Better Blogging Ways

I was invited to speak at the Google Business Group regional event last week. Overall there were 5 speakers, 2 were Google employees and 3 locals (including myself). Sharing the podium with Google employees was an awesome experience! I spent a great amount of time preparing for it over the last 2 weeks. From finding [...]

With every blog post you write, you want to get more shares, more comments and even more links. Let’s be realistic, it doesn’t happen with every post. However, you might notice that some posts you write, do a lot better than your “normal” posts. Can you think of such posts in your blog? Any post [...]

Note: This is a guest post by Emma Tomlinson. (Thanks Emma for this well researched post.) Search engines have always had a battle with the increasing number of “spammy” websites. In particular, Google—a leading search engine giant—developed or tweaked its set of algorithms to make way for better and stricter updates, popularly known as the [...]

Last December I started a new niche site to participate in a niche site competition. The winner was picked based on how quickly 1. Someone can rank on the first page of Google for the given keyword AND 2. Make $100 from the niche site Basically, I had to be the first person to rank [...]

Have you noticed a significant drop of Google search traffic to your blog after March 19th 2012? One of my niche sites did. See below One of the main goals I have for a niche site is to get it ranked on the first page of Google for the main keyword. People use various one [...]

By now it’s been drilled into every bloggers head that backlinks are important. We all know that backlinks play a huge part in positioning your blog/post post within search engines. Many bloggers consider commenting on other blog posts, as a technique for building backlinks. Often, when bloggers hear that they can get free backlinks from [...]