Top 5 Ways Of Achieving Blog Success By Helping Others

Quicken publisher Intuit introduced a completely free SMS based product in India named Fasal which is specifically targeted to helping farmers determine what to harvest when, and how much the going market price is. Without the benefit of refrigeration in India’s vast and poor agricultural areas a highly perishable crop such as figs can go from too green to eat to perfectly ripe to completely rotten in a matter of a few days.

Wikipedia Is Doing a Blackout to Protest Against SOPA/PIPA

If you visit the English Wikipedia right now (or within some hours) you’ll probably see a lot of black. No need to panic though, it’s a schedule protest against the SOPA and PIPA bills that are being promoted in the US.

How to Move A Small WordPress Site Via the Import/Export Tool

Over the past year I have moved a reasonable number of WordPress sites between different servers and hosting companies (around 10), and I picked up some tips and tricks along the way.

Six Easily-Preventable Mistakes That Bloggers Make with List Posts

Sometimes, there’s a bit of a backlash against list posts. That’s not because they don’t work, but because they’re often poorly executed. Here are six mistakes that are easy to make – and easy to prevent.

4 Online Reputation Management Tips for 2012

What are your customers saying about your business, product and/or services? What are your potential customers reading about your business practices? Where do your customers talk about you? Knowing the answers to these questions are the first steps towards building a positive reputation on the web.

5 Ways to Ensure an SEO Campaign Fails

Obviously no one sets out to create an SEO campaign, or any other kind of business initiative, that fails. However, along the way certain mistakes can be made that will inevitably result in campaign failure. Sometimes the mistake can seem innocent enough, but really SEO is about gaining momentum as time goes on. A mistake that is made early in the process can hinder every effort that follows.

AdSense Profits Interview: How-to-Hide-IP.info

Every time I publish one of the AdSense Profits interview I get a bunch of emails asking when the course will re-open. I am glad to say I have a date already: February 14 (second Tuesday of February). I’ll be giving more details about the course along the way, so stay tuned.

6 Tips to Speed Up and Optimize Your WordPress Plugins

The WordPress engine is pretty efficient out of the box, but once you start loading plugins the performance and responsiveness of your site might go downhill. On top of that the consumption of resources might become too big, possibly leading to a suspension of your hosting account (especially if you use shared hosting).

One Simple Way to Plan Great Posts, Step by Step

Do you run out of ideas when you’re writing a post? Or do you find that you go down a huge tangent part-way through?

Planning your posts helps to keep them on track from start to end. A good plan doesn’t take long – but it saves you a lot of time in rewriting and editing.

Google Walks Its Talk and Penalizes Itself

If you haven’t been following the news lately, this week there was a heated discussion about a marketing campaign that Google carried out to promote its Chrome browser. Basically Google hired a marketing company to promote some web videos, and that company in turn hired bloggers to post the videos (obviously paying them). The problem emerged with some SEOs noticed the campaign and found a couple of those bloggers using dofollow links to the Chrome homepage, which in theory if a violation of Google’s guidelines.

Why Non-Disclosed Sponsored Posts Are a Bad Idea

Alan Freed, the DJ who popularized the term rock n’ roll died broke; the immortal Dick Clark was hauled before a federal committee; and the entire music industry was shaken to the core by the payola scandals of the early Sixties. The then-common practice of recording companies paying popular DJs to spin specific cuts was found to be in violation of the US Federal Communications Act sections 317 and 507 which requires full disclosure of pay for play.

Increasing Your Blog Traffic with SlideShare

If I were to ask you about expanding your content marketing efforts for your blog, and chose you to pick a single “untapped” platform, what would you say?

Obviously it’s not things like Twitter or Facebook, and even videos on YouTube are getting utilized by more and more bloggers each day.

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