So you’ve built a following online and are ready to monetize your blog. There are many ways to make money online, but from my perspective, affiliate marketing is way #1. Why? Over 80% of brands and 84% of publishers use affiliate marketing. It’s a billion-dollar industry, and best of all, […]
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Earlier this morning Fred Wilson published an interesting comparison of his blog’s traffic sources where upon splitting “the top ten” referrers “into three categories”, he discovered the following breakdown: Direct — 50% Social — 40% (with nearly 1/2 from StumbleUpon) Search — 10% These numbers amused me to say the
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Yesterday, one of the luminaries of digital marketing, Avinash Kaushik tweeted: In his Google+ post Avinash shared that his blogging strategy has been to follow these 4 principles: 1. Staying focused 2. Publishing only original stuff 3. Sticking to publishing only what’s “incredible, relevant, of value” to your audience 4.
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Yesterday, after I tweeted out one of the links I’ve found of interest, I received the following question back: After verifying that Eric is asking about the stuff I microblog it occurred to me that this would make a very nice blog post topic. After all, in the ocean of
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With the fairly recent Google’s “Farmer” Algorithm Update multiple bloggers (affiliates in particular) became concerned (subject also brought up by Joe Sousa in his recent post here), and started wondering if they (as content producers) may be affected by it. The short answer is: “No, as long as what you
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Comment spam, a common form of spamdexing, has been a longstanding problem for blogs of all kinds. In search of “quick and easy backlinks” some people engage in it themselves, others hire “blog commenters” for as little as a couple hundred of bucks month (many which actually call themselves “SEO
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As the year draws to a close, and I’m looking into ways of improving my readers’ experience with my blog, I see that the numbers of those who access it via mobile devices has greatly increased since 2009 (as many of you probably know, I started blogging daily on 1/1/2009;
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A new issue of FeedFront Magazine has come out last week, and on page 62 of it I talk of the three main types of content publishers (bloggers certainly included): 1. Reporters — love to write about breakthrough ideas and technologies, new studies, and fresh statistical data. They love to
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It’s Friday again, and today my who-to-follow-on-Twitter focus is on the people that, at one point or another, have helped me improve my blogging (and content writing) skills. I am certain you will find their tweets and posts of help too, and it is with this desire that I am
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Social media engagement can be defined as getting people involved in a thoughtful interaction within a social medium, as well as an encouragement and support of such interaction. As a blogger myself, and a frequent commentator on blog posts of others, today I’d like to focus on social media engagement
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