Breaking Free from the Rat Race
If you are a blogger or a soon to be blogger and you're serious about ranking higher in Google and keeping viewers on your site as long as possible then you need to read on to find out why embedding your Youtube videos or your full posts on your main blog page is a bad idea.
A call to action is one of the most important tools you have at your disposal when creating any type of business, and especially an online business. You should have a call to action at the bottom of every post you make. While it's one of the most important things you should include on your site, you might not feel right telling or asking people to do something for you in return for what you provided them. You need to change your thinking if you want to become successful in your online ventures. Read more to find out why.
If you are passionate about a particular product line and you have a desire to share your opinions with the world to help others out when making product decisions, a product review site is a great way to start an online business. In this article I provide some ideas on how to get rolling with creating product reviews and some of the ways you can start your online presence. Click read more to see the entire article.
Your brand, or your company's brand may very well be one of the most important assets you have. Little details such as what email address you use when replying to comments on your site or on forums or other blogs on the Internet can have a subtle but huge impact on your traffic and overall success. Follow the link to find out how I've screwed up and how you can avoid these same mistakes to grow your brand and reputation.
While I would love to think that mine was the only site you'd ever need to visit to wet your appetite for great information on how to make money online, I know that isn't the case. Inside are a list of my favorite sites where you will get quality, no nonsense information on how to build and grow your online businesses. These are sites that I follow regularly and I think you should to. Just don't forget to check back here for more quality information!
If you're like me, you're getting a bit leery of how much data Google actually has about you, your traffic, and their activity on your site. Let's face it, Google is a mastermind at collecting data - that's how they make their money. They have Chrome (which I can promise you stores tons of information about your browsing and activity, but you almost don't care just because it's so fast and works so well), Adsense, Google Desktop Search, Google Search, etc. The list goes on and on. Well, one thing that I wanted to make sure I kept for myself was information regarding how people navigate my site. I just didn't want to give this away. This way I feel like all my eggs aren't in one basket. To find out about two free alternatives to Google Analytics that will allow you to store your analytics information on your own server (shared or dedicated), click past the break to find out more.