Slightly Shady SEO | Blackhat is Back, Baby.

Hey everyone. It’s been a bit. I ended up typing out a few entries lately, and ended up rejecting most for one reason or another. But here’s one for old time’s sake(no the blog isn’t dead, I’m just busy). This entry is going to be about the economy, psychology, and how to get some conversions […]

Since I attended affiliate summit in Boston, I’ve come to truly appreciate how big this industry is. It’s an interesting beast, with many many more people in it than I would’ve expected(and from what I’ve heard ASE is one of the smaller conferences). The other thing that really changed is I started to take a […]

So another result of my time off and mentally going over my own motavations really allowed me to think about the personal aspect of this business, and what motivates a sale. I’ve often thought before that among the most effective skillsets for a marketer to have is blackhat seo and PPC. Not so much because […]

Hey all. Sorry I haven’t been posting much lately. Had to work through some personal issues before I could concentrate on work fully. During that time though, I had time to reflect a lot on my campaigns and to figure out some overall lessons I’ve learned for marketing in general. Many of these are PPC […]

Ok, so my consistent readers know I rarely if ever make a post to endorsing or promoting a product/contest. I can count on one hand the number of such posts I’ve done this for. Advaliant is one of the few companies I would do it for. They’re currently launching a new contest. A pretty damn […]

Ok. Sorry for the lack of entries this week. I’m going to brainstorm some new ones that should be awesome for this week to make up for it. But today, we’re going to get into the nitty-gritty of tracking. Why? Because if you’re not tracking, you’re probably losing money.
Why This Entry?
Because I was a bit […]

I was talking to a few buddies that work in different aspects of internet marketing, and started debating with myself how much different skills within internet marketing cross over. For example, is it easier to become a mailer after excelling at PPC? Is it easier to do good at PPC after excelling at SEO? I’ve […]

Ok. So longtail traffic is something frequently undervalued. And not without reason. Take a look at any adwords tutorial you’d like; they all mention the fact that you should avoid “broad” match as much as you possibly can. This is because longtail searches are much much harder to convert into sales(for random longtails/blackhat longtails). Making […]

Alright. So recently I was examining a niche that I previously succeeded in, and decided “Why not? I’ll throw up an adwords campaign in the same niche”. Well people, that solidified the belief that PPC and SEO need to be done together, as I’ll explain in this entry. It’s pretty amazing to me how many […]

Ok. So those of you who know me know I’m an SEO guy. It’s how I promote. PPC is not really my thing. However, lately I’ve been giving a decent run to some PPC campaigns, and I’m getting relatively proficient with it. My progress has been slowed a bit because I hate feeling like a […]