Should You Comment on Highly Ranked Posts?
Leaving comments on blog posts is one way of building backlinks. And the more backlinks you build from high ranking domains, the better your blog’s ranking with the search engines. So, yes, you should leave comments on highly ranked posts. Should you leave a comment on every highly ranked post you see? Now that’s a whole ‘nother story. I remember the first time someone left a comment on my very first blog. I was so excited. I felt my blog had finally been “found” and I was only inches away from success. The next…
Email Marketing Basics: All You Need To Get Started
Email marketing is a marketing technique that allows you to send your marketing messages directly to your subscribers. Offline business recognized the value of direct marketing years ago and now, since your operating an online business, email marketing lets you make direct contact in the only best way possible, through your subscribers’ email. Putting your message directly in front of your subscriber is better…
10 Tips to Manage Criticism
Sometimes it seems like everyone’s a critic and you’re standing in the middle of the circle with a target on your forehead. As much as we’d all like to give them a good punch in the nose, we can’t. It’s unprofessional, it might damage your reputation, and who has money for bail these days? Besides, chill out, what …
How To Make Money Online Using Expired Domains To Set Up Pay Per Post Blogs
At some point every blogger decides it’s time to start making some money online. They may have started their blog to talk about their wedding plans or build up an online resume, but eventually they start to think ‘Hey. There oughta be some way I can make money with this.’ Well, there is. You can set up a …
How To Improve Google Rankings for Your Older Posts in 5 Easy Steps
Every award-winning athlete will tell you, you’re only the champion until someone comes along who’s better than you. And someone will always come along, it’s only a matter of time. Your award-winning blog posts are the same – they’re only going to stay at the top of the index until one of your competitors comes …
WordPress SEO: Get Insane Traffic From Google (7985 Words)
When I started my first online project, I was extremely passionate about it, and I had really high hopes for it to become an authority widely recognized among the webdesign world. But I realized really fast that you can’t just build a website in 5 minutes, throw it onto the interweb and wait for a huge crowd to come visit it. Of course, this website was my…
Improve Your Conversion With A/B Testing
In the blogging world the word “conversion” can have several meanings but what it boils down to is this: Are your visitors doing what you want them to do? If you tell them to subscribe are they handing over their email address? If you tell them to visit your blog are they showing up at your door? If you tell them to “Click Here” do they do it? If not, you can imporve your conversion rate with a little…
When To Update WordPress Immediately, and When Not To
If you’ve been using WordPress for any length of time then you’ve probably seen that little message on your dashboard telling you there’s an update available. Should you click it or not? Should you do it now or should you wait? Is it safe? Is it complicated? And what happens when you do? What does a WordPress update do? Behind that pretty WordPress theme is a program. And that …
What Will Happen To My Blog When I Die?
No one likes to think about death but we all know it’s inevitable. And not to sound like I’m trying to use sensationalism to influence your decision, but you never know when something dreadful might happen. Your demise isn’t the only thing you need to be concerned about. What if your incapacitated …
Three Niches I Would Get In If I Had Time
Ask any blogger who’s been at it a while and I’m sure they’ll all tell you they have something on the back burner. We all do. But we’re also smart enough to know that we’d have to take time away from our business if we want to start something new. We remember how much time it takes to get a new blog off the ground. Anyway, here are three niches I would get into if I only had the time. Local Business Network There are so many …