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By April 29, 2013

Google Analytics is one of the most powerful free tools that Bloggers can use to gain insights about the flow of traffic on our blogs. We can see where people are coming from, how long they stay and what page they’re on when they leave. We can even use Google Analytics to do experiments and run split tests (for free). In a nutshell, Google Analytics can play a significant role in evaluating the success of our websites because of this: We are able to determine outcomes. We can find out if people are taking us up on our Calls to Action. We spend lots of time carefully crafting those CTA’s but do we know how effective they are?

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By March 19, 2013

Don’t you wish someone would give you just ONE tip to drive traffic to your brand new blog? I asked a few of my blogging friends and added my two cents. Here’s what we came up with.

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By February 19, 2013

SEOPressor Version 5 was updated to include more powerful WordPress SEO plugin options. We can acheive higher rankings in search engines and get more organic traffic. New features include a Rich Snippets panel that help us tweak the appearance and frequency of our Google Authorship in search results. The LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing) module help improve our content and add value to our readers so they can find us better in search.

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By February 3, 2013

Social media is clearly unavoidable for anyone conducting business on the internet today. The problem most people face, is that there are so many social networks out there, it’s difficult to decide which ones we should invest our time on. We need to make efficient use of our time and find out where we can get the most bang for our buck so to speak. That’s where a service like Buffer is worth it’s weight in gold, because you can connect more than one social network and keep track of who, what, when and where people are engaging with your content.

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By December 19, 2012

In 2006 Dan Norris started a web design company because he was bored with the corporate world (after 4 whole years!). He worked on that business for 6 years with a lot of ups and downs and in 2012 decided to sell it and move on to Inform.ly. While in his last business he built up his blog to a point where it was ranking number 1 in Australia for ‘website design’ and a lot of other big keywords and at that point he got a bit addicted to producing content.

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By November 24, 2012

CommentLuv Premium is one of the most well known WordPress plugins on the planet. Most bloggers who have the plugin installed are devoted fans of it’s developer Andy Bailey and they are well aware of the benefits that can be reaped by having CommentLuv installed on their blogs. More traffic, more engagement, more back links, more subscribers, more social proof, more control; the list just goes on and on. Andy continues to add more artillery to the CommentLuv arsenal, find out what’s new.

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By November 18, 2012

Google has put so many awesome tools at the disposal of bloggers and small business owners that at times, it’s almost impossible to keep up with them all. Google wants you to succeed with your online endeavors but let’s face it, we all know that they are getting more then their fair share out of the deal too. Yet, as bloggers and webmasters, when we stop to think about all the perks we get from Google, two things should stand out in our minds above the rest: Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools.

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By November 7, 2012

Google Chrome is by far one of the best browsers available on the internet and back in May of this year, Google Chrome edged out Internet Explorer to become the most widely used browser around. I especially think that all bloggers should use Google Chrome even if they only use it as a second browser. There are so many Chrome extensions that help us get our work done more efficiently and over the past 2 years I’ve heard from hundreds of bloggers who have left their beloved Firefox behind and ditched it for Google Chrome. What do you think about Google Chrome, have you installed it yet?

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By October 23, 2012

AdSense publishers are bloggers and webmasters who have been approved by the Google AdSense team to participate in the program and earn a cut from the ads placed on their blogs. In a nutshell this is how the AdSense program works: Advertisers set up accounts in AdWords and Google will attempt to match up the ads and display them on the web pages with relevant content. The hope is that people will see an ad that interests them, and they will click through to the Advertiser’s site and eventually invest in their products or services.

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By September 29, 2012

BLOGCAST FM founder/host Srinivas Rao has been a 2-time speaker at Blogworld Expo and was listed on Problogger’s annual list of 40 Bloggers to Watch in 2011. He’s a regular contributor to the Adage 150 blog, {GROW} and his work has been featured on Social Mouths, Write to Done, Dumb Little Man, Twitip, Kikolani, and many other social media and personal development blogs. Srinivas has interviewed nearly 300 people since starting BLOGCAST FM and continues to have the best and brightest guests from the online business industry. Here is my interview with Srinivas Rao.

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By September 21, 2012

When it comes to a successfully monetizing your content on YouTube, you must first join the YouTube Partner program. Then be sure to have good titles and meta data in the description and tags of your video just like you would on a blog post. Keep in mind that YouTube is the number two search engine on the planet so why not take advantage of it. In addition, YouTube provides free hosting for your videos too (which is nothing to sneeze at by the way). Get familiar with the different ways you can monetize the content you upload to your YouTube channel

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By September 5, 2012

There are some pros and cons to consider when uploading YouTube videos in advance and scheduling them to go live on your channel at a later date. Just like the concept of scheduling Facebook posts or Tweets ahead of time, there are some major advantages for example – buffering your content; posting during optimal times for high visibility; keeping your followers engaged with your content and last but not least, taking a well deserved vacation will still maintaining your online presence.…continue reading…

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By August 23, 2012

CommentLuv blogs are very attractive to anyone who is trying to make a name for themselves in the blogosphere. You don’t even need to have the CommentLuv plugin installed on your own blog in order to take advantage of this plugin. Simply visit CommentLuv Enabled blogs, read a few posts and leave a valuable question or comment and in return (depending on the individual blog owner’s set-up) you can get tons of benefits and value…continue reading…

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By August 12, 2012

Guest blogging has countless benefits and some even consider it as the holy grail when it comes to building authority, generating backlinks and attracting new readers. But just like anything else we do in life – timing is everything! The very first sign that you’re not ready to do a guest post is that you just started blogging a few days ago, so in this post we’re not even going that count that one, ok? lol One other thing we aren’t going to count is those of you who don’t even read or follow the instructions that the host blogger has provided for you. If that’s you, there’s a chance you might not even be ready to have your own blog let alone get started with guest blogging…continue reading…

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