How to use your MBTI for your blog promotion
If you’ve ever taken the Myers-Briggs personality type test, you might have found it interesting but not have much of a practical use for it. If you’re running a personal blog or website, you might have found the issue of not figuring out how exactly you should label your blog for search engines. “Personal blog/website/journal” is a wide subject range, and it can be near impossible to label. What is great about using your personality type in blog promotion is that you will have a tool to bring in the right people who...
read moreGoogle Search: Turn off PR
Yesterday’s post on Web Pro News reminded me of something I’ve been concerned about a lot: Black hat SEO tactics. In short, some SEO companies hire low pay people to post fake comments on blogs to get a back link. This does 3 things: 1. Annoys the shit out of the blog owner who has to weed through comments to pick out the fake ones that Akismet doesn’t catch. 2. Annoy the hell out of Google search user who is trying to find the best content – not the highest paid SEO team. 3. Keep the small businesses out of the...
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I’ve been ignoring SEO for years. I felt that it can’t make that much difference and the only thing you should really focus on is to not to get banned from the search engines. So, I did pretty good job at staying hidden! A couple of weeks ago I found this great website that instructs you step by step on what to do and in what order. I’ve used the tools recommended there to track my keywords and I can see clear improvement on the site I’m working on – I haven’t done a thing with this blog yet so don’t...
read moreAdvertising on Project Wonderful
I have been an advertiser on the Project Wonderful for quite some time, always relying on the square 125×125 standard advert, out of sheer laziness, really. I had one created for EntreCard and thought to stick one on Project Wonderful too. (Not much to loose, you know.) Then I started thinking… There are probably a lot of people like me, and the other ad boxes that must be out there go virtually unused… AND unpaid. So, I decided to create a version of my ad in all available sizes. The ad design is very similar, and the...
read moreWhy you shouldn't be TOO concerned about ranks
As bloggers, we’re constantly being told that we should be keeping a keen eye on our Google Page rank as well as Alexa ranking. While it is very fulfilling to see your site ranks go up, there’s more to the story than that. As you know, both of these ranks compare your site to Every Single Website On The Web. It is hard to even comprehend how many websites that is. Even if you knew the exact number of different websites on the planet, it would still be hard to understand. It’s like knowing that Australia is a bloody big...
read moreNewsletter magic
If you are running an active community online, you might have considered writing a regular newsletter, then debunked the idea thinking “Everyone is here already, what possible reason would I have for a newsletter?” Check out your statistics. How many of your members have logged in since they first found your site? Quite a chunk, I would imagine. Life happens, sites are found and sites are forgotten. A newsletter is a great way to remind your non-readers that you and your community exist. I started writing a newsletter for my...
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