From the category archives:

Blogging

There are dozens of different ways to get free traffic to your site. One of them is to leave comments on other people’s blogs and link back to your own site.
This by itself is a decent strategy. The quicker you comment on a new blog post, the more likely it is you’ll get some traffic [...]




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A few months ago, I quietly changed my blog comment settings to automatically close comments after 30 days. After this worked so well, I decided to reduce the “comment window” to only 14 days.
Here’s why I decided to do this.
Reason #1 – I’ve had quite a lot of work to do this year, and I [...]




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Lots of people come and go on email lists. A few of them actually tell me why they unsubscribed. These are some of the most fascinating responses because they’re usually passionate — and I struck a nerve.
Here are a few reasons people have unsubscribed from my email list this year and last year.
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I am unsubscribing [...]




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A few months ago, this question was posted to one of the private Yahoo groups I belong to:
> Hi,
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> Could someone tell me what are the big parts that make
> up SEO? Can one say that X things make up ones rankings?
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> For example with direct mail, it’s the list, offer and the creative.
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> I [...]




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Social media can be a huge time waster when it’s used incorrectly.
Unfortunately, most people use social media the wrong way. They spend hours every day tweeting, Facebooking, and who knows what else — only to find that they’re a day older and not a penny richer.
Here’s a useful principle for business:
If what you’re doing for [...]




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