I am a total newbie to internet marketing and I am excited by the many opportunities I’ve found. Recently, I joined a new group through an affiliate link and when I paid, was given a list of 125,000 names and addresses. I want to send an affiliate marketing email to them. How should I start doing it without violating SPAM regulations? I need help, please!!
Is there a way I can use Web phenomena such as MySpace and YouTube to get more clicks on my affiliate site?
I hear local sites are proving popular. Should I build out separate sites for every local audience?
I want my own page but am unsure how to go about it. I have banners from Money4net, Dreammerchants, Popups from Money4net and popunders from Dreammerchants, casualmedia. I’m figuring that it all will pay $9.50 per thousand impressions, but am in need of someone who can help me install it all. Any suggestions?
I’m starting up some message boards (forums) for my Web sites. I expect a lot of junk (spam, flames, etc) and I’m only doing this because I will have an employee moderating the boards to try and keep them clean, happy and family friendly. Seems that there should be some site or book that collects wisdom from people who have had to moderate discussion boards and forums: what to look for, how to settle disputes, etc. But a search turned up nothing so far. Any suggestions?
If I place a link on my business’ home page to my weblog and then make sure to update my weblog frequently, will the “Googlebot” come a-knockin’ on my home page just as frequently as my blog?
The reason I ask is because in your book Growing Your Business with Google you indicate that Google cares about pages, not sites. This seems to suggest to me that if I update my blog frequently, Google will come to my blog page frequently, but not to my site.
I have several different ideas for web sites that are similar (in that they involve mathematics and statistics) but also very different in terms of topic area (for, example, sports, investing, health). Does it make sense to put all of these into a single web domain, with subdomains for each topic area? Or would it be better to have a separate domain name for each topic area? Which approach would seem more likely to be better business-wise, leading to more permanent visitors/customers for my content, more clicks on my Google-ads, and more income for me?
I’ve been reading everything I can about optimizing Web pages for both usability and ad traffic, and just recently came across the term “heat map”, referring to some method of tracking what area on a page people look at, I guess? Can you tell me what it’s all about and perhaps give me a clue about where I can find more information about how to apply heat map data to my own site design?
