Internet Marketing Strategies and Marketing Tips by Neil Shearing

I moderate comments on this blog.

I also disabled “nofollow”, so links in comments count as a genuine link to your site.

I think that exchanging quality comments for a genuine link is a fair trade.

However, as of today, I will no longer be accepting comments that don’t contain your Name in the Name field.

Any instances of “Best Wii Games” or “Wonderful Depilatory Cream” in the name section will be deleted.

I’d like to get to know my readers, so please, use your name in your comments.

The new version of Real Link Finder has been tested, is working, and is ready for you to enjoy.

Please uninstall the old version via your computer’s control panel then empty your cookies, visit the:
Real Link Finder download page, download the new file, extract the EXE file and install it. You should be good to go. Please post any problems you may encounter as a comment, below. Thanks.

BTW, when I upgraded, I wasn’t asked to re-input my unlock key…. but, if you are asked for your key, and don’t remember it, you can look it up here.

I’ve noticed that Real Link Finder is currently not returning data.

I’ve notified my coders, who are looking into the issue and are going to let me know if a fix is possible, and how long it may take.

If you’re desperate to see any new features in Real Link Finder, now would be a good time to let me know.

Over 12,000 people have signed up for a copy of the software… let’s see if we can make it even better!

Please post your suggestions below…

update: new version is ready

If you could give a new Twitterer one “top tip” to maximize their Twitter experience, what would it be?

Please leave your top tip in a comment, below, or send them to me on Twitter @NeilShearing. Thanks.

I’ll be releasing a video of the best tips, with full credit to the original Twitterer.

Feel free to leave your Twitter link in your comment… or a link to your blog.

Michael Green is inviting people to take his “20 Day Challenge”.

He’ll provide you with a roadmap through the challenge… a series of step-by-step things you have to do. To complete the challenge you have to make $20,000 in 20 days.

Michael’s confident you’ll do it, if you follow the plan.

How confident is he? Confident enough to say that if you follow the plan, but don’t make $20,000 in 20 days, he’ll give you your money back!

That’s quite a claim, eh?

So I checked it out. I went behind the scenes and took a look at the member’s area to see why Michael is so confident. What does he give you to help you reach the $20,000 goal?

The answer will surprise you.

Watch the movie, above, to see exactly what’s inside the member’s area. You may be surprised. I know I was!

If you’re ready to take the challenge, click here to hear an interview with Robert Brown who already completed it, and had a “high five figure offer” for the website he create during the challenge!

Top-class Internet marketer, Dr Andy Williams, has released another of his excellent theme reports. You can download the latest PDF here.

In his reports, Dr Andy tries to illustrate how “themeing” pages can improve their SEO scores. If you’re wondering what “themeing” is, it’s the way Dr Andy describes Latent Semantic Indexing… the ability to work out what a page is about based on other words on the page. For example, if a page contains the word Apple and also “fruit, tree, pear, orchard” then the page is about apples, the fruit, not Apple the computer maker.

Dr Andy thinks that the more theme words you have on your pages, the better they will rank. His KRA Pro software will go out onto the Internet and create a list of keywords for any niche you want to analyze so that you can be sure to include as many theme words as possible in your articles.

Intuitively, this all makes sense. In the old days search engines looked at the keyword density of any given keyword on a page, which led to keyword stuffing as people just repeated the words “home business” (or whatever) as many times as was required to get the optimum density and gain first page rankings.

Now, the search engines are much smarter, and it makes sense that they also look at the presence, absence and density of related keywords to determine which pages are the best match for any given search phrase.

Of course, in this debate we’re only looking at on-page words, and search engines (especially Google) also count the number of links into a page and the relevant weighting of those links (also know as PageRank).

When he creates his reports, Dr Andy can’t eliminate the PageRank factor from his calculations, so they are more like indicators of preferential ranking for well themed pages rather than any conclusive proof.

I suggest you download the free report (no opt-in required, it’s hosted on my server) and see for yourself. Does themeing make a big difference to search engine rankings? What has your experience been?

Could someone explain to me why Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro is $449 at the US online store, but $998 (GBP499) at the UK online store?

It’s a 100% rip off. Literally. We pay 100% more.

Both products are downloadable. There can be no genuine reason to charge people in one country twice the amount of another for the same product. Even taking “sales tax” into account, the justification still isn’t there.

Help me out here… why is it acceptable to charge double for software depending on geo-location of the customer?

OK, I’ve just found this… so I’m not alone in ranting…

“Adobe Systems, producers of Photoshop, Acrobat and Flash, has long had a relatively chummy image compared to – say – Microsoft. But that might be changing, at least for some customers, as the company moves even beyond Redmond’s position on price differentials between the UK and US.

Of course, British consumers are well-accustomed to being charged higher prices for the same product. Despite occasional efforts by the EU [HA! Neil's note] to prevent such milking of the price-demand curve, the baseline rule seems more and more to be that UK customers should pay the same price in pounds as Americans do in dollars. With the exchange rate almost two to one these days, that’s a very expensive bitter pill to swallow.”
(source)

And in the same article Adobe responded…

“We set pricing in each market based on customer research, local market conditions and the cost of doing business … the EU has 10 major languages, 4 major currencies … the costs of doing business in European markets are significantly higher per unit of revenue than in the US.”

DO ME A FAVOUR!

What a rubbish excuse. But, hey, I have a solution. Let me choose to spell FAVOR the same way as the American’s do, and download the US version… and pay the US price. I’d be happy to.

Until then, no thanks, Adobe.