How to Create Killer Guest Posts that People Actually Want to Read
If you’ve been blogging for more than around a nanosecond, it’s likely that you’ll be fully aware of the benefits that guest posting can contribute to the success of your own blog. There’s a certain guest posting etiquette that should be followed if you want a better chance of your submissions being accepted, but let’s imagine for a minute that you’ve got all your ducks in a neat row and you’re ready to write. What are the steps that go into creating a first class blog post?
What is the Google Sandbox Effect and how you can protect your website
Google Sandbox, while sounding playful, is not something to take lightly. Google has never confirmed its existence, but at the same time never denied it exists. While all this sounds very dramatic, let’s relax and see what exactly the Google Sandbox is and what we can do to help our site rank higher.
What is Google Sandbox?
When we release a new website and gather some links pointing towards it, we would expect that the rank for its keywords will improve. But Google does the exact opposite. After the site goes “live”, for the next two weeks, you will see some improvement for your ranks of your keywords and will be able to see where you stand against your competition. After that “grace period” passes, your rankings will Read more…
How Real-time Communication Gives Your Customers Convenience
Coming to the term of real-time communications (RTC), what comes into your mind first? Mobile, Instant Messaging, VoIP or chatting software? Real-time communication refers to any mode of telecommunications in which users can exchange information instantly.
Nowadays, different kinds of real-time communication tools help bring people closer. For example, IM sends your greetings to your friends in different localities, and telephones bring mothers’ care to sons from miles away. Then what about customers and online businesses? How can customers get the same customer service experience that they can have in a physical store? Read more…
How to use Social Media for Business
Having an online business includes just about every and any business or niche possible. With the hundreds of ways to promote, advertise and sell your products, services and website, it can be confusing as to which methods are worth our time and investments.
Here’s a small guide on which social network you can use and invest your time in according to what kind of business and online presence you’re maintaining. This is, of course, a complement to your already existing websites and blogs. Of course, this doesn’t necessarily mean that you Read more…
How to Make Sure the Next Blog Guest Post You Submit Gets Accepted
Guest posting is one of those kill X birds with one stone methods. With guest posting you can:
- Position yourself as an authority in your niche, since the most popular blogs in it will have featured an article of yours.
- Gain more visits to your website instantly.
- Capitalize on the social media power of another person.
- Get a powerful backlink from an important blog in your niche.
- Get more followers on social media (depending on your niche and article).
Even if you look at it from a link building perspective only, guest blogging is the most powerful (and free) way to increase the value of your web property for search engines.
You can easily start raising your search engine ranking position for your main keyword even after writing your first guest post, so don’t waste any more time, start writing for other sites straight away! Read more…
How to Increase the Alexa Rank of Your Website
When you’re trying to evaluate how your website or blog is doing, there are several ways to put it in numbers, and actually count the success – or failure – of your online presence. I bet the first thing you think of, of course, is traffic! Page hits! That’s what everyone thinks of, actually. But anyone that has been in online business for a while will know that it’s not just huge amounts of traffic that makes a successful webpage. This is where metrics like the Alexa Traffic Rank come in.
As the Alexa.com website states, the Alexa Traffic Rank is calculated after collecting aggregated data from Alexa Toolbar users over the period of three months. The metric combines the amount of page views and user traffic. Traffic and page views are calculated per day, and then calculated from the average of these two numbers after time. The lower the number of your rank, the better… unless you go to 0, which is actually pretty awful :P Read more…
Should I invest time on Pinterest? Is this going to last?
If you’re active in social media, and read tech blogs, you’ve already heard about Pinterest. In fact you can’t miss it, even if you wanted to! On one of our sites that heavily focuses on images, Pinterest is the number 1 referrer. bypassing Facebook by 40% (Disclaimer: We haven’t started promoting the site to StumbleUpon yet)!
For those of you who don’t know about Pinterest, it’s the marriage of Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr and Flickr all together. It’s a site that lets you create “pins” of all the things you like and categorize them into folders so you and others can easily find them. When someone logs in, they’ll be able to see what pins the people they follow have made and be able to re-pin them in their own folders, like them or write a comment. It’s 90% consumer-oriented. Read more…
The top 12 Internet Marketing Myths you should avoid
You’ve read all about it. Working in Internet Marketing and having an online business so you can make money from home is the most promising thing you read about on the Web these days. There’s so much information on how to make it big out there, but what should you believe? What’s genuine, and what’s a scam? What is everyone saying, and how much of it is true? We’ve picked out the greatest myths about Internet Marketing that you’ll come across and analyzed them here.
And, the list goes to twelve.
1 – Having an online business is easy.
It’s strange how everyone thinks that Internet Marketing is the easiest thing around to do: it’s just like saying that winning in offline business is just as easy.
Of course, there’s a heavy dose of luck involved (just like in everything we do!) but it’s mostly hard work and precise strategic thinking that helps you get to the top.
How much will my website really cost?
So, you’ve decided to start up your own online business. You’ve made the decision to be your own boss, and work at home as an Internet Marketer, or professional blogger or copywriter. Well done, we wish you the best of luck :)
After you get through reading the basics, the pressing question remains: you’ve found out what you have to do in order to be successful at Internet Marketing and making money online. But how much exactly will it cost?
We’ve broken down the main things you’ll have to pay for when maintaining an online presence, whether a blogger, photographer, marketer, reseller, you name it. Keep all this in mind when thinking how to budget your your soon-to-be-booming business. Read more…
How to Increase your Sales Revenue by Raising your Product’s Price
Many people are very scared of raising their prices. In fact, so scared that they try everything they can do to save their declining business and doing every possible kind of promotion and modification to their sales and business procedures, closing in the end without even trying to raise their prices even a little bit.
Raising your prices can be the most efficient way to increase your total earnings in a matter of seconds and you can even split-test it! You can show some of your visitors a page with your normal price and some others your increased price, looking to find how the new increase will affect your conversions. Take a brief look at the following picture. Read more…
