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  • Building Profitable Guest Blogging Relationships

    Building Profitable Guest Blogging Relationships

     

    Matt Cutts really turned the guest blogging community on its head a couple of months ago. Cutts said that many people were abusing guest blogging (basically coz it downright worked) and that it was effectively dead for SEO. Even though Cutts said that guest blogging can still be a great way to gain exposure, his words really made a lot of people much more cautious. Many bloggers have become much more hesitant about accepting guest posts after these recent statements. You need to convince bloggers that you are a legitimate guest blogger rather than a spammer trolling for links. You just godda build guest blogging relationships.

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  • 5 Tips to Create Optimized Yet Catchy Title Tags

    5 Tips to Create Optimized Yet Catchy Title Tags

     

    There is a fine balance between a catchy title tag and an optimized one. It isn’t always easy to get the two just right and provide both, with one not outweighing the other. Some people aren’t even sure of how to use tags in the first place, which is understandable. The average blog owner has started their site out of a love of the subject and content, not with any technical chops backing it up. Luckily, the process is pretty easy. All you need are these five tips, and you will have interesting and catchy, yet search engine optimized title tags that will bring people to your site and really help you out in results.

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  • How To Perform WordPress A/B Testing With Google Analytics

    How To Perform WordPress A/B Testing With Google Analytics

     

    WordPress is a fantastic resource and probably the best content management system (CMS) for creating websites out there. This is of course partially thanks to the ease of use the CMS brings to the table and also the fantastic array of plug-ins. WordPress-based sites allow you so much control over what you add, when you add it and how your site looks and performs. Of course, getting your website right and optimizing it for your viewers’ user experience is one of the biggest battles out there. A site may look aesthetically great, however ensuring it’s working to the best of its ability takes more than just a hunch.

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  • What Are The Next Steps For Your Business?

    What Are The Next Steps For Your Business?

    It doesn’t matter what stage your business is at, you should always be looking for ways that you can take the next step with your business. There will no doubt be so many different things that you can do to progress your business, and it’s the people who are always looking for the next best thing to do that are the ones who are reaching the most success. (more…)

  • Writing a Blog Post With SEO in Mind

    Writing a Blog Post With SEO in Mind

     

    Though you’re not supposed to go totally SEO crazy while writing a blog post because it can backfire, you still need to make sure that you keep track of really important aspects of your blog posts at all times. This post will walk you through the process that I stick to when I add content to the blog. Writing a blog post is not all about search engine optimization. Think about your reader first and foremost. Before you go any further, you need to make sure that your post looks great. Plus you want your blog post to be easy to understand and navigate. So, your site will become user friendly only if you keep all its components in check. (more…)

  • Udemy SEO Course for Beginners

    Udemy SEO Course for Beginners

     

    Totally new to SEO and not sure how to get started? Thing is, you can just take an SEO course for beginners so that you know both what you need to do on your site and off your site in order to make your site visible and reachable for Google and visitors. The course that I offer you today is for those of you guys who are not familiar with search engine optimization. I’ve personally taken the course to get to know about its cons and pros so that you can make an education decision if you need to take it. Now you can read the review and see if it covers the topics that you’d like to know more about. (more…)

  • How to Restore WordPress with the Help of BackWPup

    How to Restore WordPress with the Help of BackWPup

     

    In the previous post entitled WordPress Backup Made Easy, you learned how to make WordPress backups. As you remember, you can use a few methods, but using a WordPress plugin seems to be the most simple one. You got to know (if not, better check it now) how to do the trick with BackWPup. So, you have your backup. Now you probably want to see how your backups can mean the world to you. Say, something really sucky happened and you lost both your files on the server (images, etc) and the database got ruined. But remember you made backups on a regular basis? So, you can fix the issue before you know it. Let’s see how. (more…)

  • WordPress Backup Made Easy

    WordPress Backup Made Easy

    WordPress backup is of topmost importance even if you have no idea about it. Here’s why. You can lose all you’ve done with your blog any minute now. Thing is, you may be so gung-ho about the whole blogging thing that you’re under the impression that everything that you added to your WordPress is cut in stone and will stay intact for good whatever happens. Problem is,

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  • 4 Tips to Starting a Freelancing Business

    4 Tips to Starting a Freelancing Business

    The benefits of starting a freelancing business cannot be overemphasized. From more flexibility at work to high potential income among other things, it is not surprising that a majority of working-class individuals are willing to start a freelancing business at the expense of their traditional careers. Therefore, here are the top four tips for starting a freelancing business that are worth a try.

    1) Define Your Goals

    The whole processing of reaching your limits can be such a daunting task if you lack well-defined and easily measurable goals. If you are looking to start freelancing, it is crucial to decide if you want to be doing it on a full-time basis or just as a way of earning extra income. Irrespective of your ultimate goal, it is necessary to have a clear goal that you can efficiently work towards achieving.

    Most of the entrepreneurs around the world will attest that this is one of the first aspects to put into account as far as starting a successful freelancing business is concerned. It is only after making this clear that you will genuinely achieve your short-term goals as well as benchmarks that will help catapult your business to the horizons of success.

    2) Identify Your Niche

    Knowing what makes your work unique is not only appealing but also vital for the success of your freelancing business. Understanding your niche goes a long way to helping you narrow your client search, preventing time wastage as you only deal with clients that are truly interested in your services.

    In other words, identifying a profitable niche for your freelancing business is similar to seeking out the type of clients that honestly value your work. The good news is that finding the right niche is not rocket science since you only need to examine your work and identify the exact needs of your clients.

    3) Find Clients

    Now, as you embark on your freelancing business, this is also the right time to find some clients to build a portfolio. At this point, your networking skills will be put to test. Friends and family members present the best way to start your venture. The initial clients are crucial since they can give invaluable feedback about your business.

    Consequently, this will be key to the growth of your business since you will be gaining many clients’ trust as you build your portfolio. Interestingly, these clients can also help you build a large client base if you deliver pure gold that satisfies their needs.

    4) Create An Online Presence

    Remember the ultimate goal is to attract a large client base in the long run, and this is only possible if you have the right portfolio. Now, this is where your online presence comes into play. A portfolio website provides any potential clients with a first impression of your style, work and above all, your past clients. So you can guess what happens if your portfolio website is not well done.

    However, a website alone may not be enough if you are looking to develop your freelancing business and it may be necessary to pair it up with social media accounts that reflect your work in the best way manner. Your work should be professional.

  • Keyword Monitoring and Other SEO Stuff with WebMeUp

    Keyword Monitoring and Other SEO Stuff with WebMeUp

     

    Chances are, you’ll be flabbergasted by the SEO software that I’d like to talk about today. You may have been using all sorts of link tracking, competitor analysis, keyword monitoring and stuff like that software. Problem is, you still feel there’s something dead wrong with all that software or simply missing, right? Thing is, you can use an all-in-one online app and you can even test-drive it for 15 days totally free of charge. You’re not gonna learn just some downright platitudes about how to use the app in this post. What you ARE going to learn is how the app will rock your SEO daily workflow. So, what’s the fuss all about? (more…)

  • How to Remove Bad Links

    How to Remove Bad Links

    As you probably know, lots of people are trying to remove bad links after the last Google algorithm update. Especially if we talk about links from private blog networks. You may want to do it as well. Chances are, that’s because you also got a warning message from Google in your Google Webmaster Tools account. In that case you need to make your next move really fast because it’s a manual action which means an actual live human being from Google checked your site and concluded that your link profile is not A-OK. Since you need to contact a whole lot of sites and ask to remove your links, it requires tons of time. (more…)

  • New Year Marketing That Will Rock Your World

    New Year Marketing That Will Rock Your World

     

    Why designs for New Year marketing? Since we still live in a physical world as well, you may want to use all sorts of festive printed materials to promote your online products or services. You can do it with the help of postcards, party flyers and stuff like that. Sure thing, you can hire a designer to create your custom graphics, but you can also do it by a long shot easier. Thing is, you can check totally awesome pre-made designs, select the one that strikes a cord and just have it modified (or do it on your own) to meet your needs. It works either way because you’ll need just basic Photoshop editing skills. As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. (more…)

  • Christmas SEO and Designs You Need for it

    Christmas SEO and Designs You Need for it

     

    Christmas is almost around the corner and it’s high time to think about what you can do in terms Christmas SEO to drive more traffic to your site. You can actually check what people tend to search for in this season. That done, you should create relevant content in order to obtain natural rankings in Google, Bing, etc. Other than that, you may also want to launch products or services that make sense for the festive season that is coming. You’ll need attractive landing pages, newsletter designs or even complete site designs (WordPress templates) for that. The good news is that this post is going to help you with your Christmas SEO. (more…)

  • Facebook WordPress Plugin: Open Graph in WordPress SEO

    Facebook WordPress Plugin: Open Graph in WordPress SEO

     

    Use WordPress SEO by Yoast, but never had the chance to dive in the Facebook Open Graph feature that it offers? Luckily, you can just read the post and you’ll become a Facebook WordPress plugin guru. Well, at least when it comes to that feature in the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin specifically 🙂 You may be really admired by the plethora of SEO and not exactly SEO features the plugin allows to make use of. Nonetheless, it’s still pretty easy and straightforward. So without further ado, you’re about to learn how to make your Facebook snippets look really sweet. (more…)

  • How to Monitor Backlinks with LinkAssistant

    How to Monitor Backlinks with LinkAssistant

     

    Though social networking factors are gradually gaining popularity in the world of SEO, links are still primal in keyword rankings. You just MUST monitor backlinks! You don’t want your links to get lost or get modified without your approval or even being in the know. This post explains how to keep track of your inbound links (external links to your site) with the help of LinkAssistant. If you lose a link on a reputable site, you can pretty drastically lose both rankings and traffic. So, in case you ignore monitoring your links on a regular basis, you may see a traffic drop without being able to explain why exactly it happened. (more…)