You may have heard that google has penalised MyBlogGuest (see http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2335246/Google-Penalizes-MyBlogGuest-a-Guest-Blog-Network). Since last week, the popular guest blogging community can no longer be found on google for branded searches. In fact a google search using site:myblogguest.com would suggest that the site has been completely de-indexed (the jobs.myblogguest subdomain is all that comes up here). Matt Cutts […]
Continue readingRegular readers will know I love copyblogger. Indeed, I even wrote a whole post about my adoration for the zen masters of content marketing. However… When today’s email popped into my inbox I nearly choked on my starbucks grande latte as I doubletaked at the title: – ‘Why We’re Removing Comments On Copyblogger’ Then I relaxed as […]
Continue readingToday’s post has been inspired by two things: – 1) The fact that people are always asking me it is I actually do! 2) This brilliant discussion from Stacey Cavanagh on inbound.org, which poses the question: ‘If someone asked your mum what you do for a living what would she say’ So, today I’ll be […]
Continue readingWhile it is currently the source of some debate how much direct influence social signals have on a site’s SEO (see Matt Cutts’ comments in January), one thing that can’t be argued is that twitter, facebook etc are extremely important sources of direct traffic. If your blog post goes viral then you can expect to […]
Continue readingBack in the summer of 2013 I posted a detailed article about how I had grown the traffic/income of a new affiliate site over a 6 month period. The article covered the period of June 2012 to December 2012 and in that period the site grew from $115 a month (June) to $3834 in the […]
Continue readingMatthew Woodward’s blog has received a lot of attention in the internet marketing world over the past year or so and deservedly so. He writes excellent, high quality tutorials, answers questions/comments, publishes regularly and has built strong relations in the SEO community. He’s also a very helpful, approachable, genuinely nice guy. All the good stuff! […]
Continue readingToday I want to make (and prove) a simple statement – that white hat SEO will beat black hat SEO. I’m going to focus on two things: – Why black hat SEO mustn’t work Why black hat SEO doesn’t work So, no big intros today… let’s dive straight in! Black Hat SEO Doesn’t Care About How […]
Continue readingA look at how to gain the trust of new visitors to your website, improve your conversions and make more money! If you want to make money online, at some point you are going to have sell something (either directly, or as an affiliate). It goes without saying really. The transaction could involve a physical […]
Continue readingWordPress 3.8 is out today (I’ve just upgraded). It’s not a radical overhaul, but the back end stuff is nice and you should of course upgrade your installation asap. What I do really like though is the wordpress Twenty Fourteen theme that comes with it. It’s the first time that a default wordpress theme has […]
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