JR’s Internet Marketing Strategies

As he did in life, Michael Jackson continues to break records in his death... The death of superstar Micheal Jackson is turning out to be one of the biggest phenomenons that is illustrating the power of online and mobile communication throughout the world and is really fascinating from an Internet marketing perspective. On a personal note... Let me say that I am truly saddened by this news. As my regular readers know, I came to this country from the former USSR in 1975 as a young child and Off The Wall was the first album I ever owned, yes in full on vinyl. His music was my first introduction to American pop and dance culture and coming from the USSR with both of my parents being classical concert pianists this was certainly a change… Continue reading | 37 Comments

Another PR update so soon... Okay well it seems that a June Google Page Rank update is underway right now, which is weird since the last one was just last month, but all my newer PRO sites went to PR1 or PR2, and 2 PR2 sites went to PR3 and other bloggers are posting the same updates on their sites. And, this explains the shake up in the SERPS that I talked about the other day. I do not think the update is done, because a couple of my sites went to PR2 which they surely did not deserve due to very few links, I'm not complaining but I think that it will go down. Again for the newbies to this business, the toolbar PR is mainly useful for our own egos :-) and link… Continue reading | 45 Comments

Have you guys checked your SERP positions lately? There are definitely some shake ups going on with Google and their algo. A couple of my good aged site's home pages just plummeted in the SERPS. One site, while it still ranks for other keywords, was pushed back to the black hole for a keyword that it has ranked for for over 1 1/2 years and the keyword is very low competition and now there is a whole lot of junk sitting on page 1 for that keyword. And the same with other SERP results that are also showing a lot of crappy and spammy sites, as well as irrelevant sites. Now in doing some reading around the web this seems to be an on going issue for many in the last couple of… Continue reading | 39 Comments

In the world of Internet marketing our plates are pretty full, with all we have to do, like link building, keyword research, website promotion, etc... there just is not enough time in the day. Probably the most time consuming task is writing content. Not only for our niche sites but also for article marketing. Now, before the flagship bloggers start screaming this is not meant to replace your beautifully and thoughtfully written posts! This is meant more for the money sites. Outsourcing is a great… Continue reading | 29 Comments

Well Wordpress 2.8 is out. Considering what happened last time I updated I decided to wait on this blog but updated another blog I have. There are actually a few good changes, like the ability to search for and install themes right from your dashboard. It also offers better options for a more user friendly layout of the screen option windows in the admin dashboard within the post and page editors. You can choose to only have one column so the editor sits  on top and and screens like tags, categories and publish are set below it, which really opens up the editor area. All plugins seem to be working with the 2.8 version as well. Great Admin Plugin I personally hate the new dashboard that came with the 2.7 upgrade, especially the lack… Continue reading | 29 Comments

For most Internet marketing endeavors there are two main subjects of great interest, SEO and traffic and images are powerful tools for both of those goals. 1. They are really good for the look of the site design, look and enhance the visitor experience, especially with product guides and tutorials of any kind. 2.  They are great for on-site SEO because they add keyword relevancy via image alt tags and this includes any header graphics for site-wide keyword relevancy. 3. They can also bring you lots of website traffic and money. Search engines cannot read images you must use alt tags for descriptions, which should be… Continue reading | 32 Comments