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Link Building: Four Types of Backlinks to Pursue (And Three to Avoid)

Webbiquity SMM

Local directories and high-quality industry directories. as well as online yellow pages and other similar directories. GetListed.org , a site that evaluates your business presence and directly connects to more than a dozen such directories, is a great place to start. As noted above, directory links can be helpful for SEO.

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Search Traffic Declining? You’re Not Alone (and What to Do About It)

Webbiquity SMM

” The Tutorspree blog offers another possible answer: Google is intentionally de-emphasizing organic results (free clicks) in favor of search advertising results (for which it gets paid). Figure out where your prospective buys are looking, and be there. In early 2013, Google devalued general directory links for search rankings.

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What Advertisers Want: 6 steps to Attract Advertisers to Your Blog

ProBlogger

How do advertisers determine whether a blog is worth their marketing dollars? Here are six ways bloggers can become more attractive to advertisers. Advertisers looks at many metrics when considering advertising on a blog — page views, daily visitors, average time on site, CPM, among others. Get Advertisers Involved.

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8 Marketing Trends to Implement in Your 2012 Marketing Plan

yMarketingMatters

It’s a fact: People buy from people they know, like and trust. Visitors to websites with consumer reviews are more than twice as likely to buy. Customer review websites are local directories that allow users to add and express their opinions about the various businesses in the directory. Mobile is massive and growing.

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How Will Wireless Auction 97 Affect Marketing?

Small Business Mavericks

Every time someone clicks on your ad from their phone…every time they search for your hours from their tablet…every time they use an app to buy a great deal they see advertised while waiting in line…that’s being on the wireless highway. Why Do I Think Mobile Marketing Is Going To Explode?

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Is the Hype around QR Codes Overblown?

Idaconcpts

Once again, the primary problems are lack of knowledge and lack of public buy-in. About author: Sandy writes on behalf of SARAD, a South African-based media and advertising directory. . So, what are marketers to do? They should play to their strengths. And they should tackle only one new technology at a time.

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If I Knew Then What I Know Now

Kikolani

For the site to generate me passive income from advertisements, I needed to be much more dedicated to it than I ever intended to be. If your business model is that your website will be very popular and everybody will want to buy advertisements there, think again. If your business model is advertisement, then you don’t have one.

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