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Article Marketing Video Tips

Fred Hopkins — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:21:07 +0000

I just wanted to give you a video that I did on an important part of article marketing, creating interesting titles. After watching the video, leave me a comment letting me know what you think and then visit Traffic Reign for more information. Here ya go! Click here to view the embedded video. Tags: article marketing, article marketing [...]

Doom & Gloom, Economic Bailouts - The Sky Is Falling!

Fred Hopkins — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:46:20 +0000

I just wanted to share my view of all the negative information in the news today. Not in a rant but in cartoon form! Enjoy. . . Tags: economic bailout, chicken little, recession Here are some posts you may be interested in: Sell Your Baby On Ebay? SMS Text Message Alerts For Wordpress A Picture From Stephen Pierce’s Event Article Marketing [...]

Searchers Getting Set In Their Ways

Fred Hopkins — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:46 +0000

Being in the top 10 of SERPS just ain’t what it used to be according to a study from Think Eyetracking. I have definitely noticed significant leaps in traffic going from even the 5th position to the 3rd for a given keyword. With universal search creeping into more and more keyword categories along with the amount [...]

I Bet Your Site Doesn’t Sell This Well!

Fred Hopkins — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:39:29 +0000

I came across an article from GrokDotCom.com discussing the top 10 converting retail sites as reported by Nielsen Online, here is the list: 1. Office Depot 26.90% 2. 1800flowers.com 20.90% 3. FTD.com 20.30% 4. J. Jill 19.4% 5. ProFlowers 19.30% 6. QVC 18.20% 7. LL Bean 15.9% 8. Children’s Place 15.2% 9. Blair.com 14.9% 10. Zales 14.6% *Source: Nielsen Online / Marketing Charts How does your site [...]

Animoto Slideshows: My First Guest Blog Post

Fred Hopkins — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:19:43 +0000

First off I would like to thank Jack Humphrey for letting me put my graffiti on his blog, The Friday Traffic Report. I did a little video on him as well that’s well, amusing. The video was done using a free service called Animoto so if you aren’t sure what that is, check [...]

SMS Text Message Alerts For Wordpress

Fred Hopkins — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:19:40 +0000

This is the first post in a new section called “Cool Tools” (I know, very original). Anyway, I just found a new plugin for wordpress that allows a visitor to sign up for sms alerts. I have no idea whether or not people will enter their cell phone numbers but I will give it a [...]

Google is Finally Showing Search Volume!

Fred Hopkins — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:50:43 +0000

If you are an Adwords advertiser, you may have gotten an email today saying that Google decided to show actual numbers for traffic estimates! This is a beautiful thing as it will allow me to better estimate how many clicks and impressions I can expect from a particular phrase in any given position of [...]

10 Million Millionaires!

Fred Hopkins — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:46:37 +0000

I just came across an article in MSN about the world now having 10 million millionaires! It is a bit a counter intuitive information given the current recession but it makes perfect sense. People who recognize the movements in their markets can profit no matter what the conditions are. Tags: millionaires, rich, money, msn Here are some [...]

MSN Live To Pay You To Search

Fred Hopkins — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:02:13 +0000

In a move the reeks of desperation, Microsoft has decided to start paying people to click on ads and subsequently make a purchase. Year over year, MSN Live continues to lose market share to the Googleplex so it is looking for anything to start getting people to get familiar and actually use Live.com. They have partherships [...]

Sell Your Baby On Ebay?

Fred Hopkins — Sun, 25 May 2008 03:57:30 +0000

Okay, this just falls in the “what the hell were you thinking” category and is a bit outside of my normal types of posts so please forgive me. But. . . There is a couple in Germany that tried to sell their baby on ebay for 1 Euro. They now face child trafficking charged and claim [...]