Ron Davies World of Web Marketing

Affiliate marketing veteran of 10 years who feels it’s time to give a little back #:>)

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What’s The Buzz? He Said What About Me? Find Out Who’s Talking About You with Google Alerts

January 7th, 2009 No Comments

Welcome back!
I suspect that when Google came up with Google Alerts they knew they had a cool tool that people could use to keep track of subjects they were following and wanted the latest news on those subjects coming to them in their email inbox.
People have used Google Alerts for following things like Nascar, the musician [...]

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Cron Demo WordPress Plugin

December 27th, 2008 No Comments

If you’re one of the Wordpress users that has upgraded to WP 2.7, or one of those smart people that have installed the “Wassup” plugin for Wordpress, you may be wondering what the “wp-cron.php” file is about that keeps popping up in your stats. Don’t worry, it’s nothing nasty, just the Wordpress blog engine executing [...]

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The Painfully Perpetual Pursuit of Web Site Traffic

December 27th, 2008 No Comments

traffic is a battle that every blogger, or for that matter, every site owner has to struggle with.
The “old style” approaches like exchanging links with other site owners, becoming active in related forums and discussions may seem a little obvious, but the truth is the basics seem to be where so many of us get [...]

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What’s All The Comotion About Wikipedia PR6 Back Links?

December 10th, 2008 No Comments

I have been asked about this a few times, so I am going to try and clear the air as best I can.

For some time, a number of clever web 2 marketers have been sneaking “External Links” in over at Wikipedia in categories related to their keywords.

Ok. I can sense a few blank faces so I will explain…

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Why I think StoreStacker doesn’t stack up at all, imho.

December 6th, 2008 1 Comment

Just did a complete go-through of the affiliate program presented by StoreStacker.com. Pretty sad, flimsy, and overpriced to say the least.
They make tall claims like “multiply search engine rankings” and “increase authority”. Well, search engine rankings have nothing to do with outgoing feed, particularly javascript which is, in fact, penalized by Google, not embraced. As [...]

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