White hat, grey hat, black hat… you’ve probably heard the terms right but what exactly is GREY HAT SEO?
Well typically, white hat is all the 100% above board stuff like creating great content, keeping your HTML and CSS clean and tidy, and letting people link to you naturally.  Black hat is stuff like keyword stuffing and other “sneaky” techniques which the search engines frown upon, and grey hat is somewhere in between…
Now one of my favorite “gurus” for want of a better word, Russell Brunson, is currently teaching some awesome …

May day is a day of celebration, marking the end of the winder (in the northern hemisphere) and has been a day of festivities in many countries for centuries.  This year however, May 1st will probably be remembered in our industry for something quite difference – Google’s “Map Day Update” and what many have been calling The Death Of The Long Tail.  While this algorithm change has been dubbed the “Mayday update” it was actually made between April 28th and 2nd May.
Google makes hundreds of …

One of the biggest mistakes I see newbies to online business make is focusing on the wrong keywords.  The problem usually comes from guessing what they think their users will be searching for, without doing any actual research.
Now guessing is a great starting point.  You need to put yourself into your user’s shoes, think about what they are likely to be searching for, and that is your starting point for your keyword research – but it really is the start, not the end!
The next step is to take that list …

Have  you had much success with Twitter?  Have you been bombarded recently with emails telling you how to become a “Twitter Ninja” and how you can build a huge following, and use that to generate a chunk of change on demand?
Well, if you’ve on any Internet Marketer’s email list you’re bound to have come across such offers, and you may or may not have had any success with them.  Once thing I’ve noticed though, is that all of these “Twitter marketing systems” have been missing a huge opportunity for using …

Whether you’re affiliate marketing, selling your own products, or monetizing your site with advertising, you need traffic. While there are are countless marketing tactics to draw traffic to your site the number one key element is… you guessed it, content!
People visit websites for content, plain and simple. You can have the best marketing in the world, stacks of inbound links, great PPC campaigns, offline adverts, social networking and all the rest and you will get visitors to your site, but they won’t stay.
What exactly is content?
Content is anything …

The success of your online business, no matter what model you use, relies on one thing – traffic. There are essentially two ways to get that traffic: pay for it (PPC, CPM advertising etc.) or get it free (which essentially boils down to SEO). SEO simply stands for Search Engine Optimisation and is the process of making your website more ‘valuable’ to the search engines and hence likely to rank higher for your keyterms. Here are my top 5 free tools to help in the SEO process:
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