Why Blogs Preform Better in Search
There are a lot of people that will tell you that you need a blog because it'll perform better in search engines and gain more traffic. This is not completely false, but it's not exactly true either.1...
View ArticleSix Apart and VideoEgg partner on video ads
Bloggers using TypePad will find it easier to integrate video ads into their content thanks to a partnership between VideoEgg and Six Apart announced today.1 Vote(s)
View ArticleInside AdSense: Local currency reports for nine more countries
Following our launch of Euro reporting for publishers in five European countries, we're happy to announce that local currency reports are now also available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Finland,...
View Article@ProBloggerDeals - Deals for Bloggers
Welcome to @ProBloggerDeals - a Twitter account which will be all about passing on discounts, bonuses, coupon codes and special offers to bloggers wanting to improve their blogs.1 Vote(s)
View ArticleBack to Basics: 4 Forehead-Slapping Blog Promotion Methods
Ever feel frustrated by the difficulty of promoting your blog and getting more people to discover and enjoy it? Well, here are four of the simplest - but, wouldn't you know it, also hardest - ways to...
View ArticleMaking money with Amazon even if you miss the direct sale
Until recently, I'd almost given up on being an Amazon affiliate. It wasn't necessarily hard to get people to click on links but they rarely seemed to buy what I was offering them.1 Vote(s)
View ArticleWhy WickedFire is a Great Forum to Learn Online Business and Marketing
Look, if you're interested in joining a forum where everyone is polite but nobody is making serious money, try WarriorForum or DigitalPoint. Those two, for example, have very strict etiquette rules but...
View ArticleTake your brands online and save UK, says British marketer
"The UK advertising industry sucks £18bn ($29bn) annually from firms to make ads that are increasingly being ignored and deliver no value." That's according to Tim Hunt, MD of UK-based marketing...
View ArticleCreative Link Building
When you run a website, whether it be a blog or a static site, aside from quality content, the name of the game is link building. Not only is building quality links essential to your strategy in terms...
View ArticleIs online ad pricing improving again? One organization thinks so
Improve Digital/PubMatic has released data which suggests that ad pricing may be on the increase, after record lows in 2008.3 Vote(s)
View ArticleUnderstanding Social Media Traffic
Today, what appears to be an emerging market, social media, is actually not new at all. Sites like Facebook, YouTube, Myspace, Digg, Twitter and others are all actually evolutions of the founding ideas...
View ArticleKing Of The Apple Geeks (AAPL)
John Gruber's Daring Fireball is the homepage for Mac nerds. Even top Apple (AAPL) brass tune in regularly. And it's a real business, too, now in its fourth year as Gruber's full-time gig.1 Vote(s)
View ArticleDo you even bother to optimize your archived posts?
Given that the pulse of the Internet is more immediate in these times, do you still bother to scour your archives, edit previous posts and then re-blast them onto your social networks? Or is this too...
View ArticleIn Link Building, Quality Trumps Quantity
One of the misconceptions many bloggers have about SEO is the more links, the better. This statement is misleading because not all links are created equal.2 Vote(s)
View Article5 Tips to Help Bloggers Maximize HARO
Peter Shankman founded the HARO mailer network many months ago. Since then, the Help a Reporter Out network has grown into perhaps the most powerful community of networkers, journalists and product...
View ArticleWordCamp SF: Google & What You Need to Know
For publishers looking at the search traffic benefits of WordPress, Matt Cutts from the Web Spam team at Google, offers his take:2 Vote(s)
View ArticleThe Two Core Principles to Building Quality Links
I like to keep things simple when it comes to building quality links. If you make link building too complicated, you can often over analyze and overthink things that you don't get much done. Most of my...
View ArticleBlogging Tricks Will Only Bring You Part of the Way
Recently, I was working with someone that considers themselves an expert in social media marketing, SEO, and other popular terms these days for promoting a site and getting it some traffic. The person...
View Article5 Social Media Tips and Tricks That Work
Since social media is such a powerful tool for increasing the traffic to your blog, I've tried many different social media tips. Here are five of the best tips that have worked for my sites and our...
View ArticleSEO Copywriting On The Road: Strange Scenes Inside The Wizard Academy
SEO copywriting serves perhaps the greatest challenge when finding that hook, as we copywriters are encouraged to begin our posts with keywords as far up and to the left as possible in our titles....
View ArticleGoogle opens AdSense to multiple ad network companies
Google has announced that AdSense publishers will soon be able to choose whether to accept advertisements from other ad network companies, as well as AdSense itself, in a change to how ads are served.1...
View ArticleDo you still rename your images for SEO purposes?
It has been an age old SEO trick to apply the same article tagging principles to images. This is done by simply renaming an image file from the default IMGxxx.JPG or DSCxxx.JPG, depending on what...
View Article9 Things to Do To Make Sure Your Next Blog Post is Read by More than Your Mom
Today I want to take the 'seeding' idea a step further and give a few examples of ways that you can do it - and in the process hopefully grow your readership beyond your immediate family (not that...
View ArticleSunday Morning SEO: Copying Your Competitors’ Links
Basically, you check out the links of your top competitors and then try to build the same links. I like this strategy because you can find great links. Also, if a top competitor has a link, it's...
View ArticleWill Online Micropayment Systems Help Save Newspapers?
Newspapers are not dead. Even with the Internet providing free content on just about anything, people still do read newspapers for a variety of reasons. These days, though one big challenge faced by...
View ArticleSunday Morning SEO: How Effective are Paid Links?
A couple months ago, We Build Pages stopped buying links for their clients. This was a big change since We Build Pages is a well known link building firm in the SEO industry and they were notorious for...
View ArticleDoubleClick Pumps Up Your AdSense Earnings and Screws Yahoo
If your AdSense earnings go up in the next few months, if you start seeing ads for big brands on your little sites, here's why: Google has opened the DoubleClick Ad Exchange, and connected it to the...
View ArticleTwitter's Stone says no ads in 2009
Twitter has no plans to put advertisements on the popular microblogging site this year, co-founder Biz Stone said on Tuesday, amid a growing push for the 2-year-old Internet sensation to begin making...
View ArticleSunday Morning SEO: Link Building With Press Releases
You don't usually hear a lot about press releases when people talk about SEO, but I've found them to be a solid link building tactic. There are sites that publish and promote press releases called...
View ArticleHow to Get Traffic by Blogging about Future Events in Your Niche
The image above shows a spike I recently received. I credit the increase in traffic to blogging about an important future event in my niche. In this post, I'll tell you specifically what I did. Also,...
View ArticleBritish PM’s social media reputation flagging according to new audit
The Labour Party may lead the way when it comes to British political parties using Twitter and other online tools, but a new audit by Yomego suggests that Prime Minister Gordon Brown's social media...
View ArticleSunday Morning SEO: Are You Flexible With Your SEO Strategy?
PeterD's recent article, The Unexpected Success, reminded me of how marketing plans often need to be changed because of an unforeseen success.2 Vote(s)
View ArticleOnline advertising 'overtakes TV'
Online advertising spending in the UK has overtaken television expenditure for the first time, a report has said.4 Vote(s)
View ArticleSunday Morning SEO: When to Use Pages Over Posts
One of the things that has worked out well for me is strategically using pages. Just because you have a blog doesn't mean all your content needs to go in posts. Here are a couple instances to consider...
View ArticleWhy Search Engine Traffic is Not Vital to Blogs
With the growing popularity of social network marketing as the primary means of free online advertising is search engine traffic falling to the wayside? When you consider that blogs are becoming more...
View ArticleExplaning Niche and Community using the Reverse Maslow
I sat in a series of sessions of a co-professor who projected stuff from the Authenticity Book for his marketing class. Part of it had to do with understanding new media, the Internet - that sort of...
View ArticlePerformancing Hive: Get your free membership
Get a free membership to Performancing Hive, which usually costs $10 per month, so you can be part of this budding community.1 Vote(s)
View ArticleSunday Morning SEO: Stats to Consider for SEO
One of the things I've been trying to do recently has been to combine my stats analysis with SEO. Stats analysis and SEO are both powerful marketing strategies so I thought combining them could...
View ArticleSunday Morning SEO: Optimizing Title Tags, Post Titles, and URLs
As you write a post, it only takes a couple minutes to optimize the title tag, post title, and URL. The benefits are well worth it because you'll rank for more keywords, get more search traffic, and...
View ArticleOfficial Google Blog: Displaying the best display ad with Teracent
Can you spot the difference between these two sample display ads? Of course you can. However, the most important difference is not discernible to the naked eye.68 Vote(s)
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