Posted on February 6, 2010 by Ajith | 5 Comments
I recently came across this amazing free SEO analytics site called SERP Analytics. At the first glance, it looked to me like a normal search site but as I started digging deeper, I realized that it has got a set of powerful tools for SEO specialists, Internet Marketers and bloggers.
SERPAnalytics.com is an online solution and hence you don’t need to download anything to get started – not even a browser toolbar as in the case of some other solutions. Some of the exciting features of this include detailed site statistics from SEO point of view, top paying AdSense keywords, SEO parameters under live search results from Google, Yahoo or Bing etc and lot more as explained below.
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Posted on January 30, 2010 by Ajith | 7 Comments
Well, that’s a question I keep asking myself from time to time. A lot of people start blogging mainly because they were introduced to and inspired by certain blogging idols or super successful bloggers. Some others do blog because they think it’s cool and the rest do it for other benefits such as online income.
However, too many bloggers ditch blogging half way through even before giving it a whole-hearted attempt. This is mainly because they did not originally have the ingredients to be successful in online writing. So what does it take to be a successful blogger who takes blogging as a serious hobby or even as a profession?
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Posted on January 25, 2010 by Ajith | 2 Comments
Interactive Marketing is an evolving trend in Marketing whereby the customers’ inputs, thoughts and requirements are recorded and remembered – either from web inputs or analytics – and worked upon to provide solutions that best match their needs. Interactive Marketing is not Internet Marketing though web is certainly one of the major channels that helps to draw decisions based on various online data points (e.g. search phrase) regarding what the customer is looking for.
As per a recent Forrester report on interactive marketing, the money will gradually move away from traditional marketing and advertising channels into social media, mobile and email marketing. By 2014, interactive marketing will hit $55billion (in US alone) and this will be already 21% of the overall marketing spend. This post summarizes the findings from this report.
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Posted on January 20, 2010 by Ajith | 13 Comments
There is no doubt that the Thesis from DIY Themes is an exceptional WordPress theme that is so easy to customize. As our blogger friend ZK rightly says “If god blogged, he would use the Thesis theme” which I agree to some extend assuming that the God is so bad at PHP that he could not afford to write his own WordPress theme.
Jokes apart, I have been having tough time with DIY folks – not with respect to the piece of software they have written but with the affiliate program (and the system) that they are offering. As you know, I am really interested in promoting selected good products on this blog as long as they fetch me some money via affiliate or referral sales.
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Posted on January 15, 2010 by Ajith | 4 Comments
Last month I had written a post about the basics of online forex trading. At that time I mentioned about the eToro forex trading platform where you can start a Forex trading account for just $50 (eToro supports PayPal transfer) and start trading instantly.
The eToro trading system now has improved features such as visual trading and support forex trading with investments as low as $2.5 per trade. This means that you now have the possibility of getting forex exposure for just a couple of dollars (Earlier the minimum investment requirement per trade was $25)
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Posted on January 11, 2010 by Ajith | 21 Comments
Nobody becomes an overnight blogging hero. If somebody has claimed so (s)he is a liar! It takes a lot of hard work to take a blog and the blogger behind the same to fame. However, there are times when all that effort is not returning any results after months and years of blogging. In such cases it just makes sense to start all over again instead of sticking with your current blog.
I have known a couple of online friends who did not exactly do any wrong things in their blogging life but ended up getting no visitors to their respective blogs. Eventually they had to quit. In today’s post let me explain why it is not a bad idea to start yet another blog instead of sticking to your current blog where you have already spent your time and money without being fruitful.
Continue reading » Sometimes it makes sense to start blogging allover again
