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What is the best hosting solution for a network of feeder sites?

Posted by Chris on in Hosting, marketing 0 Comment
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I recently had a customer ask me for some advice on aquiring hosting for his new network of feeder sites. For those of you who are not familiar with feeder sites, they are a number of smaller sites, blogs or online resource that allows you to feed traffic and backlinks to your main website. Squidoo and HubPages are examples of free resources you can use as feeders to create links and organic traffic to your money site. While free resources are great, finding niche long tail domains and setting up your own network of feeder sites can improve your SEO rankings as well as generating properties with potential for higher amounts of organic traffic.
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Introducing Groupon’s newest and toughest challenger to date – Facebook

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Industry leader Groupon may end up regretting not taking up Google on its takeover offer. Not only does the company have many competing group buying websites operating or planned, both on national and local scales, Facebook has set up their teaser page for their offering Facebook Deals.
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Why are so many people jumping on the Groupon business model bandwagon?

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I subscribe to a number of news alerts through Google and it seems that I am constantly reading articles about a brand new company that is trying to emulate Groupon’s business model of offering limited time, discounted deals to local customers. Groupon has become a major success story as they tested their business model in Chicago and then expanded into other major cities in the US and Canada. Now the company has sales representatives operating in over 250 markets in North America, South America, Asia and Europe.
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Interesting article on the decline of newspaper advertising

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I recently came across Marc Cenedella’s article on the decline of the newspaper help wanted revenues and how ad revenues in the US market have declined 92% over the last 10 years. He points out that in the mid-90s, many newspaper executives foresaw this threat to a steady revenue stream but chose not to think forward and dominate the industry with their resources as in doing so they would be competing against their own printed products.
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Your Twitter profile has five seconds to impress me… starting now!

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I have been attempting to grow the number of people I connect with through Twitter and as conversations and mentions happen, I get an influx of new followers. I am a bit backlogged at the moment reviewing all the great new Tweeters who are now following my account but I swear that I am working on it.

Unfortunately I don’t follow everyone back but do review everyone’s account. Your Twitter profile page is what I use to make that decision and the longest I generally take is about five seconds to decide whether your tweets are going to be of importance to me. Continue reading “Your Twitter profile has five seconds to impress me… starting now!” →