This post hopefully can act as a bit of a counter-balance to all the stories of dread you will find if searching of how hard it is to fix a site after it has been hacked, and what it takes to get Google to reconsider your site after it has been happened.
The relationships you can build in blogging are often more valuable than you can allocate a monetary value.
I have just been joking a little with Jack Humphrey on twitter about outranking him for his own product.. yet again, and toying with the idea of making it a double listing.
The first thing Jack did when he read my post was promote it to his Twitter followers.
Think buying a custom premium WordPress SEO theme will give you perfect SEO? Think again…
I don’t think there is one “premium” WordPress Theme that doesn’t claim to be perfect for SEO “out-of-the-box”, so I thought I would bash some theme developer heads around and maybe knock some sense into them.
They might achieve 50:50 of what could be expected of a true SEO theme (though I haven’t seen the latest Semiologic Pro out in the wild), and potentially with the aid of 3rd party plugins currently available, they could reach 80:20.
However most claim they don’t need 3rd party plugins to achieve their eminence in WordPress SEO
That doesn’t leave WordPress SEO plugins off the hook, there isn’t one plugin that gets beyond 60:40 or with some tweeking possibly 70:30, depending on what factors you feel are important, or are aware of.
Awareness is certainly one of the problems…
I spent the better part of a week and a few hundred dollars ($300-$400) on various WordPress sales letter and affiliate themes – I came to the conclusion that they weren’t something I would use.
So I set about creating a solution for myself…
I think almost everyone knows this saying
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
How many people have old fishing rods in their shed or loft?
I bet they even know how to use them, but for some reason a takeaway Chinese, microwave dinner, or eating out is a much more convenient way to eat.
Sure, catching fish is satisfying, relaxing and fresh fish on a charcoal grill is extremely appetising.
Then of course there is the fun of playing with fishing line…
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Whilst the test I performed over the last few days isn't ideal, recently, just for a few days I actually switched off my email subscriptions.
Email subscriptions has never accounted for the largest percentage of my subscribers, but I have always recognised them among my most responsive readers. I assure you the decision wasn't taken lightly, especially with a number of major launches to write about which were highly targeted to my core audience.
One of the promotions I was testing was for Jeff Johnson's WordPress SEO Blogging Software.
The post was written on Friday, not the ideal time to publish, but
What a difference 24 hours make.
A few days ago I was honestly prepared to rip a product to shreds. It wasn't that it was a bad product, but it wasn't as well prepared as it should have been, and from what I can tell it was due to an honest communication error between a well respected online marketer and his programming team.
But before I talk about the product itself, I am going to give you a little history lesson.
A few years ago I purchased a script called WordPress Elite. It was pretty useful, and allowed you to point the
The new WordPress.com possibly related posts is game changing – and gaming changing if they get it right.
The following are some notes I am taking whilst testing
Over a year ago I questioned the use of tagging on WordPress.com to spread link equity around as "a rising tide".
If you use similar tags to a high profile blogger, it can help with faster indexing and rankings, at least from what I have observed.
In many ways the effect is similar to linkfarms, using the tagging as a central hub. Many commentators complain when they see Technorati tag pages appearing in the Google SERPs, because Technorati doesn't have a huge amount of editorial control over the content of those pages, they are more like search results.
In that situation however
I have learnt a huge amount from Ken Evoy over the years, he provides some of the best free ebooks to learn about affiliate marketing and pre-selling ever written.
His SiteBuildIt system has created many successful online businesses and was doing this long before WordPress became popular.
In his email to affiliates today he announced a new sales page attacking blogging head on.
Blogging has reached lemming status. Without even thinking,
many small businesses equate blogging with having a Web
site. This is obviously wrong for small businesses with
something to sell (ex., services, e-book sellers, etc.).
But it's also the wrong choice for
