AdWords First Stage

On , in Google AdWords, by Joseph Dowdy

The thing you should know about this stage is that it is often characterized by wild swings in effectiveness. This is unavoidable because there are so many variables in an AdWords that just one variable can scuttle what otherwise seemed like a good start. Sometimes these simple settings and changes can cause other variables to not function correctly and it’s easy to think that the thing to change isn’t what it seems to be.

Google AdWords Overview in Three Stages

On , in Google AdWords, by Joseph Dowdy

By successful, I mean that you have achieved three overall goals: MeshMarketer’s Three Overall Goals of a Successful Google AdWords Campaign:

  1. Your Click-Through-Rate is over 1% for all of your keywords.
  2. Your Quality Score is 7 and above on all keywords.
  3. All of your ads together in each Ad Groups have over 1% CTR.

What Can I Do For You?

On , in Personal, by Joseph Dowdy

To All Prospective Clients, I say pretty much the same thing to my new potential clients, so if you are thinking about being one or we have talked and you would like to know more formally what I can do for you, here is what I recommend to all of my clients… Get a Blog [...]

Facebook Premium/Gold/Beta is FAKE

On , in Personal, by Joseph Dowdy

I looked at the category for this group and it was listed under “Just for Fun – Facebook Classics” … So? What? That isn’t a clue? I then looked at the admin for the group and it was some guy named…

On Hiring a Consultant To Improve SEO and other stuff to get more traffic/sales

On , in Personal, by Joseph Dowdy

One of my best friends sells an ebook on the Internet. Several years ago he was making a very tidy sum of money (over $200,000 profit each year) from selling one ebook at XXXXXXXXXXXX.com and this was after having paid 50% in advertising to Google (I really despise Google because of the way he has [...]

My Favorite Online Game

On , in Personal, by Joseph Dowdy

Maybe it’s not much of a game with points, death or bikinis, but this is my favorite online game. Why is it? An awesome soundtrack and a very fun dune buggy sim with a loop and an open air ramp, half pipe, ramps, a giant moose, an impossibly deep hole, a ghost church and…did I [...]

Better SEO Results Through Link-Building

On , in Materials, by Joseph Dowdy

Here’s another great article on using the “nofollow” links on social media sites (such as blogs, LinkedIn and others). Jump: ducttapemarketing.com Essentially, it’s a list of “nofollow” friendly places to plant links (your URL and in some cases anchor text with your URL which associates keywords with your URL and is even better for better [...]

Boosting SEO Ratings For Your Blog/Site and Getting More Link Love

On , in Internet Marketing, Materials, by Joseph Dowdy

If you’ve read articles on how to boost your SEO ratings for your blog/site (and getting more link love), you’ll probably come across this “movement” to allow any URL you put into your comments to be searchable (which boosts your SEO ratings and search hits). In a nutshell, WordPress puts a “nofollow” tag before URLs [...]

Is Social Media Fool’s Gold Or A Pot Of Gold?

On , in Personal, by Joseph Dowdy

To all of you marketing types who want to make a buck off of me so that I can be an affiliate and maybe do what you are doing: You’re spammers and you should be treated as such. To all of you marketing types who really want people to think that their business will make [...]

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