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Book Summary: Sales Engagement by Medina, Altschuler, and Kosoglow

September 15, 2020

My name is Jason Levin and I am a Marketing Consultant for RankSense. I help our users achieve their goals with our technology and educational resources.  I am a big fan of business books, and enjoy sharing my findings with others.  Last month, I covered The Sales Acceleration Formula by Mark Roberge. In this article,...

Freakonomics: How to lose money by saving

August 07, 2007

I am never going to understand why some people don't value their time properly. If you work for yourself, or if you plan to do so in the future, one of the first things you need to learn is to charge yourself an hourly rate—the higher the better. Why? Because affording yourself the maximum rate...

Reclaiming What’s Yours: Getting your feed back from FeedBurner while still tracking subscribers

August 06, 2007

As you are probably aware, FeedBurner's way of tracking subscriptions is a little bit unreliable. You've probably seen your subscription numbers drop significantly during the weekends and during the days when you have no new posts or little activity. If you’re like me, you want to know your actual subscriber numbers. There isn’t a straightforward...

On gurus, Google, and gaining marketshare: Leveraging your position as number one

August 06, 2007

A lot of people read blogs, books, articles and other materials from so-called 'gurus' that made it big. Readers are hoping to do the same but I know that no one will match success by simply following a guru’s advice. I am not saying this because I think those gurus are necessarily dishonest or are...

Checkmate: Strategic vs Tactical SEO

August 02, 2007

Is SEO just a game? Consider two chess players, Mike and Tom. Mike has never been able to win against Tom. Mike knows all the rules of the game: how to move every piece, when to capture, when to castle; he even knows all the tactical ideas like forks, pins, skewers and discovered attacks. Mike's...

Controlling Your Robots: Using the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header with Googlebot

August 01, 2007

We have discussed before how to control Googlebot via robots.txt and meta robot tags. Both methods have limitations. With robots.txt you can block the crawling of any page or directory, but you cannot control the indexing, caching or snippets. With the robots meta tag you can control crawling, caching and snippets but you can only...

Digg this: How to use social networking sites properly to boost traffic

July 30, 2007

We all know that building solid, natural and authoritative links to your site or blog is the best way to obtain unshakable rankings. There has been a lot of chatter lately about using social networking sites to help build traffic and eventually links. Those links are hard to get, unless of course you have a...

The Power of Myth: Can a black-hat take down your rankings?

July 27, 2007

My old pal Skitzzo from SEOrefugee revisits what he calls an SEO “myth”: that a competitor can potentially harm a site owner just by pointing links to his or her site. According to the number of Sphinns, it looks like a lot SEOs agree it’s a myth. That’s understandable, as it would be very unfair...

Avoiding the Bounce House: Optimizing your Search Marketing Campaign

July 26, 2007

Getting solid rankings is a lot of work, and properly organizing keywords and landing pages is no trivial task either. Why not make the most out of it once you have started getting the traffic? After beginning a successful PPC or SEO campaign, it’s time to maximize the returns from it. There are a lot...

Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day—Neither is effective link building

July 25, 2007

Link building is without a doubt the most time consuming—but most rewarding—aspect of search engine optimization. It usually takes more effort to promote your content (build links) than to actually create it. As I have stressed repeatedly before, compelling, useful content should make your link building efforts much easier. Before I go any further, let...

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