by Nick Throlson | Jan 3, 2012 | Off Topic
I don't know about you but I'm really excited to be attending Affiliate Summit for my fourth year in a row. Affiliate Summit is by far one of the best events that you can go to. Networking with affiliates going to sessions & listening to outstanding keynotes. what more could ?you ask for?I will be at ASW12 from?Saturday?evening 1/7/12 until ?Tuesday 1/10/12 evening after Shoemoney's keynote I will be on the road back to?southern?Cali. So if anyone wants to meet up message me on?Facebook?email me . I would be more then happy to network with my readers. I will be recording interviews with networks & updating my readers via my Blog,Twitter,Facebook & Youtube.Here you can see all the sessions & where I will be while I'm at Affiliate Summit:?http://asw12.sched.org/nickthrolsonI will also be attending Affiliate Ball! ?thanks to my good friends at Maxbounty for the VIP Passes!
Follow Me On Twitter for ASW12 Updates @nickthrolsonFollow Me on Facebook For ASW12 Updates Facbook.com/ThrolsonSubscribe to My Youtube Channel for videos From ASW12 : Youtube.com/nickthrolson by Nick Throlson | Dec 23, 2011 | Social Media
Whether you have a business or a product that you want to promote online, or you are a blogger who wants to target a certain type of audience to bring in the visitors to make his blog successful; it is very crucial to understand the type of audiences that one targets using the social media platform. The key term here is ?traffic?. The amount of traffic that you get will help the popularity of your business grow, but what you should really target is a particular demographic (type of users). Random traffic will be as quick to disappear as quickly they appear; knowing your demographic will help your hard work ripe, and help retain potential traffic than simply having visitors who will quickly bounce off.Types of AudiencesMost of the potential audiences of social media are scattered across various social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and others preferring to read blogs. According to Forrester Research?s Groundswell team, they have categorized profiles of internet users into groups like spectators, joiners etc. The 3 major audience types, or in other terms target audiences, for simplicity, can be categorized as Passionate, Influencers and Ad-Hoc.PassionatePassionate are people who are dedicated and care deeply about topics that are too specific, too niche to impact the mainstream subjects. But within those specific areas of interest, they are respected, acknowledged, and their opinions are taken seriously, regardless of the size of their audiences. These people are often the original bloggers, who start off blogging on subjects they are close to, care about and are dedicated enough to keep it interesting.InfluencersInfluencers are group of people who have large pool of followers, across different online demographic. They usually start off as a Passionate, but then they usually evolve into a more mainstream arena, and can even end up as trend-setters. They can even be a part of the modern media, but not all the time.Ad-HocAd-Hoc is the casual everyday folks. But they are equally important too, though this group is very hard to make sense of. But by being proactive and patient with as many folks as possible from this group, a brand marketer can gain respect targeting this group, which is eventually noticed by bigger entities. But at the same time, if one only pays attention to a select group that gets noticed too.To understand and target these three specific types of social media audiences is not easy. To identify this audience in their social media channel is important, and it can be done through many analytic tools available, such as Google Analytics. It can determine the source of your audience by social media channels, which can help you to break down social media traffic from organic or paid search. This will help to further segment the type of audience you get, their source channel, and how they are reaching to you, helping one to successfully manipulate the information to make proper target decisions, and classify audiences that make up the social media what it is today. About the author: Bethany is a blogger by profession. She loves writing on technology and luxury. Beside this she is fond of gadgets. Recently an article on Vending machines attracted her attention. She is loves?photography?and dreams of owning a 3D Camera. by Nick Throlson | Dec 21, 2011 | SEO, Web Design
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) sometimes seems like a sort of mystic science. That?s often the case for those who don?t work with it on a regular basis, particularly businesspeople, who are likely to have received the full blast of statistical analyses from experts without getting the big picture of what SEO does, and what it?s supposed to achieve.Another thing most people don?t know is that SEO works, and works very well. They also apparently don?t know that the basic principles of SEO and advertising copy are very much the same. Ironically, the realities of SEO ideas and practices are in plain view, all the time, all over the world, in the form of ad copy.Consider this-- How do you search for something online?
- You use names, descriptions, and try to pin down your search terms to be as effective as possible, to find what you want in the shortest space of time.
SEO keywords and phrases are based on these principles, and so is advertising copy. If you?re looking for a fridge, you search for fridges, perhaps with a brand name.? If you look at hard copy ads, what do you see? ?Westinghouse Fridges?.SEO dynamics in hard copyA man called Claude Hopkins is called The Father of Advertising. He wrote a book called Scientific Advertising at the start of the 20th century, and his work is still required reading today. ?Hopkins was a realist, and emphasized the value of print materials in terms of their value to the consumer, not the seller. The idea is that people have their own motivations for purchase, and these are the real decision-making influences.Decisions are based on information, and that information has to be presented so that it shows clear values to the consumer. The consumer, naturally, looks at any form of advertising in the same way as SEO ? ?This is what I?m looking for?.For hard copy producers, this principle is extremely important. A post-it note can provide enough information to generate a sale, provided it has information of use to the buyer. This in turn means that hard copy information has to use these values dynamically, to match the medium used.For example-- Your business card- Business card printing allows some very high value content to be included on a card, like services, areas of expertise, and visual content to attract attention like colour schemes, layout, etc. A business card is in effect a mini-advertisement.
- Business writing techniques- Basic business writing may not have a reputation for glamorous use of language, but it?s extremely efficient in terms of providing information. In corporate brochure printing, information content is very much constructed on the business writing foundation, with ad copy attached to highlight the SEO content effect for subject matter.
Even technical writing can be incorporated into something as obviously advertising-oriented as large poster printing, using text like ?The new XYZ processor, 5GB RAM?, which tells those interested in high end processors exactly what they want to know.SEO content dynamics work for any business. If you?re looking for better content for your hard copy, start looking at SEO principles. You?ll appreciate the upgrade. by Nick Throlson | Dec 17, 2011 | Affiliate Marketing
I have been attending Affiliate Summit since 2009. Every year I leave the?conference?with?knowledge?& connections that you cant get anywhere else. I want to win Shoemoney's contest because I want to prove to everyone in the industry I know what I'm talking about. I'm all about success! Although I'm not much of a gambler due to parents being gamblers. Since its not my money I would be more then happy to take that risk. Give me a chance & lets have some fun at cesars palace!
Lets party hard at ASW12 Shoemoney Pick Me! by Nick Throlson | Dec 3, 2011 | SEO, Web Design
Do you know that Google is currently the biggest website online, and also the biggest search engine in the world? Google also happens to be sending the highest number of visitors to most websites online, and the reason for that is very simple; when people need solutions to their problems, they go to Google.There are two ways you can get traffic from the Google search engine. The first way is by constantly writing quality content that will hopefully get noticed in a few years time, and the other way is by actively taking measures to optimize your site and make sure it is in the right frame to rank well in the search engines. The second approach is the one I use for my yahoo small business coupon and midphase coupon blog, and this approach has been quite effective for me in the past, and is still bringing me great results.The problem, however, is that there are things you should (and should not) do to help you get better rankings in the search engines, and in this article I will be giving you some reasons why your site isn?t ranking well.Lots of Flash and Javascript ContentOne major reason why most websites can?t rank well in the search engines is because they use a lot of flash and Javascript content to communicate with their readers. I?m not trying to say flash or Javascript isn?t good; instead, it isn?t that friendly to the search engine bots as they can?t crawl it. If you love to communicate to your readers via videos, then you can increase your chances of success by ensuring the post has the right title, description and tags. That way, the search engines will recognize and rank it in the right position.It is Taking too Long to LoadAnother major reason why your site might not be ranking well in the search engines is that it is taking too long to load. More than ever, search engines are now starting to place more emphasis on having fast loading sites, and as a result it will be very difficult for irritably slow sites to rank well in the search engines.You can increase your chances of ranking well for your desired keywords in the search engines by optimizing your site and working on ensuring it loads faster for all users.Poor Site Structure and Lack of Quality ContentOne thing that might affect your site a lot and cost you some rankings is your site structure. Just try to take a look at your site structure and ask yourself if it is user-friendly or if it is unorganized. A good user-friendly site is also search engine friendly, due to the fact that links are all organized in one place and are easy to find, and also because the quality of the content regularly published is superb.The structure of your website is very important, and the quality of your content should be second to none, so make sure you work hard on improving these aspects of your blog.John loves to help people with SEO and webhosting. He offers a coupon for Yahoo web hosting in his blog WeightLossTriumph.com. He also makes available 6 month free web hosting deal with Midphase here. Midphase is an award winning hosting provider known for their low prices and decent quality.
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Whether you have a business or a product that you want to promote online, or you are a blogger who wants to target a certain type of audience to bring in the visitors to make his blog successful; it is very crucial to understand the type of audiences that one targets using the social media platform. The key term here is ?traffic?. The amount of traffic that you get will help the popularity of your business grow, but what you should really target is a particular demographic (type of users). Random traffic will be as quick to disappear as quickly they appear; knowing your demographic will help your hard work ripe, and help retain potential traffic than simply having visitors who will quickly bounce off.Types of AudiencesMost of the potential audiences of social media are scattered across various social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and others preferring to read blogs. According to Forrester Research?s Groundswell team, they have categorized profiles of internet users into groups like spectators, joiners etc. The 3 major audience types, or in other terms target audiences, for simplicity, can be categorized as Passionate, Influencers and Ad-Hoc.PassionatePassionate are people who are dedicated and care deeply about topics that are too specific, too niche to impact the mainstream subjects. But within those specific areas of interest, they are respected, acknowledged, and their opinions are taken seriously, regardless of the size of their audiences. These people are often the original bloggers, who start off blogging on subjects they are close to, care about and are dedicated enough to keep it interesting.InfluencersInfluencers are group of people who have large pool of followers, across different online demographic. They usually start off as a Passionate, but then they usually evolve into a more mainstream arena, and can even end up as trend-setters. They can even be a part of the modern media, but not all the time.Ad-HocAd-Hoc is the casual everyday folks. But they are equally important too, though this group is very hard to make sense of. But by being proactive and patient with as many folks as possible from this group, a brand marketer can gain respect targeting this group, which is eventually noticed by bigger entities. But at the same time, if one only pays attention to a select group that gets noticed too.To understand and target these three specific types of social media audiences is not easy. To identify this audience in their social media channel is important, and it can be done through many analytic tools available, such as Google Analytics. It can determine the source of your audience by social media channels, which can help you to break down social media traffic from organic or paid search. This will help to further segment the type of audience you get, their source channel, and how they are reaching to you, helping one to successfully manipulate the information to make proper target decisions, and classify audiences that make up the social media what it is today. About the author: Bethany is a blogger by profession. She loves writing on technology and luxury. Beside this she is fond of gadgets. Recently an article on Vending machines attracted her attention. She is loves?photography?and dreams of owning a 3D Camera.
Do you know that Google is currently the biggest website online, and also the biggest search engine in the world? Google also happens to be sending the highest number of visitors to most websites online, and the reason for that is very simple; when people need solutions to their problems, they go to Google.There are two ways you can get traffic from the Google search engine. The first way is by constantly writing quality content that will hopefully get noticed in a few years time, and the other way is by actively taking measures to optimize your site and make sure it is in the right frame to rank well in the search engines. The second approach is the one I use for my yahoo small business coupon and midphase coupon blog, and this approach has been quite effective for me in the past, and is still bringing me great results.The problem, however, is that there are things you should (and should not) do to help you get better rankings in the search engines, and in this article I will be giving you some reasons why your site isn?t ranking well.Lots of Flash and Javascript ContentOne major reason why most websites can?t rank well in the search engines is because they use a lot of flash and Javascript content to communicate with their readers. I?m not trying to say flash or Javascript isn?t good; instead, it isn?t that friendly to the search engine bots as they can?t crawl it. If you love to communicate to your readers via videos, then you can increase your chances of success by ensuring the post has the right title, description and tags. That way, the search engines will recognize and rank it in the right position.It is Taking too Long to LoadAnother major reason why your site might not be ranking well in the search engines is that it is taking too long to load. More than ever, search engines are now starting to place more emphasis on having fast loading sites, and as a result it will be very difficult for irritably slow sites to rank well in the search engines.You can increase your chances of ranking well for your desired keywords in the search engines by optimizing your site and working on ensuring it loads faster for all users.Poor Site Structure and Lack of Quality ContentOne thing that might affect your site a lot and cost you some rankings is your site structure. Just try to take a look at your site structure and ask yourself if it is user-friendly or if it is unorganized. A good user-friendly site is also search engine friendly, due to the fact that links are all organized in one place and are easy to find, and also because the quality of the content regularly published is superb.The structure of your website is very important, and the quality of your content should be second to none, so make sure you work hard on improving these aspects of your blog.John loves to help people with SEO and webhosting. He offers a coupon for Yahoo web hosting in his blog WeightLossTriumph.com. He also makes available 6 month free web hosting deal with Midphase here. Midphase is an award winning hosting provider known for their low prices and decent quality.
