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Has Google Replaced Content as King of the Web?

While great content will always get you noticed, I have come to the somewhat obvious conclusion that “Content is NOT King, Google is King” on the web. This is a slightly different mindset when it comes to getting traffic and marketing on the net. This new mindset doesn’t change the fact that you still have [...]

Avoid 7 New Website Legal Compliance Gotchas

Your personal New Year’s resolutions are important. You bet. However, if you’re a SaaS or Internet marketer, your best-laid plans for 2012 may hit the skids if you fail to avoid new website legal compliance gotchas that emerged in 2011. So, It’s highly recommended that you add to your personal resolutions the requirement to review [...]

Web Site Leverage

Ever go to a web site and find that after poking around a few pages you just click off and go to another site? Of course. It happens millions of times a day on the web. Why? Good question! If you can’t get people to stick around your site and eventually contact you, your website [...]

The Best Blog Platforms and How to Use Them Successfully

Blog marketing is a wonderful way to connect with your audience, to provide valuable and useful information to prospects and customers, to sell your products and services, and to drive traffic to your website. However, before you begin to blog or even start to set one up, you have one very important decision to make. [...]

Got Writers Block ? 50 Blog Post Ideas

I wish I could come up with a new brilliant post every day – some days it’s so hard to come up with a topic to blog about.  I like to browse forums and other blogs to see what people are talking about and to get some ideas for different subjects to post about.  Here [...]

Just How Far Does the CDA Go in Protecting Blog Site Operators from Defamatory Posts?

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) shields operators of “interactive computer services” from liability for defamatory posts by visitors. The big question is how far does this protection go – what are its limits? A recent ruling by a divided New York Court of Appeals provides insight into the answer. If you operate [...]

How to Get on Page One of Google

I get asked all the time – how do I get my site to the top ranking on Google? If there was an easy and quick solution – we’d all be doing it – and we’d all be at the top page of Google. But, it doesn’t work that way. It takes knowing what works [...]

Ten Steps to Building a Loyal Readership

Starting a blog from scratch can be intimidating. There are a countless number of established blogs on the web, and you must differentiate yourself to compete. These ten steps can help guide you on your way to penetrating the elite fraternity of professional bloggers, and building a loyal readership. 1. Have a Plan One of [...]

10 Tactics for Being a Powerful Guest Blogger

We’ve all heard the phrase “content is king” but this isn’t always true. First of all, the content has to be quality, well-written content and you also have to know what to do with the content to make it king. Years ago writing articles and submitting them to article directories and ezines was the best [...]

Finally… Google Analytics to Provide Real-Time Reporting

Like millions of other website owners, I use Google Analytics to analyze my website stats. And while I actually like GA a lot, it isn’t perfect. My biggest pet-peeve with the software is the fact it doesn’t provide real-time results. It has a lag time of at least an hour or two before you can [...]

That First Impression: Title Considerations

While it certainly isn’t as much work as crafting the body of a superior article, selecting a title for a piece is definitely an important element of the entire process of content creation. The title of an article is a multifunction web tool, providing opportunities for engagement with the reader and search engine in equal [...]

100 Blogging Ideas for Your Small Business Blog

I came across this great list in an email today. This is one of those lists you’ll want print out and stick on the wall right next to your monitor. Focus on your Industry 1. Write 10 ways your industry will change this year 2. Break down the new laws that will affect your niche [...]

Blog Writing Tips: Keeping Content Fresh

Content may be king, but to torture a metaphor somewhat, even the most brilliant crown can grow tarnished. Generating good content isn’t always an easy thing, and it requires a great deal of effort to avoid getting into rote postings and halfhearted content that isn’t of the quality a blog and its audience deserve. A [...]

Blog Writing Tips-Where to Find Great Guest Posters

One of the best ways to keep a fresh angle in blogging is the guest blogger. They can provide good content, take some of the work load off the primary blogger and can bring new perspectives and ideas that the parent blogger can follow up on in later posts as he or she sees fit. [...]

Understanding TrustRank and How to Use It

Some people say the mysterious Google TrustRank is what really determines SERP positions on result pages. It was obviously created to decide how trusted a website is by looking at various factors including security and the length of time a domain has been around on the web. They have never made an official explanation on [...]

The Bad Blogger – Great Guy, Great Site

I’ve been blogging for almost four years now and have spent much time visiting other blogs for information, entertainment and just plain curiosity. There are millions of blogs nowadays and I hate to say it but quite a few of them are not interesting enough to keep me reading for more than a few seconds. [...]

Blog Writing – The Biggest Mistake

Good blog writing is an art. It requires attention to detail, good grammar, good punctuation, correct spelling and great content. So what is the single biggest mistake a blogger can make when writing a blog post that is supposed to be optimized for search engines? Basically, it is to sacrifice any of these requirements in [...]

The Case for Google PageRank: Perception vs. Economics

Google PageRank: SEO Treasure or Fool’s Gold? What the Experts S…I argued strongly against the importance of PageRank and believing in it as a reliable metric. Among the many compelling expert opinions that I presented to bolster my argument, this statement by Google itself made the most sense to me: “Don’t bother thinking about it [...]

Blog Commenting Marketing Strategy/ 5 Reasons You Should Be Commenting

You become known within your niche When you are out in the community interacting and commenting on people’s blogs it is going to quickly build a reputation for yourself and who you are. It is a good thing to have a reputation online because then people will start to think that they know you and [...]

How to Maintain a Fresh and Relevant Blog

Maintaining a blog is a great way to bring in traffic to a website. It is considered by many to be among the greatest ways to get attention by the search engines without having to study algorithms or anything else. You will be able to create the kind of organic SEO material which search engines [...]

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