Have you noticed how entitled some people seem to feel about getting targeted, interested visitors to their sites?
When article directories became the rage a few years ago, now with hundreds, even thousands of them all over the web, syndication became a serious business.
This is such an exciting time on the web for people creating magnetic sites filled with content their niche is after.
Things have changed a lot for web publishers since I wrote the first edition of Power Linking in 2002. Back then there was only one option for publishing websites for the average, non-geek: static html pages.
If you are one of the tens of thousands of people searching for quality leads for your business everyday, you know how hard it is to find the precious few perfect business leads among the junk leads people are selling.
In a very popular marketing forum recently I saw a post that blew me away. It was from someone asking if having a blog was really that big a deal in marketing their website!
Think about the first thing you ever heard about "marketing a website" on the web. 99% of the time the first words anyone ever hears are "search engine marketing." Or some semblance of the phrase.
I just got off the phone with Michael Fortin, one of the top copywriters and conversion experts on the web.
All online businesses are nothing more than lead capturing machines. They capture traffic from search engines and links from other sources and turn that traffic into leads which turn into sales of products and services being sold on their sites.
Ever hear about an idea that is so simple yet so powerful, you wonder why you hadn't thought of it before?