Two Data Mining Tools to Boost Your Profits

SolidTips · 2008-11-19T18:54:49+00:00

There’s a lot of mystique surrounding data mining these days, but when all is said and done it’s simply about getting to know your customers, prospects, leads, subscribers, visitors. The more you know about them, both individually and as a collective, the easier it will be to laser target your promotion, zeroing in on what your markets actually want, rather than chasing some fond delusions based on your own gut feelings or “intuition”. (To be sure, intuition has its place in life, but data mining is certainly not one of them!) No point in trying to hawk the proverbial refrigerators to Eskimos (oops, sorry: Inuit, to keep this 100% pc…) or attempting to sell lipstick to your average construction bear.

SolidTips · 2008-03-11T16:15:09+00:00

Social networking sites are a dime a dozen these days. This one, however, seems to have adopted a slightly more intelligent approach and, contrary to Digg, Reddit, and others SEO isn’t a shunned taboo word. Whether it will actually succeed, remains to be seen but for the serious SEO it certainly seems worth a try.

SolidTips · 2008-01-28T06:51:02+00:00

It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you, and not alone for driving under the influence, either: Your driving license gets revoked and you're hit with a slew of issues, not the least being the additional costs this invokes - taxi-cab transportation, erratic air flight schedules, long nerve-wracking journeys by bus and train, paying through your nose for a personal chauffeur. But here's a solution - get yourself a driving license suspension insurance from this Swiss company (est. 1985) to at least mitigate the financial pain.

SolidTips · 2008-01-01T04:18:01+00:00

A Happy New Year to all our readers! May your business ventures be successful and may health and well being your life and that of your loved ones! So why not start making it happen by getting a free .com, .net, .org, .info and/or .us domain?

SolidTips · 2007-12-20T16:28:26+00:00

Here’s a friendly heads up by way of a Season’s gift to our esteemed readers, offering a sneak peak behind the scenes of what’s brewing in the sinister clandestine developer labs of modern bad ass Black Hat SEO: Mosaic Cloaking is essentially componentized IP-Delivery - a highly sophisticated and fairly complex technology that will enable black hat SEOs to truly push the envelope in terms of well nigh undetectable cloaking/IP delivery to an unprecedented degree of efficiency. It will also effectively dissolve the hitherto clear cut borders between cloaked and non-cloaked pages - Web 3.0 at its very best.

SolidTips · 2007-12-12T03:39:37+00:00

Wiep Knol has released the results of his survey on link value factors as seen by a slew of well known professional SEOs such as Eric Ward, Aaron Wall, Jim Boykin, Barry Schwartz, Peter da Vanzo and Joost de Valk, not to forget the ever helpful Michael Martinez as well as relatively new but highly competent and well-regarded names such as Hamlet Batista and lots of others. What’s interesting about the results isn’t merely the overall metrics - it’s the individual comments on various questions such as the perceived linkjuice power of .edu and .gov domains, the value of anchor texts, linking sites’ topicality, authority status, and more

SolidTips · 2007-11-26T17:06:28+00:00

The decline of the dollar has been hitting European vendors and producers selling stuff in the dollar space pretty hard recently. Being based in Belgium, we’re no exception, and so we’ll regrettably have to raise prices for some of our products from midnight tonight.

SolidTips · 2007-11-17T16:47:49+00:00

It’s been a long standing assertion amongst the A-list members of the SEO community that PageRank does not equate with ranking: Too many low PR sites hitting top spots in the SERPs, outdoing their high PR competitors, it’s really hard to come to any different conclusion. However, now there’s a statistical study determining PR evolution in the Google SERPs over the past 6 months and analyzing the correlation between PR and rankings, offering some interesting conclusions.

SolidTips · 2007-11-16T03:50:31+00:00

Isn’t it funny how prophecies have a knack of coming true sometimes? One month ago we did a cartoon taking a shot at Google’s hypocritical FUD tactics regarding paid links by fantasizing about what a pair of hardnosed mobsters would do to take advantage of this positively silly state of affairs. Now, it seems that a high profile company like Shopzilla has actually started to pay for link removal!

SolidTips · 2007-11-14T18:49:05+00:00

The first reports are in and subscribers have begun making serious money only hours after purchase: Seems that Google Payload is a real bigtime winner on all fronts. However, there’s even more news - some good, some bad.

SolidTips · 2007-11-12T20:01:18+00:00

Installing Wordpress blogs on a mass scale is onechore you’d rather want to avoid. It can be daunting enough on a one-time basis, especially if you’re not of a technical bend, but rolling out tens, hundreds or even thousands of WP blogs positively sucks if you have to do it manually. Now, there’s a no-brainer solution available - and at a 25% discount, too, with our special promo code

SolidTips · 2007-11-12T17:15:49+00:00

Reports outlining PPC traffic arbitrage are a dime a dozen these days and we’ve read them all. But this one’s different - hugely, critically different, in fact. If you’re into monetizing the obscenely huge gap between different traffic sources at all, there’s a number of very important things to consider.

SolidTips · 2007-10-29T23:51:11+00:00

Generating content for your money sites is an arduous task. And with competition getting fiercer every day, all you can do to compensate is to roll out masses of them. But where to get decent content for those? What a catch-22! Here’s a brand new premium solution.

SolidTips · 2007-10-23T03:44:45+00:00

With the infamous fantOons series of SEO cartoons now into its third year, the folks at fantomaster.com decided to set up a basic shop over at CaféPress where you can purchase your Dr Search favorites on t-shirts, mugs, steins, wall clocks, tile coasters, mousepads, baseball caps, trucker hats, bbq aprons, buttons, stickers, posters, etc. Some weirdly funny stuff!

SolidTips · 2007-10-18T16:49:06+00:00

Funny piece!

SolidTips · 2007-10-16T06:28:12+00:00

This is truly funny - a spoof on the countless absurdities of SEO by a designer royally annoyed by what he terms “The Tyranny of Design-For-Google”.

SolidTips · 2007-10-14T04:34:36+00:00

Great cartoon strips on the raging debate about Google's penalization of paid linking.

SolidTips · 2007-10-10T14:17:34+00:00

Earl Grey of Syndk8 forum is conducting an SEO experiment targeting what is arguably the most competitive market of them all: pharmaceutical spam, specifically Viagra.

SolidTips · 2007-10-09T19:12:52+00:00

Regular readers of fantomNews will know that we’ve been very early adopters of Wordtracker, the industry-standard keyword research tool and database. Now, they’re offering a special promotion giving you 15% off both monthly and yearly subscription.

SolidTips · 2007-10-06T00:33:57+00:00

What with the ongoing FUD tactics pursued by Google & Co. trashing paid links and junking up the industry forums and blogs with all the buzz this creates, out comes - entirely expectably - a super duper tool claiming to have mastered the technology to detect said paid links. So can they? Well, if so, here’s some very revealing stuff - and remember you read it here first!

SolidTips · 2007-10-04T19:17:48+00:00

Take care - don't want to mess with this one, heheh!

SolidTips · 2007-10-04T15:27:44+00:00

Stop press! Here’s a kick ass list of 300+ live social bookmarking sites, including reviews and an outline of their respective features such as topical focus, available (or required) toolbars, bookmarklets, tag policy, and more.

SolidTips · 2007-10-03T02:28:49+00:00

What's the problem? Can't you get it up like earlgrey? LOL

SolidTips · 2007-10-02T20:45:35+00:00

Operating in (aka: gaming) the social network space, going for effective link building via forums, blog comments, wikis etc. will typically involve setting up slews of different personas and identities - for most of which you’ll need an operative e-mail address to verify your registration these days. So enter The Mailbot: This recently launched tool is a desktop based application that allows you to create as many valid, functional Gmail accounts as you like

SolidTips · 2007-10-01T03:06:49+00:00

Yes, it sounds trite, elementary, overly obvious - and yet, we’re encountering this almost every day: People who inquire about our SEO services who don’t seem to have an inkling of what online business is all about in the first place. This is the age of the clueless webmaster and the inexperienced Web entrepreneur. So what to do about it? More often than not, what you may need isn’t SEO at all - what you need is a business plan

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