If you get less high quality traffic from Google than you would like, here are 5 basic things you should look at. Here they are, in no particular order: 1. Does your blog link to what Google calls ‘Bad neighborhoods’? Google are constantly looking for sites that are trying to game or fool its ranking… Continue Reading
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Google: How to get your photo to show up in Google search results
A number of readers have noticed that whenever a post from this blog shows up in Google’s search results, Google displays a photo of me next to it (see above). People are emailing me more and more, asking how I did it, so here goes. I need to start by saying that I didn’t do… Continue Reading
Blogging: Seth Godin and I are doing it wrong!
According to just about every blogging expert out there, I’m doing it all wrong. But that’s fine with me. Apparently, Seth Godin is doing it all wrong too. It turns out that when it comes to blogging, Seth and I are as clueless as our heads are hairless. What I discovered whilst ruining this blog… Continue Reading
The secret to getting YOUR voice heard
Just as shouting loudly for too long will cause you to lose your voice, blogging for traffic can do the same. Focusing on traffic (numbers) ahead of people, will influence what you say and how you say it. The challenge with that approach is that it’s hard to get your voice heard, when it’s simply… Continue Reading
Just Launched: The Content Marketing Program
Today, I’m excited to announce the launch of a brand new service, my Content Marketing Program. The program runs for a whole year. During our year together, I will show you how to attract high quality clients and inquiries, based on the incredible power of content marketing. Working with you on a one-to-one basis, I… Continue Reading
Twitter: How I attracted more traffic and more followers by doing less
As a marketing guy, I am always testing ways to make things more effective. What follows is my experience, after a simple 5 day Twitter experiment, which was just a bit of fun, yet led to some interesting results and totally changed the way I use Twitter! Here’s what I did and what the results… Continue Reading
Get more traffic from Twitter with these 6 great headline tips
So, you have all those followers on Twitter and yet when you tweet a link to your latest blog post…..nothing much happens! Why did so few of those hundreds (or thousands) of your followers click your link; after all, it’s a great post? Your headline let you down! People will ONLY click your links and… Continue Reading
What’s inside that yellow box?
If you run a business and have a website, blog, newsletter or use any form of online marketing, you will find the yellow box below this post really useful! (If you are reading this via email, click here and scroll to the bottom of this post.) Inside that yellow box is a link that will… Continue Reading
Social networking: Do you make this common mistake?
Don’t let the numbers on social networks fool you! You see, those numbers are far less a reflection of someone’s actual influence or talent, than many people seem to think. For example, that social media guru with 100,000 followers, forced to spend most of his or her time away from their kids in order to… Continue Reading
6 things I learned that cost me thousands: Yours now for FREE!
Today, I am going to share some ideas with you, which cost me thousands to learn. Hopefully, by learning from my experiences, you can save a lot of money, a huge amount of time and achieve some great results! Jim Rohn used to tell us that the most valuable thing about becoming a millionaire is… Continue Reading