Creating Authority Pages With Regular Updates

February 7, 2013 by 5 Comments

Authority Page Example - Yoast

The idea here is to build authority posts or pages on your blog by regularly updating the content with relevant and current information. Not every post has to be an authority page, this would be for ever changing topics that are popular among your readers and will serve them better. The main point in updating posts you consider important is to provide the best possible solution for your readers. An added benefit to these pages, if done properly and visits increase, is Google may update your post in the search engine results pages and possibly consider it a more authoritative article. [Read more...]

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Google Plus Is More Powerful Than Facebook – Your Online Reputation Counts: Part Three

December 9, 2012 by 89 Comments

G-Plus vs Facebook Follow Me on Pinterest We see it every day, “Facebook is more popular than Google Plus, and G+ is boring” or “Everyone I know is on Facebook“. Okay, fine. So What? Are you looking for an entertainment source or are you trying to build an online business?

Where Traffic Comes From

Does Facebook send qualified traffic to your blog, if worked correctly? Of course it does and you should take advantage of that. So does Twitter, so does Pinterest and, yes, so does Google+. Let’s take a look at your two biggest traffic sources… Your search traffic and your referral traffic. We need to maintain a consistent balance between the two. We still want things like direct traffic from our branding but let’s stick with the two big ones for now. I’ll show you why Google Plus helps both of those traffic sources… [Read more...]

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Your Online Reputation Counts: Part One – Scores And Ranking

October 14, 2012 by 62 Comments

image - Reputation Counts Follow Me on Pinterest This is part one of a short series on our online reputation. This post will go into the disillusions of PageRank and other ranking scores.

I don’t mean to preach or lecture but I think this needs to be said. How many times have you heard others say your Alexa rank doesn’t mean anything? How many people believe our Google PageRank is a useless number that counts very little? The same is said in literally every method of gauging our online reputation; everything from number of comments to our Klout scores, from our Twitter followers to our Facebook likes. [Read more...]

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When Should I Monetize My Blog To Maximize Blog Earnings?

September 12, 2012 by 44 Comments

image - Empty Wallet Follow Me on Pinterest The question “how should I monetize my blog” or “how do I make money from my blog” is one of the most commonly asked questions about make money blogging. And also one of the topics that have been written on the most in the industry and this post: When And How To Monetize A Blog on Hot Blog Tips is one of such articles; which was written to answer a direct question from Michael.

I read the post and thought it gave a nice general requirement of how to start and grow a blog before monetizing it. The post ended with:

The answer on, “How do I make money blogging?” can only be addressed after, “When should I start monetizing my blog?” is answered.

But actually it’s the other way around. [Read more...]

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Google Hangout And Future Newsletter Plans

June 25, 2012 by 22 Comments

Google Hangout Follow Me on Pinterest

A Very Productive Video Conference

Yesterday afternoon I enjoyed a Google Hangout with the three other Newsletter Partners, Sheryl Loch, Mitch Mitchell and Ben Barden. This was by far the most productive Hangout we’ve had to date so I thought I would share some of the highlights with you. [Read more...]

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