Archive for May, 2009


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Coffee Talk Interview #43 – Build a Professional Web Presence in Minutes: Easily Grab New Customers, Grow Your Brand, and Monetize Your Site With WordPress; James and Former Silicon Valley Expert Don Campbell Tell You How

Former Microsoft and Interwoven executive Don Campbell speaks with James about the merits of the WordPress CMS. This incredible free resource allows even novice users to create great looking websites and market their products and services on the internet in minutes. Don shares what he’s learned since launching his own business (Expand2Web) and tells James how WordPress drives Google results, allows easy manipulation of content, and shares a list of his favorite and most effective plug-ins.

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Hard Work And Perseverance Certainly Pays Off For Those Willing To Do the Work

TweetIt seems like only yesterday that we were packing for our 20th anniversary celebration in Maui. Suddenly, Arlene and I are now planning a party for our 25th anniversary. One thing’s for sure: time flies. I often wonder how more than two decades could have passed in the blink of an eye, or how Arlene [...]

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Affiliate Buzz #146 – From Novice to Savvy Podcaster Arlene Martell, Shares with James 7 Tips for Running a Successful Podcast, Building Traffic and Increasing Sales

In this edition of the Affiliate Buzz audio newsletter, James Martell, successful publisher, speaker and author talks with his special guest Arlene Martell about tips and strategies she used to get her podcast off the ground to build traffic, increase sales and get the word out about her site sharing 7 tips on preparing for the interview.

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Google SEO Tip #35 – How can I make sure Google reaches my deeper pages?

TweetMatt Cutts: Well it’s unclear whether you’re asking about how many levels deep it is in terms of directories or how far it is from the root page. One way that you can make sure that Google reaches those pages is link from your root page, your main page, directly to the deep pages that [...]

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Google SEO Tip #34 – Do dates in URLs determine freshness?

TweetMatt Cutts: I think dates in the URL or the content can be very useful but people can also try to optimize that and say they are always ten minutes old. So we have our own measures of how fresh pages are; for example the first time that our crawler saw a page. We also [...]

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Google SEO Tip #33 – What if a search for my business triggers “Did you mean?”

TweetMatt Cutts: Not that I know of, at least not right now. There’s nothing where we have a form that you can fill out and say, “This is bad.” You could try finding our various help or Web forums and report it in there. But the hope is that over time we learn that sort [...]

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Google SEO Tip #32 – Will a “coming soon” page negatively impact my site?

TweetMatt Cutts: No. I think a coming soon page can be pretty smart. I think it’s good for users so that they don’t just end up on a black hole page that it doesn’t resolve or something like that. If you have some content that’s coming out I don’t think there is any harm from [...]

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Google SEO Tip #31 – What impact does “page bloat” have on Google rankings?

TweetMatt Cutts: I wouldn’t jump to conclusions. You know back in the early days of Google we used to truncate out about a hundred kilobytes, and so if you had a “page bloat” back then I could imagine that your content might get snipped off halfway through where you wouldn’t see all of it. But [...]

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Google SEO Tip #30 – Does the size of a website affect its authority in Google?

TweetMatt Cutts: I think the answer is basically zero. It’s not the size of your website that determines the authority in terms of the number of pages that you have indexed. Instead the authority is typically determined by the links that we see coming into those pages and the links that we see in the [...]

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