I recently made a post about how to use StumbleUpon to promote. At the time, I was writing based on my own research and a few tests on WebbyOnline itself. However, yesterday I actually went in on my largest website, PCMech.com, and stumbled an article entitled How to Secure Wireless Networks. Well, this morning, I went into Analytics to check the traffic reports on PCMech and saw a VERY noticeable bump in site traffic. Yesterday, StumbleUpon brought in 6,093 visits and 10,107 pageviews to the … [Read more...]
How to Use StumbleUpon to Promote
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A few months ago, I signed up for StumbleUpon. I downloaded and installed the toolbar on Firefox and started surfing. Pretty cool. However, I had seen a few people talking about using StumbleUpon for promotional purposes on their websites, with apparent success. Some were talking about driving thousands of visitors PER DAY to their sites using the system. But, I could not find any clear information on what needs to be done to make that happen. I mean, I can use StumbleUpon as an end user all day … [Read more...]
The Importance of Surveys, SurveyMonkey
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I recently signed up for an account at SurveyMonkey after re-realizing the importance of surveys. Here's the story... My largest site, PC Mechanic, has actually been seeing a slight, but steady decrease in overall traffic. Nobody in this business likes to see decreases in traffic. Sure, all sites vary up and down on daily traffic, but when you open the Analytics account and look at a multi-month range and see a slow, but steady decrease over time, that's not good. Even a flat trend is an … [Read more...]
YouTube Isn’t the Only Game in Town
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I have been talking off and on about how to use online video for marketing. The benefits of doing video marketing are many. Among them are the fact that it is free (except for production potentially) and the fact that videos just have the eye appeal that makes people watch them (unlike the written word). But, one of the things to keep in mind, too, is that in order to get the most bang out of your videos, you need them to be REALLY out there. While Youtube is obviously the most popular video … [Read more...]
Blog Monetization, PayPerPost and Ebook Affiliate Saturation
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Here is my introductory diatribe from this week’s WebbyOnline newsletter. To get this in your inbox each week, just subscribe in the form at the top of this site. Oh, busy times. Busy times. As I said last week, I am putting Miraserver development into hyperdrive. And I'm feeling it now since I stayed up last night until 2AM working on it. Some of my readers may be used to this, but I'm usually hitting the hay before midnight, and I usually stop working earlier than that so that I can spend … [Read more...]
Glyphius Copywriting Software Review
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In the weekly newsletter here at WebbyOnline, I have been talking about ad copy and the importance of good copy to making online sales. For those of you new to this, ad copy simply refers to the text (whether spoken or written) in an advertisement. It could refer to the text of a small ad, or it could refer to the text of a long sales letter. Now, copywriting (the art of writing this ad copy) is something that any person interested in sales HAS to know. When you first try it, you will quickly … [Read more...]
Internet Marketing – What’s New?
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Here is my introductory diatribe from this week's WebbyOnline newsletter. To get this in your inbox each week, just subscribe in the form at the top of this site. Well, it's May already. Unbelievable. It seems like this year just started. Doing a quick status check on things in my own business, I really think I am putting my eggs in the right baskets right now. One of the big things I am working on is putting MUCH more focus on marketing. More focus than I ever have, actually. And its almost … [Read more...]
Why a Drop in Adsense Revenue?
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I recently made some adjustments to the layout over at PCMech. Nothing I thought was very drastic. I was simply re-organizing some elements and fixing some long-time problems (like creeping CSS layers in IE). Well, after I went live with the new layout, I began keeping a close eye on the various revenue sources. One of the things that caught my eye big time was a drastic reduction in clicks generated by Google Adsense. The CTR (click-through radio) went down by almost 0.5%, which is quite a bit. … [Read more...]
StumbleUpon – Good For Promo?
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In looking at my referrers in Google Analytics, I often see StumbleUpon.com as one of the referrers. I checked it out some time ago and thought the idea was very cool. It really is the ultimate social networking site. OK, well, maybe not "ultimate", however cool nonetheless. It essentially uses the StumbleUpon community to scour the web looking for cool sites. When a site is voted on by a user, it gets into the network and other users with similar interests may stumble upon it. Oh, and the name … [Read more...]
David has been blogging for 15 years, and generating a six-figure income at it for the last 12. He is the founder of Blog Marketing Academy. 
David Risley has been building and operating authority blogs for 15 years, and operating a six-figure business doing it for a decade.
