You Are Vulnerable – Decrease Your Company’s Reliance On Social Media

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by  James McAllister

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It’s finally happened.

For years, I have been preaching here how dangerous it is to become reliant on one company.

Why it’s dangerous to rely on one platform to send you traffic, or one website to sell your products and services.

This mistake can be so costly, it can shut entire companies down overnight – leaving you with nothing to build back from. It’s incredibly scary.

Two weeks before writing this post, I logged into Twitter to discover that my account had been suspended. I received no email regarding the suspension, and was not told what rule I supposedly broke that led to my suspension.

In fact, I only found out when I went to tweet (as usual) to my 21,000 followers, only to be greeted with this wonderful message:

Twitter Suspension Message

Ouch.

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Maximize Productivity With Todoist – Todoist Review

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by  James McAllister

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You might be wasting dozens of hours each week, without even knowing it.

That’s right – even those that think of themselves as productive waste a considerable amount of time, even if it doesn’t feel like it.

I’ve been there as well. It is so easy to get distracted by something small, and spend far too much time browsing the web, checking social media, or wasting time away on your phone.

The real killer though?

Time spent between tasks. The huge chunks of your precious day spent in transition, figuring out whatever it is you’re meant to do next.

In this article, I want to highlight a free service that helped solve this problem for me. It’s called Todoist, and it will help you get more done each day than you ever imagined possible.

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Link Whisper Review: How I Built 811 New Internal Links With Link Whisper

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by  James McAllister

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Internal linking is a strategy that’s often over-looked by many website owners, yet it’s extremely important.

Not only will proper internal linking help your pages to rank higher on Google, but they’re very important to helping Google crawl your website.

The SEO benefits are huge.

On top of that, internal linking lowers bounce rates, helps to engage your readers, and makes your brand much more memorable to your audience.

Unfortunately, knowing when and where to link to isn’t always easy. As your website grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to actually keep track of what posts you have published on your site.

Chances are, there are hundreds of internal links you could add to your posts right now that are extremely relevant. Each one of these helping to boost your on-page SEO.

One easy to do this is by using the plugin Link Whisper. Link Whisper scans all of your pages, and intelligently provides recommendations for you – making it possible to add hundreds of links in only a couple of hours!

In this article, I’ll go over all of the features and provide my full review of Link Whisper.

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7 Blogging Myths That You’d Look Foolish Believing

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by  James McAllister

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When it comes to blogging, there’s unfortunately a lot of misinformation out there.

Usually, this isn’t because of anything malicious, and if you’re a believer of one of the blogging myths I’m about to share with you, it’s not anything to feel bad about. Outdated articles, fake gurus, and half-truths are rampant in the blogging space, due to how quickly the landscape continues to evolve.

As a community of bloggers, let’s set the record straight together.

In this article, I’m going to share some of the most common blogging myths that I still see being circulated, and share actionable tips that will help you achieve better blogging results.

Let’s start with one of the biggest ones!

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