Doing a content audit on your blog archives is useful for optimizing your marketing, SEO and traffic. But, how we can we do one without getting head deep into spreadsheets?
Do blog comments positively affect your traffic? Are they worth having at all? And, if you do enable comments, what are the best practices?
The Google Core Web Vitals are now important SEO ranking factors. So, what are they? How do you get your scores? And what do you need to do about it?
An ultimate SEO guide for bloggers and content creators. How relevant is keyword research? What are the factors Google looks at? How exactly do we go about attracting organic traffic from the world’s most popular search engine? This guide covers it all.
How do you get a new blog noticed by Google? This video post walks you through how to set your blog up properly with Google… and then what to do from there.
Which comes first for your blog: Traffic or monetization? It used to be that you had to build the audience before you could monetize. Is that still true?
Try these 10 best practices (backed by data) to get traffic from Twitter (without paying for it).
How do you get blog traffic? How do you generate traffic when you’re first starting out? Which strategies are more effective than others? This guide goes into it – in detail.
Everything changes. And the internet is certainly changing. Here’s what’s happening… and what this means for bloggers, content creators and online marketers.
The ultimate guide to promoting your new blog. We cover 10 specific (and smart) strategies you should use immediately to promote your new blog effectively.
I get a lot of spammy guest post requests, and you’d be surprised how similar they are. So, I’ve taken 6 examples and thought I’d make an example out of them.
Your blog is leaking prospects faster than a water main break. And it doesn’t matter how effective your list building strategies are, your blog is HIGHLY inefficient. But, there’s something you can do about it. Also, it is insanely easy to do.
After 3 years of on-and-off podcasting, I’ve finally hit a rhythm. And after those 3 years, I learned a lot about how to do it right. Here’s what I learned…
In case you haven’t heard, there is a deadline pending. And if you own a website, this has everything to do with you. Here’s how to avoid being slapped by Google’s next update.
Tired of the slow, slogging nature of trying to get blog traffic by depending on SEO, living on the content hamster wheel, or being told you have to “engage” on social media all day to attract people over to your blog? Me too.
In this blog monetization case study, we take a look at a nutrition blog by a nutritional therapist. He is getting 1,000 visitors daily, but needs to increase his opt-in rate and wants to make more sales. Let’s dive in and see how we can enhance this blog…
Podcasting is on a growth trend. And more and more people are getting started on the medium in order to market themselves and build their brand. Interview-based podcasts are pretty popular right now. The idea is that you bring on guests from your niche, ask them questions, and bam!… you got yourself a podcast….
When it comes to growing blog traffic, we need to think bigger than just blogging. Today, you have to think bigger and play a bigger game to really gain any traction when it comes to traffic and the size of your audience. I believe this “deadly quartet” is the required answer.
Traffic. It is that thing we all want more of. It is that big barrier faced by all new blog owners. Like an unscalable summit. How do you get it?
This post breaks all the various strategies and tactics into a 6-step formula which unifies them all.
How does it make you feel when you call some big corporation and you get one of those “Press 1 for blah, press 2 for blah” prompts? When the recording says “we care about your call”, you’re probably thinking some pretty wicked thoughts, huh? Even worse is when you’re stuck talking to a computer. Oh,…
So, you want traffic to your new site. What are you doing about it? If you’re anything like the average blogger, you pretty much default to a single strategy: social media. The plan is to get big on Twitter, Facebook and Google+, build your audience over there, and then siphon people off over to your…
The subject of getting traffic to a website is a BIG topic. It has a lot of moving parts and some things work better for some than for others. There is no single effective method to build traffic. If there were, everybody would be doing it.
It is true, however, that some things tend to be more effective than others. My personal experience in this business has shown this. And I’ve seen new bloggers over-emphasize certain things and they end up wasting time.
So, I’ve devised a chart to rank certain popular traffic generation methods in terms of effectiveness, scaled from 0 to 10. 0 means it is mostly a waste of time, and 10 means it works insanely well.
So, I knew I needed to write a blog post. I was so busy that I didn’t have any time to prepare anything in advance. So, what did I do?
I went to my social media accounts and asked. The very first suggestion that came in (quick reply) was from @CavemanHomeComp who suggested – suprise! – the very post that I’m writing right now.
So, I’m going to put together a lightning-round of tips for how I think bloggers should use social media to promote their blog. And, at the end, I’d like you to chime in with a comment and let me know what tips I forgot to include that have worked for you.
First, a word of note…
How do you get a blogger to promote or review your product? Here’s some direct advice from a blogger with 2 decades of experience.