Search Engine Optimization is a must for any website that wants traffic. The thing is, SEO can be a bit complicated to pull off, especially if you're not so technically inclined. Fortunately Scribe makes optimizing your website easy. SEO is Complex In order to master SEO you first have to … Read more about Pushbutton SEO for WordPress Drupal and Joomla with Scribe
Blogging for Your Business – 13 Masters Show You How
Last year, David Frey and Maruxa Murphy invited me to be a part of a new telesummit series they were putting together. The topic at the time was Twitter Masters. If you are still trying to get your mind around how to tap into Twitter the info there is still relevant and worth the price of admission … Read more about Blogging for Your Business – 13 Masters Show You How
How to Come Up with a Steady Stream of Content Ideas for Your Business Blog
"But how am I going to come up with that many blog posts? I don't have that much to say." That was what one of my clients said to me recently when our conversation about strategy got to the part about how often I recommended they post on their business blog to meet their traffic goals. A lot … Read more about How to Come Up with a Steady Stream of Content Ideas for Your Business Blog
How to Get 97% More Inbound Links and 55% More Visitors to Your Business Website
Take a look at the picture to the left here. Which street more closely represents how much traffic your business website gets? Is your website more like the little side street on the left with only a trickle of traffic and not really helping out the bottom line of your business? Or is it more … Read more about How to Get 97% More Inbound Links and 55% More Visitors to Your Business Website
When a Blog is Not a Blog
This month marks the 5 year anniversary since I wrote my first blog post. I was testing the waters, thinking I might want to be a writer. What better way to experiment than with a free web publishing tool that could be accessed from anywhere? That was my theory at least. Little did I know that … Read more about When a Blog is Not a Blog
Guest Post at Blog For Profit
If you are looking for some tips on how to get started with video on your blog you might want to check out the guest post I did yesterday over at Blog for Profit. Grant Griffiths is someone I consider a friend, even if he is a lawyer by training. ;) He's the owner of the fabulous Headway … Read more about Guest Post at Blog For Profit
8 Commenting Mistakes that Make You Look Like a Spammer
Spam is the scourge of the internet. Depending on which source you want to use, somewhere between 80-99.9% of all email is spam. Akismet, the most widely used WordPRess spam filter, shows that right now 83% of comments are spam on blogs running their plugin. That means that only 17% of blog comments … Read more about 8 Commenting Mistakes that Make You Look Like a Spammer
One Wrong Way to Get Links
We all know that getting inbound links, links from other web sites linking in to yours, is an important part of marketing your blog and raising your authority and rankings in the search engines. There are all kinds of ways to encourage other bloggers to link to you, but ultimately the best way to … Read more about One Wrong Way to Get Links
Don’t Make this Traffic Killing Mistake
One of the big reasons we have web sites and blogs is to generate traffic. I mean why put up a site unless want people to see it, right? Yet some people insist on adding this traffic repellent to their sites and then wonder why they never see more than a handful of visitors. Smelling Fishy When … Read more about Don’t Make this Traffic Killing Mistake
Competition for Blogs
My good friend Liz Strauss was in the UK recently and shared a little the other day about her experience at City University while she was over there. While she was there she was asked an excellent question. What is a blog’s competition? Normally I come up with answers to questions about blogging … Read more about Competition for Blogs
Down to Business at SOBCon08
Gorgeous and I spent this past weekend at SOBCon in Chicago. It was a tremendous weekend for the both of us. This years event kept some of the best parts of SOBCon07 and yet was quite different in at least one key element, that of focus. Last year SOBCon was all about community with a little bit … Read more about Down to Business at SOBCon08
A Lifetime of Odd Jobs
HighCallingBlogs has a group writing project underway. Marcus Goodyear is hosting on his page Lessons from Odd Jobs. He's updating the list as entries are submitted and there is no hard deadline so if you want to add your take on the subject feel free. Here is mine. An Unusual Career Path Even … Read more about A Lifetime of Odd Jobs