A few months ago, I signed up for StumbleUpon. I downloaded and installed the toolbar on Firefox and started surfing. Pretty cool. However, I had seen a few people talking about using StumbleUpon for promotional purposes on their websites, with apparent success. Some were talking about driving thousands of visitors PER DAY to their sites using the system. But, I could not find any clear information on what needs to be done to make that happen. I mean, I can use StumbleUpon as an end user all day … [Read more...]
The Importance of Surveys, SurveyMonkey
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I recently signed up for an account at SurveyMonkey after re-realizing the importance of surveys. Here's the story... My largest site, PC Mechanic, has actually been seeing a slight, but steady decrease in overall traffic. Nobody in this business likes to see decreases in traffic. Sure, all sites vary up and down on daily traffic, but when you open the Analytics account and look at a multi-month range and see a slow, but steady decrease over time, that's not good. Even a flat trend is an … [Read more...]
Cross-Linking Multiple Sites – Bad For SEO?
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After my little brush-up with Youtube yesterday, we decided to post our new video on Revver instead. BTW, I also got definitive confirmation from Youtube that this is indeed the case. They said: We're no longer offering the option to upload videos longer than 10 minutes, regardless of your account type. If you see a video on YouTube that's longer than 10 minutes, it's probably owned by one of our content partners. There are also some users who can upload longer videos because they were given … [Read more...]
Time to Launch
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There are two very distinct phases to a website: (1) Design and (2) Marketing. In my opinion, far too many people spend way too much time on #1 and not enough time on #2. That is easy to do. All of us want to have a website which looks great and functions the way we need it. Those of us who do it ourselves can go around in circles trying to make it absolutely perfect before launch. Those of you who do not know how to design and program a website will hire developers to do it for you. However, … [Read more...]
David has been blogging for 15 years, and generating a six-figure income at it for the last 12. He is the founder of Blog Marketing Academy. 
David Risley has been building and operating authority blogs for 15 years, and operating a six-figure business doing it for a decade.
