Lead Your Readers Where You Want Them To Go

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I recently had a conversation with a member of Wordpress Goldmine about their high bounce rate. People were coming to the site reading the article and then going elsewhere. When I looked at their blog they had no recent posts in the sidebar, they listed no related posts and people weren't encouraged to read anything else on the blog. A few quick changes later and the bounce rate dropped significantly. On this blog all the posts with the highest number of comments are ones where I ask people to tell me what they think. See a trend here? A few years ago the joke about twitter was that … [Read more...]

Anti-Marketing Marketing – My Seminar Take Away

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I've just returned from a weekend in London where I was giving a presentation at the London Warrior Gathering. I've done 2 presentations In the past to members of Wordpress Goldmine and because they were quite small groups it didn't really prepare me for a full on seminar like this which had over 120 attendees and 10 other speakers. Let me tell you this,  I wouldn't have missed it for the world. Being able to talk to people at different stages of Internet marketing, from people with multi million dollar income to people who have been in IM for a few months and haven't made any money yet … [Read more...]

Guest Blogging 101

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Since Googles crack down on unnatural linking methods two linking methods have come to the forefront, Blog Commenting and Guest Blogging (sometime known as Guest Posting). I've talked about Commenting in several posts so today I want to focus on Guest Blogging. The secret of effective guest blogging is to provide posts that are of High quality and relevant to the blog you want to post on. The posts shouldn't be self serving or thinly disguised adverts for your site. Done correctly a guest blog will get you a link back to your site plus traffic. Below you'll find a Video that shows you … [Read more...]

Monday Tip – How To Play By Your Rules

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As I discussed last week there has been another Google algo change and once gain people are running around saying that SEO is dead and that they've lost all their sites and all other sorts of doom mongering. The first thing I'll say is that nobody can't say they didn't know this was coming, Google told us it was coming, blogs like this one told you it was coming (http://mjthompson.net/1451/google-algo-changes-is-seo-dead/  I even mentioned it in the 2nd paragraph) and it's happened too many times in the past for anyone to think it wasn't going to happen again. I ended a blog post last … [Read more...]

The Hypocrisy of Internet Marketers – Rant!

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I've not had a rant for a long time, I started to think I was starting to mellow in my old age...wrong! Jonathan Leger made a post on his JL Forums today about the latest google update in it he said that a lot of old sites that shouldn't be on the first page of google were now appearing. and he gave an example: Overall Affect: Old Sites With Less SEO Ranking Better Lots of old sites are being resurrected into the search results, apparently because they have been less optimized. Google has been saying for a while that they would be going after over-optimized sites. That's fine, but it's … [Read more...]

Monday Tip – Google Doesn’t Care About You

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I had a totally different blog post planned for today but a number of things came together at the same time and it would be foolish not to highlight them. They are very important and all connected. The first was a post in the Wordpress Goldmine Forum by one of our long term members Paul Nichols who pointed out a fiver gig that offered to sent 67,000 poor quality links to your competitors.  (probably the same gig that offered to send you 67,000 quality links before the last algo update!) I know what you are saying…. Google says that competitors can't harm our rankings. Do they ?  … [Read more...]

Micro Niche Sites Vs Authority Sites

authority sites vs micro niche sites

I've recently been hearing about a number of major players in the  AdSense and Niche blog business losing their Adsense accounts.   The consensus of opinion seems to be that one of the reasons for the AdSense accounts being closed is that google doesn't like people who set out to earn lots of money from AdSense revenue by creating hundreds of niche blogs.   For a change I can actually see their point, from experience I know that once you start getting a lot of sites you struggle to keep them updated and fresh. That's not to say that Micro sites don't have a place, after … [Read more...]