29Jun2009

Fraudulent clicks on Google Adwords

What you should know when you are a business owner with a small budget

 

Most business owners, who use Pay-Per-Click as a mechanism for lead generation, have no idea about the number of clicks that are invalid. Small business Pay-Per-Click budgets are typically under $5,000/month and are under Google’s mercy for fraud detection. While Google attempts to catch such fraud, this is like legislating the leading Oil company to invent alternative energy sources. In this blog, I will look at sources of these fraudulent clicks, whether small business owners should invest in Pay-Per-Click and a specific strategy on how to outsmart the bigger players in your market.

13Jun2009

The SEOJoe - One year story

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It’s been 11 months since my last blog. While I did commit to switching from SEOecom to SEOJoe in August, September of last year, we had a series of personal and spiritual life changing events. My friends who have known me for ages, know me as the logical and analytical whiz whose dream was to become Dr.

09Jul2008

86,674 Visitors In 10 Months - Can it get better?

86,674 unique visitors over a ten month period representing an average of 320 visitors daily, visiting on averaging 2.49 pages spending 3 minutes and 40 seconds per visit, all SEO traffic (no paid traffic or SEM traffic at all), can this be improved?

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29Mar2008

Solving the Email Spam Problem

In the last two years online spam has increased exponentially. Until a few months ago, I used to get a 1:1 ratio of spam messages relative to personalized messages, addressed to me. Somehow, when I post comments on external sites or list an email address online like at the LinkedIN OpenNetworker Group, these email ids tend to attract “lottery winnings”, “15M transfer to my bank account”, “great stock picks” and the many other mails not worth mentioning.

29Mar2008

Solving the Drupal Comment Spam Problem

While I had contained my email spam problem, recently someone asked me how I manage Drupal comment Spam, as they got 45 spam messages over a few minutes. It is a fact, as your blog ages, you attract higher spam comments. She was expecting me to solve her problem, when I told her that I use a sophisticated Drupal SPAM module and I then moderate the comments.

02Mar2008

Using RSS Feeds filetype:rss

Almost once a month I get question on RSS, what it is, how to read rss feeds and should I use rss. This blog answers this question. First let’s start with what it is:

01Mar2008

How to Add Email Subscription To Your Drupal Blog

This a $700 dollar video! I got an email from a reader of SeoEcom that she had a quote of $700 to add an email subscription to her drupal blog site. If you can follow along to this video, you can learn how to

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