If you have a website or blog, or if you work with anything related to the Internet, you’ll certainly need to know a bit about search engine optimization (SEO). A good way to get started is to familiarize yourself with the most common terms of the trade, and below you’ll find 20 of them. (For those who already know SEO, consider this post as a refresher!).
1. SEM: Stands… Continue reading
As bloggers, our most valuable asset is time. We can spend it on writing useful content, promoting our blogs, networking and so on.
Yet we also need to check stats, moderate comments, use social media and so on, and these tasks tend to suck a large part of our time. For example, if I want to check my earnings, I will have to go to 3 or 4 different… Continue reading
How important is SEO? For some businesses it is crucial, but for not as many as you might think. There are two main reasons this is true:
1) Traffic, clicks, links, content and page rank are overrated by SEO contractors
2) The inferences presented by these SEO statistics are often inaccurate and/or immaterial to the goals of the website.
Like most new industries, SEO, a child of the internet… Continue reading
Today I was going to write about why new websites can display very misleading bounce rates, but I realized I had never covered the bounce rate concept before, so I’ll stick to the basics today, and expand on the topic over the coming weeks.
If you already know the term, consider this post a refresher.
Bounce rate is a very important metric for website owners… Continue reading
Every now and then I will see a list of things bloggers should do, but I notice people are not that inclined to do what they are asked to do, while they pay more attention to things they should NOT do. That is why I decided to create the list below. Here we go:
1. You Must Not Expect Results Overnight: This is happening everywhere and that is the… Continue reading
It is a Google’s world, and as webmasters we live and die by our search rankings, right? One of the factors that both influences search rankings and that most people seem to care about is the Google PageRank. More specifically, we want as much PageRank as possible!
Now aiming to increase the PageRank of your pages is fine, the problem is when misconceptions around the PageRank algorithm affect the… Continue reading
There are far too many people who are creating blogs (hundreds of millions at this point), without truly understanding their own personal brands. The end result is a blog that has a life expectancy of no more than a few months before it enters the R.I.P. blog graveyard.
Basing a blog off of what is the next hottest industry buzz word or something your friend is writing about is… Continue reading
Writing hasn’t always been a skill of mine. I rarely ever read when I was younger, and still had my father read me books for years after I had learned how to read for myself.
So how did I go from a forced writer (I only wrote things when I had to for school and never for recreation) to an influential blogger?
I started writing for our business… Continue reading
Blog wandering? What is that?! I have seen it over and over again. A new blogger kick starts a blog with all intentions of hitting it big and growing a huge subscriber count. They are going to be the next big thing! Just you wait and see! So what does this new blogger do? Picks a domain name, spends countless hours looking at premium blog themes and finally gets around… Continue reading
Back in March of 2007, I started a personal blog using the Blogger platform so that I could create a knowledge base for myself. Two and a half years later, I now run two blogs that generate more than double the income of my current job.
Over that time period, I’ve gone from never hearing of a blog before to managing several writers, switching between multiple hosts, interacting with… Continue reading
