November, 2009

Traffic May Not Be YOUR Key To Online Success

Traffic May Not Be YOUR Key To Online Success

By Jimmy Krug. When I first started online in 1997, Search Engine Optimization didn’t exist in the form it does today.  “Googling it” had yet to be coined as a term.  Making money online in the mid to late 90’s may seem a lot different than it today, but it really isn’t.  People are still people and they still buy for the same reasons today as they did ten years ago.  In fact, they...

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Building “Local” Web Sites

Building “Local” Web Sites

Several years ago “City Portals” began springing up all over the Internet.  The idea was, a city site could be used to marketing a variety of business types in a specific locale.  If the City or Town Web site ranked high enough in the search engine rankings (Google, Yahoo, etc.) the site would then generate enough traffic to begin selling advertising space. The model looked great at...

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