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  • Nick Terracciano Innovator  Marketer

    Spam or not spam?
    OK I keep hearing about search engine optimisation which is now turning into search engine manipulation, and I agree spam sucks, but look at TV advert...
    Bruce Bates  Sadly this is something a lot of new marketers tend to believe, and as time has gone on there have been more and more marketers who come along saying ...
    Apr 7th 21:43
    Nick Terracciano  The points you make are valid, here in the UK we are constantly bombarded by unsolicited phone calls and they occur at times when I am doing other thi...
    Apr 10th 09:20
    Bruce Bates  I would find that annoying..... I agree that would be disruptive and borderline what I call spam, except it s not electronic. Nick it goes against m...
    Apr 10th 09:38
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  • Sevinj Huseynova Innovator  UK Visa and Immigration Consultant

    What is the most recent Google Apps?
    What is the most recent Google apps that effect the SE ranking of website/business?
    Bruce Bates  Apps do not effect SEO as they are outside the scope of the web. Its kind of like asking how microsoft office is going to help your search rankings......
    Apr 4th 11:51
    Trev Pearman  There is no APP that exists...SE is entirely up to you! SEO is your best way to achieve a page one result. I will say this though...that I do use an S...
    Apr 5th 01:49
    Bruce Bates  That peaked my interest... what is a SEO enhancer?
    Apr 5th 07:01
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  • Sevinj Huseynova Innovator  UK Visa and Immigration Consultant

    Best Source to Get Traffic?
    Which one is the best source to move more traffic to you website?
    Theo Poulentzas  Bruce..I hear you. But if you target the right keywords in your ads.. you'll find the traffic is targeted !
    Apr 9th 17:45
    Trev Pearman  Agreed Bruce...,building your own unique list with activities outside of cheat channels will provide people who want to be connected to you....some bo...
    Apr 12th 02:11
    Maketta A.  I know the best kind of traffic is targeted traffic. I use list builders, viral traffic sites and banner ad sites. I also use social media and forums....
    May 9th 13:23
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  • Bruce Bates Magnate II Premium   Cooperative marketing

    Is anyone affected?
    So google keeps pressing onward with the penguin changes and every day more and more people report losing rankings over it. Are you being affected a...
    Nick Terracciano  Yes I have been affected one site dropped right out and now is on page 3. Lets be honest Google wanted exact match anchor texts now they want varied. ...
    Apr 7th 13:09
    Bruce Bates  Nick, I am not sure I agree. If we were to be honest, google wants people stop trying to do things that will give them rankings., Google has always wa...
    Apr 7th 21:31
    Trev Pearman  Exact Match Anchors vs Relevant Matched Anchors is all in how you use the language and what you provide in that anchor. All Google wants is a SERP pa...
    Apr 22nd 00:21
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  • William Clinkscales Magnate I   DB Developer/Tech, Affiliate IM

    Top 7 Unnatural Link Prevention Tips for Links Pointing From Your Website
    Another great share for you from my EzineArticals Newsletter: From: Vanessa, Editorial Manager. Ensure your website is working for you and not agains...
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  • Bruce Bates Magnate II Premium   Cooperative marketing

    Share your branding sites please?
    Okay so I am ALL about professional branding. So please share with me any site you know of that I do not. I don't have a large list but the list I hav...
    Bruce Bates  I have so much to say on this topic I am not sure where to post it all at. LOL I think I will have to make a post on my blog and then repost it as a...
    Mar 17th 10:19
    Patty Scheeler  I look forward to your blog post Bruce. It's always good to see how other marketers brand themselves :)
    Mar 22nd 14:26
    Bruce Bates  Patty unfortunately my post is longer than apsense will allow, so I will send you the link privately. Alternatively anyone else interested... the li...
    Mar 22nd 19:39
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  • Bruce Bates Magnate II Premium   Cooperative marketing

    About link building...
    So this is a post I made a while back on my blog, I am just copying some parts of that post here for you all to read. I think it will give you some cl...
    Bruce Bates  Nathaniel you are dead accurate. I don't actively build links as you know so for me, knowing how to build and tag these links properly has helped a lo...
    Mar 14th 07:14
    Bruce Bates  Nathaniel I also tend to think you are correct about several factors needing to be thought about, however some niches, fall into all niches. I run sev...
    Mar 14th 07:29
    Nathaniel Bailey  "I won't get into the whole nofollow, dofollow, and the lack thereof any follow debate. Lets just say, its fairly well known that Google doesn't adher...
    Mar 14th 10:47
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  • William Clinkscales Magnate I   DB Developer/Tech, Affiliate IM

    Top 7 Unnatural Link Prevention Tips for Links Pointing to Your Website
    This came to me in an EzineArticals Newsletter: From: Vanessa, Editorial Manager I found these tip's helpful and thought I would share. Cheers -> ...
    Patty Scheeler  This is excellent advice William. Thank you so much for sharing. I do have one question for you though... How do I find my back link profile? That...
    Mar 13th 17:24
    Dr Don Yates Sr PhD  Thank you William and Patty, have we found a way to get rid of unwanted backlinks?
    Mar 13th 18:31
    William Clinkscales  @Patty, you must Register with Google Webmaster Tools, due to NO posting of links, just search it you'll find it. Then you may inter the website in qu...
    Mar 13th 19:18
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  • Bruce Bates Magnate II Premium   Cooperative marketing

    SEO - the giant lie
    I want to start this list post by say, by the end of it any marketer who knows what they are talking about will have to agree with what I say - but at...
    Warren Contreras  I agreed with you from the start. I have achieved a few #1 listings on Google, but only for keywords that most people would never search for without b...
    Mar 11th 14:41
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  • Brenda W. Professional   Life Learner

    Patty Scheeler  I agree with Warren. This is a wonderful group and anytime I have needed help with something I always get responses that are actionable.
    Mar 9th 14:57
    Trev Pearman  Hi Brenda, You will find no "fluff" here. How long have you been with the group? You certainly will not get away with link promotions in any of your ...
    Mar 9th 20:55
    Dr Don Yates Sr PhD  nice responses from alll
    Mar 10th 20:11
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  • Patty Scheeler Professional   Integrity Networker Owner

    Looking for a good PPC outlet that is Not Google...
    I would like to start a few PPC campaigns but I really refuse to use Google Adwords. Can I please get some recommendations of places that you have us...
    Trev Pearman  @ Bruce Its great that you answered Pattys' question with alternatives... yet I still have to sit with Google on this... If you suffered a slap and yo...
    Mar 10th 23:00
    Bruce Bates  Trev, my reason for staying away from google (and I suspect Patty's as well) is a lot more than just a PPC business model. Google has been coming out ...
    Mar 11th 10:06
    Patty Scheeler  @ Trev, first of all when the "slap" happened it was not by any means a sole source of advertising. That would have been a really bad business model ...
    Mar 11th 14:57
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  • Rajanikanta S. Senior  Internet & Affiliate Marketer

    Are Free members really paid?
    There are lot of TEs promising tom pay free members. Are they really paying? Which is/are the good TE(s)?
    Jason Descheneaux  check my ressources i have a list of paying traffic exchanges. " Auto And Manual Surf Traffic Exchange List "
    Mar 6th 16:19
    Warren Contreras  The only Traffic Exchange that ever paid me is Top Surfer and that amounted to several thousand dollars. The advantage is they give us 100% commission...
    Mar 8th 22:37
    Bruce Bates  Yes there are paying traffic exchanges, but of the ones that claim you will earn from surfing, very few can pay you from that alone. It takes a while ...
    Mar 11th 13:36
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  • MichaelAp Clayton Magnate I   I Earn My Income Online ...Join Me

    How many site visitors do you need to make one sale?
    I have over many years done some research on this. What does everyone think?
    Trev Pearman  btw... if your being clever with me Your Website could be any of the Promoters Websites that your opt-ins land on.. so in actual fact yes they never s...
    Mar 8th 23:31
    Bruce Bates  Actually when I began the cooperative I didn't even have a website. I sent an email to 2500 linkedin connections offering them into a private cooperat...
    Mar 9th 07:51
    Trev Pearman  thanks for sharing that Bruce...your revealing the power of a list of people that want to listen to you... but your also saying you did eventually est...
    Mar 9th 20:02
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  • Eugene Barends Advanced  Network Marketing

    BAHROM J.  Important how to get sales
    Feb 23rd 12:20
    Trev Pearman  mmmm! i'm contemplating this remark. For if you do not have a website of your own then you will rely on social interaction and marketing to perhaps y...
    Mar 8th 23:45
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  • Lokesh Kapoor Magnate I   WordPress Developer, Designer

    What do you think Gpt are good
    Gpt means get paid to sites
    Chuck Bartok  Agree, especially with Bruce. Want to earn Money? Create a product and market it. Better yet let others sell it for you. We have shown many How to se...
    Feb 20th 02:50
    Warren Contreras  I guess someone has to defend the other side. I think it's GREAT when someone can come online and make $600+ a day, but that someone is NOT me and I d...
    Feb 22nd 16:09
    Trev Pearman  Get Paid to Click...can bring monetary rewards for sure but it really is a long lonnnnnnng process. Affiliate marketing is probably the better opti...
    Feb 24th 01:33
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  • im Teach Professional  Blogger & Internet Marketer

    How to sell a product online without a website!
    Sharing tips if this method can be applied and generate traffic as well ..
    Warren Contreras  And if you combine a few splash pages together in WordPress, you have a website, right? Entering content into WordPress is no harder than entering it ...
    Feb 15th 12:40
    Bruce Bates  Well I am not going to get into the question of if you need a website because you specifically asked not using a website. I am going to use some logic...
    Feb 15th 14:03
    Trev Pearman  Well what can I say.. the simple answer is you cannot sell a product without a website...and that may be your own personally owned website or just you...
    Mar 9th 00:11
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  • Jason Descheneaux Magnate II   InfinityMarketingSystem.net

    Sylvia Guillemette  Hi Jason, needed that this morning! Thanks! :D
    Feb 12th 08:21
    Jason Descheneaux  We all need this once in a while ;) have a great day Sylvia.
    Feb 12th 08:24
    Patty Scheeler  Thanks for the inspiration this morning Jason!
    Feb 14th 13:06
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  • Jason Descheneaux Magnate II   InfinityMarketingSystem.net

    My thought for today
    - Work on getting traffic everyday because Building yourself a constant flow of traffic IS Building your business! TRAFFIC = SUCCES - DONT FORGET T...
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  • Bruce Bates Magnate II Premium   Cooperative marketing

    What is in your wordpress marketing toolbox?
    The truth is a large percentage of people using wordpress to design everyday websites, and twice as many are using it as a blog. The point is everyone...
    Ian L.  That worked, thanks again Bud.
    Feb 19th 22:53
    Trev Pearman  and now theres a new plugin for 2013... visit my profile for more
    Mar 9th 00:25
    Bruce Bates  Trev I am trying to visit your profile but i have no idea what it is I am looking for exactly - nor do I know which page of your profile you have it l...
    Mar 9th 07:44
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  • Marlene Mosher Freshman  Program Guide

    Patty Scheeler  I use friendship or success quotes. No affiliate links like Warren suggested. You can also tweet and comment about popular stuff on the web right ...
    Feb 6th 13:20
    Marlene Mosher  Thank you Warren and Patty!
    Feb 6th 21:55
    Dave Hayes  Twitter, is a real time information Network,s o the best way to use it is by either posting a blog, containing Relevant Information about Twitter, or ...
    Feb 19th 12:28
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