Not long ago we had a weekly series on Hot Blog Tips called “Quick Blogging Tip Thursday” which has been moved to our newsletter and is now run by Ben Barden (It’s free to subscribe and receive those weekly tips). In the spirit of new ideas and a weekly series I thought it would be fun to ask you, the reader and subscriber, a weekly blogging question.
To kick off our new Blogger’s Question of the Week, here’s this week’s question:
Many companies put a great deal of emphasis on search engine optimization (SEO) and dofollow links in order to gain visibility for the company website. If many different websites across the Internet have dofollow links back to your website, the Google bots see this as a sign of a website with great content. After all, why would so many website be linking back to your website if it isn’t in reference to great content or because you offered great content? This will help your company website shoot (or eventually make its way) straight to the top of a search engine results page (SERP). This makes dofollow links extremely important; so important in fact that many companies have hired an expert or a team of experts just to make sure these dofollow links happen. Continue reading
Just stop… the banner ads with the “Advertise Here” text and all of the open ad spots on your page simply aren’t working. If you want to get blog sponsors and advertisers on your site you are simply going to have to work for it.
Enough with the ad networks, and running Google Adsense just to send your traffic away for a few pennies. Lets get serious and start talking about bringing in quality advertisers that will advertise with you and pay a premium in the process.
Here’s how easy it is to get started, but way too many people are too afraid or lazy to actually do anything about it. Continue reading
As a blogger you already have some of the best marketing opportunities at your finger tips: the blogosphere and everyone in it. Although many bloggers out there are making great money through various affiliate marketing programs, etc, there are many that struggle to get traffic and viewership, and perhaps that is you. Being involved in the blogging community, however, can change that. Continue reading
Hot on the heels of Facebook’s Timeline, Google+ has begun rolling out its own makeover. This revamped version has several new features to help in “ease of use” and “networking” with improved chat, hangouts, better navigation and trending alerts just like Twitter. What we’ll focus on today is “tweaking” your Google Plus business page images for a better look and feel. Continue reading