March 5th, 2010 — RQR Basics
Split-testing, sometimes also called A/B testing, is the process of testing two or more variations of a webpage against each other in order to determine which one performs better. The goal of split testing is simply to find out how to structure your page so that you can get more clicks, more conversions, more sign-ups or whatever else may be the purpose of the site.
Read on for to learn how and what to test.
March 3rd, 2010 — General, RQR Basics
Market research is usually concerned with the demographics of a market, the amount and kind of competition you can expect, evaluation of what type of content and delivery the target demographic responds to etc.
For this article, I want to take the market research down a notch and present you a very simple, very basic research “method” that you should be applying on a regular basis as an online marketer. Especially if you are new to this game.
January 30th, 2010 — General, RQR Basics
There are countless ways of making money online and I cannot cover them all in this post. However, in terms of monetizing a website, there are four very common methods: Renting out ad-space, using AdSense or similar contextual advertising, promoting CPA offers and promoting products as an affiliate.
These four methods are arranged neatly along a sliding scale and understanding them makes for a good foundation of knowledge about website monetization in general.
So, let’s go right ahead and examine these four methods.
January 2nd, 2010 — RQR Basics
Someone asked me about affiliate banners in WordPress and I thought this might be an interesting subject for many who are just starting out with this whole affiliate marketing business.
Below, you find two short videos explaining everything you need to know about how to add affiliate banners to your WordPress blog. The first video covers the very basics and the second video goes into a little more detail, showing you how to cloak the banner-links, how to make your own banners (in case none are provided) and how to add a banner to the sidebar.
Part 1
I hope you find them useful.
All the best,
P.S.: For good measure, here’s a banner:
December 31st, 2009 — RQR Basics, SEO
This post covers the most important basics you need to know about backlinks. Getting backlinks to your web pages is an essential part of search engine optimization (particularly for Google). However, not all backlinks are equal. In this post, I describe the three things that matter most, in terms of backlinks. These three factors are: Amount, value and anchor text.
December 5th, 2009 — Keyword Research, RQR Basics
Match types are very important for any kind of keyword research. I see many questions regarding the different match types in the forums I frequent and I have even seen some seasoned Internet marketers offer confusing or plain misleading explanations of what the match types mean.
Today’s post features the most simple, easy to understand and straight-forward explanation of Broad Match, Phrase Match and Exact Match you’ll ever find. Plus, it’s presented in text as well as in a video. This post will clear up any questions about this important subject you may have.
November 29th, 2009 — RQR Basics
In this video, I show the three best methods for utilising article spinning and submission tools. You’ll be surprised to see how simple these methods really are, since none of them require you to completely rewrite every part of an article.
Check out the video right here:
See how easy it is to maximize your results in article marketing? With just those tweaks, you can get more traffic, get more exposure for your articles and continually improve your resource boxes to get the maximum amount of click-throughs. And with the software I listed in my last post, you can do all of this for free.
Because of the YouTube time-limit, I couldn’t explain each method in very much detail. If you already have some experience with article spinning and submission, then the above video contains all you need to know. If you aren’t quite sure how exactly to incorporate my tips, fear not: I’ll be posting more detailed explanations for each technique shortly.
Cheers,
November 24th, 2009 — RQR Basics, video
This is my first “RQR Basics” video. There are three sources from which new visitors can come to your website. In the video, I illustrate each of these three sources. The purpose of the video is to provide a general idea of traffic building for anyone new to this subject.
I hope you enjoyed this clip. Let me know what you think down in the comments!
Cheers,
October 23rd, 2009 — RQR Basics, SEO
In this article, you’ll find all the basic information concerning SEO or Search Engine Optimization. If you are new to this subject, you might have noticed that there is a huge wealth of information of SEO available online and it can be quite overwhelming. In this article, I explain only the most essential, bare-bones factors for optimizing web-pages. In other words: Everything you need to know to start out and nothing more.
October 19th, 2009 — Affiliate Marketing, RQR Basics
Affiliate marketing is probably the number one thing that most internet marketers do to make money. As you might have already read in the RQR Glossary, affiliate marketing comes down to promoting and selling someone else’s products in exchange for commissions for every sale made. In this RQR Basics article, you’ll find a more in-depth explanation of what affiliate marketing is and how to get into it.
