Fresh Site in the Sandbox

December 7, 2008

For the first time ever I think I have a fresh wordpress blog in the proverbial sandbox.  The content is unique and has numberous post in place and it updates daily.  I have a couple theory as to why it has not indexed yet. The Theme – While the theme came from a very well [...]

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Testing WordPress to Grab Localized Traffic

December 2, 2008

Pulling in localized traffic for car dealers or any business can be accomplished using wordpress as a CMS.  Currently I have a wordpress them being designed to use as an alternate dealer marketing site.  Not to be confused with auto dealer micro sites.  The philosophy behind micro sites as a search marketing tool with one [...]

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Useless Dealer Micro Sites and Keywords Like Nissan Delivers and Tulsa Special Finance

November 28, 2008

Shooting for terms like Nissan delivers (<Click there if you are a consumer this will bore you) or Tulsa special finance with simple one or two page dealer micro sites with little optimization for other terms really makes very little sense for the keyword “Nissan delivers” it is a time sensitive promotion that lasted for [...]

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My talk with Randy Charach – Domain Portfolios

November 27, 2008

Tonight I had a long conversation with Randy Charach through an incidental contact via a squidoo page I made about automotive marketing. The conversation lead down many paths and we discussed domain portfolios. While the real purpose of our contact was about harnessing the power of Squidoo and blogs as marketing properties. Blog marketing and [...]

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The real value of the longtail in Automotive Marketing

November 16, 2008

When I originally started this blog my intention was to use it to help others that were getting started with affiliate marketing stop from making mistakes.  While my current endevors have made affiliate marketing more of an after thought than a primary income source for me.  I still make some decent cash from properties I [...]

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It’s the user experience dummy..

November 5, 2008

To often do I see sites, especially in the automotive industry, where the user experience is completely ignored in lieu of what the site owner thinks is the right thing to do.  Usually these types of decisions are made by people who really do not have a clue about internet marketing, including the website vendors. [...]

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Bannings by Digg = Pure Marketing Genius

October 12, 2008

Digg.com has started banning the users that has made their site successful.  It appears that they go through cycles where this happens.  Nothing new to habitual diggers.  This in turn causes an uproar of sorts among them and they start revolts. This behavior is pure marketing genius by digg.com.  It causes the people who have [...]

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Automotive Digital Marketing – An epiphany of sorts..

September 26, 2008

Lately I have come under scrutiny by certain automotive vendors based on some of the properties I own.  My point is I provide value to the consumers.  Their point is I take away from the value of their services or individual dealers. What is even more comical is that some of these properties also use [...]

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Automotive Digital Marketing – Time to get Real!!

September 14, 2008

Automotive Digital Marketing is a buzz word created by consultants in the niche to sell online marketing ideas and products that fit a traditional frame of mind.  Tacky intersituals, pop up coupons, dealer micro sites are some of the crappy techniques that are being pushed by the gurus. When you call them out about bad [...]

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The real power of squidoo

September 7, 2008

Many of you know I am a real fond of squidoo.com it allows you to create a page about anything to market your products, to sell affiliate products, donate to charity and to get your ideas out there.  With it’s internal linking srtucture every page there links to every other page and leverages all of [...]

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