Ping is a fun word to say, it’s even fun to do; but more serious questions should be answered. Most notably what is pinging, how do you do it, and when should you do it? What is Pinging For our purposes, pinging a specific URL tells search engines that they should check out that destination. […]
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A friend of mine just started their first blog and asked me for my feelings on the best time of day to publish new blog posts. In the past I would’ve told her not to over think this because in the past I used a bit of what was, in my mind, common sense and
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Alt text vs. title. Do meta tags matter? What’s the difference? Well whenever you add a new image to your site then you should think about adding both alt text and even an image title for it. WordPress makes it easy to add both of these whenever you add a new image to a post,
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Yesterday, I identified what is a content farm and explained why Google has recently taken issue with and action against them by tweaking their algorithm again. On a related note, today I’m going to talk about the importance of traffic diversity. The Importance of Traffic Diversity There are many ways to bring in traffic and
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Google has made some sizable changes to their algorithms again within the last couple of weeks. This time the changes were made largely to cut into the influence which content farms have over the search engine listings in Google, and of course the web is abuzz as it typically is when Google makes some changes.
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Trey Smith has a new online course for making money but it’s out of the typical realms of online marketing. If you’ve seen any of the three warm-up videos meant to get you excited for this new course, it’s apparent that he’s put in a lot of work into it. I figured people would appreciate
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Before you dive into a new niche, regardless of whether you’re doing long term marketing or short term marketing, you’re going to want to know if it’s worth your time. Are there products there to promote in that niche? Are they worth promoting? Are people spending money in this niche? These are just a handful
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