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Came across this here.

By being active on the web you can draw in 55% more visitors, that’s why here at Leet-Side Devices we only sell dynamic pages with the ability to post updates. Now just imagine the difference between companies that blog, and companies that don’t even have a website!

Our friends over at The Xtremist have been working hard with us to launch their site. It’s a conservative opinonzine I guess you could call it so go over and give them a gander if you are into politics

The Xtremist

You can work for months and months of constant SEO and not get anywhere with search engine rankings.
If you run an ice cream truck business, what is one thing you would want that your opponent couldnt get to get ahead?
better ice cream?
faster trucks?
better locations?

NOOOOOOOO!
a hungry crowd. If your opposition only goes to neighborhoods that arent hungry for ice cream, and you do. you will win.

the key to getting massive traffic fast to your site is specificity. go to google right now, start typing something you heard on the news and look at how many results show up. now put it in quotes. and the results are low

these key phrases are going to be searched all day because people here them on the news, so what do you do? write an article throw in the key phrases and boom you take off. its pretty simple, with the right words

The internet is large, anything you write will probably never reach my CRT monitor. So let’s see how you can keep it that way. I dont want to read your garbage anyway.

1. Never use pictures in your articles.
I know the only program you have on your computer is MSPaint, maybe if you were lucky enough you downloaded Photoshop but that doesnt mean you know how to use it. Dont get me wrong theres some beautiful MSPaint artists. But I’d imagine your pictures are of your pet, your kids and of sunsets AND save them in bitmap format. who wants to see this? (I dont have children)

I own shamu

2. Don’t link to your articles.
Never put your website in forum signatures, use it as a reference to past observations, or host images on it. That’s telling people who you are and what you do. the internet is about anonymity, and getting away with harassing myspace girls. Where would we be if we couldn’t tell people dunkin donuts sucks.

3. Always demand intellectual obedience.
I am the only one that use this tactic and get away with it. If you disagree with me you are an oaf. I will ban you and your IP and then post anonymously on your blog that you a a hypochondriacal transexual, who’s goal in life is to get off to orphans eating icecream.

Since you are not me, when you ban someone and try to defame their character, they will really be the next Kevin Mitnick, who hacks google and makes everyones home page his favourite porno site.

4. Always rely on Adsense for funds.
Load up on the adsense technology. The internet is all about self profitability and entrepreneurialism right? I should get paid for everything I say.

Everyone loves pop-ups and massive ad bars. They fill up so much space so you appear to have more content than you actually do. Dont forget they are always so relevant to what the reader is looking for. Why wouldnt I want THAT ENLARGED while I’m looking to buy a present for my grandma?

HURRY UP!

5.  Don’t pay your hosting bill.
Broken links work like magic to sink your site. Just a being down for a day could ruin your reputation. If I dont want you to read this I just stop paying my bill, or overdraw my credit account by buying,

five hundred seventy-five billion EVOS

make that positive, and then call me

I put together a quick button for all to use on their blogs for linking to their RedGage

INSTRUCTIONS: Right click to copy, Click them for the Photoshop file if you feel like editing it yourself
Tell me what you think (im no graphics expert)

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As I was mindlessly surfing through the anals of this thing we call the world wide web,  I came across a blog. PotPieGirl’s to be exact. And her post about RedGage intrigued the big capitalist in me, as to get me to sign up through her. “I’m down for making some money”, I said to myself, and thats when they hooked me in! I posted a small handful of pages, pictures and a video over night. I’ve worked hard for my 10 cents so far, but I want to make more (which just may be my incentive for righting this article).

I understood what RedGage was right away, it’s quintessential viral marketing. One of the most effective ways to reach out to a large audience. Exponential growth with incentives to join funded by, wait for it…

Ads!

So here we have a viral marketing strategy that is easy to join, pays you to join, capitalizes on our social wants and woes, has no physical boundaries (unless you consider hard drive space physical), and integrates existing social networks.

A quick search on google for viral marketing turns up an interesting result. The Six Simple Principles of Viral Marketing.
Go straight to the principles because this is key. They are all simple.

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1. Gives away products or services
2. Provides for effortless transfer to others
3. Scales easily from small to very large
4. Exploits common motivations and behaviors
5. Utilizes existing communication networks
6. Takes advantage of others’ resources                        “

(ONE)  Gives away products or services

Let’s just call them incentives – which are obvious, pays you money for contribution, free picture uploads, free prizes, free social network, free information.  If you post garbage noone wants to see you wont get paid, it still appears as if all the videos posted are garbage already but what can you expect when its grabbing them from youboob, I mean youtube. Setting the videos aside it has the potential to be a free information pipe dream. While google ranks pages by popularity, it’s decision process as to which site should be the prom queen of your search results is virtually impossible to figure out. RedGage shows you why something gets those views and income. It can be ranked by everyone, commented, favorited, and you can subscribe to interesting peoples future contributions. The understanding of its incentives may not be simple but it’s implementation is.
(TWO) Provides for effortless transfer to others
Fast and easy setup, I clicked a link it brought me straight to the signup page. signed up grabbed my email verification and shortly thereafter I was uploading some random pictures effortlessly. A simple and easy to use design is key, now a few things did make it feel like is was still in beta at first but I can sympathize with your Work In Progress.

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(FOUR) Exploits Common Motivations and Behaviors
Who doesn’t participate in at least 1 social network today? Whether it’s the internet nightclub we call myspace, or the more refined facebook, everyone and their dad’s dog has some form of wanting to belong to this phenomenon of online communities. RedGage exploits this behavior robustly. We all want this money you’re giving out, so we all go share it, by word of mouth or typing of keyboard. We naturally want to get along with everyone and sharing this new fandagled website not only fulfills this need for common good behavior, it advances our own agenda to reap what we sow in the RedGage internet plot.

(FIVE) Utilizes existing communication networks (the internet)
63% of Americans have broadband access today in their homes, and if they dont there’s always the *gasp* library. You can easily transfer, share and broadcast the majority of your existing social media through their import tools. Which can only fuel the rapid exponential growth of the viral concept.

(SIX) Takes advantage of others’ resources
Three letters y-o-u, While you do see the employee’s contributing, mostly news and tips, the mass of the site is user generated content. Their team can focus on coding, and debugging and features, with a relatively small public face promoting the site because of it is viral potential to explode exponentially.

(THREE) Scales easily from small to very large
I know some of you may think I’m reading the RedGage team’s minds however, I can’t see how well this will scale as it grows. If I had to choose I’d say eventually it will become limited. It’s almost like having the internet within the internet. But the human element is added to the production of the site it would seem as though RedGage has developed a human search engine which leads me to my last thought

Imagine we’re all the spiders in the RedGage search engine, picking and choosing what we find to be relevant to who we network with daily. But maybe that is the flaw in the computer spiders of google msn and yahoo today?

Wandering the vast anals of the internet I came across an interesting article about getting paid to promote your own stuff!

It wouldn’t hurt to give it a try right?

Whats more important in your mind? Being top on the google list, or having a strong, trustworthy network? I always hear google this google that, when in reality google does not have the largest stake for every keyword in the book (while they do have the largest stake in collecting personal data). Having a user friendly website with proper tags is the basis for being relevant in search engines. New content will complement your stake.

While having an amazing spot in the search engines is nice, its more important that you connect with actual people. As your client base grows, you’ll gain repeat customers that trust you, like you. Who doesnt have a connection with a “guy”. Whether it be your favorite car repair shop, lawyer friend, law enforcement officer, we all know someone that does something that you can find anywhere (unless you are my father who knows noone). But you go to him because he is your favorite. Be that “guy”.

Join communities for something that you love, and talk about what you do. People listen and remember. Not everyone will need your services now but they’ll remember later when their need for your services arises. Connect with people, be friendly, provide positive content that is relative to the community. If people get along with you, they’ll be that much more likely to choose your services over everyone else.