Tips, thoughts and topics on marketing for small to medium-sized businesses in Michigan and
throughout the world. Contributions by Chris Slocumb, Casey Frushour, as well as other members of the Clarity Quest team.
If you use Adwords for English-based campaigns in the US, you might want to get on the waiting list for this beta tool test:
http://adwords.blogspot.com/2010/06/adwords-campaign-experiments-beta-split.html
It lets you run split tests in your campaigns, assign varying percentages of traffic to the experiment, and you can actually test different bid amounts.
Labels: adwords, google adwords, ppc
More and more people are turning to article posts in order to build back links to their website. Here are our favorite article directories:
1. Ezinearticles - They are the strictest and only allow backlinks in the author signature area, but articles posted on this site get great pickup. You can also track stats.
2. Article Alley - Allows 2 backlinks in the actual article body.
3. Go Articles - Promotional links are OK in the Author Bio area.
4. Article Snatch - Allows up to 3 backlinks in the author area.
Also be sure to check for directories in your product or service niche. We have an attorney client that gets great pickup off posts to goinglegal.com. Also consider turning your written posts into videos. It's easier than you think. We'll cover video articles in a future post.
Labels: article directories, backlinks, link building for SEO, top article sites