Archive for June, 2009
Which Screencasting Software Should You Use?
“Screencasting”, according to Wikipedia, is the “digital recording of screen output, also known as ‘video screen capture’”. With screencasting software you fire up the software and then do whatever you want to capture - maybe software, maybe a website. You must have seen such videos dozens of times, [FIRSTNAME}!
Most internet marketers, including myself, use the [...]
Posted: June 30th, 2009 under Product Reviews, Techniques: Internet Marketing.
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Put More Power Into Google Searches
Google’s search engine, I often think, is a bit like Microsoft software - 95% of people only use 5% of the features. And it’s usually because many people are unaware of the many search parameters that can be used. You can find details of advanced search operators here starting from this page:
http://www.IanSays.com/Google/AdvancedSearch
Let me give you [...]
Posted: June 28th, 2009 under Product Reviews, Techniques: Internet Marketing.
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The Power Behind “IanSays.com”
You’ll be very familiar with the links in “Update” which start with “IanSays.com”. These links are the front end of a very powerful link tracking system, GoTryThis (”GTT”), which I’ve been using since July 2006 - and it cost me nearly 200 bucks. And that was an “early bird” price! The price went up considerably [...]
Posted: June 26th, 2009 under Product Reviews.
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Goodbye Google? Maybe Not!
I always like to try out new types of search engine, and recently I found a really different one: Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha uses all sorts of databases, li.sts and websites where it can find information that is known to be true. You can enter “population UK France USA” and it will give you the numbers [...]
Posted: June 20th, 2009 under News, Product Reviews.
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The Marketing Update Community Forum: Important News
I have had to temporarily close the Forum for new registrations because of the increasing number of spammers signing up. I started the Forum by allowing sign-ups with no verification except a “Captcha” image on the sign-up form.
For quite a few months there were no problems. Then forum spammers started to target the Community Forum. [...]
Posted: June 19th, 2009 under News.
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The Truth About “The Backdoor”!
Last week I talked about Ewen Chia’s “Internet Millionaire Blueprints”, and how I had a “backdoor pass” which could get you access to Ewen’s internet business plans site at a lower price than Ewen was selling it for. The details are here:
http://www.webmasterscheatkit.com/im-blueprint/
Quite a few subscribers asked “Hey up, Ian! What’s going on?”. Well no, they [...]
Posted: June 17th, 2009 under Techniques: Internet Marketing.
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A Must-Watch Video: Google Wonder Wheel (And Other Googlie Stuff!)
Someone (I forget who) sent me a link to a new video made by Howie Schwartz. Yes, he’s trying to sell something! But his video gives a huge amount of information about how to use Google’s “Related Searches” and the new “Wonder Wheel” to carry out niche and keyword research.
It’s rather lengthy, and you might [...]
Posted: June 15th, 2009 under News, Techniques: Internet Marketing.
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Adding Blog-Like “Comments” To Your Web Pages
Last week I talked about a couple of ways to set up social networking features on your web sites. Today, here’s a way to add the same sort of “comments” feature to your conventional web pages that you find on blogs. It’s a freebie you can get from here:
http://www.IanSays.com/WebPageComments
There are paid-for versions, but as far [...]
Posted: June 15th, 2009 under Techniques: Website Building.
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The Marketing Update Community Forum: Important News
I have had to temporarily close the Forum for new registrations because of the increasing number of spammers signing up. I started the Forum by allowing sign-ups with no verification except a “Captcha” image on the sign-up form.
For quite a few months there were no problems. Then forum spammers started to target the Community Forum. [...]
Posted: June 14th, 2009 under News.
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An Interesting Split Testing Result
“Split testing” is a marketing technique which helps you to improve the conversion rate on your web pages. It’s an established technique in the “real” world, but the web makes it much easier to use.
Basically, you set up two versions of a page with just one element changed.. say, the headline. You then use split [...]
Posted: June 14th, 2009 under Techniques: Internet Marketing, Techniques: Website Building.
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