is NOT what [...]
Sticky: Should I Become An Affiliate Marketer?
Posted by Mark on February 15th, 2012
Sure you should. But I am going to be completely honest with you here, it shouldn’t be at the core of your business model. The odds of you making a living as an affiliate marketer are not good. They are not good at all. Before you read the rest of this article, I want you [...]
Sticky: How To Choose An Affiliate Program
Posted by Mark on February 14th, 2012
The thought of making money while sitting in front of a computer is a temptation more than most can bear. Many newbie IMers, my self included, have spent plenty of time in the past pitching flashy products only to find them NOT CONVERT on the back end. Why is this? Why would someone who is [...]
Sticky: What To Do If Your Site Disappears From The SERP Rankings
Posted by Mark on February 12th, 2012
For starters, I am going to assume that you are targeting certain keywords that you feel will be profitable to you. Additionally, you are writing (or buying) content based around those keywords as well as making efforts to build contextually relevant links to your site based on those keywords and others semantically related. So what [...]
Posted in Autoresponders, Blog Commenting, Blogging, Branding, Content, Content Management, Conversion Rate Optimization, Copywriting, Email Marketing, Internet Marketing, Keyword Rankings, Landing Pages, Link Building, Link Development, Marketing, Monetization, Niche Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, SEM, SEO, Site Performance, Small Business, Traffic Generation, Uncategorized, Wordpress Tags: content, keywords, links, long tail keywords, SEO, short tail keywords 7 Comments »Sticky: An Interview With An Accomplished Guest Blogger – Secrets Inside
Posted by Mark on February 9th, 2012
Genuine blog posts on the web are a rare thing in my opinion. So often, as bloggers or internet marketers or webmasters or SEOs or a hybrids of all of these, we often feel compelled to be “content generating machines” just for the sake of writing articles as a means of feeding the Google bot. [...]
Posted in Article Marketing, Blog Commenting, Blogging, Branding, Content, Content Management, Copywriting, Guest Blogging, Link Building, Link Development, Marketing, Niche Marketing, SEM, SEO, Small Business, Syndication, Traffic Generation, Uncategorized, White Hat SEO Tags: blogging, branding, guest blogging, SEO 5 Comments »Sticky: How Do You Know If your Content Is Being Stolen? You Don’t!
Posted by Mark on February 6th, 2012
The bottom line is…you don’t. What is that you say? You copy and paste the URL of your article in Copyscape and you show that it is unique to your site? Or, you copy and paste excerpts from your article into Google only to find those specific blocks of text indexed on your site only? [...]
Posted in Article Marketing, Article Spinning, Autoblogging, Blogging, Branding, Character Set Spinning, Coding, Content, Content Management, Duplicate Content, Email Marketing, Forum Marketing, Guest Blogging, Internet Marketing Tags: character set spinning, copyrighting, copywriting, scraping, spinning 11 Comments »Sticky: Daily SEO Routine For Multilayered Content And Linking Strategy With No Footprint
Posted by Mark on January 27th, 2012
What a weird title, right? This article has been sitting in the back of my mind for a while now and I recently received a question that finally catalyzed its writing, so here we go. Obviously, off page SEO is very important and even though many of the link building techniques that have worked in [...]
Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Programs, Article Directories, Article Marketing, Article Spinning, Autoresponders, Blog Commenting, Blogging, Branding, Content, Content Management, Conversion Rate Optimization, Copywriting, Duplicate Content, Email Marketing, Forum Marketing, Guest Blogging, Indexing, Internet Marketing, Keyword Rankings, Link Building, Link Development, Marketing, Niche Marketing, Press Releases, Search Engine Marketing, SEM, SEO, SERP Ranking, Small Business, Syndication, Traffic Generation, Uncategorized Tags: content, link building, SEO 7 Comments »Sticky: Sometimes The Best SEO Is No SEO
Posted by Mark on January 24th, 2012
If you think about it, SEO really shouldn’t exist. The fact that Search Engine Optimization even exists at all is really an anomaly in what will ultimately be “the history of human information management”. Really, its kind of a rough spot that will be looked back upon as a “temporary chaos as humanity organized its [...]
Posted in Advertising, Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Programs, Article Directories, Article Marketing, Article Spinning, Autoresponders, Blogging, Branding, Coding, Content, Content Management, Conversion Rate Optimization, Copyrighting, Copywriting, Dofollow Links, Duplicate Content, Email Marketing, Indexing, Internet Marketing, Keyword Rankings, Lead Capture, Link Building, Link Development, List Building, Long Tail Keywords, Marketing, Monetization, Niche Marketing, Outsourcing, PageRank, Piracy Prevention, Private Article Directory Networks, Private Blog Networks, Research, Search Engine Marketing, SEM, SEO, SEO News, SERP Ranking, Site Performance, Small Business, Spindication, Syndication, Traffic Generation, Uncategorized, Web Design, Webmaster, Wordpress Tags: email, newsletter, search engine optimization, SEM, SEO, syndication 24 Comments »How To Use Localized Search Terms To Rank For Any Keyword
Posted by Mark on February 4th, 2012
In the world of underground SEO, trust and rank flow in mysterious ways. Truth be told, its really not that mysterious. Actually, its really a function of IP diversity as well as inbound link structure naturalness and trust. Now there are two ways to do this, there is the blue hat way where you perform [...]
Why Discipline Is the Key for Effective Online Marketing
Posted by Mark on February 4th, 2012
Discipline is important in every business, be it online or offline. When you are disciplined, you are more organized, which translates to heightened efficiency in every aspect of your business. Discipline is also one of the major things that separate the successful and flourishing websites from the ones that shut shop within a short while.
Posted in Advertising, Affiliate Programs, Article Marketing, Blogging, Content, Content Management, Copywriting, Forum Marketing, Internet Marketing, Lead Capture, List Building, Marketing, Monetization, Niche Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, SEM, Video Marketing Tags: internet marketing, online marketing, search engine marketing 2 Comments »Ten Essential WordPress Plugins
Posted by Mark on January 31st, 2012
Having created websites for several years now, I have found that having the proper tools with which to do your job make all the difference in your overall experience. The right tools will effect a higher level of quality and professionalism on your site. Of the tools that I have used that I have come to appreciate the most are the Wordpress and Joomla content management systems. The nice thing about both of these content management systems is the fact they are both highly customizable platforms. This article is about the top twenty essential Wordpress plugins that I would highly recommend to anyone using the Wordpress CMS. So here we go. Keep in mind that these are listed in alphabetical order, not order of importance.
Can I Make Money In This Niche?
Posted by Mark on January 30th, 2012
If you have found a niche in which there is sufficient interest to pursue, we now move to the next logical phase of our marketing plan and that is to determine if there is actually money being spent in this particular niche.
Posted in Blogging, Marketing, Monetization, Research, SEM, SEO, Uncategorized Tags: competition, Marketing, Monetization, niche No Comments »Twelve Steps To Your Own Online Business
Posted by Mark on January 29th, 2012
Over the past year I have spent a substantial amount of time researching the subject of internet marketing. I must say, this is really a much more fascinating pursuit that I ever could have imagined. There are so many variables and steps involved and the learning curve can be quite long and span several years if one does not know where to look or what questions to ask. For that reason, I have decided, for this post, to condense everything I have learned into one short article that can act as an outline for anyone who has not yet obtained a personal road map to this end.
Posted in Blogging, Marketing, Monetization, Research, SEM, Webmaster Tags: business, online, steps 4 Comments »Google Freshness Brings My Clients Targeted Traffic
Posted by Mark on January 29th, 2012
So I was looking at the stats and figures of some of my clients this morning and one in particular caught my attention. I have actually posted some stats about this client before because of the fact that their site metrics and keyword traffic are always telling. Anyway, as I was looking at my StatCounter [...]
Posted in Content, Content Management, Copywriting, Search Engine Marketing, SEO, Small Business, Uncategorized Tags: blogging, Google Freshness Update, SEO 5 Comments »Increasing Web Traffic Through SEO For Small Online Business
Posted by Mark on January 29th, 2012
The best strategy of increasing web traffic is through search engines. Though you can allocate some funds towards…
Posted in Internet Marketing, Research, SEM, SEO, Small Business, Traffic Generation, Webmaster Tags: increasing web traffic 5 Comments »Hurting For Content? Here’s How To Great Content Ideas In Any Niche!
Posted by Mark on January 28th, 2012
To start: This methodology is SIMPLY AWESOME for small businesses looking to brand themselves. I must admit, I use this technique all of the time and it works absolutely beautifully and it is one of my favorite techniques “hands down”. Imagine for a moment that you’re sitting at your desk with absolutely nothing to write [...]
Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Analytics, Article Marketing, Blogging, Branding, Content, Content Management, Conversion Rate Optimization, Copywriting, Duplicate Content, Email Marketing, Internet Marketing, Marketing, Monetization, Niche Marketing, Research, Search Engine Marketing, SEM, SEO, SERP Ranking, Small Business, Traffic Generation, Viral Marketing Tags: content, forums, SEO 2 Comments »Article Marketing And The Power Of Syndication
Posted by Mark on January 27th, 2012
One of the oldest and most effective ways of tapping the power of unique content is through the power of syndication. If you are the owner of unique content or articles, then you have the tools necessary to drive traffic to your website.
Posted in Article Marketing, Blogging, Copyrighting, Link Development, Marketing, SEO, Uncategorized Tags: article marketing, RSS syndication, SEO, syndication 5 Comments »
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Sticky: Sources Of Targeted Traffic Versus Sources Of Non-Targeted Traffic
Truth be told, websites live and die by their traffic numbers, “targeted” traffic that is. If a website receives lots of targeted traffic, then, generally speaking, conversions will be good. If a website receives lots of non-targeted traffic, then, odds are, conversion rates and such will be bad. What type of traffic do you want? [...]