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This post was revised again on July 17th 2007. See the reason why here
Hello and welcome to all my colleagues in the internet marketing world. This is is a revised first post of the my original first entry on April 24, 2006. Because of my neglect of this blog and the passing of time, I thought it was best to start a freah one. So here I go again!
We share something in common, that is, we all understand and appreciate the power of the internet to change and empower us. You like me did not purchase your first second or third computer to simply play video games and exchange e-mails. We are here to a recoup our investments and beyond.
A few years ago It could be truly said that the internet was the equalizer when it came to making money. In some ways it is still true. In other ways the big boys with their unmatched advertising budgets have been making it very expensive for the smaller guys to present their wares to the world. (How much is it costing you to advertise on Google, Yahoo etc. these days?)
To stay in the game, one has to learn new ways to let others know you are there.
I am sympathetic to the plight of the underdog marketer. I am not one of those people who will get upset and remove your comment because it has a link to a site you are promoting. I understand we all deserve a chance to make a living in this difficult world. So, please, comment as you wish, and leave your text link or your Url address. However, like everthing else in this world there are rules, mine are simple.
There are certain websites I will delete from the comment area, such as, Porno sites, gambling sites, hate sites or any sites with questionable business practices.
Sites with “POP UP” ads can be an annoyance, therefore if you are not among the banned sites but you have pop ups, leave links to a page without pop ups. If your intentions are decent, fair and respect other people rights you are safe here.
The other thing I ask is, do not just simply leave your link, you must contribute to this community with your comments or questions. Just saying “Cool Site” or “Great Site” is not informing other readers. It is to your advantage for you to leave an informative comment that others can benefit from. They will respect and/or appreciate you for it and visit the link to your site.
Only one link is allowed!
I also ask that you link back to this blog with http://www.e-marketreview.com/blog.
Now, speaking of Google and advertising, I try to follow the rules as far as getting listed and ranking high on the search engine result pages, however I have not been spending too much effort in that area, I have instead, started to write free articles and distribute them to e-zines and e-zine directories, and have seen my google ranking go up as a result.
This great, considering, I wasn’t purposely optimizing for Google, Nevertheless I received the benifit of a Google rank increase for the home page of this blog which is
http://www.e-marketreview.com. Then it was gone. However not totally, some pages manage to survive, though, the rankings were low. See my first article “E-zine Advertising, An Affordable Alternative To Google” By: Paul Ranger at a respected site here: http://www.marketingsource.com/articles/view/3560
I’m not certain why My home page ranking was lowered, but, I’m leaning toward the wisdom of a SEO expert who said (I’m paraphrasing him!)that if you have an article that is widely distributed on the internet, and if the article is what gave you the high ranking because of the links back to your site in the article, chances are, google will now lower your ranking because of saturation. In other words there are too many sites carring the same article.
He may me correct, because, there many are more site where this artcle have been posted.
He suggest (Again, I’m paraphrasing him!) distributing different versions of the same article, or, convey the same message in different articles.
Now, back to the article. The purpose of the article is to send the message that there are other alternatives to getting quality traffic to your site such as E-zine Advertising besides throught google, paid or generic. this is another way to keep the playing field level.
Keep this in mind also, when you leave your comments and links here, I will do the same at your site. We will grow togather.
Another SEO expert said, (Paraphrase) do not fail to exchange links with low ranking web sites or pages. they may rank low today and rank higher tomorrow. I say, you will benefit from that vote for your web site when they rank higher tomorrow.
Talk to you later folks.
Paul Ranger.
http://www.e-marketreview.com