Bill Hartzer

FTC Says Bloggers Must Disclose or Face Stiff Penalties

In what I believe is a surprising decision, the Federal Trade Commission decided that they will require bloggers to "clearly disclose any freebies or payments" they get from companies for reviewing their products. This is the first time since 1980 that the Federal Trade Commission has revised its guidelines on ...

KeywordSmash Free Keyword Research Tool Launched

As a blogger, online marketer, writer, and a shameless self-promoter, I am always on the hunt for content and ideas for creating online content. I totally agree with whoever coined the phrase, "content is king". I have to admit that sometimes I get writer's block or, as I like to ...

How to Promote the Perfect Blog Post

As you might recall, a while back I told you how to write the perfect blog post. Now that you've written the blog post and you posted it on your blog (which, I hope, is using the perfect Wordpress theme, it is very important that you promote your blog post. ...

How to Write the Perfect Blog Post

Is there such a thing as the "perfect blog post"? Probably not. Certainly I've seen great blog posts over the years, and I have even been lucky enough to have more than my share of blog posts that ended up being popular. I have news for you, though: a blog ...

5 Top Tips for Bloggers and Marketers on a Friday

Since today is sort of a slow news day, being Good Friday and everything, I thought that I would mention 10 or more items that are useful tips for bloggers and marketers alike. Legit News Photos for Free. Om Malik has the scoop on PicApp, where you can get legit news ...

CNN Fails to get IReport.com Live; Oilman Leaves Range, and Other News

There is a lot going on this week and it is only Monday, January 21st 2007. I thought I would catch you up on some of the interesting, totally unrelated things, not in any order of importance. I considered covering each of these items today, but CNN Markets Domain Name ...

Top 5 Websites and Tools I Use Daily

Michael tagged me recently with his great post about the top websites and programs that he uses to get things done. He posted a lot of interesting tools there, way too many for me to keep track of. I actually like to work more simply, so to speak, rather than use ...

Most Memorable and Top Phrases of 2007

Fred R. Shapiro, the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations, has compiled the top ten phrases of 2007. In other words, these are the top memorable quotations from the year 2007. So, without delay, here are the top ten phrases/quotes of 2007: The most memorable quote--even by my high standards--is the ...

Top Blog Posts from the Blogosphere for 2007

The year is winding down and we're seeing more and more "top 10" type of blog posts being written in the blogosphere. Here's my list of some of the best top 10 blog posts. Of course, I have written a few of them myself and I'm sure more are coming ...

Publish Your Full RSS Feed and Build Links at the Same Time

Many bloggers have been touting the benefits of publishing your full blog or site's full RSS feed. In fact, they have been talking about it for a long time. But did you know that most likely even if you are publishing your full RSS feed you are not taking advantages ...

March 15th 2010
Tags: Search Engine Optimization 2 Comments

How Search Engine Optimization Adds Value to a Website

Most likely, if you have a website for your business, you probably have been pitched by a host of companies about the benefits of Search Engine Optimization. And, as someone who has been actively practicing organic search engine optimization since 1996, I am probably just as qualified as anyone else ...
March 10th 2010
Tags: Search Engine Marketing 4 Comments

Search Engine Optimization: Is Social Sharing the Next Link Building?

I just finished reading an interesting TechCrunch article about how Google has upgrade Google Reader, making it more visual. What's interesting to me, as a search engine optimization expert and online marketer, is not the fact that Google has upgrade Google Reader. It is, after all, pretty cool stuff. No ...
March 10th 2010
Tags: Internet Usage One Comment

comScore February 2010 Search Engine Rankings

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) , a leader in measuring the digital world, ...
March 9th 2010
Tags: Search Engines No Comments

CheapTweet Upgrades Its Social Deals Search Engine

CheapTweet.com, a major Twitter-based social deals search engine site, has launched CheapTweet Version 2, in celebration of indexing over 5 million deals online to offer users an better social shopping experience. CheapTweet's 2.0 rollout adds upgrades to its core search engine, voting mechanism, and a new look and feature called ...

Search Engine Optimization and Network Marketing: How to Get More Leads

I had an interesting conversation over the weekend with Marvin, who called me to discuss Network Marketing. Somehow we had become connected through Facebook or another social networking website and he thought that since we were tagged as being friends online he believed that that gave him permission to call ...

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