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Search Marketing: Organic, Paid, Blended and Social

What is Internet Marketing Traditional marketing in many ways was all about getting your message pushed onto to potential clients with the hope of converting them into active clients. Internet Marketing on the other hand is focused on getting the potential client to come to you to be presented your message on their own terms. There are several methods of accomplishing a successful Internet marketing campaign. At the moment the key marketing strategies you should focus on are: • Organic Search… Continue

Added by Mike on February 24, 2009 at 8:15am — No Comments

How to install Custom Firmware on a PSP (Slim)

This past weekend I decided it was time to join the “homebrew” PSP community. It was time to install custom firmware (CFW) onto my PSP, opening it up to a world of possibilities. It was easier than I thought, but it was still a very scary thing to do the first time around. I thought I had killed my PSP at one point but thankfully I got it running eventually. This post may be way off base with the topics covered in my blog, but WTF, it’s my blog and I may need to look back at what I did should I… Continue

Added by Mike on December 3, 2008 at 8:46am — No Comments

DTM In Review - Cotton Rohrscheib - Web Design & Development - Pleth.com

It’s been nearly a year since DropTheMike.com launched. One of my early supporters and fellow bloggers was Cotton Rohrscheib. He was incidentally my first interviewee as well, and a favorite interview of mine. I figured that since my readership has grown exponentially since that initial interview was posted, I should re-post. So without further delay… About Cotton: Cotton is a veteran developer having worked on several hundred projects worldwide, rangi… Continue

Added by Mike on November 4, 2008 at 6:36am — No Comments

Tips To Increase Traffic Using Social Media

So are you always toying with new things to try and boost your traffic with little if any results? I don’t even know why I ask you this question, because I already know the answer for 95% of you. Myself I have tried many, many tactics. Many were dumb ideas in hindsight and saw no return. A few though have in fact succeeded. Which falls right in line with some advice which appears to be universally shared amongst knowledgeable SEO professionals I have met over the years. If you stay persistent an… Continue

Added by Mike on November 4, 2008 at 6:34am — No Comments

SEO Friendly Images

Here is a new Wordpress plugin that DropTheMike.com is testing out. Enjoy! SEO Friendly Images is a Wordpress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images in your posts with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set. Additionally this makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well. ALT attribute is important part of search engine optimizat… Continue

Added by Mike on November 4, 2008 at 6:32am — No Comments