4 Golden Rules for Getting Your Tweets Retweeted

November 5, 2010

Here are some “Golden Rules” for creating tweets that you want to get retweeted. Having your tweets “retweeted” by your followers is a great way to get more exposure for your message.

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Getting Guest Posts Published

October 26, 2010

I recently posted about guest blogging, explaining the obvious fact that it is a great way to get exposure for your own ideas, profile and blog. Here’s another good resource if you’re interested in this very powerful technique. It’s a post by, you guessed it, a guest blogger, Onibalusi Bamidele on JohnChow.com and it’s called [...]

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Link Building in 4 “Easy” Steps

October 21, 2010

Building links is an important part of promoting your website(s) and building an online presence. The more you get involved in different places around the web the more you will be noticed and the more traffic you will ultimately get. This is what you might call the “Prolific Principle”. The more prolific you are, the [...]

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Ramping Up Your Guest Blogging Strategy

October 18, 2010

If you’re a blogger or blogger wannabe there’s a informative post by Ann Smarty about guest blogging at SearchEngineJournal.com that you should take a look at. Guest blogging is a win-win situation. It provides already established bloggers with new, original (presumably well written) content. And it gives the guest blogger a platform to reach a [...]

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Expose Yourself! – to Get Traffic and Links

October 17, 2010

Many webmasters and bloggers think of “link building” as a difficult, boring, mechanical task where the objective is to pile up mysterious things called “links” for the sake of influencing the Search Engines. This is an old-fashioned, outdated and increasingly ineffective way to tackle the job of putting yourself on the map. In the rapidly [...]

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Amplify: Create a Blog, Get Traffic, Get Social

October 15, 2010

I stumbled onto a post by Diane Corriette in her blog Mindset of a Blogger about Amplify – Traffic Generation tip using the new Amplify plugin for WordPress blogs. At Amplify you can set up your own blog where you post things that you clip from other sources around the web – blog posts, videos, [...]

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5 Simple Ways to Get More Mileage Out of Your Content

October 14, 2010

If you blog, write articles or are into any of the other activities that involve writing original material you’ve probably thought it is a shame to use that material in only one place. Just republishing exactly the same material in a number of places is generally considered bad form. There are exceptions to this of [...]

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Microsoft Launches Windows Phone 7

October 12, 2010

Microsoft has just unveiled its new smartphone OS called Windows Phone 7. To see an overview of the new OS have a look at this video. Windows Phone 7 has a completely different look from that of Apple, Adroid and Blackberry OS6. Whether it will sell in the marketplace will depend on a lot of [...]

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Some Differences Between Facebook and Twitter

October 12, 2010

Most of us who have dabbled in both Facebook and Twitter tend to think they have a similar function – allow us to do similar things. But they are different. The major difference is that Facebook is a network of “friends” while Twitter is a network of “followers”. Facebook requires that friends mutually accept the [...]

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Facebook Advertising – Free Video Explains It all

October 5, 2010

You’ve probably heard that advertising on Facebook is a great way to reach a highly targeted market segment. And if you’ve tried it, chances are your experience has not been the greatest. In this video called Facebook Advertising – Soup to Nuts Guide, Jeremy Shoemaker of shoemoney.com lays out an effective Facebook advertising strategy, and [...]

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Does Google Instant Make SEO Irrelevant?

October 5, 2010

According to Google, “Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type. We are pushing the limits of our technology and infrastructure to help you get better search results, faster.” When Google Instant is activated – which it seems to be unless you turn it off – Google will anticipate your [...]

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Guide to Setting Up a Facebook Page

September 27, 2010

There are a number of ways you can market your business to the massive Facebook membership. As I explain in this post about Facebook Pages, two of these ways are with Facebook Pages and Facebook Groups. Creating a Facebook “Page” sounds fairly simple, but to really take advantage of the features available to you is [...]

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Free SEO Course

September 22, 2010

The Free SEO Course called SEO-101 from Linknet covers the following: – Understanding SEO – Basic SEO strategy – Keyword analysis – Keyword tools – Optimized website structure – Content optimization – Link Building If you want to promote a website and get traffic then you absolutely must know something about Search Engine Optimization (SEO). [...]

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Optimizing Your Content by Using Keywords Correctly

September 14, 2010

As I have mentioned in other posts, you first SEO task is to develop a strategy for covering your most important keywords, both within your site or blog, and in the external websites you have linking back to your site or blog. Organizing your content so you adequately cover the keywords in your Master Keyword [...]

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Strategy for Building Keyword-Focused Content

September 12, 2010

Once you have done your keyword analysis and settled on a Master Keyword List for your web efforts you should begin creating content that focuses on the full range of keywords in your list. By “content” I mean articles, faqs, how-tos, blog posts, videos, photos, etc., etc. This content will make up the substance of [...]

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