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By May 5, 2013

Search engine friendly web hosting helps your website generate more traffic by making sure you stay up on the rankings in a search engine’s search results. But is this really true? When a new web-master decides to take the plunge and buy web hosting it is never an easy step to take but many never give search engine friendly hosting a second thought. Let me discuss website hosting and how it is vitally important to the success of your website when it comes to dominating the search results.

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By May 3, 2013

I’m taking a big leap of faith by assuming Google Analytics is your preferred arena for tracking your website data. Most users would be accustomed to the standard reporting dashboard in Google Analytics. A well structured analytics dashboard will answer a few imminent questions so you can determine your site’s performance. I switched to using a Google Analytics Custom Dashboard to easily access the website data I require in a quick manner plus the ease of reproducing these reports is helpful.

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By March 30, 2013

Ever want to try improving the conversion rate of your blog, but didn’t have the money to hire a designer, the time to figure it all out, or technical prowess to pull it off? Well, I’m happy to say those excuses are no longer valid ever since the Google Experiments feature was integrated into Google Analytics. If you’re not familiar with Google Experiments Lab already, it’s a program that allows you to serve different variations of your blog to different website visitors and measure the performance of those page variations against your goals (more email opt-ins, lower bounce rates) to see which version performs the best. Let me explain in simpler terms with a hypothetical example on how to setup Google Experiments.

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By March 24, 2013

When I first heard Google Reader was going, I was really upset. It wasn’t so much about reader itself, but about the possibility of losing the services that depend on it, like my Google Reader interface of choice – Feedly. As it turned out, there was no need to worry, because thanks to some behind the scenes tech wizardry involving cloning APIs, Feedly will still be around and working long after Google Reader is gone. I’ve been using Feedly for around five years and at this stage I can’t even remember how I found it – what I do know is that I love it.

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By March 22, 2013

Podcasting is not for everyone. Podcasting is long-format content marketing, which means the audience expects you to dive deeper into your area of expertise. Yet despite the many experts, gurus, rockstars and ninjas within the content marketing space moving their voice to the podcast format, podcasting will NOT work for everyone. I outlined seven reasons you should NOT start podcasting. This serves as a guide to excuse yourself from moving into the podcast format of content marketing.

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By December 30, 2012

About a month ago, I saw Justin of Dragon Blogger talking on Facebook about a new service he was using called Incapsula. I decided to sign up (it’s free) and give Incapsula a try. The best way to visualize Incapsula is to think of it as the “middle man”. Incapsula sits between your server and your reader, so instead of your user’s computer asking your server to deliver your blog’s pages directly, it asks Incapsula and then Incapsula talks to your server. In addition to protecting your server, Incapsula also gets rid of some of the server load.

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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 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 September 28, 2012

Free Google tools are constantly being rolled out by Google in an effort to help us with maintaining our blogs, but their true potential is often over-looked. You could have the best, all-singing and dancing, jaw-dropping website around, but if you don’t study your statistics and keep a check on your sites health then things can go very wrong very quickly. There are numerous tools available to help you keep track of all the things that really matter. But did you know that Google offer all the tools you need to keep on top of these issues? For free? These are just five of many free Google tools that are available online. Everyone should be using them to keep their website Google and user friendly.

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By August 26, 2012

For busy bloggers, it is often very difficult to manage their work on the go. Turning on a laptop or desktop just to keep check on things is a difficult task as compared to doing the same on an iPhone. In this article we have compiled a collection of top 10 iPhone apps for bloggers that can help them manage all of their work irrespective of the place and time as long as they have working internet connection.

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By July 23, 2012

AddThis is a social sharing and demographics monitoring tool that you can install on your blog or website. Using AddThis on your blog can give you an in-depth understanding of your audience so you can target your message in a way that resonates with them. Do you want to know what social network is giving you the most bang for your buck? Want to find out when someone actually clicks on your links from Facebook or Twitter? AddThis is the perfect tool for tracking social engagement and providing insights that other social sharing plugins like DiggDigg can’t capture.…continue reading…

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By July 3, 2012

As the number of people using the internet is increasing, the markets that thrive online have seen an ever-expanding potential in order to keep pace with the demands. A lot of businesses are creating e-shops in order to expand their market to encompass the globe. To increase online sales revenue, smart marketers are learning easy methods to accept payments through credit cards on their websites. Although other methods such as Paypal and echecks are available, credit cards are more reliable for serious businesses.…continue reading…

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By July 1, 2012

Google I/O 2012 was an incredible event that featured over 30 hours of video footage that you can watch on YouTube. Lucky us, I am very fortunate to have Chris Lang in my circles on Google+. Chris is a leader and top expert in the area of all things related to Google and specifically Google+ training for business. He hosted a + Hangout on Air to recap the Google I/O 2012 event and point out some key takeaways and forecasts that will benefit bloggers, small business owners and webmasters. This is a summary of what you can learn from Chris and his distinguished guest panel. …continue reading…

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By June 16, 2012

Content Syndication in basic terms means providing a series or sequence of content in any format that can be delivered via a subscription. The original presentation of the content might be a series of blog posts, news feeds, podcasts, videos, presentations, white papers, etc. But the critical component to the concept of content syndication, is that it must be made available as a subscription. Keep in mind that everyone has their own preference for how they like to consume content, for example, I’m a visual learner so my favorite format is video, and I’m sure you have your favorite too. The bottom line is this; the best way to get more subscribers, is to make sure your content in syndicated in as many different formats as possible. Or, in the words of Pat Flynn from Smart Passive Income, learn how to Be Everywhere!…continue reading…

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