Teach Yourself To Be Successful
So you want to be popular and get “a million unique’s” on your website now that you’ve posted your first piece of content. Web marketing folks will tell you how they can rank you #1 in search engines and promote you by utilizing their social circles (most of which are unrelated to your audience). Let [...]
How Often Should I Release A New Episode?
I’ve received a few e-mails lately asking about how I handle some of my shows release schedules. In short, how often should a podcaster or video podcaster create a new episode? Every situation may be different but there are some obvious trends I’ve seen over the last few years. Although a release schedule really depends [...]
My Podcast Receives No Listener Feedback – Why?
If podcasting is the door to many opportunities where the hell is the key? A huge podcaster issue, a nightmare of sorts, is listener feedback and the lack of any to be found. If podcasting is the door, listener feedback is the metaphorical key to opening the door. Or, is it? Podcasters track their downloads, [...]
E-Commerce: How Do I Make Money On Products?
For years I’ve been challenged with trying to figure out how to attract customers to an e-commerce website selling video games. First challenge was building the site (based on Drupal and E-Commerce) and the second issue was marketing the website. After consulting firms told me “how” and “what” I need to do to get my [...]
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 [...]
Market Yourself Slowly To Google
When working towards great back links, referrals from other sites and social bookmarking, it’s important to work slowly and build up to it. It it said that Google likes a young site to grow over time, sites that show up in the google index and have thousands of back links may be suspicious to a [...]
Blogging On E-Commerce Sites: Marked As Spam?
Many SEO consultants will tell you the easiest way to get your companies site in the market, for free, is to advertise through organic search. However, most e-commerce sites have a fairly static set of content. If you’re selling widgets but don’t get a new widget brand every day you’ll probably have a bunch of [...]
Cross Linking To Yourself
Internal linking to yourself is important for a number of reasons. First, you can reason it helps your readers find related topics quickly, much like wikipedia does, it references to itself whenever a big topic or keyword shows itself. Wiki isn’t out to get huge page rank, it comes naturally to wiki, but it helps [...]
Google Analytics Too Slow? 103Bees!
Although I love to use Google Analytics for historical graphic and trying to drill down through my website content to see where users are coming from and what they’re doing when they are reading, it’s pretty slow to update. Their are other tools out there which you can apply to your webpage footer to get [...]
Get Personal: Podcast
Twenty years from now this will be the age of the ipod, a time when everyone could afford a hand-held compressed audio player. Audiophiles know a typical music track encoded into a standard MP3 file is not the best of quality unless the bit-rate is right, but high bit-rate songs require high capacity storage. A [...]
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