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 …

One of the neat features of Facebook is that it lets you import RSS feeds into your fan pages. I’ll assume that you know what an RSS feed is and why you may want to publish it on your Facebook fan page.
There are 8 steps to importing your RSS feed into your Facebook fan page. Without further ado, here are the steps:
While logged in as an admin to your fan page:
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Something that I should mention, is that if people end up reading …

Copy blogger recently reminded of this quote from Buckminster Fuller:
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly” — Buckminster Fuller
I love that quote, specially as it applies to a budding business.
Think about it, most businesses, start off as hairy, ugly, caterpillars. Eventually, the caterpillar reaches a point where it can no longer sustain itself in it’s current form. It has to change in order to continue living.
When it reaches that point, the caterpillar creates a cocoon, and comes out from it transformed into …

This week’s Marketing Minute is about picking a domain name. Yes, I’ve written about this before, but I like this podcast a lot. Check it out:
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I recently received my copy of the “Yellow Pages.” All I could think was “what a waste.”
I think a Yellow Pages ad is a waste of money and here’s why:
1. Most searches now begin online
When was the last time you scrambled around to find the yellow pages so you could find the phone number of a local business to call? I can’t remember the last time I did that.
Nowadays, people’s first reaction when they need information is to look online. If I need someone to work on my yard, I …

Seriously it does. My landing page sucks too, so you’re not alone. Actually, from what I’ve seen, a lot of landing pages out there on the internets suck.
What’s a landing page?
Just to make sure that we’re all on the same page, a landing page is the first page that people land on when they hit your website. For the majority of us, the landing page is our homepage, but technically whatever page a visitor first visits on your site is the landing page.
Why is a landing page important?
The biggest thing …

A while back, I came across a picture of Shoemoney with this check from Google Adsense for $152,000+. According to the post that Shoe wrote to accompany his picture with the check, Shoe was doing some arbitrage from different ad networks so his “take home” was probably a lot less than the face value of the check, but I digress.
I myself have received my very own check from Adsense. I was ecstatic when I got it. No, it was not for $152,000 it was for significantly less than that. A …

There is a common fallacy on Twitter and if you fall for it you’ll likely end up disappointed with your Twitter experience. The fallacy is the “follower fallacy.”
The common wisdom was, or is, that you need a lot of followers on Twitter to be effective. The more followers the better. The more followers you have, the more money you’ll make. The more followers you have, the more famous you’ll be. What this did was create a sort of “arms race” to see who could get the most followers in …

While perusing on Twitter, I came across a tweet that had the following Google search string in it:
site:twitter.com bio location tx 100…1000000 followers -400
Unfortunately, I don’t remember who posted it, if you happen to catch this post, please let me know so I can give you proper credit.  What that search string does, is it tells you all of the twitter users in Texas that have more than 100 followers.
The string is for an advanced search on Google. Most people never use the advanced search functionality, but every so often, …