Niche Video Casts Get Marketing Dollars Too
If you’re looking for a way to make some money in video podcasting you’ll want to find an area of content that isn’t overcrowded. Of course, the video game, and tech shows are all over the place, what you’ll want is something completely different yet interesting enough to grab a crowd.
Looking through iTunes, I can [...]
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 [...]
Design And Layout Pays Off
What is it about your blog that separates you from the other bloggers? Is it the content? Or, are you breaking news nobody else has been able to break?
More than likely you’re not breaking any news stories but you are probably providing content that’s informative, interesting and well crafted. You can write the best blog [...]
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 [...]
You Don’t Have To Compete To Be Complete
If you’re wondering why stupid blogs tend to get huge fast, it might be due to their parent company. There are many websites that masquerade as blogs but are really huge websites funding their popularity with TV shows and money. The word on the streets is “blogs are the new thing” and everyone has to [...]
Your Fate? Affiliate!
Working really hard at providing users with great content but their not clicking on your ads with enough consistency? You may be looking for some alternative, perhaps a different style of blogging or a different ad agency but you should slow down a bit.
If you’re providing content there is a good chance you could pimp [...]
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 [...]
Make Yourself Important or Fake It
It is amazing to see just how many press agencies and PR firms want to talk with you, the simple blogger. If you show interest in a topic and love to write about it, you’re the person they’re looking to find. How do you get PR firms to pay attention to what you have to [...]
Living And Dying By Organic Search
You’ve built a website, google knows about you, but you are getting very little search traffic? If you’re site has been set up in the last three month’s you’re not alone, things will get better if you keep at it.
If you write one blog a day about a given topic you’ll give google an idea [...]
Adsense: Patience is Key
If you’ve created a blog and you’ve quickly hooked up Google Adsense as you’re probably asking yourself “when are they going to cut me a check!?” First, you must manage to build up a bank roll of USD $100.00 before you get too excited.
How long can that take? Let’s be realistic, you’ve got a blog [...]