Debra Mastaler from LinkSpiel.com is always thinking outside the box when it comes to link building. And it isn’t for link builders who equate SEO to things like paid link networks, forum profiles, and comment spam ; For instance, take this web post – Creating Provocative Web Content, which smartly [...] Read more »
One Incredibly Easy and Usable Tip for Facebook Pages
One of my clients is doing this. But because of the success of it, I am seriously thinking about migrating this over as a strategy for some of my other clients. There is a catch though. It’s best used on a local level. And it has the potential to be [...] Read more »
You Know Enough Already to…
How much do you really need to know? The reality is not as much as you think. Here’s the deal…. Chances are if you have done internet marketing and had even a fragment of success, you are ready to apply it. This is especially important if you are offering a [...] Read more »
How to Track the Important Things on your Website with Google Analytics.
Unless you are paranoid of google, you probably use google for it’s analytics. And if you are using analytics, you probably are only skirting the numbers and most likely, using vanity metrics as a way to quantify your website’s performance (broad metrics like Time on Site, unique visitors, bounce rate). [...] Read more »
TWL #18 Kindle Publishing, Contentless Marketing, and Batman, We Have a Problem
Kindle Publishing. It’s the hottest new thing these days for the make money crowd (and has been for awhile now). If you were to listen to those teaching it, you would think it is as easy as spending a few days writing, throwing up a cover with stock photo images [...] Read more »
At What Point Do You Give Up?
The road hasn’t been easy. It took over 16 months to bring a product to market. When we launched no one cared and 24 months after starting we had only 10 paying customers and revenues of $99 per month. We moved into my parents’ basement for 3.5 years. But despite all the evidence pointing [...] Read more »
Re: #1 Fans – My Response to “ricky54@msn.com”
I’ve been told that with popularity comes polarization ; you get your own set of naysayers and haters. But who would have thought that it would have come so quickly on this website, which gets very little traffic? I could follow the rules, and ignore them (read rule #4) or [...] Read more »
Getting Traffic- Be Careful What You Ask For
It is probably every blogger’s dream to wake up one day and have a massive amount of referral traffic from a known brand. The thought process is this ; Generating traffic somehow solidifies credibility. A large audience suddenly means more than a small audience because bigger is better (uh…right?)…. Personally, [...] Read more »
TWL #17 KPI’s for beginners, Newsroom Lessons, & Joe Rogan on Being the Hero of Your Own Story
I normally leave videos to the end of my links list but this one is important. Because sometimes, when you are plodding along in life, you kind of lose sight of what life means to you and why you do the things you do. Joe Rogan speaks a truth that [...] Read more »
When SEO is not an Option
SEO is fine if you are trying to rank for things that involve general keywords or popular things. But what if what you are trying to build is something that no one really searches for? What if you are the brand? What if you are promoting a book? What if [...] Read more »