Why You Should Monitor Bounce Rate for Each Browser?
One of the biggest challenges I face as an SEO consultant is making sure that the changes my clients make to their sites aren’t effecting the goals that I am trying to accomplish for them. For the most part, I allow my clients to do whatever they want to their...
Are People More Likely to Comment on a Video Post?
You can’t deny it, more and more bloggers are utilizing video content on their blogs. It is becoming much easier to quickly shoot a video and upload it to YouTube, then embed the video into your site. Lets just take a look at Gideon Shalwick’s blog, who...
How to Find Your Blogging Sweet Spot
If you’ve been blogging for any appreciable length of time, you’ve probably experienced the joy of ripping the wrapper off your brand new blog and imagining the places you’ll go. You’ve probably also experienced the feeling of sitting before the blog and wondering,...
Blogging Best Practices on How to Engage your Reader
The quickest way is not always the best way to attract readers to your blog, taking a hot news topic and going against most of the world’s opinion on a current political situation always can start up a tornado of debate, and rebuke. This is not going to make any money...
Social Media Marketing or Content Creation: Which Comes First?
While creating a Facebook Fan page, Twitter profile, and LinkedIn profile, YouTube channel, Flickr account, etc and then using those social media networks is technically “creating content,” for the purposes of this post, when I speak of “content...
Building Online Relationships: How Do We Do It?
One of the most important success factors for your blog is going to be how you go about building relationships. Getting people to check in with you regularly is crucial if your blog is going to thrive and flourish. It can seem daunting when you first consider how to...
10 Quick Tips to Remember When Starting a Blog
Pick a Niche: Blogs that have the most success stick to a specific niche. Do not just write about anything that comes to mind, write about your area of expertise. Cater your content to a specific audience and industry. Find the Right Blog Solution: Self-hosting or 3rd...
4 Reasons to Continue Blogging (Other than Making Money)
Most of us begin blogging because we have a specific knowledge or passion to share with others. Perhaps you love to write, or love you to discuss topics and issues with others whom you may not know. After a few years, however, I’ve found that many bloggers have...
5 Secrets to Create Eye-catching Headlines for Your Blog
As a blog owner, you should know that the successful headline will increase readership rapidly for your blog, which should be eye-catching first, then grab the attention of these prospective readers. Headline, as the first impression of your article, needs to describe...
Emailing Templates, Pen Names, and Link Building
Guest posting has flooded the blogosphere faster than anyone thought it would in the last two years. The sudden rise of the use of the tactic of guest posting raises a lot of questions and concerns. How Should You Treat Guest Posts? The Panda wave sent a lot of...
5 Effective Ways to Reduce Website Bounce Rate
The only effective way to maximize your online marketing “return on investment” is to use website-tracking tools. Only by understanding your company’s website analytics, can you precisely identify and monitor your site’s potential customer...
How to Lower Your Bounce Rate Using Google Analytics
Once you’ve built your website or your blog, the first thing you will want to do is bring in a lot of traffic by optimizing it for search, acquiring traffic generating links, and sharing it on social bookmarking and networking sites. The more traffic you can...
Without Analytics, You Might As Well Be Working In The Dark
Have you ever tried running in the dark? I know you can’t – I have tried. It is the same with running a website. If you don’t know what is happening inside your site, you won’t be able to steer it towards success. Unfortunately, very few of us tend to pay attention to...
Why Outsourcing Content Development Can Hurt Your Company
It is true that having unique content on your site is a big part of search engine optimization and continuing to build quality traffic. However your content development strategy can have a big impact on how fast and how much traffic you can gain. There are a number...
How to Optimize an E-mail Generating Newsletter
Newsletters can make an accidental or first time visitor, who has come to your site because they saw something of interest to come back again as an interested reader. So long as they keep their subscription to your newsletter, you will have a consistent reader who will return to your site.
5 Benefits of Blogging from a Junior SEO Analyst
I’ve been in the SEO blogging industry long enough to know that though there is a difference between being a SEO Consultant/Analyst/Executive and a Blogger, they pretty much go hand in hand. I like to think I’m a combination of both, a hybrid if you like...
The Pros and Cons of 1st and 3rd Party Cookies
A Cookie is a pretty easy concept to understand. It is simply a tracking code that is stored on the user’s computer for a determined amount of time to track their ID session, navigation, and preferences. Where is can be a bit confusing is when you talk about the...
How Safe is Your Blog from Fatigue?
Working from home has become so glamorized that most keen entrepreneurs entering into it don’t really quite understand the realities of running a blog. I remember the dangling carrots that initially caught my attention. They went something like this: “… become...
How and When to Move from A/B to Multivariate Testing
Most of us who have a website would love to get it to perform a little better, two obvious ways to do this are to increase traffic to the site or to increase what we get from the existing traffic. By increase what we get from the existing traffic I’m talking about...
Six Outbound Linking Tips for Free Blog Promotion
Generosity is a great virtue. Even in terms of blogging, you can use this virtue to promote your blog for no cost at all. One way of showing your generous side to niche bloggers is by linking out to their blogs. However, many bloggers complain that they see little or...
Download Now: 6 Free eBooks to Make Money Online
Over the past 6 months I have been interested in learning more about affiliate marketing and making money online. So I started reading a number of awesome blogs that are dedicated to exact that. I am paid for a number of eBooks, some good, some bad…but I have...
How to Setup Goals in Google Analytics to Track Mailing List Conversions
When you are looking to make money online, one of the first things you have to do is build your mailing list. The more opt-ins you have, the more you are likely to make when promoting your own products, or those of your affiliates. But how do you know what makes your...
Must Have Firefox Plugin for Blog Commenting
If you are like me, you have multiple identities when it comes to blog commenting. I comment with several identities for my own blog, my work, blogs I guest post on, and also my article marketing profiles. As you can imagine, this gets somewhat confusing and...
The Right Way to Create Branded Content
Content marketing is growing by leaps and bounds. More and more reputed companies like Red Bull are using branded content to create more awareness about their products, without actually “selling” directly to their target audience. However, creating the right mix of...
Blog Post Promotion – Content, Social Sharing & Analytics
A few weeks ago, I published the most popular post on my blog. Ever. 125 women in blogging brought in numbers like this site has never seen before. I can’t tell you how excited I was that this post was so popular, and how thankful I was for every tweet, comment,...
Improve Your Content Marketing With Infographics
Content marketing plays an important role in attracting customers to your product/service. One of the best ways to improve content marketing is to use infographics for driving more visitors to your website. According to the Survey, the fastest growing content format...
Attention! Before You Guest Blog, Know Their Audience
If you have been following a lot of the popular Internet Marketing and Blogging blogs out there, you have probably seen an increase in people talking about how guest posting is a great way to build an audience. But before you start writing for other blogs, make sure...
7 Ways Your Blog Can Have a Competitive Advantage Over the Rest
Odds are, you are not the only blog in your niche, so standing out from the crowd is important. That can be a hard task to accomplish, especially when there are hundreds of other blogs, all trying to get exposure and traffic. So what can you do to rise above your...
The 3 Things You Need to Learn About Blogging
There are hundreds and thousands of blog-related articles on the Web. A lot them teach how to blog differently and uniquely among others, and some even offer crazy Web tricks to get clicks and readers. They always reiterate that we should think outside the box, with a...
What Was Your Biggest Traffic Day and How Did You Achieve It?
Darren Rowse from ProBlogger asked the question on his blog, “What was your biggest traffic day and how did you achieve it?” I thought it would be fun for everyone to share their story about their biggest traffic day on their website or blog and how you...
Blog Monetization Models: Turn Your Blog into a Money Making Machine
Blogs can be a great way to earn revenue, but not without the effort of building site credibility, valuable content, and a readership. This is why the majority of blogs fail! Most people who manage blogs don’t have the patience or frankly the time to maintain...
Content Marketing That You Need to Avoid at Any Cost
Content driven marketing as it seems has caught the imagination of the marketers as Google has rubbished almost all the traditional linking building methodologies. In fact, it is now being treated as a crucial tool for social media marketing as well. But since most of...
21 Key Benefits of Blogging
Different people blog for different reasons. For some, blogging is an excellent means of satisfying their personal ego. Many people blog because they earn a full-time income out of it. There are others who blog for academic benefits. Once you have stepped into the...
Formulating an Internet Marketing Strategy: Asking the Right Questions?
It doesn’t matter if you are building a new website, conducting search engine optimization, PPC advertising, or a social media strategy, there are always going to be important questions that need to be answered by the client. Having detailed answers to these...
How to Use PostRank for Social Media Analytics
PostRank offers real time social media data and analysis on almost every topic or trend that is relevant to your blog, business, niche, and industry that goes beyond other analytics programs. Let’s look at how to use PostRank, search for blogs, see top blogs on...
Using HubPages to Make Money Online and Build Backlinks to Your Blog
Is it possible to make money on another site while promoting your blog? Of course it is! One easy way is through article marketing on HubPages. Why HubPages out of all of the other article directories and income sharing content generation sites? HubPages gives you...
How Can SMBs Use Blogging To Improve Local Sales?
Of late, there have been a lot of attempts by small businesses to get visibility on local searches – and not without reason. Local SEO is very rapidly replacing the traditional Yellow Pages primarily because it is simpler, faster and more accurate. Under these...
Google Webmaster Tools – 6 Key Pieces of Information
If you feel like you have been missing out on some valuable information in your Google Analytics, you’re in luck. Most of it has probably been hiding in Google Webmaster Tools all along, waiting for you to unlock it! Not to mention with Google+ Review, there is...
Every Comment Matters
I’ve been following quite a number of blogs for several years now, some more popular than others. They all vary in nature, as do the bloggers behind them – some are personal while others are formal and professional much like the SEM Blog I’ve been managing...
10 Affordable Search Engine Optimization Tips
Search Engine Optimization doesn’t have to be costly, you just need to know some SEO Basics. Search engine optimization is the science and art of marketing and publishing information that ranks high for chosen keywords in the search engines. Most search engines show...
The Fringe Benefits of Blogging
Throughout the 3 years that StayOnSearch has been around, I didn’t truly see the full value of the fringe benefits that you gain from blogging until recently. Now that the blog is receiving a respectable amount of traffic and has built a loyal readership, there...
Where to Find Inspiration and Passion for Blogging
Sometimes it can be hard to sit on the computer and force yourself to write a high-quality blog post. I’m sure the bloggers out there can relate to this and know exactly what I’m talking about. You are sitting there, spinning your wheels, trying to...
8 Proven Tips to Reduce Bounce Rate of Your Website or Blog Successfully
SO here it is: my definitive guide to getting the bounce rate of your blog or your website down to manageable (i.e. significantly reduced) levels: Terminology First! Before we begin, let’s be sure we know what we are talking about. Bounce rate is a single page visit,...
How to Manage a Blog with Multiple Authors
Managing a blog where you are the only author can be a relatively easy task. You are in control of the content quality, post frequency, comments, and design layouts. Once you start to have multiple authors, things start to get a little more complicated. There are...
Call Tracking Systems for Your Internet Marketing Campaigns
Though it is easy to get deluded in the online virtual world, the fact of the matter is that the physical reality overpowers everything. The goal of any and all online marketing campaigns being conducted is to increase conversions, leads or any other measurable form...
The Power Of Stories (To Engage With Your Audience)
People love stories. We humans are curious in nature, and by using stories in your marketing messages you can engage with your audience a lot better. Take the 2 scenarios below for example: Scenario 1 Susan exclaimed: “Yes! I’ve finally made it!” After a continuous...
How to Write About Anything
There are some internet marketers out there who work exclusively on campaigns they feel passionately about. Those lucky few generally have no lack of ideas and no problem churning out oodles of quality content on command. Unfortunately for the rest of us, we...![Live From Blog World Expo 2010: The 7 Harsh Realities of Blogging for Bucks [Keynote]](https://www.stayonsearch.com/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/BlogWorld.jpg)
Live From Blog World Expo 2010: The 7 Harsh Realities of Blogging for Bucks [Keynote]
This keynote is with Darren Rowse, Brian Clark, and Sonia Simone. There are a lot of misconceptions about blogging and making money through your blog. Darren, Brian, and Sonia talk about 7 misconceptions and how you can succeed through blogging. #1 – Free is...