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Internet Marketing Fortune Cookie

It's Wednesday (well, actually it is Friday, but who is counting?), and you know what that means. It's time for another weekly Internet Business Fortune Cookie.

Since I am running behind (evidenced by the tardiness of this post), I'll keep it short.

I was at a Chinese fast food chain this week. I know -- not up to my usual standards. Truth is, I'll eat anything that does not eat me first.

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Niche Super-Site: Elvis Traffic Starting to Build

by Mark E. Mason on April 7, 2008

Last week, I updated you on my Niche Super-Site Project, History of Elvis. My strategy of going after long-tail keywords paid off, and I demonstrated a front page ranking for history of elvis using link directory submissions. (It is important to remember that there are links from this site to the Elvis site as well). This organic search engine ranking is starting to "pay off." In the last 30 days, most of the traffic to the site has come from search engines as seen below:

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It is interesting to note that 15 searches in the last 30 days came from AOL and MSN. I never pay attention to those engines, but I have heard it said that the people using AOL and MSN are generally less computer saavy and have higher conversion rates than their Google bretheren.

What are people searching for?

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