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Bing vs Google: Microsoft Gets Serious About Search

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:30:00 EDT

Even my 90 year old Grand Mother is aware that Microsoft have dominated software products. But where have they been in search? Microsoft Live Search handled about 9 or 10% of searches but that pales in comparison to Google's 60% and Yahoo! at over 20% of searches. But perhaps now, finally, Microsoft is getting serious about search with Bing.

Convert Your Site Visitors Into Paying Customers

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:15:00 EDT

The conversion rate of visitors to a website turning into buyers is an extremely important part of a successful Internet marketing campaign. If you’ve decided that you want to test a sales page for your product/service here’s exactly how to do it. The first thing you need to do is you really get inside their headspace. Walk a mile in their shoes. What motivates them? What scares them? Then start with...

Get To The Top of Google in Five Easy Steps

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:15:00 EDT

Learn how the professionals get their web pages to the top of the search engines for the keywords they target.

Who the Heck Is Your Social Media Prospect?

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:15:00 EDT

The most important part of marketing is the same no matter what product or service you're selling and no matter what medium you're using to sell that product/service. It's to 'Define Your Prospect'. Who are they? What do they do? What are they doing right now? What are there habits? Dig, dig, dig. The more you can define them and even connect with who they are and where they're at right now in their lives the easier it is to market to them.

Small Business PPC

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:30:00 EDT

The search engines such as Google and Yahoo! provide millions of potential customers every year for most industries. Taking advantage of this is a must for any budding online business. But what if you just service a small local area? Can the search engines be of advantage to you? Of course they can.

Build Your Own Successful Affiliate Site

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:00:00 EDT

An affiliate is someone who sells another businesses products or services on their behalf and/or provides leads for that business and gets paid a percentage of what is passed on or sold. You don’t have to deal with warehousing, customer complaints, pricing and so many of the other hassles of running a business and you can paid as much as 75% of the sale. No wonder so many people want to get into this game.

Web 2.0, You're Already There

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:45:00 EDT

Whether you realize it or not, you are on the Web 2.0. Either harness its power or suffer the consequences. What is Web 2.0? It's not software or a new web browser. Rather it's an idea that the web used to be (what's now called Web 1.0) marketers communicating to consumers. They simply read and responded to what was being put out there by marketers. Web 2.0 though is more interactive where these consumers become more like participants adding reviews about products, blogging, tweeting and so forth about you and your business.

Internet Marketing Is Just Marketing

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:45:00 EDT

It really is as simple as this at its base. But there are many things you need to know in order to get those leads and convert them. It really isn’t that hard. Having read this you now actually have a better understanding of the whole than many website designers and IT geeks, now all you need is some of the nitty gritty of how to do it. You'll need to learn how to develop a website that converts leads into paying customers, and you'll need to learn how to develop many qualified leads coming to that web site every day. I have many articles on these and many more subjects at haydnomeagher.com Please visit and have a read.