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Blogging For Business Pre-Launch Event
I've been hard at work over the last few weeks putting together my new course, Blogging for Business, for business owners, managers and freelancers who want to learn to blog, plain and simple. Watch this video to learn more about it, or click on through to the website.
Continue reading...4. March 2011
Shop Web Wrangler Studios on Etsy for Pre-Made and Made To Order Custom Designs!
Need quality web graphics in a hurry? Check out my new Web Wrangler Studio shop on Etsy for a selection of pre-made banners, backgrounds, and even pre-made web sites and blog templates!
Continue reading...7. February 2011
3 Not So Obvious Ways To Get Backlinks That Count
Backlinks: the holy grail of SEO. What Are backlinks? Simply put, backlinks are inbound links to your web site from external web sites. Why are they so coveted? Because Google and other search engines view links from other sites as votes for your web site. The more quality backlinks you have, the higher your site will rank in the search engines. Which Backlinks Are Best? The key word in that last sentence is "quality." The highest quality backlink is a prominent link within the content of an article on a popular blog or web site. This is pretty much out of your control, unless you're good friends with some popular bloggers. On the other end of the spectrum are things like link farms, paid links and link exchange programs, all of which are easy to get but don't really do anything for you in terms of SEO. In some cases they can even hurt, causing Google to consider your site to be spam and remove it from their listings entirely. ...
Continue reading...3. February 2011
When Should I Hire A Virtual Assistant?
If you're running a small business, eventually you're going to need some help. It's tempting to do everything yourself to keep down the cost of overhead, but sooner or later you'll find that the time you spend wearing all those different hats cuts into your profits more than getting help would. Not to mention, it's exhausting. Maybe you're there already, and have been there for a long time, struggling with the decision of whether to hire someone to make your job easier; or maybe being busy enough to need help is a benchmark of success you've yet to achieve. But when the time comes, there's an easy way to get help: hiring a virtual assistant.
Continue reading...24. January 2011
How Often Should I Post To My Blog?
A lot of people are under the misconception that in order to have a successful blog, you have to post to it every day. I often encounter people who would like to start a blog, but this idea that they have to constantly churn out content either intimidates them out of ever getting started, or they attempt it and quickly become burned out by trying to keep up a daily pace and end up abandoning their blogs. The truth is that there are many successful blogs that only post new content once a week or less. This is because quality and consistency are much more important qualities in a blog than frequency of updates. (Read More)
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6. April 2011
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