Muhammad Saleem has written a thought provoking article on Copyblogger regarding the injection of common cultural celebrities into your headlines as a way of reaching out to a potential reader. The post is targeted at social media submissions and how using common cultural hot spots can get your stuff noticed. The post distills a few thoughts I have on this technique with … [Read more...] about Britney Spears Plumps My Pillow
Optimising and performing SEO from Cornwall
How this blog goes about the business of SEO Cornwall is found within this category. Learn that mistakes have to be made to learn anything real. I try to be as honest as I can with my attempts to optimise Cornwall. But for every one thing I do which works, it's after trying ten things that fail.
I hope you learn from my attempts to increase the web traffic of Cornish domains. Plus websites from further afield.
Blogging is Dumb, Stupid and Successful
Most blogs are dumb, even the successful ones. The ones about blogging. This isn't because the writers of those blogs are dumb, they are very intelligent. It's the readers, the ones who want to scan not to read, not to study, not to ingest. The ones who want another quick fix trick, before they have a chance to implement even the quick fix trick they just learned. It's why … [Read more...] about Blogging is Dumb, Stupid and Successful
What ten months of blogging looks like
One minute you're a failed blackhat, fat bloke with an addiction to Chile Doritos and Dr Pepper, the next you are a seo blog maniac, linkbaiting writing machine with an addiction to chile Doritos and Dr Pepper. To be honest, I feel like I make it up as I go along. Thanks for spending the time to read and for all the comments. I have learned a huge amount about SEO and myself. … [Read more...] about What ten months of blogging looks like
29 reasons you need to stop blogging right now
You need to stop blogging right now if you think: 1. Blogging is easy 2. All I need to do is scrape content 3. Your best way of getting backlinks is to trawl the dofollow lists 4. You don't need to study blogging or learn much about the technique 5. Starting a blog in the "How to make money" niche is the way to go 6. Darren Rowse only made it because he was in the right place … [Read more...] about 29 reasons you need to stop blogging right now
How to become a success in online networking part one
My previous post, How to make a blogger notice you had some really good comments that I learned from. And it sparked off a few thoughts. Success is about attitude, not about technique. Which is why reading a bunch of business books will not make you a great business man, but adopting the correct attitude might. This applies to the world of online marketing and even blogging. … [Read more...] about How to become a success in online networking part one
Blog Rush or just Blog Mush?
Blogrush Testing and Tracking (Updated - John Reese Quote) This is a must read, as is all of Andy Beard's blog So there is a lot of yack about Blog Rush. I personally have not had what I would describe as a blog rush. Hype of the next big thing. I come down on the hype side. You only have to take a quick trip around the blogs to see that the people raving about it seem to want … [Read more...] about Blog Rush or just Blog Mush?