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Should you add your blog name to your post titles? This is an interesting question, with a relatively simple answer. [Read more…]
Link Whisper Review: How I Built 811 New Internal Links With Link Whisper
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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. [Read more…]
Cold Email Outreach: A Detailed Strategy To Following Up Effectively
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It takes an average of 7 contacts before a person will make a deal with you.
90% of salespeople, marketers, and entrepreneurs will not follow up with a person more than 3 times.
Yet, 80% of deals are made on the 5th to the 12th contact.
Can you imagine all of the money that you’re leaving on the table?
This isn’t just applicable to making a sale. It could be arranging a meeting with an important person, pitching somebody to link to an article, or trying to get somebody to appear on your podcast.
Email outreach is more important than ever, yet a whopping 90 PERCENT of people will not even put the effort in to do it right.
It’s time to get relentless with your follow up. To form a strategy that will help you to achieve the results that you’re looking for.
Because clearly, the vast majority of us are leaving a LOT of money on the table.
The above statements should showcase just how important following up with people actually is. Therefore, this article will serve as a quick guide to getting started, showcase some examples, and help you to form a systematized strategy to make following up quick, easy, and effective.
If You’re Obsessing Over SEO, Stop!
When I began blogging seriously back in 2010, I made the same mistake so many others are doing at this very moment. I wasted an incredible amount of time doing what I thought was right, only to discover that my time could’ve been better spent elsewhere. I spent countless hours trying to bring visitors to my website, but I was doing it the wrong way.
My mistake? Trying to rank as highly as I could in search engines. [Read more…]
5 Free SEO Plugins Essential For Any Blog
One of the features that makes WordPress one of the world’s best content management systems is the fact that it is so changeable, so easily. With only a few clicks, webmasters are able to install plugins that can completely change the website’s functionality: adding new features, tweaking your design, or even improving your sites search engine optimization. While it’s not a good idea to clutter your blog with unnecessary plugins (as these can slow down your pages load time or cause bugs and security issues), there are a few plugins that every blogger can benefit from. In this article, I will share 5 plugins with you that are essential for any blog to reach its maximum potential.
Do Forum Signatures Give Any SEO Benefit?
Is it possible that one link inside of a forum signature could send you to the front page of Google? Are forum signatures the key to blasting your rankings above all of your competitors? Should forum posting be part of your SEO strategy? [Read more…]
Authorship And The Future Of SEO
Note: This post is now considered to be outdated, as Authorship was not rolled out fully due to poor adoption. While Google still shows interests in pursuing some sort of authority ranking for content creators themselves, the specifics mentioned in this post are no longer relevant.
Ranking in search engines is so much different than it used to be. When search engines were new, you were able to rank highly in Google just for mentioning your target keywords multiple times on each of your pages. These days, it’s not that easy. In fact, it’s getting harder and harder to rank highly in Google, which is why you need to start building your Author Rank now. [Read more…]
Meta Keywords – How Important Are They?
Ah, meta keywords. You may have heard stories about websites getting significantly more traffic due to these, you might even believe it. Sorry to disappoint you, but times have changed. [Read more…]