How To Rank Well Your Inner Pages In Search Engines
Your homepage is usually the highest ranking page on your blog, but take a look at it, what do you see? Generally, all you see is a list of blog posts accompanied by a few snippets of text. Most bloggers think that just raising the rank of the homepage pulls all the inner pages up, as well. However, that’s not really how it works. In …
Want To Make Your First Website?
As soon as your friends and family learn you’re making money online they all want to know how to make their own website. After the third or fourth time you sit somebody down and try to teach them the process you’ll realize that most people have no intentions of following through and you’ve just wasted…
What Are The Alternatives to Google AdSense?
You’re not the first person to ask, “What are the alternatives to Google Adsense?” and between you and me, my answer is, “Just about anything is a better alternative to AdSense!” But, I know, that doesn’t really answer your question. Since we’re talking about your business here you’d probably prefer I turn off the sarcasm and give you something a little more concrete. So let’s get …
How To Turn Every Post Into A Sticky Web For Readers
Your homepage is usually the highest ranking page on your blog, but take a look at it, what do you see? Generally, all you see is a list of blog posts accompanied by a few snippets of text. Most bloggers think that just raising the rank of the homepage pulls all the inner pages up, as well. However, that’s not really how it works. In fact, if all your ingound links point to your homepage, you’re wasting a lot of link juice. Building the rank of your homepage…
Are Bloggers Losing Money by Not Selling Sponsored Posts?
When you get right down to it, every post on your blog is a sponsored post. You’re either making money with affiliate links or you’re earning ad revenue. In the end, somebody is paying your to blog otherwise you wouldn’t be doing it. That said, the next question is a little more specific: Should you solicit advertisers and write specific relevant content in exchange for money? Are you losing money by not selling sponsored posts? What are sponsored posts? Once you have an …
Your Blog is Your Portfolio
Maybe you have the best job you could ever imagine. Your boss is wonderful, you make good money, and you really love what you’re doing. But what if something better came along? I know it’s hard to imagine right now but – What If? Of course, you can’t really answer that until you see what that “What If” is, but it might be an opportunity that surpasses even you wildest dreams. You could find out what that “What If” is if you use your blog as your portfolio. Most …
What’s Your Long-Term Blogging Strategy?
Contrary to what all those ebooks tell you, nobody sets up a successful, money-making blog in one weekend. In fact, if you’re like me and a lot of bloggers I know, you’ll set up a few blogs before you finally start hitting your stride. It takes months to develop a strong, loyal following and it sometimes takes a couple of years to start earning a predictable, full-time income. You can, however, help the process along …
If Possible, Make It An Affiliate Link
I can’t tell you how many affiliate programs I’ve joined over the years. I wouldn’t even want to hazard a guess. But I will tell you this: Almost every product or service you recommend has an affiliate program. And if you’re not using an affiliate link when you mention them in your blog posts you’re missing out on a significant source of income. How many times have you just casually mentioned to your readers that you used such-and-such product or service or you visited this-and-…
Go Hard or Go Home, Especially If You Are Building A Website
When you’re punching a time clock we all have days where we don’t feel like giving 110{57b8cc37fd24bce1cf64c8b05d9407ce9171516056c1f5e762677747187a0de4}, so you spend the day pushing papers around on your desk, trying to look like you’re actually working. But when you’re starting your own business you need to either go hard or go home, every single day, especially if you’re building a website. If I had a nickel for every domain name I’ve purchased I could probably retire and go live on some secluded tropical beach. But when it comes to building websites it’s not…
The 9 Most Important Copywriting Articles on Shock Marketer
Copywriting is the act of writing words that sell. I’ve found just by changing a paragraph, it can result in 2 to 4 times the sales. Some have found the difference can be 19.5 times more sales. How can you write these “magical” sentences? See some of my favorite copywriting articles: Overview: 93 Year Old Ad Gives You the Exact Formula to Write Amazing Copy – Using teasers, benefits, credibility, and “the push.” Follow this 1 Rule to Guarantee the Profitability…
Mind It! – Don’ts while dealing with a SEO client
Have you ever leaned back and thought what brings your excellent deals in a negative response? The only reason is the way you deal with your dealing clients. Never to forget that all the entrepreneurial sites totally depend on the factor that how well are they optimized, as you’re in the era of e-marketing that balances well your expertise and a good rank in any of the SERPs. If you just search ‘SEO service providers’, you may get a big…
Best web hosting for WordPress – How to setup WordPress on Bluehost and get a FREE Bonus!
Best web hosting for WordPress www.RayTheVideoGuy.com When it comes to setting up WordPress, very few web hosting services make it as easy as Bluehost. Unlike other hosting services, such as GoDaddy, you do not need to wait for others to set your hosting up for WordPress. With Bluehost, you just log into
Why Do You Write?
Why do you write? Sounds like an odd question, doesn’t it? A couple of months ago, I’ve written an article here telling my readers why do I blog. I’ve asked them to share their reasons too and got great response and different reasons from bloggers on that. Today I thought to make it…
Reduce Bounce Rates With Good E-Commerce Website Design
Good bounce rates are the target of any website, but particularly to sites hoping to sell their products to their visitors. Essentially, your bounce rate is the number of visitors who land on your site, but do not go onto visit any other pages within your site, or who leave immediately. This means that for …
$70,000 in one week arbitraging traffic with Redirect.com
Some of you have been following my fb group, facebook postings, and twitter posts regarding the screen shots of my arbitraging traffic with this platform called www.Redirect.com started by the guys over at Media Breakaway aka Cpa Empire aka Affiliate.com. Now I been working with Scott Richter and the team over at www.Redirect.com on arbing traffic with them and have
Trip Report: Leeds, Scotland, and Bangkok
It’s been a month since leaving the US, and it is crazy how fast the month has gone by. It has been fast, with lots of stories to tell and experiences to learn from. I could write all day about each one, but instead, I will give a summary of my last month.
So I’m Thinking About Attending ASW 2013…
I don’t attend conferences for a number of reasons, the top two being cost and the fact that I hate the actual "travelling" part (it’s a bit of a pain traveling from an island in Canada to the US). In fact, I’ve only ever been to one conference before, and that was BlogWorld way back in 2008, 4 years ago. It happened to be in Vegas, and I had an absolute awesome time – far better than I had expected. We ended up staying for…
Using Sponsored Stories to Generate Blog Traffic
Facebook Ads are dead. That’s something I’ve been hearing from a few months now and while it may be getting harder and harder to get your affiliate campaigns approved, I have been seeing awesome results from Facebook Ad campaigns I have been running lately. You just need to be a little more creative and use the new features within Facebook Ads to your advantage. One example of a Facebook feature within Facebook Ads that I have discussed before is Sponsored Stories. Sponsored Stories are special advertisements on Facebook you…
Affiliate Summit East 2013 In Philadelphia – Save the Date.
The votes came in and after four years in NYC, the people chose Philadelphia for Affiliate Summit East 2013 on August 18-20, 2013. This will be the 24th Affiliate Summit and it is expected to be the largest Affiliate Summit East to date (again!). Affiliate Summit East 2013 in Philadelphia On a personal note, although NYC is my hometown and I love it there, I’m thrilled that we’re going to Philly. The venue is fantastic and the area …
Designers Love Using iPhones in Web Design, But They’re Wrong
As a designer, one thing I’ve noticed as a web-design trend lately is to feature Apple products in the design, primarily iPhones. While I understand that they are beautiful devices I don’t think they are as beneficial to a design as many may believe. While I do believe that showing shots of your application or site being used is fantastic because being demonstrable is a great …