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10 Rules for Better Links

Posted by Stephen Pratley on Saturday, October 21st 2006   

Like good PR, high search engine rankings are supposedly free, but take a lot of work and chasing to get links from quality online publications that are relevant to your subject.
Here are a few tips to make your hunt for links more effective

High search engine rankings are the result of good inbound links and optimized [...]

Topics: SEO, What I learned today    
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Optimise your landing Pages with Google

Posted by Stephen Pratley on Saturday, October 21st 2006   

First there was Google Adwords, driving traffic to your site
Then there was Google Analytics telling you how many visitors did what you wanted them to do
Now Google is attempting to bridge the gap and helping webmasters to raise their conversion rates using the new Google Website Optimizer
Introduced at the eMetrics summit in Washington by Google [...]

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TradeDoubler Affiliate Manager Training

Posted by Stephen Pratley on Thursday, October 19th 2006   

After 2 years as an affiliate manager using Tradedoubler they finally got round to giving me some training in what to do.
Better late than never, and it was actually very useful. Even though I’ve been an affiliate manager for 4 years, and an affiliate for a lot longer than that, I picked up a few [...]

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Shine Marketing Appoints New Business Development Director

Posted by Stephen Pratley on Monday, October 16th 2006   

Shine Marketing, my online marketing services consultancy, grew by 100% today as Domenica Dilieto came on board as Business Development Director.
Domenica moves to Shine Marketing after a long career in planning at Associated Newspapers, plus senior online experience in finance and property gained at Primelocation.com and with various customer magazine projects.
Her role will involve business [...]

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Recruit the right affiliates for your business

Posted by Stephen Pratley on Wednesday, September 20th 2006   

Affiliate marketing has been hailed as the ‘next big thing’ in promoting online business, but whilst the affiliate networks lure you on board with the promise of a commission-only sales force of thousands, the marketing press still hypes the danger of a shadowy world of parasites, eager to make a living off your brand.As experienced [...]

Topics: Affiliate Marketing, What I learned today    
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