Offering Advertisers more than just Traffic?

One of the problems facing a new blog (if you’re looking to earn some money from it), is that it’s hard to sell advertising space if you don’t have any traffic. Makes sense right - advertisers want to gain exposure to your market and they want real traffic that will buy their products or [...] Continue Reading…

Tweeted Links - What do People Link to on Twitter?

So, what do people link to on Twitter? It’s a good question and one worth spending some time on.

I’ve got to admit, I’ve been paying a bit of attention to this lately - it’s an interesting exercise, watching the way different personalities interact on Twitter. I follow about 190 people, the majority bloggers, so [...] Continue Reading…

May 1st: RSS Awareness Day - Spread the Word

Today is RSS Awareness Day, you can find out more about it by clicking on that link.

It is estimated that just over 5% of Internet users subscribe to RSS feeds. In today’s content rich world and dynamic websites, that is abysmal. Most users simply do not know how RSS feeds can make their online [...] Continue Reading…

Blogger Interview: Trey Meier - TWKM.ca

As I mentioned last week, I’m going to start a series of interviews with other bloggers looking at how they go about promoting their websites, using social media etc. First up, we have Trey Meier a 24yo Writer from Calgary, Canada.

Ok, let’s get to it, it’s time for a blogger interview.

Alright Trey, tell our [...] Continue Reading…

Ramblings, some changes and new Social Profiles

If you visited the site today, you may have noticed some changes to the header area.

I’ve decided to modify my branding a bit and drop the ‘SEO’ from my logo and tagline. There really is quite a bit of negative sentiment out there for the term ‘SEO’ and even though all the advice I’ll [...] Continue Reading…

Marketing-SEO.com Weekly Traffic Report

Just a quick traffic stats update today.

I’m thinking it might be more relevant (and interesting) if I leave the detailed reports to monthly updates rather than weekly.

I made 4 posts again this week, I haven’t really connected with active conversations as well as I would like, consequently traffic was averaging a constant 30 visits [...] Continue Reading…

Google XML Sitemaps Plugin for Wordpress

A basic SEO strategy everyone needs to consider is making your site friendly for search engine spiders to crawl (particularly GoogleBot) so that your content can be indexed quickly and thoroughly. The Google XML Sitemaps Plugin for Wordpress blogs is a great place to start and should be a top consideration on every blog [...] Continue Reading…

Promote your Blog via Video Comments

A couple of days ago TechCrunch gave its readers the ability to leave video comments on their posts (that’s a screenshot of Mike Arrington’s video comment announcing them on the above link).

The Wordpress plugin is powered by Seesmic (a company Mike Arrington from TechCrunch is an investor in, and the company that recently acquired [...] Continue Reading…

Potential Privacy issues when using 3rd party Twitter Apps

I talked about one potential privacy issue relating to 3rd party Twitter apps last week in my post: Do we need to worry about ‘Tweet Jacking’, today further information has surfaced about the dangers of unintended consequences from 3rd party apps that access the Twitter API.

TechCrunch has reported that Twitter user Orli Yakuel has [...] Continue Reading…

Do you want to be Interviewed on Marketing-SEO.com?

Are you a blogger? Do you have an interesting story? Care to share a few of your insights into promoting blogs?

A new weekly feature on Marketing-SEO.com will be interviews with bloggers that focus on subjects like how they promote their blogs, use of social networking/bookmarking sites, posts/headlines they consider their best etc.  in short, [...] Continue Reading…