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3 Creative Link Building Techniques

If you’ve been online for any length of time, chances are you already know you need inbound links if you want your website to be noticed by the search engines.

Some search engine specialists don’t even recommend submitting your sites manually anymore – just get links, links, and more links.

But, wait. Before you run out to the link farm nearest you, there is more to it.

The key is to get high quality inbound links. One-way links from well established sites should be your ultimate link building goal.

After setting that goal, you may realize achieving it is easier said than done. It requires effort. Often, creative effort.

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Some companies pay hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars for quality links, but Adagio Teas can acquire thousands of inbound links simply by giving away a $20 tea brewer and some sample teas.

Hardly seems fair, does it? Continue reading »

How Will a Catastrophic Data Loss Affect You and Your Business?

Over the last couple of months I’d been working on some video tutorials, a few books, and a couple web projects. I was making a lot of headway, too. Then something unimaginable happened: three young men broke into my home and stole my laptops (among other things).

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Software programs, saved emails, pictures, music, the files I’d been working on, all gone.

If you’ve read this blog for some length of time, you know how much emphasis I place on always backing up your website and files regularly, but I never actually stressed backing up your computer…until now.

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Writing Good Reviews: 5 Step Formula

Reviews can be the lifeblood of a blog—the thing that keeps readers coming back for more and driving people through your affiliate links, so being able to write a good review is essential.

The purpose of a review is to keep your reader honestly informed about a product or service and contrary to popular belief not all reviews need to be favorable. Even a negative review can be beneficial if you’re able to point the reader in the direction of a better alternative.

With that brief introduction out of the way, I’m going to share my personal 5 step formula for writing product reviews.

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Super Affiliate Handbook Review

If you are looking for the Super Affiliate Handbook — check out the more up to date  book called “How to Turn Traffic and Trust into Sales.”

 

 

 

 

 

Rosalind Gardner’s Super Affiliate Handbook has been on the market for many years, dating back to 2003, and some even consider it the holy grail of affiliate marketing. It’s aim is to help beginners, and even seasoned internet marketers, understand and leverage the finer points of affiliate marketing to build a profitable and sustainable online business.

The reason why I’m reviewing the Super Affiliate Handbook here, on a website dedicated primarily to blog marketing and WordPress, is because this book can be of huge benefit to bloggers who are looking to earn money blogging. Continue reading »

Improve Your Blog by Offering More Subscription Options

This post is part of the blog improvement series, which is designed to help you as well as your readers get the most out of your blog.

Sometimes giving someone more choices can make one’s life a little more difficult since, by nature, people can become overwhelmed with too many options. However, one area where you want to offer more choices is with how people can receive the content from your blog.

The most common option available to bloggers is the main RSS feed. It allows someone to subscribe to all of the blog’s content via an RSS reader. Great option, but sometimes people don’t want to subscribe to all the blog’s content and would only like to get updates when a specific section is updated. Continue reading »



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