I quite often outsource articles for my niche sites.
I read or skim them before accepting – partly to make sure they’re well enough written, partly for the kind of awkward situation I’ve just encountered.
I use iWriter for most of my outsourcing. The quality is good for the price, the speed is good and I’m normally satisfied with the result or I can tweak it in a couple of minutes to be a decent standard.
Today was interesting…
Internet marketing offers a lot of automated tools but often they sacrifice quality for quantity. Things like article spinning and auto blogs spring to mind here.
It’s difficult to get precise figures and it’s natural for someone promoting a particular method or system or piece of software to claim that theirs is the best way.
So how can you find out which method works best without spending months (and lots of money) testing?
Open Graph is a weird name for something that – as far as I can work out – has nothing to do with graphs. For quite a while, I ignored it completely as I didn’t think it applied to what I did. Most of my blogs aren’t math orientated and I don’t display graphs.
It turns out that the name has nothing to do with that/
It’s Facebook’s terminology for how it defaults to displaying information about your page when someone likes it.
Hmmm. Time to investigate further!
Computers break occasionally.
Since internet marketing relies on computers, it’s important to know when things break so you can fix them!
The problem is that not all problems are easy to spot.
Or even if you do spot them, they may not be easy to fix.
It sounds like a dream come true: getting paid to add new content to your website.
But it’s not hype.
And it’s not that difficult either.
In fact, as so often happens, it’s hiding pretty much in plain sight.
With prices in an ever decreasing spiral, is it time to investigate using the freemium model for your internet marketing?
It seems that every time you blink, most prices have dropped.
A bit like electronics…
When the Sinclair ZX80 computer came out in the UK in 1980 (hence the name) it was £99.95, unless you wanted to save money and make it from kit form. Adjusted for inflation that’s £362.95 now. For a computer with a 3.25Mhz processor and 1kB of memory, optionally expandable to a (then) gigantic 16kB.
Now you can get a complete laptop or desktop computer for less than the original price adjusted for inflation.
But internet marketing prices are dropping further, faster.
Subject lines are like the web page headline for your email messages.
They determine whether or not people read anything else.
Think how often you delete emails based on the subject line alone – you never get any further!
Your email subscribers are the same…
It’s tempting to use pre-written email campaigns and send them to your list.
That’s why so many products and product launches come with email swipe files that you can use out of the box.
But is that the best way?
Or are you selling yourself – and your sales – short?
Email lists cost money to keep, so it makes sense to clean them up every now and then.
What’s the best way to do this?
When should you give up on a subscriber and stop emailing them?
Cloaking affiliate links so they don’t look ugly is one reason to say yes to cloaking. Otherwise all sorts of gobbledgook appears somewhere on your browser screen – at the bottom left on the ones I checked just now but it seems to vary over time and from browser to browser.
Most people don’t consciously pay attention to these links but they do spot them out of the corner of their eye. You’ve probably seen stuff like this on Amazon at the end of a url: ref=s9_dnav_bw_ir01_z?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=1434X93FTZJJNE43FEXH&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467082527&pf_rd_i=77197031
Yikes!