Branding Your Blog: You’re Doing it All Wrong
This guest post is by Julie Cottineau of BrandTwist. A while ago, on this very blog, I read a post about how to make a five-dollar logo for your blog. There were a few things about that post I disagreed with, but chief among them was the assumption that a cheap logo was…
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…
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…
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 to teach, go right ahead and do it. The Internet has more than …
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 secret? He taps into his strengths …
On The Way To SES Chicago
Headed to SES Chicago with our newest employee Hannah Gappa, Not sure she is ready for a industry event but we will see =P. I asked on Twitter and Facebook who was attending and I got like 1 response. Weird. If you are going please comment. Looking for an SEO service that won’t get you banned?
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…
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-loading display:none; *Video:…
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…
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://www.convertasaurus.com Looking for an SEO service that won’t
Tips for SEO to Avoid Most Dangerous Misunderstandings
It’s completely sole true about Search Engine Optimization that it remains continuously changing. You will find a lot of information and details available on many platforms, now it is not so difficult to find out about that what the requirements to work efficiently are. The key process modifications continuously change the Search engine optimization situation, and so there’s a desire for new suggestions. Due to this fact, previous data occasionally stays within the mind of SEO and also those innovative phases can gather numerous untruth details in case they’re not attentive. In this post we will …
Adsense With A New Half-Page Advertisement
Are you one of the millions of people that are using Google Adsense? How about some of the people that have been banned by Adsense? Earlier today Google announced a 300×600 pixels ad to be part of their Adsense ad units. What do you think about Adsense with a new half-page advertisement. In this post we go into why this is a horrible idea and will hurt your website. The new ad is referred to as the half page unit, which Google is calling “brand friendly” ad units. This is…
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 boost their online…
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 …
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…
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 my…
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 …
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 …
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…