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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ad Positions: Respecting Your Reader
It is very tempting to tile your website with adsense ads and sneak them into every nook and cranny of your website. Designing a nice website that offers great quality content should put its emphasis on the quality not the advertising. You’ve probably seen sites on the web that try to trick you to click [...]
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 [...]
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