Coming up with a strategy for how you will use social media to build your following, get more subscribers, increase traffic, generate leads, etc. is a daunting task sometimes.  It’s crossed my mind one or two thousand times, “Is this really necessary?” Yeah.  It is. Don’t get me wrong. My goal is not to avoid [...]

Creating a good contact page is what will separate your business website from the other business websites out there. Even if you are not running a business website, having a good contact form is vital in order to make people feel comfortable doing anything with you that will require time or money. Use these tips [...]

One of my all-time favorite new school books is Tim Ferriss’ 4-Hour Workweek. Tim has been dubbed a life design expert, offering practical methods for automating the day-to-day so that you can get to the business of living life. As a blogger, you can probably understand when I say that I sometimes struggle to organize a seemingly infinite list of things to do which can eat up my workday and stretch into my very cool weekends.

Yahoo Site Explorer has been used as an effective method to check backlinks for six years, but with its demise comes the question of what online marketers are going to do to check their backlinks. Yes, there are some free tools available, but none of the free tools on the market are as extensive as [...]

Sometimes I think about what my vanity plate will say when I’m finally rolling around Atlanta in my Aston Martin V12 Zagato.  Maybe by then I’ll be so cool I won’t need a vanity plate.  I’ll be too cool to be vain. (Daydreaming) … Yeah. While I may be too cool for a vanity plate, [...]

If there’s one thing we now have plenty of it is content. Whether good or bad, most of us are exposed to someone’s content on a daily basis and if your job is anything like mine, you’re feeding on content sometimes for hours a day.  For bloggers, a good portion of your day may be [...]

I hope that title makes you feel pretty good.  I read the Dummies books, but I never feel good about it.  So here we are, learning about building links.  Link-building is an important part of optimizing your content for search engine rankings. By now, you probably know that one of the main issues with building [...]

Post Panda update, Guest posting has become a favorite method for bloggers to get back-links. Nearly everywhere you go on the Internet, its the same message these days – Do guest posting on similar blogs in your niche with an author byline pointing to your own blog and see your influence grow! But is guest [...]