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- Name: Chris Goddard
- Member since: Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
- Location: New Zealand
- Forum posts: 23
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Re: How to get 19000 Twitter followers in a few days
Hey Renato - Thanks for that link. I'll be honest when I first saw the page, I was a little skeptical as to the quality of the content - one of those good old sales pages... let's be honest, you've seen one, seen 'em all! But Perry does have some really interesting stuff to say. That little ebook he has for free download is really interesting, he's definitely on the right track with his attitudes towards social media.
Thanks!
Friday, July 17th, 2009
Re: Clickbank Alternatives and Finding Other Affiliate Programs
I've also found a lot of interesting programs at http://www.affiliatescout.com/
It's a directory of multiple affiliate programs, so some a Clickbank, some are CJ, Linkshare and others. But you get to search by product category and it gives you lots to choose from.
Friday, July 10th, 2009
Re: How to get 19000 Twitter followers in a few days
I'm sorry to tell you Sean, but I suspect that these systems or anything like them are pretty much useless.
You see, you might get thousands of followers, but they're going to be all random accounts or other people trying to flog off products. So you end up with this little community of people following each other on Twitter, selling the same products, with no one actually buying anything! That's not what Twitter's about.
Twitter is about communication and content. It allows you to follow interesting people from around the world as well as be followed be people who find you interesting. Building up Twitter numbers is not about a 'quick fix', but engaging with people, linking to interesting stuff, and providing interesting content.
I've built up the Affilorama Twitter feed (http://twitter.com/affilorama) to nearly 2000 followers. It's taken months, but the large majority of those followers are people who actually care what we have to say. We get retweeted and Twitter is a huge source of traffic to our site. Why? Because people can rely on the stuff we post to be worth looking at. If you build up trust with people, then when you link them to a decent page that is selling something, or your own product, they'll be interested.
I think these system's completely miss the point of Twitter, and I suspect that in the coming months Twitter will tighten up controls to stop these kind of pyramid follower schemes. Twitter has no problem with commercialization of their network - just not spam.
I'd use Twitter personally first, use it to find interesting content and follow interesting people - then once you've become familiar with what works on Twitter, then you can start making account for your websites.
Friday, July 10th, 2009
Re: Bookmarking Demon or Social Submitter??
Personally I think you'd be better off with a slightly more manual system like http://www.socialmarker.com/
The problem with those systems is for starters they like to talk about the hundreds of social bookmarking services they'll submit to... but most of them are very specialized and wont actually bring you much traffic anyway.
Also, I'd be weary of any system that relies on making lots of fake random accounts on any membership site - it only ends up creating more spam and making the services less useful.
You're best idea is to write good content, post it on once... maybe get a few friends to vote for it and start building up a presence the good old fashioned way - time and hard work. That's far more sustainable and will bring much better quality traffic in the long term.
Hope that helps.
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Re: Getting Articles and Blogs Indexed and on 1st Page
I would have to disagree - respectfully of course :)
I think that more and more people are going to be learning to use the advanced options on Google. It's getting harder and harder to find anything without them. While it might be just the advanced users using them at the moment, they will become more common. It depends who you're targeting aswell - is your target market likely to know how to do advanced searches and will they likely do that for that term. If it's a keyword that without quotes gets a lot of different results in different topics, then phrase matching is more likely. You have to try and think like your customer - how are they going to find your site?
That being said, you are always more likely to find the stuff you write when you do quote searches - simply because you're searching for the wording you've used.
This is where keyword research is so important. If you're wanting to target a particular keyword, then you need to research the kind of competition that keyword has. Traffic Travis has heaps of great tools for doing this.
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Re: The msot useful SEO tools and websites
Just another addition. I found this Firefox plugin the other day which is quite good for in-browser writing and optimization. Lets you check keywords and search counts all from within your browser. Then it tells you how many times it appears in what you've written. Pretty cool.
http://labs.wordtracker.com/seo-blogger
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Re: Bookmarking Demon or Social Submitter??
Don't see any links I'm afraid.
While there are some great tools for social bookmarking submission, many of the best ones are actually free. Many of the paid ones that promise 'top-of-digg' rankings are simply scams or spam machines.
I've use these tools in the past: (both free!)
http://www.socialmarker.com/
http://www.97thfloor.com/social-media-for-firefox/ (firefox plugin)
Post the names or links to the products and I'll take a look though :)
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Recent Blog
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Cultural Conflict – Do we need to start thinking globally in our marketing?
@BLKRGMT76 I think though it's important to remember that just because the KFC brand is owned in America, the company in Australia is an Australian run subsidiary with few ties back to it's home country other than branding and licencing. This is the same as Coca-Cola, which though a global brand, is owned and operated world wide by different companies.
This ad would never have been vetted through ANY American KFC staff because that's simply not how companies are run internationally. I can understand your point, but I think that few inside the US actually understand the separation that many "US" companies have from their headquarters.
So how could they have not known? They answer is actually very very easily. Why would they bother to vet an ad in a country that it was never going to be broadcast?
I would guarantee that this ad was written and produced by an Australian advertising agency and approved by Australian KFC execs. I think the misconception is that because KFC is 'American' that the ad is also 'American' - this is simply not true.
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
Cultural Conflict – Do we need to start thinking globally in our marketing?
Thanks for your comment Sharon. Haha - moving back cos I'm a Husky at heart! :) (and actually Vegas is the Suicide capital of the states - and they don't have nearly as much good music!)
Perhaps you're right - however Europe tends to be more culturally homogeneous - for example when people of other cultures move to France, they are far more likely to assimilate more into French culture, whereas in the United States people keep their own culture - which in my opinion adds more to the culture as a whole in the long run.
I think it's easy to dismiss things like this as over politically correct when it's not something that offends you personally. Maybe we all need to be a little less sensitive when things offend us, but also more sensitive to the things that might offend others.
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
Get Your Email Newsletter Read - 5 Tips for Writing Effective Emails
Yes you can quote so long as you provide a link back to us. Our Twitter account is http://twitter.com/affilorama Commented on Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Affilorama Premium Promotion Extended – on Facebook!
Hi Michael - if you go to http://www.facebook.com/affilorama while you're logged in to Facebook you should just be able to click become a fan on the top of the page. Invites aren't necessary. Commented on Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
5 ways to size up the competition – and beat them
Great post Jason! (and I love the pic!) Commented on Monday, December 14th, 2009
ClickBank Marketplace to fix Screwy Listings
Hi Vianna - try our Lessons Section, or the Forum - both great places to get started. Commented on Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Relevance – the seemingly obvious but often forgotten rule of marketing
Hi Renato - great comment. You're right - there can be times when you can make some assumptions about the people who will be visiting a particular page and show them other ads that would be relevant to them.
Don't worry - most of the people I know that hit those gaming websites don't have too much problem with being called "nerdy"...
I think the important part is keeping things relevant to the visitor. Websites that just display any old ad are distracting and frustrating - they can even be insulting. But relevant overlapping interests - definitely!
It's the same principle of TV advertising - people aren't watching TV looking to be sold to, but advertisers target people according to the kinds of shows they watch. For example the car show "Top Gear", advertisers wanting to target 18-45 year old men would likely want to target this time slot. (Not saying women don't like Top Gear - I know plenty - but they're not the primary audience)
The biggest thing to remember is, ads will always be more effective if they're about something the person has already displayed an interest, or is already looking for. Even if I'm interested in weight loss products - if at this moment I'm interested in finding a new computer utility, then I don't want to be distracted by something else - even if I am interested in it.
Biggest thing is to use your discretion and judgement for when this is appropriate.
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
