6 Tips I Gave My Team To Help Them Get More From Their Content

Here is my review of what I call the six layers of quality content writing, relevant for the web, books, news or even a technical white paper. I gave these tips to my team and thought it would be worth sharing them here on EJ as well.

1. Topic Selection

You already know your niche. You already know your … Read the rest of this entry »

How I Made My First Internet Dollar – A Passive Income Niche Site Case Study

A few weeks ago I received my first ever payment from Google Adsense in my bank account. While it was only $170, it represents a small but significant step to making money in a way that is completely independent of my time.

Making money passively has been something that I’ve been wanting to do for several years, but have … Read the rest of this entry »

The Real Skinny On Duplicate Content

The issue of duplicate content is a rather contentious one in the world of Search-Engine Optimization. There were for many years – and perhaps still to this day – myths floating round about duplicate content penalties.

Essentially, folks were told that if they produced duplicate content then they would be punished, and many thought that this meant you could not … Read the rest of this entry »

Direct From Google: How To Build A Quality Website In 2012

I hear a lot of webmasters complain day in and day out about all the changes that Google constantly makes to its algorithm and how they affect our search engine placement.

Let me break it to you: it’s not all about what Google has done and will do to update its algorithm.

It’s about what you SHOULD BE doing.

I … Read the rest of this entry »

The Research Is In: How Important Are Facebook And Twitter For Your Google Rankings?

Today, our triangle of the most important ingredients to ranking well on Google, as suggested by SEOMoz’s search engine ranking factors report and interpreted by yours truly, will be finally completed as we drill down into how social media influences our search engine rankings.

By the way, I’d love for you to let me know how well I did with … Read the rest of this entry »

Revealed: The Secret Source For Winning Google’s Love

In my last post on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com, we talked about the big fat truth – without unique, fresh, and lengthy content your blog search engine rankings are as good as dead.

Check out the previous post here:

This time I will take it a step further and explain … Read the rest of this entry »

Blog Writing 101: How To Satisfy Readers And Deliver Top 10 Google Rankings

My name is Ana Hoffman, and if I learned anything after many years of building an online empire, it’s this: the online business industry is a scary place. A place where many a mighty business owner has fallen.

Including me.

That’s right, I’ve had some online business flops in the past, until one day I realized that my business … Read the rest of this entry »

A Step-By-Step Guide To Rank #1 On LinkedIn Search

My fourth article on EJ, and the love I have been receiving from this community is amazing. I feel really welcomed, so thanks to you all. I wish I could meet you in person and thank you personally. I hope one day I will.

Enough of the pep talk Aziz, time to get down to the meat!

Today I have … Read the rest of this entry »

How I Started, Grew & Sold An E-commerce Business For Quarter Million Dollars ($250,000)

In my previous post, Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?, I wrote about the various business ventures I have tried and tested over the years. One of those ventures was the creation, establishment, growth and sale of an e-commerce business.  In this post, I want to lay out the details involved in how I first … Read the rest of this entry »

How To Get Backlinks To Increase Your Traffic – A Case Study

Traffic is, and will always be, a hot topic in internet marketing.

You can have an awesome website that solves the world’s problems, has the solutions to world hunger, in addition to helping men understand women fully (can you imagine that?), but if you don’t have traffic, I would venture to say that your website means NOTHING.

Ok, I know … Read the rest of this entry »

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Market Samurai Review – How Keyword Research Can Increase Your Traffic

Ever since I started blogging, I intentionally stayed away from keyword research. It just seemed like one of those things that could take up too much of my time. I understood the principles of keyword research but felt that in order to do it effectively, I had a lot of work to do. I opted to take the “lazy” … Read the rest of this entry »

Do You Want A Copy Of My Definitive Guide To SEO For Bloggers?

It was early 2006. I had been blogging for over a year and felt I had achieved something.

My blog had recently surpassed 1,000 RSS subscribers (what is RSS), making it at the time the most popular website I had ever built. The income was solid – up to $2,000 a month at best – and it was … Read the rest of this entry »

Get Stomping The Search Engines 2 For Free (sort of…)

Apologies if you got this notice from my newsletter yesterday around 2PM. It appears Andy and Brad had some technology issues so people haven’t been able to take advantage of this one until today. The links in this post go to an active page where you can order.

You can skip the background story and go straight to the good … Read the rest of this entry »

Google Keyword Tool Gets A Whole Lot Better

I’ll just slip this in before I head off and work on my launch video since EVERYONE is going nuts on Twitter about it (Ed Dale is of course the craziest).

Google’s keyword tool just become a goldmine for accurate keyword data. Go have a play with it now and you will see what I mean -

A Free SEO Tool From StomperNet, Competition From A Cow and Advice For Beginner Bloggers

Three quick updates for you today, starting with a way cool video and tool from StomperNet’s latest Going Natural 3.0 launch series of videos (if you haven’t opted in to get these free videos, go do it now – you’re missing out!).

Assessing Your Website’s SEO with Stomper Site Seer

Today (Friday USA time) StomperNet are making available a search … Read the rest of this entry »

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Build Back Links Using These Blog Mining Tools

A quick short post today as I’m busy getting ready with my final preparations to head for Canada (more on this soon).

If you are into search engine optimization you know the importance of back links. In a newsletter I sent out to my email subscribers back in February (you have to be on my blog tips newsletter) I … Read the rest of this entry »

How To Build Traffic Without Marketing

There’s something I’ve come to realize about most of my fellow bloggers – you guys and girls are not great at marketing.

Don’t take offense, marketing is not something that comes naturally and most people enter the blogging world as writers or hobbyists, not business people.

Some look at marketing as advertising and their current perception of advertising is akin … Read the rest of this entry »

How I Got My PageRank Back

You may have noticed this blog is back to a PageRank 6. Back in October 2007 my site was one of the blogs hit with a PageRank penalty because I had paid links. I dropped from a 6 to a 5 and then later when the big sweep happened, down to a 3.

This article sums up my speculation during … Read the rest of this entry »

Why Your Website Design Sucks

Update: Since they added a new video to this series, you have to click the “view playlist” button in the video player and choose the video with Andy Edmonds presenting StomperNet Scrutinizer to get the video I am referring to.

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Andy Jenkins and his team at StomperNet are at it again, releasing more great free videos, this time under … Read the rest of this entry »

Possible Explanations for the PageRank Penalty Sweep

I’m not entirely sure I want to write this article. I think one of the best ways to reduce the impact of Google’s PageRank is to talk less about it. If you ignore something it loses all power.

However, people still seem to care about PageRank. Webmasters care, bloggers care, search engine optimizers care. Even bloggers who are writing articles … Read the rest of this entry »