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...]

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...]

Monday Tip – Do Something For Your Business Everyday

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What have you done for your business today? What did you do for your business last friday? Every single day I do at least 1 thing that will (or should) help my business develop. Today I sent an email to a JV broker and hooked up with her via linked in. I now have a skype chat scheduled for later this week. Nothing might come of it but something might.  I did something similar a few weeks back the result was about $12,000 in sales of one of my old products, plus a Joint Venture that should be profitable to both of us. Normally the things I do for my business are practical things, I … [Read more...]

Monday Tip – Use The Rel=Author Tag

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Last year Google introduced a new tag called rel=author, the purpose of the tag was to identify the author of a piece of content and assign the authors image to it in the rankings. There has been much written about it since but despite that it seems that very few people have implemented it. I could write pages about why you should be implementing rel=author but Jill Whalen has covered it really well on her High Rankings blog where she gives 5 reasons for implementing the authorship tag.   If you're thinking it's just not worth the trouble, here are 5 reasons why it's super … [Read more...]

Monday Tip – Building a Social Media Empire

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Over the past few posts I've talked a lot about social media and how social media will play a huge part in your future rankings. If you haven't started to use social media effectively you really should start now. Just like building a list having engaged social media fans will ensure that even if google de-indexes your main site you will still be able to talk directly you your subscribers and ensure your message is out there. One way that you can ensure that you start to use Social media more effectively is to use some of the social media centric sites like Triberr and Empire … [Read more...]

Monday Tip – Fast Niche Research

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I am doing a bit of grave digging today. I wrote this article almost exactly 3 years ago and the information still holds true but now it's even easier. People think that Ezine Articles is dead and there is no value in posting articles there,  they are wrong there is still life in the old beast yet. However what is equally important now is to look at what social media the niche leaders are using and how they are getting links and building a buzz. When you are doing fast niche research you need to target 3 areas,  Keywords, Traffic and Monetization What keywords are the niche … [Read more...]

Monday Tip – 3 Ways To Get Easy Backlinks

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Hands up who hates all the work of getting backlinks ... yep me too. I find it mind numbingly boring so I try to automate as much as possible and come up with ways how I can get backlinks with as little work as possible. Below you'll find a video with 3 of the easiest ways I know to get backlinks without doing much work, in fact you can probably use all 3 methods in less than 10 minutes. Before We go any further I have 2 Important announcements to make, that are time sensitive: Selling Some Site On Flippa 1. I am selling a selection of my blogs as a package. This is following my … [Read more...]