Ciaran Doyle's Internet Marketing Made Easy - Latest Comments

Re: Where Is The Money

Afiq Hasan — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:04:03 -0000

It makes a lot of sense, focusing on the niche within our local economy can help us explore a lot of money. Let me also try to work on this. If it does work out good, I will certain come back to share.

Re: Image Ads Produce Massive Traffic

jameshreynolds — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:42:48 -0000

Great video, spotted myself in the crowd too. If I'd have known I would have waved to my Mum!

Re: Simon Coulson Interview

jameshreynolds — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:36:49 -0000

Good work my friend...and loving the title sequence you should be a move producer

Re: Google Adwords Bidding Strategies

Mike McLoughlin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:57:15 -0000

Great advice Ciaran - I also found that site/page content does help as well, in raising your quality score and so lowering CPC.

Mike

Re: Image Ads Produce Massive Traffic

hunter — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:43:18 -0000

I'm watching on this page, so I should see what you see. It looks as if the camera is missing the visual aid part of your presentation. Most of the camera angles are tight in on you, so the screen behind you isn't visible. Or I should say what's on the screen isn't visible (the bottom edge of the screen shows). The graphics that you refer to throughout, isn't on the video. Briefly, at about 11 minutes into the video, you can see the full screen. The rest of the video, you're pointing up to something behind you and describing it, but I can't see the graphics.

Re: Image Ads Produce Massive Traffic

ciarandoyle — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:13:36 -0000

Grace,

what do you want? doesntit show the image ad strategy. if you cant see it check again.

I can see the images no problem, if you would like to find out more send me an email, i'd be more than happy to help you out.

Re: Image Ads Produce Massive Traffic

hunter — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:13:52 -0000

I can't see the screen/graphics in the video, so I don't see the ads that you're talking about. (The point of the video is image ads, right? Can't see the images.)

Re: How To Get Indexed By Google Super Fast!

Cathy Fletcher — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:03:55 -0000

submitted this to Digg...it's good!

Re: Local Business Marketing

ciarandoyle — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:55:06 -0000

Cheers Warren, hope all is good my man

Re: Local Business Marketing

Warren Knight — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:36:41 -0000

Thanks Ciaran, you always have some great advise

Re: How To Get Indexed By Google Super Fast!

ciarandoyle — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:08:16 -0000

Hi Amanda,

Not to worry, you are on the right track anyway. What you will see on the top right hand corner is the ADVANCED tab. Click That!

It will then come up with a new search area again, just put in your addess as before making sure that the drop down menu says "All of these terms", click serach again, it will come to a new page, scroll to the bottom of it and then, find the hyperlinked text that reads: send teh address to us. or just go here: http://www.bing.com/webmast...

Let me know if you are still having problems

Re: How To Get Indexed By Google Super Fast!

Amanda Goldsmith — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:52:55 -0000

i am not getting the “If You cannot find this page that you know exists, page at all, it just gives me a search ?

Re: The Death Of Twitter

Cathy Fletcher — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:51:59 -0000

Good points all!

I've been learning online marketing for just a year and it's a fascinating subject to be sure.

Eben Pagan sent out an email that I picked up a year ago suggesting Twitter. While learning to drive traffic to a blog, all my traffic came from Twitter (4,000 visits) just by tweeting once or twice a day. But I haven't learned to convert traffic only to entertain. I keep my number low on Twitter, look at each person and generally only follow people that found me by tweet search. Then I keep cleaning up with Twellow by viewing the non-mutuals.

Usually I block everyone without a head, or with flesh images & sex words, people with no tweets, or no picture, or a weird name, extreme new agers, people that swear, people that flame or have odd middle-eastern logos on their hat that translates to "I want to kill you to get into heaven". Yes I check stuff. The auto DM, auto follow, auto tweets are not cool.

In the summer will outsource to a high school girl taking marketing to look at followers that were there before lists came along and sort them out.

The reason I use Twitter is I've found stuff I never would have found otherwise, I buy sometimes, and I can get my finger on the pulse of the public, learn things. It's a small world, and bought some glass tea lite holders from a business woman that turned out to be strongly connected with my best friend and her sister who used to babysit all 6 of my brothers and sisters and me. Still in touch and on FB.

But Twitter can get out of hand quickly. That being said there's always that one person who is a gold mine because they are an actual living breathing person that will promote others because they love to.

FB for me is extremely private, I must have actually met you in person because my friends and family are on there. And I don't play games, join random groups. Our business group has a business page just up, and people are talking about FB ads that it's friendly to even affiliate marketers like Google ads used to be.

Ciaran, thank you for this post...Armand Morin and Michel Fortin are neat to learn from :)

Re: I Have A Mentor

me... — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:13:16 -0000

UH-OH...

Re: The Death Of Twitter

ciarandoyle — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:19:24 -0000

Hi Joseph,

You would be surprised at how many people use twitter as their main focus of their marketing, just have a look at what courses there is out on the marketplace solely dedicted to twitter. An internet marketer like yourself is well aware of the benefits of having alot of marketing mediums to get their message across to the marketplace but the amount of new marketers that have been duped into thinking that twitter is the new, teh best and really the only place to market has sadly exploded.

In terms of what I mean by Twitter not monetizing...

They do not currently have a form of income bar selling search engine results to larger search engines. At present they are looking into an ad network format where people will be able to buy ads on their search facility, but from what I have read it doesnt seem like too much.

Twitter most likely has quite an amount of operating expense seeing as it does have about 75 million users, i dont know the ins and out of technical ops that goes into teh back end, but i dont think it is cheap.

In terms of keeping it going just for the heck of it, who knows, there has been a massive decline in its use as followers are being diluted more and more with all the new "add me" softwares.

Also twitter has a huge drop off rate of about 60% after the first month which means that they are finding it hard to keep people on board.

According to Neilsen research:

Twitter’s() retention rate compared to Facebook() and MySpace() in the early days is not very good.

"Compare it to the two heavily-touted behemoths of social networking when they were just starting out…we found that even when Facebook and MySpace were emerging networks like Twitter is now, their retention rates were twice as high. When they went through their explosive growth phases, that retention only went up, and both sit at nearly 70 percent today."

I know this is a bit of an old post (10 months) but it does beg the question, does twitter have life?

All we have to do is wait and see Joseph,

If you are still doing great with it then you keep going on it, and what i did mention in my post is to start looking at different avenues, so that the people who are solely on twitter need to start looking elsewhere.

Cheers for the great comment

Ciaran

Re: The Death Of Twitter

angelawills — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:18:49 -0000

Do you mean where I won the prizes?

Well @freshbooks did a giveaway where they were giving out prizes every 15 minutes just before valentine's day if you told them why you love your gig. I told them and won a flip that's branded with their logo - pretty cool.

And @tassimocanada was giving away a bunch of their machines, you just had to tweet that you wanted one to the twitter person assigned to give them away (in my case @ErinBlaskie had a few she was authorized to give away).

They were pretty cool uses of twitter and I definitely am a happy camper in regards to how much I love Tassimo and Freshbooks, lol.

hmmm... seems this might be turning into a blog post of my own about using twitter for giveaways ;)

Re: The Death Of Twitter

ciarandoyle — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:31:29 -0000

Hi Angela,

Great, i have never thought of it as a way to win prizes, I suppose people are trying to find ways in which they can monetize their posts and giveaways is obviously working for them...

Let me know what you have been looking at :)

Cheers

Ciaran

Re: The Death Of Twitter

angelawills — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:21:17 -0000

Interesting post. I just cancelled my Facebook account for the same reason - too much noise. Plus all the games, and gifts and just sillyness was driving me crazy on Facebook, at least Twitter doesn't have that stuff.

I've recently found Twitter to be very useful for winning stuff! I just won a Flip Mino and a few months ago I won a Tassimo Coffee maker plus about $100 worth of coffee. So twitter is definitely still my friend. I do use it for getting links out to my site but definitely don't count on it as a main promotional tool.

Re: The Death Of Twitter

Joseph D. Shiller — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:54:08 -0000

I can't imagine someones business is solely dependent on Twitter. I just use it as an accessory to mine. If anyone is currently doing a lot of business because of Twitter, they will have already established a connection with their customers in other ways by now, like you have your customers addresses and phone numbers or they are on your list already. Lots are hooked up with you in other ways too (Linkedin, Facebook, etc), so the disappearance of Twitter is not such a big deal.

What do you mean "if Twitter cannot monetize what they are doing they will go under"? Last night,Craig Fergurson and Lauren Graham were going on and on about Twitter. I don't see how anything that popular can't be worth a lot. Somebody will offer a lot of money to buy Twitter, even if they don't monetize their self. Why not just keep it going for heck of it anyway? How much operating expense could they possibly have?