Very quick review here of Asus customer service & warranty service . In short, think of something really bad, double it, double it again, and you still may not be close to just how awful I have found them to be….

By the way – I am not libeling anyone here, I am talking about my experiences with Asus and their support contractors,  and my opinions as a result of  my experience.

I purchased an Asus Eeepc about 6 months ago for my wife to use at home, just for normal stuff, web, email etc – and in terms of the product itself, cannot fault it, brilliant. But then, the keyboard stopped working, so I thought – OK, no problem, very easy things to replace, I’ll just buy one and replace it myself – and guess what, I couldn’t find (in the UK) a replacement laptop for this netbook ANYWHERE!!

So, i opted to send it [...] Continue Reading…

Often when web marketers are starting off with new websites, they hit the ground running, so to speak, when it comes to backlinks, after learning that backlinks are important – and due to a misunderstanding when it comes to the way baclinking works, many people end up defeating the object of backlinking all together.

Nothing to do with Google & the other search engines is really that simple in reality, but there’s no point in talking about things technically, there’s always a way to simlify the often complex facts – and the most simple way I can explain what I’m wanting to get across here, is to say “keep it looking natural.”

In a nutshell, Googles intentions are to allow the cream to rise, and the crap to fall – so that when searchers search Google for stuff, they find the best quality websites which are publishing the most relevent content in relation to their [...] Continue Reading…

I reviewed Aweber a couple of years ago – I’m still using Aweber as my email marketing and list building platform, so I thought I’d give another shout out to this brilliant tool!

Aweber is probably one of the very best investments I’ve ever made – whats’s more, it costs $1 for the first month! After this it’s $19 per month until your list grows – if you’re not making a fantastic profit on the cost of your subscription, then it’s time to go back to the drawing board!

The delivery rate is fantastic, it’s immensely easy to create lists, and to develop autoresponder series, the stats are brilliant, as is the ability to create segments from these stats… for instance, you can go into your stats, see who read the email, see who clicked it, and choose to send a follow up email to specific groups –  you could choose to [...] Continue Reading…

This post is about some of the best wordpress themes that I’ve used in 2012 & 2011, that I would recommend for anyone who’s wanting to develop an income online, whether as an affiliate marketer, or through promoting their own products or services on the web. As a successful web marketer you’ll have many tools in your arsenal, including wordpress themes – in my opinion, if you’re not using wordpress, you’re missing out – and one of the reasons for this is the awesome theme’s available, and the brilliant plugins of course. If you’re a career web marketer, then you’ll probably want a few different themes – I have a folder full of them, I’m always on the lookout for great new wp themes to add to my toolbox – as well as plugins. If you’re fairly new to web marketing and have so far invested mainly in learning materials, this [...] Continue Reading…

If you read my longer post on backlinks, you’ll see that I spoke about Google pagerank – I just wanted to create a post just about pagreank and expand a bit on what I was saying in there about Google pagerank.

Google pagerank is actually called “toolbar pagerank” – and that’s all it is, it’s for “display purposes only” – it’s a snapshot of the actual pagerank which Google use to rank sites, it’s out of date (they update it 3-4 times per year usually) and it’s just an indication.

So why do people put so much stock in pagerank?

Simply because up until a few years ago – pagerank was one of  the major currencies of the internet. “linkjuice” was akin to the illegal booze trade of the early 20th century. OK it wasn’t “illegal” as such, but people were literally using Google pagerank as a currency, how much they could [...] Continue Reading…

Backlinks, backlinks bla bla bla – what who why where when?
If you’re slightly confused about backlinks, what they are, the different kinds of backlinks, whether to buy them or build them, whether they even matter, and whether or not you should even be concerned about them – then this post may help.
What are they?
Backlinks are a hyperlink from one website to another. So if my website is mysite.com and your website is yoursite.com, and create a link on a page from my website to your website, then I’m giving you a backlink.
Nofollow Vs Dofollow
The Nofollow attribute means that search engine spiders ignore the link – Nofollow links are fine for passing visitors from one site to another (for example if you buy an advert on a website, to get visitors of that site to go to your website), but have no SEO benefit.

“DoFollow” is a term which describes links [...] Continue Reading…

One of the guys I always keep an eye on for new stuff – is Kelly Felix, now of “Bring The Fresh” and previously of “The Rich Jerk” fame. Kelly is one of the guys online who REALLY knows his stuff. This isn’t a “Guru” – in terms of “let’s churn out the guru fodder, and make money with the web marketing Guru status” – this is someone who has consistently earned big money online, most of the time while under the radar, and with stuff not related to the web marketing arena, that is – Kelly is one of the very rare people who’s out there doing this stuff, and shares what he is actually doing to make money online – I can’t tell you how rare this is!

Many “guru’s” in the web marketing arena that create hit products regularly, specifically build products to sell, they tell people what [...] Continue Reading…

A few days ago I wrote a post about traffic kaboom $1 trail ,  and I’ve since heard that the trial is no longer active,  Doh! I think this blog network is so brilliant, that I’ve decided to offer a traffic kaboom discount in a unique way.

By the way, it’s kaboom not caboom , I’ve noticed that a few people refer to it as traffic caboom, or even traffik caboom – not that it really matters…

Here’s how this discount thing works.

Click here to join traffic kaboom and then after 60 days –  forward me your clickbank order number (the order number you will receive by the clickbank network as soon as you order)  along with the URL of your website (your website address) and your most important search term(s), and I will do the following for you – free of charge:

1: Review your on-page SEO – and let you know if there [...] Continue Reading…

If you’re wondering how to get an SEO job, and possibly also you’re wondering why you should, or whether you should get a job in SEO, don’t ask a careers person, or a recruitrer – ask someone like me who works in SEO and has had an SEO job…. (I don’t have a “job” now as such, as I’m self employed, but I do wish I’d not have made the decision to go it alone so early, and that I continued with a job for longer, but anyway, you live and learn…

First of all:
WHY should you get an SEO job?
Simple – if you like SEO, then as long as you’re careful & you find the right company to work for, you’ll like your job a heck of a lot more than if you were doing something you didn’t like. For me personally, I enjoy SEO – I can spend [...] Continue Reading…

Just received this question from Matt:

Kev, Is it good to pay for backlinks? Some say yes, some say no – I’m confused. help. Thx. Matt

Hi Matt,

First of all, I’ve written about the paid backlinks issue in two previous  posts: Why paid backlinks are a waste of money, and paid backlinks vs, backlinking services , so you may want to read these for a bit more background info.

The first thing I need to do is make it clear what I’m talking about when I refer to “paid backlinks” or “buying backlinks” – I’m referring to paying a webmaster / website owner for a DoFollow backlink on their website. For instance you may get to a directory, which sells inclusion to the directory including a DoFollow link to your website, for $x per month / per year.

What I’m not referring to is paying someone to do backlinking for you, or paying for [...] Continue Reading…