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Do you obsessively check your blog traffic stats throughout the day? Do you optimistically expect your Alexa ranking to drop every four hours? Do you frequently fret over your Google Page Rank? Do you watch your Adsense account like a hawk throughout the day? Well as much as these statistical markers may be helpful in understanding the success of Read More

It's time for another annual poll here at ProBlogger - this one asking readers how much they earned in October 2008? I've run this poll a number of times over the last couple of years and the results are always interesting. Read More

If you are a serious Internet marketer, you should take care of your online reputation management. There are a few places where you should host your online resume and promote yourself. Read More

To calculate the PageRank for a page, all of its inbound links are taken into account. These are links from within the site and links from outside the site. PR(A) = (1-d) + d(PR(t1)/C(t1) + ... + PR(tn)/C(tn)) That's the equation that calculates a page's PageRank. It's the original one that was published when PageRank was being developed, and Read More

Good PR is different. It's about relationships and market expertise. PR companies in this category take the time to hire and train smart people who get to know a market, the competitive landscape, the products, and of course, the analysts, reporters and bloggers. They don't spam their contacts with press releases; they build relationships based Read More

Due to this financial crisis people will investigate in alternative solutions that are cheaper, bring value for money, bring the minimum service, or use a different new technology or approach as a solution to solve the same problem. Thus for a number of vendors new opportunities will arise that have been developed based upon new or alternative te Read More

Recently I had the task fo creating a resource for direct marketers on social media marketing and print books are something many people rely on as a portable source of information. The challenge with print sources on internet marketing related topics of course, is that they can become outdated more quickly than other topics. As a result, I tried t Read More

Today we're going to talk about a dumb mistake that lots of businesses make. Big businesses are actually dumber than small ones on this topic, but if you think I was going to pass up the chance to use this photo, you're nuts. Read More

A lot of people new to social media wonder if there are any rules, and if so, what are they? You'll be glad to know that yes, this frontier isn't quite as wild as it looks. Even in these relatively early days, there's a healthy set of conventions, laws and norms. Just like the original ten, these won't keep you out of every kind of trouble, but th Read More

I've been getting into Twitter (under my usual moniker - randfish) more and more over time (despite only following a few friends and family), and lately, its been weighing on me that the service, despite its brilliance, rapid adoption and passionate fanbase, isn't yet pursuing revenue. That's OK - I think they probably have lots of very smart, Read More