TWL #23 Improving Your Blog, the Hero’s Journey and Eric Ward Talks Links

Interview with Link Building Expert Eric Ward- Nick Stamoulis sits with White Hat Link Building Expert, Eric Ward. For those who don’t know who he is, he started specializing in link building before SEO was tied to link building. By the way, Eric also does a premium monthly newsletter that is very much worth the $8 spent.
From Brink Of Bankruptcy Towards An IPO – The Evernote Story- One of the most interesting things for me is the fact that when we see internet start-ups, we usually see the after effects. In reality, just like anything worthwhile, it isn’t easy to take a company and make it profitable at that kind of scale. And the evernote story highlights the harshness of life as an up and coming internet business.
The Hero’s Journey- I am not sure where Justin got this infographic but it is absolutely fantastic.
Seventeen Ways To Improve Your Blog – Case Study- This was the highlight of this week’s links for me. Dan Shure asks the question, can you succeed at blogging today?
Our Obsession with Scale is Failing Us- Does size matter anymore? Nilofer Merchant takes the old school business philosophy and examines it in context with the banking industry.
The Brick and Mortar of Local SEO- George Freitag shows the bare bones minimum that local small businesses should be doing to show up in local search results.