Advice from Famous Authors a Blog Writer Could Use Today
This guest post is by Colin Olson of Fresh Essays. Every high-school superstar longs to follow in his sport hero’s footsteps. Small business owners idolize those on the Fortune 500 list. Likewise, blog writers can hope for the greatness of past literary giants. While many of the world’s most famous authors are long gone, their words of wisdom still resonate today. Listen to the advice these famous authors have left for blog writers. “What I try to do is write… And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When…
Blogging in Brief: Targeting, Teasers, and Trends
The last few weeks have turned up some interesting new finds in the world of blogging. I’ve covered some of the more innovative ones here—let us know what cool ideas you’ve spotted in the comments. …and then she called me “Cupcake” I’m not in the target audience for Molly Maher’s Stratejoy website, and it’s clear as soon as I get to her homepage, which greets visitors with the words, “This site is for you, Cupcake.” This is…
Reusing Freelance Writing Online: the Pros and Pitfalls
This guest post is by Emma Merkas of $30 Date Night. It was my blog that landed me my weekly newspaper column. I’m a huge advocate of self-publishing, If you know you’re talented at something, and if you have an opinion you want to express, a song you want to sing, or a specific skill you want …
Revealed: The Super Powers James Clear Used to Become a Full Time Blogger in 6-Months
This guest post is by TT Fong of SpikingStrengths.com. James Clear runs the blog PassivePanda.com, which generates a full-time income. It took him only six-months to reach that point. After studying his site, listening to several interviews he’s done, and talking with him live, I uncovered one of the secrets to his success. This …
The Well-rounded Blogger: How to Become the Best at Your Craft
This guest post is by Brandon Yawa of Brandonyawa.com. It goes without saying that every writer who has excelled has his or her niche. A “niche” gives writers a focal point, a demographic, a particular place in the world where his or her voice resonates. But niches without proper attention kill great writers. The problem with specifications You are walking down a busy street and fall. Unfortunately…
Forget Everything You Think You Know About SEO
This guest post is by Mark Collier of www.DropMining.com. For the last year I’ve been spending my free time after school conducting Red Bull-fuelled coding sessions in the pursuit of one single goal: to bring more science to the SEO industry. As an industry we are still only taking our first few baby steps into the world of maths, stats, and data-driven decisions. For a seemingly data-dependent industry, SEO professionals are influenced to a surprising degree by rumour, anecdotal evidence, and unscientific tests. SEOMoz were the true visionaries in conducting …
Use Word-of-Mouth Promotion to Boost Blog Traffic
This guest post is by Jeszlene Zhou of First Communication Job. I love the idea of using a blog as your personal hub, and how it creates a centralised space for all your social media sites, your portfolio, and more. Most bloggers and social media professionals promote a link to their blog or website, and shamelessly direct traffic towards their personal hub. Yet interestingly, they do not promote their personal …
5 Fatal Mistakes Your Paid Content Marketers *Are* Making (and How Much it’s Costing You)
Businesses wanting to reach users in more subtle ways are jumping on the blogging bandwagon. Well and truly. In a recent Australian study, 62{57b8cc37fd24bce1cf64c8b05d9407ce9171516056c1f5e762677747187a0de4} of respondents said “blogs are the most appealing medium for business to promote a brand.” If you’re in a business that’s paying …
Become a Guest-post Ninja in 5 Steps
This guest post is by Timo Kiander ofProductive Superdad. There you are with a big smile, after slapping together another 400-word post. It took you 30 minutes to write, and now you are ready to submit it to some random blog. Although you didn’t really put your mind to the post, it got published anyway. Quite soon after this you start to wonder why you aren’t getting any great results in…
Search Engine Strategies 5 years later
While I will be staying in Chicago until Sunday – SES Chicago is pretty much done for all intensive purposes. This was the first Search Engine Strategies event I have attended since SES San Jose 2008 (photos) At first I felt like I didn’t know anyone. Where was the old gang? David Naylor, Marcus Tandler, Aaron Wall, Jim Boykin, Best Of The Web Dudes, Jenn Slegg, Boser and crew, and many many others…
Holy crap and nice to be back
Last thursday I checked out of the hotel I was staying in for SES.. Met my friend Michael Sprouse for lunch, then checked into a new hotel where my wife was going to join me through Sunday. I got settled in my room… about to take a 2 pm call and pull out my computer from my laptop… Where was my laptop? HOLY SHIT WHERE IS MY LAPTOP?!?! I am totally panicing. It’s not in my room. I bust it down to the desk I checked in it. It’s not there. I check with the door guy praying…
Too White Crew hip hop group is awesome
Last saturday night in Chicago my wife and I got to hook up with some of my high school friends. We went to the Cubby Bear to see this group called Too White Crew. They perform all 90′s rap/hip hop. They were awesome and hilarious. Their attire was very …
Info on the hottest party during ASW
Just when you think networks are done blowing it out, here comes a crazy party during Affiliate Summit West 2013. Mundo Media is throwing a huge bash at the Penthouse in the Cosmopolitan Hotel on January 14th, 2013. The event is a Candyland-themed party and it will be stacked with alcohol and local talent. What else does a pimp affiliate need? Rumors are they are blowing 100k+ on this event so it should be one for the books. While the Mundo Media Candyland event is strictly invite only they are giving away 40 passes to …
SpyFu’s New Word Split Testing Tool (FREE)
A couple weeks ago I talked about how I got beta access SpyFu’s tool and it showed me that the word “demo” beat out “free demo” and “contact us” on our PAR Program website. So after split testing it… it was indeed right on the money with 30{57b8cc37fd24bce1cf64c8b05d9407ce9171516056c1f5e762677747187a0de4} more clicks. They have now opened the tool up for free. Here is a Video of SpyFu founder Mike Roberts giving a demo If you want to use it now go here: http://
8 Tips For Creating Effective Remarketing Campaigns
Given that in most of the landing pages for 99{57b8cc37fd24bce1cf64c8b05d9407ce9171516056c1f5e762677747187a0de4} of visitors do not get the desired effect, remarketing or retargeting is a powerful tool to recapture our users and improve conversion rates at relatively low cost. Remarketing campaigns that have come to double the conversion rate conversions generating between 40{57b8cc37fd24bce1cf64c8b05d9407ce9171516056c1f5e762677747187a0de4} and 50{57b8cc37fd24bce1cf64c8b05d9407ce9171516056c1f5e762677747187a0de4} cheaper. However, the remarketing is not a foolproof solution, so it requires effort on our part, and that is to get the most we plan and optimize campaigns accordingly. Here are 8 Tips For Creating Effective Remarketing Campaigns. …
Why You Need To Be A PPC Expert To Be A Blogger
There are millions of searches a month by web users looking for ways to make money online the easy way. The most used way to make money online is obvious: through blogging. However, this doesn’t always mean it is the easiest form of online monetization. To become a blogger, you need to have entrepreneurial skills such as being self motivated and determined to succeed. Starting out as a blogger is a long and horrible process, I admit, (much like …
How To Get Started With Google PPC Video Included
My clients are always wanting to know how to drive traffic to a website. Typically they are the most interested in SEO, but due to the nature of how long it takes to get results, I recommend that they be doing Google PPC. If you don’t already know this, Google PPC was specifically designed …
Infolinks 2012 Publisher Review – In-Text Advertising
For the last few weeks, I have been using Infolinks and in-text advertising to monetize my website. With what you could call an ‘upbringing’ in blogging where I learnt the best and only way to make money from blogging is through Adsense, I was interested to try out other forms of advertising: inparticularly in-text. I have always heard of great stories about in-text advertising gaining great click through percentages which ultimately means the blogger will make more money. However, the CPC of each click…
Try AdWords Express – Get Double Matching on Your First $125
This morning I was greeted by several emails from Google offering up to 2 free months of advertising on AdWords Express. So is that a good deal? What is AdWords Express exactly, how does it work with Adwords? Try AdWords Express today, we’ll show you why. What Is AdWords Express Google touts the product as “the easiest way to start marketing your small business to customers online.” Upon …
A Few Ways PPC Can Improve
When you look on the internet for articles based on the publisher or advertiser side to PPC, you will most likely fall upon an article about tips, tricks and helpful information. I want to make this article different from the typical informative article. Just like with everything, nothing is perfect. As much as pay per click advertising has revolutionised the way we look at advertising…