Pronet Advertising Latest search engine news blog articles from Pronet Advertising. http://www.seocentro.com/seo-archives/publisher/Pronet+Advertising.html Pronet Advertising News Archive http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=13254 Marketing doesn't always have to involve using methods like search engine optimization, email marketing, or banner advertising. Instead of using expensive methods of marketing you can also market your company by giving your product away for free to select bloggers. One person who recently did this was Alexander Barbara from Sarah's Sweet Fountains . Just last week a 16 inch Chocolate Fondue Fountain Party Pack arrived at my door. Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:46:26 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12984 If you are going to Pubcon , there is a lot going on. DK, over at Purpose Inc is organizing a fight club, dinners, drinks, and a poker tournament with hot chicks. Go over to the schedule page for more information. There are events that are going on today as well as the rest of the week. Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:54:04 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12713 Docstoc just rolled out an email feature that easily allows you to upload documents online. Docstoc now supports email uploading and publishing. Simply email any document (.doc, .xls, .ppt, .pdf) to uploads@docstoc.com, as an attachment, and your document(s) will be published publically on docstoc. Make sure to email docs, from the email account you have registered on docstoc. Check out Jason Nazar's blog for more information. Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:15:17 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12085 As we all know, the more links you have coming into your website the more traffic you are going to get. The problem with this is that it can take hours to solicit and obtain links. Luckily V7N has solutions to solve your problem: You can buy a link from the V7N web directory , which will get you traffic from V7N.com. You can pay V7N to solicit websites to link to you on your behalf through their contextual link program . If you choose this program, Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:05:05 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10634 My Documents is something we all use. Whether you have a PC or a MAC, you are probably using some sort of documents folder. The major problem with storing your documents on one computer, is that you can't access them from another computer? Today, TechCrunch broke the news on a new feature from Docstoc called MyDocs that allows you to store, edit, search, and even skin your files online: MyDocs is essentially a dashboard for users' documents, Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:25:47 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10632 A while ago I wrote about the ThinkTank 2008 and why it is a conference that you have to attend. I know it maybe a bit expensive, so here is your chance to attend for free. Jeremy Schoemaker is throwing a conference where he'll give one individual a free pass, plane ticket and a hotel. Visit Shoemoney.com if you are interested in entering. Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:09:24 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10564 Aaron Wall and Wordtracker teamed up to release an e-book to help you learn which keywords you should pick for your online marketing strategy and how you can leverage those keywords . Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:07:43 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9586 From September 26 to the 28th, a new conference called Think Tank is taking place. If you haven't signed up yet, I highly recommend doing so for the following reasons: It's not a normal conference - Unlike most conferences, the Think Tank is totally different. It is a full 3 days of fun that take place outdoors in sunny San Diego. Now isn't that much better than being cooped up in a room for 8 hours a day? Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:57:06 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9348 Is anyone attending Search Engine Strategies San Jose ? If so, leave a comment and hopefully I will see you there. If you aren't, it isn't too late to register. Click here to register. Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:06:29 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9079 About a year and a half ago I went to Jeremy Schoemaker's house for a few days (aka Shoemoney, aka Shoe) because I heard rumors that the Shoemoney team was making tons of money from the affiliate marketing/arbitrage space. I wanted to learn first hand on how I could do the same. During my short stay at the Shoemoney house, Shoe gave me access to his teams internal tools, and by the time I came back I had created a additional $1,000. Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:26:35 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8916 Ann Smarty from Search Engine Journal , recently wrote a great article reviewing all of the SEO tools out there. If you are an SEO or want to be one, I highly recommend checking it out. Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:01:54 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7533 High search engine rankings is something that many of us dream about and very few of us achieve. To obtain these rankings, in many cases you have to manipulate search results, but what if you could rank high naturally? Guy Kawasaki brought to my attention that Alltop ranks high on Google for the following terms: moms: 1 of 105,000, Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:51:17 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7136 This is a guest post written by Loren Baker from Search Engine Journal . Sometimes a company can be marketed virally on social media platforms without actually hiring a social media marketer or putting together a social media campaign. Established brands which have a loyal grassroots following, either large or small, sometimes enjoy the benefit of that following establishing an online presence, whether in Facebook groups or Youtube Video channels. As an example, Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:06:28 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6580 I was just reading Weird Asia News and noticed that they are having a design contest . If you are a designer and are looking to win a PS3 I highly recommend checking it out. The contest seems like a fun thing to do and it would be interesting to see what type of designs people come up with do to the theme of the website. For more details on the contest, check out their contest page . Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Thu, 22 May 2008 20:41:58 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6531 AffilatePrograms.com just launched their new website. If you visited the site in the past, it pretty much looked like a directory with a forum. But now with their new design they have made a lot of improvements. The site now concentrates on making affiliate marketing "simple". A lot of people talk about making money through affiliate marketing, but newbies have a hard time understanding how this is possible. With the new AffiliatePrograms.com, Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Thu, 22 May 2008 00:55:27 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6529 AffilatePrograms.com just launched their new website. If you visited the site in the past, it pretty much looked like a directory with a forum. But now with their new design they have made a lot of improvements. The site now concentrates on making affiliate marketing "simple". A lot of people talk about making money through affiliate marketing, but newbies have a heard time understanding how this is possible. With the new AffiliatePrograms.com, Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Thu, 22 May 2008 00:24:47 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6048 Aaron Wall wrote an interesting article the other day about the value of a Google ranking . As we already know being number 1 on Google can drastically affect your business, but the question is, what is it worth? According to the data that AOL released a while back the number 10 listing gets 14x less clicks than the number 1 listing. And to go one step further 89% of the clicks that users make when searching, happen to be on page 1. Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Mon, 12 May 2008 04:59:51 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=4744 I am not sure how many of you are into forums, but Webmaster-Talk.com and Earners Forum have just merged to create a better community. Now users have access to an enhanced marketplace, informative articles, blogs, interviews, and valuable tools. I personally love the merger. When I first started out in the SEO world I used to surf forums like Webmaster-Talk.com and find everything I needed on a budget. I was able to find people to help me out for free, cheap web designers, Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:27:48 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=4563 There has been a lot of new stuff been going around the SEO industry lately, so I thought I would do a quick blog post talking about the two things that were interesting for me: The first is that Best of the Web just brought on a team of editors, which will help take their directory to the next level. DMOZ is a popular directory that was filled with talented editors, but through bad management over the past few years it has been dying down, Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:29:30 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3941 Just out of curiosity, how many of you have attended a marketing conference in the past? Or to take it one step further has anyone attended a conference that purely revolves around social media? Last year was the first time that SMX held a social media conference and due to its success this year they are holding another social media conference. From April 22nd to the 23rd, SMX Social Media is taking place in Long Beach, California . Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:19:08 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3796 As many of you can tell, I haven't been blogging as much lately. One of the main reasons for this is because of Clickbooth . I have been spending a lot of time on the Clickbooth network because it pays out really well for affiliates. For those of you who aren't too familiar with them, think of them as a mix of AzoogleAds and Commission Junction. They have tons of offers and great payouts, which makes it an excellent network. On a side note, Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:35:02 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=2546 Every Wednesday Pronet Advertising will be highlighting some of the best posts related to social media news and marketing. As always, please feel free to comment and if you have any recommendations, let us know so we can include them in the next week's wrap up. Linkbait - Will Search Engines Ever Regulate Your Linkbait? Is it possible that search engines will start regulating your linkbait ? Seems highly unlikely - after all, good content is good linkbait. However, Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:52:50 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1738 Every Wednesday Pronet Advertising will be highlighting some of the best posts related to social media news and marketing. As always, please feel free to comment and if you have any recommendations, let us know so we can include them in the next week's wrap up. Microblogging - Learn SEO: The Unexplored Values of Twitter Everyday people are learning more about Twitter and understanding the power of the tool. Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:22:21 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1739 I'm not sure how many of you run/manage advertising campaigns, but I just found a useful tool that makes it easier to sort ad groups. Hopefully the tool can make your life easier like it did with mine. Click here to download the RKG Duck tool. Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:31:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1740 When most companies are trying to create buzz they usually ask bloggers to blog on their company or they higher a marketing firm to do it for them. Although these are not bad ways to create buzz, with a bit of creativity you can create an organic buzz around your company. I was surfing YouTube web last week and I noticed that a company called Banner Blindness drew a picture of me. Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:20:11 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1741 Every Wednesday (sorry for the delay) Pronet Advertising will be highlighting some of the best posts related to social media news and marketing. As always, please feel free to comment and if you have any recommendations, let us know so we can include them in the next week's wrap up. Microblogging - The Rise of Twitter as a Platform for Serious Discourse As time passes by and more people embrace Twitter (or at least accept that the service is hear to stay), Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:08:28 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1742 One of the best conferences I attended last year was the Elite Retreat . Many people were skeptical of a conference that charges $5000 for 2 days, but ALL of the attendees felt that they got their moneys worth. When I was at Pubcon in December, one of the Elite Retreat members came up to me and stated that he tripled his income within 30 days, which meant that he made more than the conference fee within 30 days. And to top it off Andy Liu , one of last years attendee, Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:45:17 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=966 Shoemoney is throwing a contest called Shoeperstar where one lucky winner is going to get an all paid expense trip to SXSW , plus $1000 in spending cash. Want to rock out like a big money blogger? This is your chance. Register below for a chance to meet up with Jeremy Schoemaker of ShoeMoney and Ted Murphy of Izea at SXSW in Austin, Texas on camera for a special episode of RockStartup. One lucky blogger will grab a free flight to Austin (within the continental US), Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:31:54 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=2 Day before yesterday, Digg launched its new image functionality feature. Although its primary effect on Digg will probably be to silence the countless users that keep complaining about no image section, it also makes some interesting changes to the submission process that are worth mentioning. Go to submit a story and you will now be greeted by a choice to submit it as news, video, or image: Once you click "Continue, Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:10:50 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3 Digg (and the rest of the internet) was ablaze this weekend as gamers took to message boards to protest the firing of Gamespot's long-time reviewer, Jeff Gerstmann. The incident not only had broad ramifications for the whole game enthusiast industry, it also demonstrated how badly the P.R. division of a major company like CNET , owner of Gamespot , can completely melt down, destroying one of its precious brands in the process. Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:09:04 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=4 Firebrand recently launched with a relatively new business model: Broadcast all advertisements, all the time, but only display the ones that the company deems creative and interesting. Today, we take a look at the new service. Go to Firebrand.com, which is currently still in beta, and your screen will automatically begin displaying ads. An elegant crossbar underneath the video displays several brands, all of which probably paid for premium placement on the front page. Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:13:37 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=5 The Associated Press recently published a story about a curious phenomenon : Google is one of the most lucrative ad-selling companies in the world, yet rarely indulges in buying ads for itself. Today we take a look at the advantages Google gains against its competitors by not advertising. Although you can see Yahoo's ads on TV and in movie theaters, Google doesn't follow suit, instead relying on word of mouth, buzz marketing, and media coverage to spread its gospel. Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:39:12 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6 Unlike Digg , Reddit allows its users to submit pages from the Reddit.com URL. Often this leads to wildly popular headlines that are simply criticisms of Reddit and its voting system. While the efficacy of these critiques is debatable, it has certainly fostered a degree of openness that is very difficult to find on Digg. Today we take a look at one particular form of backlash brewing against the culture of Reddit. Since sites like Digg and Reddit exploded in popularity, Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:26:38 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7 Wouldn't it be a shame? You wrote a great piece, it was relevant not only for your general readership, but also for the social media audience. Not only that, but a user with a large audience wanted to submit your piece, but couldn't because of your URL structure. That's what happened to yesterday when I tried to submit a story from MSN Money to Digg : I tried submitting the story using a bookmarklet, a contextual menu plugin, Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:47:09 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8 You may not agree with their tactics, but you can't disagree with the money. Here's a look at the Ron Paul army, their (often shady) tactics, and the return on their viral marketing blitzkrieg. First of all I want to point out that while I agree with the message that Dr. Paul is trying to spread and agree with his principles , I disagree with the strategy that some of his followers have adopted in spreading his name (not necessarily condoned by him). Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:03:07 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9 Each day, thousands of stories are submitted to Digg by its users, who often have vastly different reasons for submitting them. Some use Digg as just a personal bookmarking service, while others submit their own content in the hopes that it will get attention from others. Still others just want to share good, quality content with the world. In any case, a key component of getting people to notice your story is having a good Digg title. But exactly what makes a good Digg title? Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:17:50 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10 I have written about blog security many times but before this past week, I couldn't speak from experience. Here's what happened to my blog , and how I fixed it. Sometime last week, I started getting emails from people that when they accessed my site, their anti-virus software would tell them that I was trying to install malicious software on to their computers. When I tried accessing it, since I'm on a mac, nothing happened and I assumed the problem was on their end. Then, Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:48:32 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11 Shoemoney is throwing a contest where one lucky winner will get to hang out with Shoemoney , Dax Herrera , Rebecca Kelley , Greg Hartnett , David Dellanave , and me at Pubcon. The contest is simple... all you have to do is write a blog post about why you should win the Roll With The Rockstars contest and post your link in the comments . So do you want to hang? Then you better start writing! Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:54:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12 Here's something you won't hear everyday, I deactivated my Facebook account last night. While that's news on its own, there's more. I didn't do it because I'm dissatisfied with Facebook and it isn't a permanent thing, rather perhaps I did it because I'm too satisfied with Facebook. I simply found myself spending too much time on Facebook when I should have been writing, or working on my startup, so I went into my Facebook account settings to disable the account. Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:33:07 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=13 When faced with the myriad Content options that users have when they surf the web, many bloggers feel enormous pressure to update their blogs on a daily, consistent basis. But is this truly a productive practice? Today we take a look at one theory. Over at Markting Profs Daily Fix, Eric Kintz has a piece entitled " Why Blog Post Frequency Does Not Matter Anymore " Kintz's piece is lucid and disarmingly well-reasoned. Step by step, Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:49:51 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=14 For months, sites like Rawstory and Crooksandliars have been taking content from The Daily Show, re-purposing it for their site, and getting it onto the front page of Digg and Reddit . With Comedy Central's (CC's) recent launch of their official Daily Show website , CC has made it incredibly easy to view and submit their content to a host of social networking sites. Today we take a look at the new site. Like thousands, Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:05:44 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=15 On November 8th and 9th I will be at Blog World Expo . I will be speaking on advanced money making techniques on the 9th. If you want to learn about making money via blogging or just anything about blogging I highly recommend attending the conference. People like Brian Clark , Shoemoney , Greg Hartnett , and Matt Mullenweg will be there. So anyone attending? Search Engines News SEO News Pronet Advertising Pronet Advertising Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:55:59 GMT