IM NewsWatch, August 13, 2013 - Latest IM News including ‘8 Steps to Higher Facebook Graph Search Rankings – Website Magazine’ and much more...
August 13th, 2013 at 4:00 am EST‘Internet Traffic Week: New Way to Use a Known Source’ by Gail Trahd
Gail Trahd’s latest ‘PLR Health Wizard’ blog post is titled “Internet Traffic Week: New Way to Use a Known Source”. Gail says, “Traffic can be a challenge. Especially finding people who are interested in buying. This week I was reacquainted with an old friend and discovered new ways to use this source of traffic to benefit both me and my... [Read more]
‘9 Ways Local Businesses Can Grow Email Subscriptions’ – Web Marketing Today
The latest ‘Web Marketing Today’ blog post is titled “9 Ways Local Businesses Can Grow Email Subscriptions”. Pamela Neely says, “Email newsletters can be a lot of work. If you’re creating one every week or so, the only way for it to make sense as a time investment is to have a decent list of people to mail to. Having a good-sized list also... [Read more]
‘8 Steps to Higher Facebook Graph Search Rankings’ – ‘Website Magazine’ Article
The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “8 Steps to Higher Facebook Graph Search Rankings”. Bryan Young says, “As a brand, there is great value that comes with every like, comment and share of a post. With the changes to Facebook timeline, each of these interactions allow your social influence to grow by giving your brand the opportunity... [Read more]
Instant Traffic Commissions: traffic to your affiliate sites #ad
Sean Miller and Zack Carter, along with the technical member of the team, Jack Clayton, have been working on improving their affiliate commissions for quite a while. Through refining their techniques and developing proprietary technology, they report they have brought in over $250,000 to their business and have then taught their students how to follow... [Read more]
‘Link Building 101: How to get started‘ – Third Door Media Webinar September 17
Third Door Media is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, September 17 at 1.00 pm EDT. The topic of the webinar is “Link Building 101: How to get started”. The TDM team says, “Smarter- modern SEO has found that Link building is among the top tasks required for search ranking and traffic sources. Building quality, sustainable and relevant links... [Read more]
‘Five ways niche ecommerce sites can beat Amazon’ – ‘Econsultancy’ Blog
The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Five ways niche ecommerce sites can beat Amazon”. Charity Stebbins says, “Fans of feel-good 90s movies will recall Meg Ryan’s valiant but doomed struggle to save her corner bookstore from Tom Hanks’s big box rival. Ecommerce niche sites have found themselves in a similar... [Read more]
‘6-Step Path to Creating Inherently Useful Marketing' by Jay Baer
Jay Baer ‘s latest ‘Convince & Convert’ blog post is titled “The 6-Step Path to Creating Inherently Useful Marketing?. Baer says, “Youtility is marketing so useful, people would pay for it (if you asked them). It’s marketing customers actually want, instead of marketing that companies think they need. I first started thinking about... [Read more]
EWS Top bar: For notices your readers must not miss #ad
“Banner blindness” is something that must be confronted by every marketer. People can ignore banners and not even notice they are doing it. Now, Craig Sowerby has released EWS Top bar, a WordPress plugin to place a “ribbon” or “bar” across the top of your WordPress pages so capture the attention of your visitors so... [Read more]
‘Facebook’s Worst-Case Scenario: Becoming the Next Yahoo’ – ‘Mashable’
The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Facebook’s Worst-Case Scenario: Becoming the Next Yahoo”. Todd Wasserman says, “It’s 2020 and you’re 13 years old. There is very little delineation between real life and the Internet. Your face computer ensures that an IM, text, photo or video is only a blink away. Your friends... [Read more]
‘How to Re-Write Your Copy to Instantly Attract And Engage Your Readers' – ‘The Future of Ink’ Blog
The latest article on ‘The Future of Ink’ blog is titled “How to Re-Write Your Copy to Instantly Attract And Engage Your Readers?. Sue Painter says, “It’s as true for digitally published content as it is for printed content – you have anextremely short time frameto hook and engage your readers. Whether you are creating an e-book, an information... [Read more]
’10 Ways to Stretch Your Marketing Budget’ – ‘MarketingProfs’ Blog
The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “10 Ways to Stretch Your Marketing Budget”. Ardi Kolah says, “All marketing practitioners are seeking ways to save money and get a bigger bang for their budget buck. How to do that isn’t at all obvious. But, sometimes, the answer can be staring you in the face! No. 1: Seek opportunity... [Read more]
New keyword research tool fills gap left by Google tool #ad
Some people have been panicking over losing the Google Keyword Tool, and it could indeed be a problem if there were no replacement. But visionary marketers and their programmers have developed new solutions to fill the void without skipping a beat. One of these new SEO research tools is Apex SEO, created by Dylan Kingsbury and Aaron Sammon, gives you... [Read more]
‘How To Beat The Competition In Your Niche’ by John Chow
John Chow’s latest blog post is titled “How To Beat The Competition In Your Niche”. Chow says, “Are you so scared of competition? The truth is that competition can actually discourage you from moving forward in your blogging business. But all hope is not lost. Or is it? In this post, I want to share a quick action tip which you can use to... [Read more]
’8 Ways to Instantly Improve the Social Shareability of Your Visual Blog Content’ – HubSpot
The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled ”8 Ways to Instantly Improve the Social Shareability of Your Visual Blog Content”. Pamela Vaughan says, “As you may have picked up by now, visual content is a fantastic marketing weapon. People are naturally attracted to images more than text, it’s highly shareable, and social... [Read more]
‘Email Marketing: Subject line test increases open rate by 10%’ – ‘MarketingExperiments’ Blog
The latest ‘MarketingExperiments’ blog post is titled “Email Marketing: Subject line test increases open rate by 10%”. John Tackett says, “Every year, MarketingExperiments’ sister brand MarketingSherpa holds its annualMarketingSherpa Email Awards as a showcase to recognize marketers who designed email campaigns that exceeded expectations. In... [Read more]
KD Outsourcing: How to outsource your Kindle publishing business #ad
You don’t have to do all the work for your new Kindle book yourself. There are excellent workers available for all phases of producing your book. In today’s environment, you can do the work that you enjoy doing and outsource the rest. There are five stages of book production: • Research to determine the best topic (the one to most likely... [Read more]
‘37 Tips for Writing Emails that Get Opened, Read, and Clicked’ – ‘Copyblogger’ Blog
The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “37 Tips for Writing Emails that Get Opened, Read, and Clicked”. Henneke says, “The web is a constantly evolving organism that can seem complicated and difficult to keep up with … if you’re not a hard-core programmer. So what’s a content producer — someone who’s building an audience... [Read more]
‘Custom Segments to Increase Sales’ – MOZ Blog
The latest MOZ blog post is titled “Custom Segments to Increase Sales”. Craig Bradford says, “One of the things that I like most about Google Analytics is that it can be as simple or as complex as you like. Out of the box it’s very easy to use. Without much experience, you can quickly see the basics, like the amount of traffic you receive... [Read more]
‘Using scams for content and links’ – ‘Econsultancy’ Blog
The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Using scams for content and links”. David de Souza says, “If you are unlucky, like me, you’ll recieve hundreds of spam email’s every single day. This daily deluge of spam used to be a big annoyance for me. However, after some creative thinking, I started looking... [Read more]
Giga Pin Traffic: Don’t depend on Google for your traffic #ad
Ivana Bosnjak got fed up with tryng to get traffic from Google SEO. The hoops she had to jump through to rank well got harder and harder. Now, she has found a way to get traffic that is quicker and gives more dramatic results. Bosnjak has turned to Pinterest for her traffic. Its 70 Million users make up a major marketplace for her sales. And they are... [Read more]
‘Behold: A Digital Bill of Rights for the Internet, by the Internet’ – ‘Mashable’
The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Behold: A Digital Bill of Rights for the Internet, by the Internet”. Ryan Lytle says, “he digital rights conversation was thrust into the mainstream spotlight after news of ongoing, widespread mass surveillance programs leaked to the public. Always a hot topic, these revelations sparked a... [Read more]
‘When It Comes To Social Media Sharing, Mobile Rules’ – ‘Marketing Land’ Article
The latest article on ’Marketing Land’ is titled “When It Comes To Social Media Sharing, Mobile Rules”. Steve Olenski says, “Every person on the planet has a mobile phone — or at least it seems that way. Therefore, it should not be a big surprise that when it comes to social media sharing of content, more people do... [Read more]
‘Successful Brands on YouTube: Best-Practices and Metrics’ – ‘MarketingProfs’ Blog
The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “Successful Brands on YouTube: Best-Practices and Metrics”. Ayaz Nanji says, “Top-performing brands on YouTube understand that consistent and frequent content production leads to increased views, according to recent report by Pixability. The study, which analyzed the YouTube channels of Interbrand’s... [Read more]
Facebook Social Lead System for cheap, high quality leads #ad
Ryan Shaw has been testing many forms of paid traffic for year. When he pays for traffic, he wants to get the most responsive traffic available. He was surprised when he found that Facebook traffic was some of the best-performing traffic he ever got. One fan page brought him in $50,000 in earnings. When he first started using FB ads, they only brought... [Read more]
‘The Anatomy of a Perfectly Search Engine Optimized Web Page [INFOGRAPHIC]‘ – HubSpot
The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled ”The Anatomy of a Perfectly Search Engine Optimized Web Page [INFOGRAPHIC]“. Ginny Soskey says, “SEO can be tricky. You’re optimizing your pages to be surfaced by robots, yet at the same time they must be engaging to humans. You also encounter constantly changing algorithms which... [Read more]
‘4 AdWords Settings that Work Against You’ – Web Marketing Today
The latest ‘Web Marketing Today’ blog post is titled “4 AdWords Settings that Work Against You”. Melissa Mackey says, “In June, Google rolled out an interactive “local carousel” of images at the top of certain search results pages. Some local business categories have immediately received the new treatment, while others may see the carousel... [Read more]
‘Kim Dotcom’s Mega to Launch Encrypted Email Service’ – ‘Mashable’
The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Kim Dotcom’s Mega to Launch Encrypted Email Service”. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai says, “Kim Dotcom‘s Mega is working on a secure, encrypted email service that promises to include all the functionalities of modern cloud-based services while keeping messages safe from snooping. Just... [Read more]
Lazy Money Magician: Because even lazy people need to eat #ad
Simple Spencer used to work long and hard to build his internet business. His family missed him as he worked late into the night on making his business work. But now he says he has found a better way. In Lazy Money Magician, he lays out all his method so that anyone can follow it. He works at keeping it simple. He describes his marketing strategy this... [Read more]
‘Has Google really just killed the PR industry?’ – ‘Econsultancy’ Blog
The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Has Google really just killed the PR industry?”. David Moth says, “There are few companies or organisations that can come close to rivalling the power that Google wields over the internet and search in particular. So when the search engine updated its rules on unnatural link... [Read more]
‘Where Most Got Social Business All Wrong, Including Me' by Jay Baer
Jay Baer ‘s latest ‘Convince & Convert’ blog post is titled “Where Most Got Social Business All Wrong, Including Me?. Baer says, “Regardless of how you define social business; it’s hard to argue that organizations today must change if they want to stay relevant and competitive. I have seen business change and lived through many of... [Read more]