I finally got a new header designed with a logo for my site. I also added project wonderful to the sidebar of my side. I added two 125×125 boxes under the entrecard widget.

I did a design like tylercruz and vikingblogger for the header and had myself animated. I also had a 125×125 designed with my logo integrated. Let me know what you think of the design and changes.

If you have wanted to advertise on my site now is the time. Through project wonderful you can advertise on either ad box for .02 cents. How can you beat a deal like that?

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I am sorry about my lack of posting the last few days. It has been very busy at work. At work our payroll server has been acting up and has kept me busy. I am installing a new server today so work should not be so hectic and make it easier to focus more on my blog.

I have been toying with some ppc campaigns with offers from Rocket Profit with some success but need to work on them as well. I will give some updates about that too in the next few days. Also as another side project I am trying to launch a new blog. It will be about my weight loss and how I am doing it. So keep coming back and checking for updates.

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I wrote about Entrecard a little over 2 weeks ago and said how it was bringing some traffic but it was was not quality traffic. I wanted to give an update on how Entrecard was working for me this week.

So far for the month of February my stats are 74 visits, average time on site: 00:00:07, and a bounce rate of 90.54%. As you can see I am getting some traffic but it is crap.

One thing I did change this month is I advertised and used up some credits. So far I have advertised on Slyvisions, The University Kid, and twice on Erik Karey.The traffic I got with advertising has been a little better but not by much. The stats are 106 visitors, average time on site: 00:00:29, and a bounce rate of 89.62%.

So far I find myself not impressed with Entrecard. The bounce rate is still very high even when paying for ads. I am averaging 90% bounce rate and a low average time on time. I think Entrecard will go the way of the blogrush. It is a great idea but I think so many people are hopping sites and dropping cards just to get more credits.

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After my post yesterday on Search Engine Marketing I thought I would discuss Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO is the kind of search marketing where you optimize your web site to rank well in search engine results. To rank be successful in SEO you need to both optimize your site content, known as keyword optimization, and generate links to your site, known as link building. This article focuses on keyword optimization and your site content.Even a web site with a million back links will not get a lot of search traffic, if the keywords it ranks well for are not popular. One the other hand, even if you ranked first in Google for a very popular keyword like “cars”, it would do you no good if your site sold fishing rods. Both of these are examples of very poor keyword optimization.

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Search marketing, also known as search engine marketing (SEM), is the practice of using search engines to market your web site and generate traffic. The reason it is seen as so important is that search engine traffic is so targeted - the visitor will be looking for web sites in precisely the the topic in question.

There are two ways to get search traffic and two kinds of traffic from search engines. These come from the two results search engines display: there are the main results found from relevant sites and the sponsored results that are bought by advertisers.

Marketing in the paid results is knows as PPC marketing, because the ads are paid per click. You have to pay an amount for each visitor who clicks on your ads. The price of one click depends on the popularity on marketing for the keywords the search was for, and is determined by the search engine or by the market. Read the rest of this entry »

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Today marks the half way point for the month. I wanted to share how I am doing on hitting my goals for this month. You should look at you goals regularly and check how you are doing and what you need to do to hit your goals. I check my traffic and subscribers daily but it is good to create a list and know where I need to focus more. In my previous post I set my goals as:

• Finish my blog design
• Get a better logo designed
• 2500 Visitors
• Write 15 posts
• Get 25 subscribers
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