Market Samurai’s latest feature “Title and Anchor Text Competition” filters down the competing websites for keywords to only those with the keyword in the title tag and an inbound link from another website using the keyword in the anchor text.
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I have never had a bad experience with the articles Nicole Dean offers. They are affordable, professionally written, available for all sorts of topics and simple to use.
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Leave it to Google to send unsuspecting website owners into a tailspin with no warning whatsoever. As is typical, the Big G dropped an algorithm bomb in 2011 with the original Panda update then again in 2012 with the Penguin “over-optimization” update. That sent website owners scrambling to pick up the pieces.
Most of us had been following the long-standing rules of keyword optimization that said to use keyphrases often in our copy, title tag, description tag, ALT tags, navigation, etc., etc. But there’s one lady who was paying attention to the subtle changes that were happening without much fanfare.
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Guest Post by Karon Thackston: What an introduction I got to the digital publishing world. After launching my very first e-product, I was horrified to find out it had been stolen. What transpired over the next few months was both heartbreaking and educational. I can promise you, it had a lasting impact on how I […]
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It was a nightmare in every sense of the word. The old saying, “No good deed goes unpunished” comes to mind every time I tell the tale. I was bound and determined not to go through that ordeal again. My past experiences with publishing Kindle books taught me well. But I’m excited to say things […]
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Guest Post by David Perdew. I wired my house myself when I built it. After a lot of research studying the residential electrical codes, I carefully created the circuits in the house to make sure everything was organized and labeled correctly. Then, I hired an electrician to look at the job before I closed everything […]
Continue readingPop quiz… How many times have you heard this advice? “Stop trading time for dollars.” Yet, I’d venture to speculate that most coaches and trainers do this every day even though they tell you they don’t. That’s because most don’t understand the concept and the serious damage it does to your profit center.
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Yesterday, Dropbox.com announced their new desktop client version 2.0. Dropbox is a handy way to share files and folders with other people and to collaborate on documents such as Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. With a free account you get 500 MB of storage space along with opportunities to get more free space by referring the service with others.
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Images in your WordPress content or in your sidebar are powerful attention-getters. Many times as blog readers, our eyes are drawn to the image first and can then encourage us to read the content.
If you could see a heatmap of your blog, most likely you would see hot areas around the images and click trackers also know that the images frequently get clicked on.
So how can you take advantage of these tendencies?
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February 1, 2013. In a very laid-back “we don’t want to scare you” type of blog post, Twitter announced that a quarter of million of its accounts have been hacked. The hackers took usernames, email addresses, and yes, passwords. Twitter has reset the passwords of the 250,000 accounts that it thinks were compromised, but did […]
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