How to Keep New Viewers Reading Your Blog

October 25, 2011
new blog readers

Being a blogger is a little like being a salesperson: You have to sell yourself quickly and convincingly to an audience that has heard a million stories before yours and doesn’t have the time to listen to you.
New bloggers especially face the challenge of keeping an audience’s attention long enough to persuade them to hang [...]

How to Build Links After the Google Panda Update

October 11, 2011
google panda

Anyone who knows anything about search engine optimization (SEO) knows the incredible value of link building. Back in the day, before the Google Panda update, linkbuilding was so easy it was practically a joke.
You would simply go onto any spam or content farm site, write a joke of a post (perhaps with some high density [...]

6 Steps To Increase Guest Posting Volume On Your Blog

September 29, 2011
blog relationships

A great way to make your blog more of a hub for readers is to invite guest bloggers. Guest posting is a win-win situation for you and the guest contributor because you both get something for nothing:

You get free content
Your guest blogger gets free traffic

However, before you go off in a rampage to find [...]

Cheating the Google Gods; Why Article Marketing Simply Doesn’t Work

September 14, 2011
article-marketing

What is Article Marketing, and Why is it Doomed?
A fellow named Matt Cutts has been working for Google for a few years, and he is now the head of Google’s Webspam department. In a recent video he spent some time describing what article marketing is, and what’s wrong with it.
According to Matt, article marketing is [...]

Defining Your Blogging Self

September 7, 2011
blog voice

Finding your blogging voice can be as difficult as finding your “group” in middle school. You’re trying to find out where you fit in, what allows you to be you, how to best define yourself.
And just like in middle school when you tried to fit in with the “popular crowd”, it’s easy to try and [...]

5 Tips for Bringing Your Visitors Back

August 30, 2011
website-visitors

As I’ve learned from over 10 years of online marketing, the Internet is a changing game. While bringing in new visitors every day used to be a viable tactic several years, ago, the best way to increase your website’s overall traffic and your revenue stream is to get a steady array of returning visitors.
Think about [...]

How to Build a List of Buying Customers Without Using Google

August 23, 2011
building-a-list

Building a customer base is essential to closing sales and increasing a company’s revenue.
Most experts recommend using search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to drive traffic to your company’s website. Some, however, recommend diversification as well.
Since earning a marketing degree doesn’t guarantee the top three rankings of Google’s search results, let’s explore some other ways to [...]

SEMRush – High Performance Keyword Research Guaranteed!

August 9, 2011
SEM Rush

We now live in an era where marketing and business tactics have escalated to new levels of standards in terms of competition and technological dependence. Internet marketing is the gift which technology has currently gifted the modern business and internet establishments. Thanks to the advent of several software and SEO tools, internet marketing has been [...]

5 Ways to Get Noticed in Blog Comments

July 26, 2011
blog-commenting

You might not realize this, but the comment box of a popular blog is a great place to get your own blogging abilities noticed.
After you spend some time commenting on various other blogs, you should spend a few moments looking at your own blog’s analytics dashboard and see if you can find how many incoming [...]

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