http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog Advice for Internet Marketers with Ethics Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:39:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Antone Roundy internet marketing, seo, ethics, blogging, social media, affiliate marketing, SEO clean Internet Marketing With Ethics Daily podcast of the day's blog post. Episodes typically run 3 to 6 minutes, and focus on one aspect of internet marketing, SEO, blogging, affiliate marketing, etc. Ethics are a priority here -- not an afterthought or inconvenience. http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/most-clicked-headlines-for-may/ http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/most-clicked-headlines-for-may/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:36:00 +0000 Antone Roundy http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/?p=1254 Once again, it’s time to publish the list of which headlines got the best open and click-through rates last month. The rankings are calculated based on the numbers reported by AWeber for my “blog broadcast” for this blog. Where you see (+), (++) and (+++), that indicates that the headline in question was at the top of [...] http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/most-clicked-headlines-for-may/feed/ 0 http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/which-headlines-got-the-most-opensclicks-march/ http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/which-headlines-got-the-most-opensclicks-march/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:11:00 +0000 Antone Roundy http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/?p=1086 Every time I post to this blog, an announcement goes out automatically to my mailing list, which tracks how many people opened the email and how many clicked through to read the full article. I thought I’d start a new monthly feature here, listing the headlines that got the most people to open the email, and [...] http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/which-headlines-got-the-most-opensclicks-march/feed/ 4 http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/how-your-online-business-is-like-a-drafty-house/ http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/how-your-online-business-is-like-a-drafty-house/#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:03:52 +0000 Antone Roundy http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/?p=657 My house turns 100 years old next year. With the weather turning cold again, the annual draft hunt is back in session. Some of the draft sources drive me absolutely crazy — like a storm window in the basement that had probably been left open for several years. Last winter, I taped over the edges of [...] http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/how-your-online-business-is-like-a-drafty-house/feed/ 0 3:22 conversion, traffic, retention Plugging cold air leaks misses half the problem. http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/4-ways-to-increase-profits/ http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/4-ways-to-increase-profits/#comments Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:15:43 +0000 Antone Roundy http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/?p=403 There are four ways to make more money from your website: Increase the amount of targeted traffic coming to your site. Convert more of your traffic to paying customers. Increase your revenue per paying customer. Decrease your costs. Let’s work through the list backwards. Decrease your costs In some ways, this is the least important of the methods I listed. For one [...] http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/4-ways-to-increase-profits/feed/ 1 6:38 traffic building, product creation, tracking, mailing lists How to increase your website profits http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/single-vs-double-opt-in-test-results-daniel-levis/ http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/single-vs-double-opt-in-test-results-daniel-levis/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:44:59 +0000 Antone Roundy http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/?p=167 In a guest post on Clayton Makepeace’s blog yesterday, Daniel Levis revealed the results of a split test between single and double opt in mailing lists. The results were surprising. First, he showed how many subscribers each list got, and how many of the original subscribers were still subscribed a year later. Single opt-in won both [...] http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/single-vs-double-opt-in-test-results-daniel-levis/feed/ 0 http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/web-traffic-tracking-why-and-how/ http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/web-traffic-tracking-why-and-how/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:04:14 +0000 Antone Roundy http://whitehatcrew.com/blog/?p=79 I use three main tools to track my websites’ traffic. Each has a different focus and provides different benefits. One tracks potential traffic sources. One gives real-time feedback on actual incoming traffic. And one shows me the long term big picture of my websites’ traffic. The first tool is blog search — I subscribe to blog [...] http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/web-traffic-tracking-why-and-how/feed/ 6