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This is not a journal of our personal lives and insignificant ramblings about the weather and so on. This is like an article library. Informative articles are posted every week, on matters regarding internet marketing and making money online. You will find a wealth of information among these articles, so take a look around.

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Why Internet Marketing Can Not Work Without SEO

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, June 28, 2010, In : Blogging, Writing

Search engine optimization (SEO) should be considered a critical element of any Internet marketing strategy. This is important because there is so much which can be gained from SEO, in terms of Internet marketing and advertising. Failure to optimize your website for search engines can result in a considerable loss, in terms of free advertising, which is essentially gained from ranking well with search engines.

This article will attempt to provide insight into what SEO is and will explain why ...
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Search Engines And SEO

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, November 6, 2009, In : Websites, domains, SEO

The main purpose of search engines is the indexing of thousands and millions of web pages. Once you look for a word or a phrase, the search engine scans automatically the entire database, where it has the stored all indexed pages and it returns to you, a list containing the most relevant results for that search.

The only criteria the number of pages found and their relevance depend on, are the capabilities of the used search engine.

Search engines first appeared in the early 90’s when Alan ...
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Crucial SEO Factors

Posted by Derek Robson on Thursday, October 22, 2009, In : Websites, domains, SEO

Several of my subscribers have contacted me with questions on search engine optimisation. This does seem a rather grey area, so I asked Ryan Simpson, an expert in the field, for some advice. This is the article he sent me.

There's no shortage on advice regarding what people should do to improve a web site's position in the search engine listings. It is easy to become confused when you consume all the information that is available, because some folks agree with others while some totally disagre...
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About Me

Derek Robson

Pietermaritzburg

Derek Robson has been a successful Internet marketer since 2003. He has a vision of empowering all fellow marketers particularly Southern Africans and other non U.S folk, to have equal opportunity and success on the internet, by finding solutions to the many obstacles facing them. He is a syndicated article writer. He and his wife Sally, have started a string of sites, resources, courses and articles, as part of Dersalsites. Derek writes informative articles on Internet marketing, South African online business, making money online, list building, affiliate marketing, article marketing, blogging, seo, motivation, and other general topics. Sally loves gardening and writes the occasional asrticle on a host of gardening topics. Clinton Robson, their son, is a qualified Personal Trainer and writes articles on fitness, body building, weight loss, supplements, cross training etc. Vheck the BlogRoll for their other sites.