tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:51:27 +0000http://www.stevepronger.com/blog.htmHawksBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-6109288794702960390Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:48:00 +00002008-02-12T02:51:27.910-08:00I'm now publishing on WordPress. WP is superior to Blogger in just about every aspect. Check out my Web Business Solutions Blog here.http://www.stevepronger.com/2008/02/last-post-on-blogger.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-1338689587987024354Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:14:00 +00002007-11-24T19:05:24.658-08:00You're probably wondering about the second part of that title - Making Moe Mad. I'll explain where Moe fits in shortly. What is social marketing and how does it relate to SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)? In a nutshell, social marketing is about using "Web 2.0" style websites to create quality links (an essential ingredient in SEO), distribute your content beyond the bounds of a regular static http://www.stevepronger.com/2007/11/social-marketing-seo-making-moe-mad.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-1560195332734934045Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:41:00 +00002007-11-01T18:27:21.719-07:00Yahoo is a strange animal. For a long time stevepronger.com was in the sin-bin at Yahoo. Why? I'm not really sure. But something I'd done in the distant past had caused them to place a penalty on my site. Clearly, it wasn't ranking at all for queries that held first page positions on Google and MSN. Indexing was way behind. There were pages in the index which were deleted years ago. I tried http://www.stevepronger.com/2007/10/yahoo-relic-of-90s.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-2879683083194733502Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:03:00 +00002007-10-20T21:04:30.358-07:00This has never happened to me before. A few months back I designed a new site for a client called Meet the Inventors. The concept was to help inventors get funding for their inventions. Things were going well. The site had achieved top rankings for queries such has "invention backers" across all engines and was steadily climbing Google for "invention funding" which it had already achieved page 1 http://www.stevepronger.com/2007/10/godaddy-sinks-inventors.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-5982249729762126777Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:58:00 +00002007-10-15T17:24:30.788-07:00Google Snatch Review. Overpriced, poorly-written waffle. Google Snatch, a new e-book by British marketer Latif would have to be one of the most disappointing reads this year. The sales letter promised so much: "Discover Google's Undisclosed Secret". Yeah, right. There are no "secrets" in this book. None. "It has got NOTHING to do with SEO..." Crap. This book is ENTIRELY about SEO. Now, I http://www.stevepronger.com/2007/10/google-snatch-dud-of-year.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-3655519689620118721Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:16:00 +00002007-10-15T17:31:45.429-07:00When John Reese launches something you know you have to take notice. John is probably THE most succesful Internet marketer out there. He's made squillions from courses, books, membership sites, AdSense and many other online activities. John's latest project is called BlogRush. Membership of BlogRush is free. You simply submit your blogs, paste the code in your blog template and a "widget" is http://www.stevepronger.com/2007/09/blogrush-free-traffic-for-your-blog.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-1409208705787669287Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:53:00 +00002007-10-15T17:51:51.220-07:00After doing some consulting work with a personal trainer I was recently contacted by a collegue of his, also a personal trainer, and also in need of some help with his online marketing endeavours. Jonathan Ross is in fact one the top personal trainers in the US. He currently has two main sites; Family Fit Plan and Aion Fitness. He also runs a couple of blogs and is considering various new http://www.stevepronger.com/2007/08/small-business-website-design-marketing.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-4994176155758582209Sat, 18 Aug 2007 05:28:00 +00002007-10-15T18:00:46.016-07:00I was recently contacted by a personal trainer working out of South Florida. Doug had built a site using XSitePro to sell his "Fitness Now & Forever" course but needed some help with some formatting issues. Main problem was Doug had used MS Word to create his page, which was then converted to HTML and imported into XSitePro. Big mistake. Word makes terrible HTML and adds a lot of proprietary codehttp://www.stevepronger.com/2007/08/site-build-it-review-sbi-xsitepro-case.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-3654571984320297598Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:49:00 +00002007-07-13T06:31:17.292-07:00Yep, it's true. 16.4 Million Dollars. In FOUR separate lotteries. All in one day. Who would have thought. Am I lucky or what? Someone called the UK Lottery Organisation said I won $4.6 Million because apparently they selected my email address at random, although how they actually got my email address is a bit of a mystery. And BMW - yes the car company - said I won $10 Million. Wow! Think of allhttp://www.stevepronger.com/2007/07/i-won-164-million-today.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-8302840075696697865Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:38:00 +00002007-07-04T06:56:11.244-07:00Just finished reading a great guide to Web 2.0 called Authority Black Book. Written by authority site building guru Jack Humphrey it covers just about everything you need to know about Web 2.0 and, specifically, how it can help you build your online business. Topics covered include blogging, RSS marketing, social bookmarking, social media, video marketing and more. Plus there are more links to http://www.stevepronger.com/2007/07/authority-black-book-web-20-explained.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-6193363566594588251Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:48:00 +00002007-06-26T06:31:15.526-07:00If you've been interesed in Chris Carpenter's Google Cash Detective but, like me, you were unable to buy it because it sold out in hours, then take heart, because I've found an alternative. What's more , it's WAY cheaper but just as effective. It's called AdSpy Pro. AdSpyPro let's you analyse Google AdWords campaigns and idetify profitable campaigns. How do you know that they're profitable? http://www.stevepronger.com/2007/06/adspy-pro-better-than-google-cash.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-810055460917543106Sat, 23 Jun 2007 07:03:00 +00002007-06-23T00:24:06.464-07:00I've just finished a new site for a friend of mine over in Richmond, Virginia. The concept is to match inventors with invention backers. For a small fee inventors can submit details of their invention which investors can then peruse and decide if they would like to offer financial help. I think it's a great idea and hopefully will do well. We've tried to keep it simple and user friendly. Check http://www.stevepronger.com/2007/06/invention-funding-new-site-launched.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-9123729465829640111Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:56:00 +00002007-06-20T06:16:01.697-07:00If you're a Dreamweaver 8 user you may have experienced this rather annoying bug - when you go to upload changes to your site you find that FTP settings have been lost, so you have to search for that username and impossible-to-remember password, enter them again, check the save settings box and upload, only to find that next time you start Dreamweaver the settings are lost again. Arrrgghhh! http://www.stevepronger.com/2007/06/dreamweaver-8-loses-ftp-info-cure.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-7877144182860069568Wed, 23 May 2007 13:44:00 +00002007-05-23T07:03:28.323-07:00Chris Carpenter, creator of the famous (infamous?) Google Cash has just released a special free report outlining his forthcoming Google Cash Detective program. If you've ever considered using or tried Google's AdWords pay-per-click advertising, either to promote your own products/services or an affiliate program, then trust me, you NEED to read this report. It's an eye-opener! Download it here.http://www.stevepronger.com/2007/05/google-cash-detective.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-743432229640410871Wed, 23 May 2007 04:22:00 +00002007-05-22T22:07:05.463-07:00Building links to your site from a variety of sources has always been an important strategy for effective search engine optimization. And one of the best ways to get relevant, one-way, inbound links is by submitting your site to online directories. Some directories charge you to submit your site for a review. In the case of Yahoo's directory the cost is significant and on-going, but it does http://www.stevepronger.com/2007/05/directory-submitter.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-3269000158748878153Sun, 06 May 2007 04:49:00 +00002007-05-05T22:10:25.503-07:00This is SiteSell's annual special. The deal is you can buy one Site Build It and get a second one for $100. That's a saving of $200. This is a great deal and it happens only once a year. But hurry, it expires on the stroke of midnight, May 8, 2007. If you've been considering buying SBI, now's the time. Get one for yourself and one for a friend, colleage or family member. Got a teenage son or http://www.stevepronger.com/2007/05/sitesell-may-day-madness-last-days.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-3451404138194235918Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:33:00 +00002007-02-10T21:24:28.596-08:00"Hi Steven, Guess what? Yup, another sale! Here are the details... Product sold: Site Build It!, non affiliates.... " This is the start of an email message which has been arriving in my inbox with alarming frequency in the last few weeks. Frankly, I can't keep the smile of my face. Let me explain... Site Build It is a program that I am an affiliate for. Have been for some time. It complimentshttp://www.stevepronger.com/2007/02/power-of-video.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-116849876350860557Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:45:00 +00002007-01-10T22:59:23.563-08:00Easy Web Video Review - Video on Your Website I have to admit, I'm a bit of a latecomer to the online video revolution. But a client recently asked me about the possibility of adding video clips of her client's businesses to her site. Adding a simple download link was not difficult at all, but having a video play within the browser window was not something I had attempted before. Now I knew thehttp://www.stevepronger.com/2007/01/put-video-on-your-website.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-116763990987930923Mon, 01 Jan 2007 07:30:00 +00002007-01-01T00:25:09.896-08:00One of my favorite pieces of web marketing software is Brad Callen's SEO Elite. This latest update (Version 4) features a redesigned and much improved user interface. SEO Elite is made up of a number of "projects". Specifically: Project 1: Analyze Backlinks Using A Specified Search Engine. Project 2: Get Links To Your Website. (NEW) Project 3: Analyze AllinAnchor, AllinText, AllinTitle. Projecthttp://www.stevepronger.com/2006/12/seo-elite-updated.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-116728035714288918Thu, 28 Dec 2006 03:48:00 +00002006-12-27T20:38:34.590-08:00Here's a couple of free tools/services which I've found quite useful: Social Bookmarker Just add this snippet of HTML to your page to create a link for your visitors to bookmark your site at any of the popular social bookmarking sites: Social Bookmark this page The link will look like this: Social Bookmark This Site Generate RSS Feeds for Clickbank Products This tool will create an RSShttp://www.stevepronger.com/2006/12/some-handy-free-tools.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-116471489329861867Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:51:00 +00002006-11-28T03:54:53.920-08:00Have you ever experienced that sinking feeling when you discover that the Google rankings you worked so hard for suddenly plummet? You might be used to seeing your rankings move up and down several places. This is normal. Search engine rankings are dynamic by their very nature, so a certain degree of movement is normal and expected. Up one day, down the next. But one day you wake up to find that http://www.stevepronger.com/2006/11/sudden-ranking-drop-dont-panic.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-116251232093572609Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:15:00 +00002006-11-02T16:20:25.803-08:00On the ceiling in our lounge room is a rather ugly water stain. It seems something is leaking in the bathroom directly above. I have to admit, it's been there quite a while. When it comes to home maintenance I tend to be the type of person who ignores it and hopes it will go away. It hasn't gone away. So, although it's a great talking point when friends drop around I decided to get a plumber in http://www.stevepronger.com/2006/11/local-business-marketing-is-web.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-116040541360099756Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:04:00 +00002006-10-09T23:20:39.266-07:00If you have a mailing list it's never really much fun to have people unsubscribe from your list, but it can be educational. I use AWeber to manage my list. If a person chooses to unsubscribe after they receive a mailing they simply click on a link which takes them to a page where they manage their subscription. This page includes a field where you can enter a reason for unsubscribing if you wish.http://www.stevepronger.com/2006/10/learning-from-your-unsubscribes.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-115944589285166826Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:17:00 +00002006-09-28T05:18:12.870-07:00Redesign work www.simpalms.com.au has now been completed. Here's what the old home page looked like: As you can see, it was one big photo with a logo and "Click to enter" (which wasn't visible in Firefox) underneath. No text at all. Nothing for search engines or visitors to read. Why make a visitor "enter" your site? When they hit your home page, they have already entered. You have but seconds http://www.stevepronger.com/2006/09/website-redesign-update.htmlHawkstag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23699519.post-115836826535182830Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:38:00 +00002006-09-15T22:53:59.200-07:00Here's a new report that's causing a bit of a stir in Internet Marketing circles. Called "The Death of AdSense and the Return to Common Sense" the author, Scott Boulch, claims that based on his experience with over 3,000 websites AdSense is no longer an effective way to generate income. Scott makes some interesting points but his conclusions seem to be based on using multiple-page-generating http://www.stevepronger.com/2006/09/death-of-adsense.htmlHawks