Competing For Organic Search Hits

If you ask any consultant how to rank on the first page in google, they’re going to probably tell you its a combination of effort, luck, some google “magic sauce,” relevance, patience and targeting a niche market.
No matter how great your writing is, no matter how awesome your site looks, you may still have issues [...]

Better Content Equals Better Back Links

Have you ever noticed one of the most popular first entry to a search engine like Google is Wikipedia? You think it’s just dumb luck or maybe search engines are organizing things in reverse alphabetical order? No. Of course that’s not the reason.
The reason is wikipedia has a crap ton of great information, references and, [...]

Target The Season: Organic Searching

Looking for a new article to write about but you’re out of great ideas. The holiday season is upon us and it’s time to think about gift giving and Christmas cheer. If you’re blogging about a specific product you’ll probably find this time of year is full of potential organic searches waiting to happen.
For instance, [...]

Do Research: What Ads Sell?

If you’re in the market to start a blog and make some cash on the side you’re going to find yourself using an ad revenue generator like adsense. Google’s done a great job with adsense, making advertisements appear on a website that are relative to the content you’re reading. Not too many people are going [...]