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, you break your leg …
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-…
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 …
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 an agency to create content on your behalf and place it …
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. I …
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…
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 spot on for the genre. Here is some video of them: if (typeof jQuery == ‘undefined’) document.write(‘</sc’+’ript>’); .mejs-inner img max-width:100{57b8cc37fd24bce1cf64c8b05d9407ce9171516056c1f5e762677747187a0de4}; max-height:100{57b8cc37fd24bce1cf64c8b05d9407ce9171516056c1f5e762677747187a0de4}; margin:0 ; padding:0 .mejs-overlay-button, .mejs-overlay…
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 …
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
Doctors and Social Media: Should Patients Be Influenced?
Today’s doctors work in a world where your virtual reputation has just as much, if not more, importance than your word-of-mouth reputation. Now that doctors have caught on to using social sites like Facebook and Twitter, patients should stop to wonder whether that’s really the smartest way to choose their physicians. For now, it looks like doctors and social media are inseparable. Doctors Have to Treat Their Practices Like Businesses Image resource: parasolfinancial.com It’s not surprising that so many doctors have invested in search engine and social media optimization methods to …
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…
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…
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 for eCommerce business owners. Most of …
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 …
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 …
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 in general, it will and does still have its flaws. For this reason, below are, what I feel, some flaws of PPC which programs such as Adwords and Adsense can improve upon. Publisher…
PPC Account Review – What Not To Do In Your PPC Account
In this post I will go through a live account review – what not to do in your PPC account that I’m working on. I’m working on a screensaver account today. I’m doing this for a friend and I’m not going to give away what their company name is. When I do FREE work on an account, most of the time I will blog about it as to have fun with the account and give real…
Affiliate Marketing Success Tips
Affiliate marketing can be termed as the performance-based marketing which includes the business records, the industries mainly has the four important branches that is the merchant it is also known as retailer, the network that provides offer, the publisher and the most important customer. Affiliate marketing is somewhat just like Internet marketing. It includes the advertising methods that are used for the promotion. Search engine optimisation is also included in this affiliate marketing, paid per click service and also the E mail marketing. …
How to Setup a Remarketing Campaign If you Failed The First Time Out
This article is going to teach you how to set up a remarketing campaign. Perhaps you have already tried to market your product or service on websites like Google, Bing and Yahoo. Did your marketing campaign fail? Did you end up spending a $100.00 of your hard earned money to only find out that you got $0 in sales? This is not uncommon. Did you know that 95{57b8cc37fd24bce1cf64c8b05d9407ce9171516056c1f5e762677747187a0de4} of online e-marketers fail the…
The Rise of the Content Marketing Moron
In case you didn’t hear, there’s a new craze in town. It’s called Content Marketing. There’s a serial site-killing Google Penguin on the loose, and he seems to be eating bad SEOs for breakfast. Many of those bad SEOs have been reincarnated as bad Content Marketers. It goes like this: Stage 1: “Hmm, I sure would love to rank highly on Google. It&#…