One of the first rules of business is not to rely too heavily on any 1 client or customer, for the majority of your income. If you do, and that customer goes broke or takes their business elsewhere, you’re in BIG trouble! Even if that customer just decides to pay you late, it can kill [...]
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My dofollow experiment – The results
Way back in November 2008, I decided to start an experiment. Against the advice of a few SEO professionals, I decided to see what would happen, if I offered ‘dofollow’ links from the comments section of this blog.
I have been able to take this gamble, because this blog is 100% free of advertisers, affiliates and [...]
What if someone sees this?
I read an interesting post on Seth Godin’s blog yesterday. It tells the story of someone, who had three people short-listed for a job as a housekeeper. The employer decided to Google their names and found they were totally unsuitable; all because of the information she found about them online.
Only last week, a web designer [...]
Quick blog marketing tip
Here’s a quick blog marketing tip, to help you reach more targeted readers with your blog.
Focus on people – not ‘traffic’
Take a look at the search terms that people most frequently use, when they arrive on your blog from the search engines. Then, write a blog post about that subject and you will often attract [...]
Google and me!
As any of my regular readers will know, me and Google have a very strange relationship! I decided to write this blog exclusively for people and develop it’s readership via ’social media marketing.’ As a marketing professional, I wince when I see blogs, which are clearly written primarily to score SEO points; with the actual [...]
Link love, Google and spammers
The results are in and I can now let you know what’s happened since I started this exciting marketing experiment!
As many of you already know, jimsmarketingblog.com offers everyone who comments here a special reward; something called a do-follow link. This is great for my readers, as it means when you comment here, your link actually [...]
Internet marketing experiment update!
It’s almost 2 weeks since I started an experiment on jimsmarketingblog.com. I wanted to see what REALLY happens when a blog offers a valuable, ‘do-follow link’ to everyone who comments there.
What does ‘do-follow’ mean?
In brief, every time you comment on my blog, you will receive a special kind of link back to your website or [...]
Dear Google
An open letter to the Google algorithm
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Dear Google algorithm,
I see from what you have done that I have REALLY offended you. You have reduced the amount of traffic you send here by 50%, so you must be very angry with me.
In view of this, I just want you to hear my side of the [...]
Focus on people – Not ‘hits’!
Because of the amazing growth of this blog, since I started marketing it just 9 weeks ago, I am getting a lot of people asking me the same question:
Could you take a quick look at my blog / website Jim and give me some tips for how to get more traffic?
This question is based on [...]
I’m following you!
If you have been reading my newsletter over the years or my previous blog posts, you will know that I am passionate about helping as many people as possible to grow their businesses, increase their sales and boost their profits.
Link love
That’s why I’m ALWAYS looking for new ways to give something of value to the [...]
3 great Internet marketing tips
In this blog post, I am going to give you 3 great tips to improve the amount of leads, enquiries or sales you make from your website!
But first, have you ever wondered why some of your competitors appear on the first page of Google, when you do an industry related search?
They have really average looking [...]
Beating the credit crunch!
Whenever times are hard and the economy heads south, people (and businesses) have to think a lot harder before they spend their money. This is something we have seen time and time again during past recessions.
However, the ‘credit crunch’ has given us a MUCH BIGGER problem, because our potential clients not only have less [...]
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