5 Online Marketing Skills Learned While Blogging
Although a lot of bloggers may not consider themselves Internet marketers, they have likely developed many valuable online marketing skills. How? Through simply promoting their own blog and latest posts. I know that many of my online marketing skills can be directly...
Is Blog Commenting an Effective Marketing Strategy?
There are different views on whether effective blog commenting can bring some real value to a blog or website. Some say posting comments on blogs is an excellent way of attracting visitors’ attention. There are others who believe blog commenting as a marketing...
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...
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...
How Blog Comments Attract Traffic
How Blog Comments Attract Traffic As a blogger, you have something to say, whether it’s about business, baking or birds. With regularity, you post insights, photos and tips in an effort to share your interest with readers. You believe you’re doing your best, yet your...
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...
Blog Marketing Strategies: That Makes People Click
Blogs have become the communication tool of the next generation. They no longer need to spend a lot of money if they want to communicate with the masses. They are well equipped with the tools in their PC. While this is true, it also has its own share of side effects....
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...
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...
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 Blogging Tips You May Not Have Tried Yet
Every blogger is fighting a constant battle to gain ground in the blogosphere. Though there are more than one hundred million blogs (in the English language) on the internet, not each of them will leave their mark. Just because you have excellent writing skills...
Paid Guest Blogging Opportunities
Everyone knows by now the value of guest blogging when it comes to building links back to your blog and building up your authority in your niche. But did you know you could get paid to guest blog as well? Becoming a Freelance Writer If you are writing on your own...
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...
5 Mistakes That Will Crush Your Blog’s Growth
A blog’s growth depends on how well you rope in new visitors while keeping the existing readers satisfied. If you take blogging simply as a hobby, you may not be really worried about whether its popularity grows or not. But if you are planning to turn your blog into a...
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...
How To Assemble the All-Star Content Promotion Team
Content promotion is getting to be as important as creating the actual content. I think what people are starting to realize is that just creating great content will only take you so far. This is one of the reasons Social Media and SEO are blending together. You...
Making the Most Out of Guest Blogging
There have been a lot of great posts that talk about guest blogging and show you the value of reaching out to other authoritative blogs in your industry. However I thought I would take a different angle on this post and talk about what makes your guest post stand out...
A Look at the New FeedBurner Beta
Ok, I know, I know. Tons of people are not fans of FeedBurner due to their inconsistent RSS subscriber count. But let’s get past that and look at the other things you can learn about your RSS subscribers through FeedBurner in their new beta version. How to Get...
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...
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...
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...
Blog Post SEO: How to Search Engine Optimize Content
The opening keynote at Blog World Expo was Scott Stratten of UnMarketing, who wanted to convey the fact that “people spread awesome” in terms of content, and that there are five things that “stop the spread.” Number three in this list was...
Inside Look into 31 Days to Build a Better Blog
I recently just finished reading the book, 31 Days to Build a Better Blog, by Darren Rowse of ProBlogger. I want to start off by saying I wouldn’t write a review on something that I didn’t truly believe in. But there are so many great ideas in this book...
5 Ways to Improve Your Guest Blogging Strategy
As mentioned several times before on this site and others, guest posting is a wonderful way to engage in a genuine and effective link-building strategy. Still, not many who first embark on the guest blogging process completely understand how it works. Here are a few...
Using Web 2.0 & Social Media To Improve Customer Service
With all of the new communication tools and technology being introduced, the way that companies handle customer service has been transformed into a more effective and efficient manner. Users want to be able to receive real-time support and have multiple options to...
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...
7 Reasons Why You Need a SEMrush Pro Account
If you are an Internet Marketer, you have undoubtedly heard of SEMrush. SEMrush has probably the most comprehensive data set on the web, when it comes to keyword research and competitive intelligence. Yes, there are plenty of free SEO tools available (including...
Successful Ways to Boost-up your Blog
Quality content and intelligent marketing can do wonders to your blog. For a start-up blog, you have to take care of the following things: A good blog software will ensure a good platform: You can choose to host your blog in a blogging website or you can choose to...
How to get the Most Out of Social Media Connections – It’s Not All About Traffic
Advertising on Facebook quadrupled last year. More than three-quarters of big American companies use some sort of social networking, and most small businesses take off from social media-induced traffic. It’s clear that Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and their...
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...
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...
Grow Your Twitter Following Through Guest Blogging
There are many reasons for guest blogging, such as getting exposure and backlinks for your website, positioning yourself as an authority in your niche, and so on. Can increasing your Twitter following be a benefit of guest posting? Absolutely! So what do you have to...![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...
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...
10 Characteristics of a Great Blogger
There is a huge difference between a good blogger and a great blogger. A great blogger contains certain characteristics and traits that sets them apart from the rest. Having these ten qualities gives a blogger the power to understand what users what, how to create...
Ensure Smarter User Experience Using the Right Analytics Tools
Do you know where your site is positioned in comparison to the other sites in your niche? Have you any idea what is exactly missing in your business strategy? If not , then you are missing out a vital element. User engagement is the key to successful business. So its...
Let the Power of Blogging Work for Your Business
You hear all the time why blogging is great for business. Well, practically speaking it is. Companies more than likely shy away from it because of the time it requires to formulate a well-meaning blog. Blogging has just about as much power than social media does to...
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...
Writing a Great Review Post to Generate Sales
One of the best ways to make money through affiliate product marketing is by writing reviews. But there are a few keys to make your review be the one that people want to buy from. 1. Try and Love the Product I know, there are people who can review a product based on...
The Keys to Rapid Blog Content Creation
I have been blogging for about 3 years now, so I like to think that I am getting pretty good at creating fast blog content, while still maintaining the quality. I can remember when I first started out, it would take me hours just to try and force out a 300 word blog...
Will Niche Blogging Work for You?
Blog experts say that niche blogging is the excellent way to engage a specific audience. The concept of niching is nothing new to marketing: when applied to blogging, it simply means that blog writers can focus on subjects that are targeted toward a specific audience....
Measuring Online Marketing Metrics
While traditional marketing (on TV, radio and print) is still prevalent as ever, online marketing is slowly but steadily growing to become a strong marketing weapon. For one, online marketing – which includes video ads, expandable banners, floating ads, takeovers and...
Using Your Front Line Employees to Fuel Your Content Marketing
In my 12+ years in the Internet marketing industry, I don’t think I’ve ever come across a company (in any industry) that couldn’t benefit from launching a business blog. SEO thrives on the consistent production of quality, engaging content. You’ve probably heard the...
The Future of Video Blogging
Video blogging or “vlogging” is becoming a very popular online trend and most internet users will agree that video blogs are popping up in every niche and industry. According to recent statistics from internet giant YouTube, more than 65% of U.S. based internet users...
4 Reasons to Provide Video Transcripts
More and more often, I am finding blog posts that are nothing more than a video with little to no text details. As video blogging becomes more and more prevalent, I think it is a great time to look at four reasons why video transcripts should be included in the blog...
Tumblr Continues to Climb the Blogging Ladder, Now with 15-million Users
It seems strange how WordPress remains silent and calm with the recent news that Tumblr is catching up with them. Tumblr, presently ranked as the 3rd most popular blogging platform and the 34th most-visited website in the United States, has just passed the 18-million...
A List of Useful Twitter Stats and Analytics Tools – Just for You!
Without measuring your progress, you can never ensure whether your marketing efforts are headed in the right direction, right? A wonderful micro-blogging service, Twitter happens to be a powerful tool to promote your brand, products or services on the internet. And...
Live from Blog World Expo 2010: Monetization Super Panel
This post are my notes from the live session at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas. Please forgive me if I misspell anything or if some of the notes don’t make sense, as I am trying to gather as much information from each speaker as I can. Quick Facts on the Session...