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    Posted on March 21st, 2008

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    How to Get Good Publicity for Your Blog and Build Traffic

    How to Get Good Publicity for Your Blog and Build Traffic

    This questions is asked all the time. How do I get traffic to my blog? How do I get publicity for my blog? The best answers are not always the ones people like to hear, but are still quite accurate… there is no real quick and easy way to get a million people [...]

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    Posted on November 15th, 2007

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    Make Your 404 File Not Found Page Work for You and Keep Error Traffic

    How much do you pay attention to your 404 page? Do you know what your 404 page is or how it works? You can receive this error response for various reasons but the main reason is someone or something has tried to access a page on your blog or store that doesn’t exist [...]

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    Posted on October 26th, 2007

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    Contests are Great? Get a Favicon Free for One Month

    Do you like the different contests that some bloggers use on their sites? It can be a good way to network with other blogs, increase traffic to your site, and increase traffic to the winning site as well. The only question I have is how the big G sees “contests” and how it [...]

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    Posted on October 19th, 2007

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    SEO Steps For a Better ChannelAdvisor Store

    There are several good steps you can and should take to improve the seo for your ChannelAdvisor store pages and categories. This is part two of a two part article where I first outlined some steps you can’t take from within the store administration pages that are items you probably would like to implement [...]

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    Posted on October 8th, 2007

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    Register a Domain Name for Increased eBay Affiliate Traffic

    Do you want to look more professional and drive more traffic to your online store on one of the big auction sites like eBay, Overstock, or Amazon, and earn some eBay affiliate commission at the same time? Registering for your own domain name is a good place to start. This may sound very [...]

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    Posted on October 5th, 2007

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    What is With the rel=nofollow Penalty

    Now I know I am not the most seasoned engineer, programmer, or any type of SEO professional (as I am none of those), but I can read.
    I have spent quite a bit of time reading and re-reading the information on the issue regarding rel=nofollow and paid links, so follow me through this logic if you [...]

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    Posted on October 4th, 2007

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    Simple Steps to Increase Blog Traffic and Pagerank

    Simple Steps to Increase Blog Traffic and Pagerank

    That is the big question for most of us of course, but notice I said immediate future traffic, these are not quick and easy steps, but simple ones I think will make a difference for future traffic. One thing I have learned over the years is that nothing comes overnight, and it is generally [...]

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    Posted on October 3rd, 2007

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    A Fast Google Indexing Domain Test

    WOW, that was quick super fast. Well, there is the answer to my test to see how long it would take Google to index my new site, completely new url and domain name for this blog. It took less than 6 hours. Now being in the business we are in, I totally understand [...]

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    Posted on October 2nd, 2007

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    Test Google Search Engine Indexing

    I decided to move my blog and all its contents and everything that goes along with it to a new domain, now http://www.chipseo.com, to give it a better match of content to search structure for our company (Island Zephyr). Now, we can do a good market test to see how long it takes for [...]

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    Posted on September 28th, 2007

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    Google Launches TheGoogle.com

    Or did they? Well, not really, and it sounds a little stupid like theDonald, but a news type site (the Onion) reported yesterday that Google was launching a new site, called TheGoogle.com saying “Google Launches ‘The Google’ For Older Adults”. The article goes on to say how it is a more secure search [...]