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Spot On Tuesday Tip Of The Day

With the amount of marketing forums and blogs on the internet today, there is a plethora of information for you to go through and read.  For the most part, there is just too much to keep up with, that is why most people have a set of websites that they visit and read on a daily basis.  These sites help them keep up to date on the world of search engine marketing and optimization.  While reading through your daily websites you need to keep in mind that not everything you read is necessarily true.  Rumors and false marketing methods are put out there like bait, to see who is going to bite and it and try it out.  If you take the bait and start to incorporate the false information into your marketing or optimization then you could be setting yourself up for a big disappointment and possible disaster.  The disappointment being you see that the idea or tactic did not increase your traffic and turned out to be a large waste of time.  The disaster being it could have ruined your domain name and your website has been penalized by the search engines. 

When reading about new marketing or optimization methods please do a little more research on the topic if you can.  This way you are not going into at full speed with no real answers for yourself.  Now I understand that coming up with your own marketing and optimization techniques is what we all strive for and that involves taking risks and not knowing the outcome.  That situation is totally different because you didn’t read about it anywhere, it was thought of by you and only you can find the answers through trial and error.  However reading it on a forum or blog you should be able to read up on other people who have tried that strategy to see how it worked for them.  Keep in mind that some techniques work better for some niches and are horrible for others.  This is where I ask you to try and do a little bit more homework.  Doing this can save you from possible wasted time and money.  Just because you read it on the internet, doesn’t always mean it is true.  Like I said before, it could just be bait being tossed out there to see if that person’s competition will take the bit and waste the time, effort and money.  Please do not make that mistake with your marketing or optimization campaign. 

Starting this week I will begin another new segment called “Spot On Tuesday Tip Of The Week”.  I have watched Hells Kitchen for the past three years and always hear Gordon Ramsey refer to things needing to be near “Spot On”, which is slang for perfect.  So starting this week I will do my best to post a near perfect tip of the week in reference to search engine marketing.  Nobody is perfect, however I will do what I can to give you near perfect advice each and every week.  I hope to see some feedback and interaction from the readers on these tips.  If you have tried them in the past, let us know the out come.  If you think a change is needed or have an idea to make it work even better then please by all means say something.