How to Market Yourself and Get a Few More Followers on Twitter

January 17, 2013 by Leave a Comment

twitter-iconIf you are looking to promote your blog, service, product, or website, you’ve no doubt heard a lot of talk about the importance of twitter, and having lots of twitter followers.

Don’t be mistaken into thinking twitter will be that instant traffic-on-tap system you’ve been searching for. Like any other social media, twitter requires you build relationships, whilst giving something of value back to the community. Do this, and you will be rewarded will a large loyal following who will happily click on your links and hang on your every word.

Here’s a few simple tips you should follow to help get you on your twitter way: [Read more...]

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How to Create a Successful Blog – Structuring Your Blog and Planning your Articles

March 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment

how to creat a successful blog - part 2In the first part of my “How to Create a Successful Blog” guide we looked at the importance of choosing the right keywords to maximize your traffic potential in the early stages of your blog. In this post (Part 02) I want to look at how we can take the keywords we discovered in part 01 and weave them into the fabric of our blog for strong search engine optimization. I’ll also look at some of the tools we can use to make the job a lot easier and well defined.

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How to Create a Successful Blog – Get it Right from the Start and Avoid Fixing Things Later on

March 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment

how to create a successful blogNeed to know how to create a successful blog? Then don’t just dive in head first, planning your blog properly right from the very beginning will save you a lot of heart ache further down the line. Read on and I’ll share a few blogging secrets that will help give you the best possible start.

If you found this article through a search engine, then there’s a good chance you’re here because you searched on “how to create a successful blog” or words to that effect. How do I know that? Well, because that’s how I “planned” it, [Read more...]

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How to Move WordPress to a New Server

January 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Move WordPress to new serverI recently had to move this very WordPress blog to a new server (Host). It was originally hosted on a reseller hosting account of mine, but the whole “Reseller” thing wasn’t really working out for me, and it was proving to be an expensive mistake. I decided to terminated my Reseller account and get myself a more appropriate smaller hosting package. With that done, I now had a couple of days to learn how to migrate this [Read more...]

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How to find a Profitable Niche Market on Amazon

September 22, 2011 by 2 Comments

Find a niche market on amazonThere are usually two approaches when giving advice on how to choose a niche. The advice for people new to building websites, starting a blog, or entering the Internet marketing arena is usually something along the lines of “choose a niche that you are interested in or passionate about”. This isn’t bad advice, in fact it makes a lot of sense. It’s much easier to write about something [Read more...]

Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Amazon Strategies, Niche Strategies

Keyword Research and Analyzing your Competition

September 18, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Analyze your competitionIn my last post Effective Keyword Research I talked about the importance of giving your website the best possible start in life and I outlined a good way of doing your keyword research by using Google search results pages (SERP’s) and the Google Keywords tool to do just that. In this post I want to go into a bit more detail about using the SERP’s to analyze your competition. [Read more...]

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Effective Keyword research is the foundation on which your website should be built

September 15, 2011 by 2 Comments

keyword researchI built many websites when I first started out, and pretty much all of them never saw more than a handful of visitors each day. I thought I ‘d done everything right when building the site and could never understand why things didn’t worked out the way I planned. There were probably a number of things I’d done wrong along the way, but looking back the most important thing I’d messed up was my keyword research. [Read more...]

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