Hubpages sucks! Are they hypocrites or just incompetents?
A few days ago i though about following the crowds and created a couple hubs on hubages.com. The hub was aimed to SEO, article writing, automation tools, etc.
Couple days after it was published, and after was getting a few good comments, i got an email saying that as a result of a moderator report, my hub was unpublished for breaking the TOS. Particularly, for "Promotion of automated marketing tools or programs".
I was pretty confused, because before publishing that hub i searched in Google for similar hubs (using a query like: keyword site:hubpages.com) and were a few thousands of them.
In a moment of weakness, i thought to email hubpages support. I honestly though it was a mistake. After all, the hub was not even promoting anything. It was purely informative, with no affiliate links, no kind of backlinks our out links, even with the build in ads turned off.
So, i asked, what was wrong with my hub? How come there are 5000 more hubs showing for the same keyword, some of them plain salespages or reviews with affiliate links?
What did i...
The Astounding Fifteen – 15 Benefits of Starting Your Own Internet Marketing Business
Internet Marketing is very trendy because it's an easy way to make money online from home. Whether you want to replace your job's salary or just want to earn some extra cash, internet marketing is the best way of potentially doing what you enjoy.
With an internet marketing business, you can earn some money and get some checks rolling in. But the checks you get in the post are just the icing on the cake!
The benefits of starting your own internet marketing business are simply staggering. Presented in this article are all the key benefits you get by starting your own internet marketing business.
After reading them, I am sure you will ask yourself "Why am I not into internet marketing?!"
1. You are THE BOSS! Yes, this is the most fantastic benefit of having your own internet marketing business. You call the shots! No pressures of a demanding boss or work mates. You escape the rat race, no sitting in the car in the traffic! You set your own hours and targets. You work in your own home, in your own hours.
2. The money...
What You Need to Know to a Be a SEO Pro
The first thing you need to know about SEO: it is a very basic system. There are no secrets, no magic tricks; you don't need to have aced high school English to get to grips with how SEO works. You can also forget about digging deep into your pockets. SEO is a popular marketing tool precisely because you don't need to spend a fortune for it to work.
To identify the SEO tactics that are going to work best for your website, you need to go to the search engines themselves. Google, Yahoo!, and MSN are certainly the top search engines and everyone wants a piece of them. They offer programs and services to help website owners boost the position of their website on search engine results. However, rather than looking to the 'big three', if you want to optimize your site effectively, hunt down some of the lesser known, smaller, and more specialized search engines.
SEO is not about optimizing for Google. Although Google is the top search engine in most parts of the world (although it accounts for somewhere between...
The e-Marketing Plan – Brief Overview and Working Scheme
I. Summary of a marketing plan
The marketing planning (concretized in the marketing plan) is an essential organizational activity, considering the hostile and complex competitive business environment. Our ability and skills to perform profitable sales are affected by hundreds of internal and external factors that interact in a difficult way to evaluate. A marketing manager must understand and build an image upon these variables and their interactions, and must take rational decisions.
Let us see what do we call a "marketing plan"? It is the result of the planning activity, a document that includes a review of the organization's place in the market, an analysis of the STEP factors as well as a SWOT analysis. A complete plan would also formulate some presumptions on why we think the past marketing strategy was successful or not. The next phase shall present the objectives we set, together with the strategies to achieve these objectives. In a logical sequence, we will further need to evaluate the results and formulate alternative plans of action. A plan would consist in details of responsibilities, costs, sales prognosis and...
Leprechaun Repellent and Guaranteed SEO Companies – The Disturbing Link
When researching SEO companies, it is tempting to choose any company willing to offer guaranteed SEO services. It is human nature - people love a guarantee. This holds especially true for purchases where the buyer is purchasing something outside of his or her area of comfort. When companies first consider pursuing search engine optimization (SEO) as a potential marketing channel, particularly when there is an ongoing cost involved, they get a sense of comfort from purchasing "guaranteed SEO." Unfortunately, with many SEO companies, this confidence in the guarantee is ill-placed.
A lot of questionable SEO companies offer what I like to refer to as a "leprechaun repellent" guarantee. In other words, it's a guarantee that is easily attainable - if you purchase such services and are not subsequently harassed by a pesky leprechaun, the guarantee has been met. How can you complain?
The truth is that SEO companies do not control the major search engines, and any firm that claims to have a "special relationship" that gives it sway over the natural search engine results is simply counting...
