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March 25, 2007
Getting the right info when looking for consumer electronics
Buying a new TV or cell phone isn't always as easy as I would like it to be. There is endless choice and on top of that there are new brands and models every day. The time needed to research these product choices could take a long time and then finding it at a location near you or at the right price is another issue.
A friend told me about a new website, called Testfreaks, with high ambitions for the future. Their aim is to help consumers find the best products for them. Unfortunately the site isn't finished yet so it's hard to say what they will truly deliver but I like their ambition.
They will use a lot of aggregated content in forms of reviews from professional sources and thoughts from bloggers and forum posters in order to rank products and give recommendations based on user preferences.
At the moment Testfreaks only has an early beta version up with a few
categories: digital cameras, TVs, mp3 players, cell phones and camcorders. So check out the site now, and then again later.
Posted by Idea Man at 02:40 PM | Comments (0)
March 18, 2007
Talking about losing weight
One of the hardest things about losing weight is trying to stick to it. But if you have someone or somewhere that you can go to talk about issues that you're dealing with, it's really helpful. This weight loss message board is really cool. You can ask others about weight and health issues, and you can respond with your own experiences as well. It's like a support group online.
And, a health and weight loss business marketing forum is a great place for people in the business of weight loss to post and answer questions about topics that they can relate to. Health and weight loss are topics on everyone's minds. I think these sites are really going to take off.
Posted by Idea Man at 06:23 PM | Comments (1)
March 05, 2007
Website Promotion Project
Duncan Carver, an online marketer, has started and interesting project that will allow you to follow along as he builds traffic to a new website from scratch. Here is his project introduction.
The website he is promoting is about worm farming. It would have been a bit more interesting if he picked a bit more competitive market to run his test, but still, Duncan is a smart guy and my guess is you can pick up some great website promotion ideas from this 'open' project.
I just checked Google and WormFarmingSecrets is ranked #25 after just a few weeks.
Posted by Idea Man at 06:17 PM | Comments (4)
March 01, 2007
Article Directories
A great way to drive traffic to your website is writing articles related to your website’s category and then post your article to 100s of different article directories. What’s an article directory? Articlesalley.com is a typical article directory where you could submit your articles. Hoewver, to submit to 100s of these article directories you need to use a service like iSnare that will submit your articles for a small fee.
Article submission will help you two ways: First you get traffic from the articles, and second, you get to put a link to your website in your articles creating many “free” backlinks to your website.
But to make article submission really pay off, you need to submit at least 2 – 10 articles a week on a regular basis. If you are not a prolific writer, I would suggest hiring someone from India or the Philippians to churn out articles for you. You often can get nice articles written for $5 a piece by going overseas. As you build the total number of articles you submit each week, your traffic will begin to increase each week.
Also, try to incorporate the hot search topics of the moment in some of your articles. For example, Britney Spears is currently one of the top ten searches (isn’t she always). So if you had a site that sold chocolate, you would want to have an article about Britney Spear’s favorite chocolate. American Idol is also a hot search, so you would want to incorporate American Idol in one of your articles. This strategy will bring extra traffic to your website. You can find the web’s hottest searches at Buzz Yahoo.
Posted by Idea Man at 09:02 PM | Comments (2)