As a general rule, most people, spammers included, want to avoid looking like spammers. Despite that, a lot of innocent people end up looking like spammers because they do spammy things.
Here are 3 things to do if you want to avoid looking like a spammer:

Avoid keyword stuffing. What does that mean? It means avoid putting too many of your keywords in your posts. You should also avoid having your key words close together. So, pay attention to the density of your target words to the rest of your …

I am a big believer in article marketing. If you’re looking to generate traffic to your website, writing articles and then posting those articles on various sites is the cheapest and quickest way to get visitors to your website.
There are a lot of nuances when it comes to article marketing. For example, 90% of the success of your article depends on the title. If your article doesn’t have a good title, people won’t open it and read it. Yes, you should provide good content in your article body, but …

This week’s Marketing Minutes podcasts, returns to being on topic. In this podcast, I talk about article marketing, and mention these resources listed below:
ezinearticles
Go Articles
Associated Content
Squidoo
Hubpages
Facebook
Let me know if you have any questions about what the topic and/or if you’d like me to go into more detail about article marketing in the future.

I read this article about advertising to the Hispanic market over on mediapost and I just don’t get it.
Sure, the author is looking beyond 2010 to 2011, and is making what I feel are safe predictions for the hispanic market come 2011, but I don’t get the point of the article.
Actually, there was 1 piece of information that I thought was interesting, and that is that “in 10 years, 62% of all teens will be Hispanic,” a claim that someone in the comments qualified by saying:
While I always find these …

Marketing Latinos will be hosting the first ever, that I’m aware of, mini social media/ online marketing/ multimedia production boot camp in Hays county. We’re calling it:
Hays Interactive Marketing Bootcamp
The date we’re looking at is February 3rd and haven’t quite finalized the venue yet, but it’s looking like we’re going to be at one of the new hotels that have sprung up in either Kyle or Buda. The bootcamp will be free to attend.
We want to host the bootcamps once a month, probably the first Tuesday of the month and …

Today’s slideshare presenation is brought to you courtesy of Hubspot. They’re an inbound marketing firm based out of Boston, MA. I’m not selling anything from them, but I am working on my Hubspot inbound marketing certification.
Why am I working on a certification from Hubspot?
Because I like a lot of the things that they do as a company when it comes to inbound marketing.
Although I don’t entirely agree with everything that they point out in this slide presentation, I do think that there’s value in the thoughts expressed.
I …

I recently wrote a post explaining what SEO, or Search Engine Optimization is and gave you a very brief outline of how SEO is done. Today, I’d originally planned to talk about SEM, aka Search Engine Marketing but I received an email that I just had to share with you first.
The email, is from someone that I’ve never heard of, came completely unsolicited and is by definition spam. Here’s the text of the email for your perusal:
We would like to get your website on first page of Google.
All of …

This is awesome. This guy is named John Neese and he has some serious passion about what he sells and what he does for a living.
The video is about 13 minutes long, but it’s well worth watching. I had no idea that there were so many different brands and types of “flavored water with a lot of bubbles.”

There are several important business lessons in this video. The most important, in my opinion, is to be passionate about what you do. You also need to be knowledgeable about your market and …

Search Engine Optimization, also known as SEO, is essentially part art and part science. Let me give you my definition of it, and a brief description of how it’s done rather than regurgitating or simply posting someone else’s definition.
Before I go into my definition, I want to make sure that I mention what the search engine’s job is. The search engine’s job is to find the content that most closely matches and is most relevant to what the person sitting at the computer is searching is looking for.
How search engines …

In this marketing minute video, I examine the question of how a local retailer can compete with an online retailer. It’s a very simple thing, but it can potentially help a local retailer book additional sales.’

What do you think?