Update: Internet Marketing, Google Updates & Product Launches

WOW... 2011 just shot by didn't it?

A lot went on in 2011.

I learnt new skills, had new successes and accomplished things I never thought possible. It was a great year and I had a lot of fun. Since it's a brand new year, I thought I'd share some of the things I got up to in 2011 and what's happening in 2012.

First, Internet Marketing got a little crazy in 2011. There were thousands of product launches, lots of Google panda updates and countless new marketing strategies that appeared

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4 Stupid Simple Ways To Promote Your Blog

If you'd like to promote your blog and actually build a following, you're going to want to read the rest of this post...

For years, marketers have struggled to promote their blogs. When I got started, I had no idea that I even had to any kind of promotion. I figured as long as I wrote good content, the people would come.

As you can guess, they didn't... I think over the period of six months I had a little over 200 visitors which by the way; is horrendously bad.

What's the moral of

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Resources

I've spent a lot of time testing just about every Internet Marketing tool under the sun. I wasted a lot of money too! So I wanted to put together a simple list of all the online essentials that I truly believe you absolutely need. This is not my way of trying to get you to buy something, these are genuinely the tools I use to make money online. These are the tools that work and will absolutely help you, if it's on this page then I use it in my business effectively!
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2 Link Building Techniques For Turbo Charging Your Backlinks

For years marketers have been struggling to index their backlinks and get better search engine rankings. When I first started with SEO, all I knew was that the more links I got, the higher up I would rank. I literally had no idea about link quality, on-page optimization, activity factors or anchor text variation - none of that. So I started by building crap loads of links using all kinds of automated software and it worked for a while...

In fact I was freaking dominating the search engines

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2 Link Building Strategies That Will Explode Your Rankings

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If you've been marketing online for any length of time, then I'm sure you've come across Search Engine Optimization more than once. When I began my online marketing journey, I was obsessed with traffic generation. I assumed that if I could generate traffic I would "get rich" and make obscene amounts of money while floating around the world on my yacht.

I soon learned it wasn't quite so simple. Anyway SEO amazed me! I was stunned that I could rank in the search

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The Micro Niche Site Business Model Explained

The other day I started thinking about my online businesses and the different models I want to explore. Around about the middle of this year I dived into niche websites. I had a simple goal; to build 100 Adsense sites, then 50 CPA sites and another 50 Affiliate marketing sites. I'm an SEO guy so I knew that I could build niche sites and drive traffic to them. As I can get traffic to just about any website, as long as there are keywords to rank for.

After putting together a game plan, I set

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How To Use Solo Ads To Explode Your Email List

List building can be tough, I'll admit that. Most marketers and online gurus make list building seem like a piece of cake when in reality, it's quite complex. Just to clarify, list building isn't email marketing. List building is essentially the "building" part where you're actually generating subscribers. Then there's email marketing which is a whole other subject...

Email marketing is all about building a RESPONSIVE email list and actually making money from your subscribers. Or

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