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The Rules Of Blogging (Updated)

December 14, 2012 by Wayne Icard | No Comments | Filed in Blogging, Business, Marketing

A long time ago, I went through Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger archives and went all way the back to the beginning of his blog – to see what kind of stuff he talked about when he first got started. I actually kinda wondered if he noticed somebody going through his entire archive. It was me.

I had a lot of questions about how his blog progressed toward popularity. When the blog first started he was cranking out a lot of quick posts that weren’t nearly as well written as the stuff he writes today. After a while he started posting consistently and over time his posts became better and better.

The post that stood out in my mind in the very beginning was called something like “The Rules Of Blogging”. I thought it would be pretty cool to write a post like that here in 2012 and share some of my philosophy about the dos and don’ts of blogging. So here goes. (more…)

Tips To Make Sure You Never Run Out Of Content Ideas Again

October 25, 2012 by Wayne Icard | No Comments | Filed in Blogging, Business, Marketing

As you may have heard, content marketing is becoming a lot more popular since Google’s Search updates for this past year crippled so many sites. Blogging is, and always has been a great way to gain exposure and get some Pagerank flowing through your site. If you’re like me or if your site is new(like mine), sometimes you might have a hard time coming up with topics to write about. This post is going to solve all the content problems you’ll ever have but, first, I want to talk a little about why I’ve been struggling with content and give some insight into the biggest problem you may encounter. (more…)

How To Make Money Online

October 1, 2012 by Wayne Icard | No Comments | Filed in Blogging, Business, Marketing, News, Traffic

MoneyI  don’t know why anyone wouldn’t want to make money online. It has a lot of perks like being able to set your own schedule, not having a boss, and not having to adhere to a dress code. I’m seriously having trouble picking a favorite. There is however a lot to learn and there is no shortcut to success. If you’re committed and adaptable, there is a lot of money to be made online. Below, I’m going to go over some of the most crucial aspects of making money online. So let’s get started. (more…)

Even Good Sites Are Getting Link Removal Requests

August 30, 2012 by Wayne Icard | No Comments | Filed in Blogging, Business, News, SEO, Traffic

Since Penguin came out, there definitely seems to be a growing disinterest in link spam from link networks and the like. Google scared a lot of people with that update and everyone’s jumping on the guest posting bandwagon. This is evident from the growing number of bloggers complaining about poor quality guest posts being sent to them. There’s also a growing number of webmasters freaking out and trying to clean up their link profiles. (more…)

Google’s Leery Of Social Signals, And They Should Be

August 17, 2012 by Wayne Icard | No Comments | Filed in Business, News, SEO, Social Media, Traffic

Danny Goodwin of Search Engine Watch was covering SES San Francisco on Wednesday while Matt Cutts was on stage with Danny Sullivan, Brett Tabke, and Mike Grehan. They talked about Knowledge Graph, Panda, Penguin, Transparency, etc. If you’re interested in hearing about all that stuff click here. There was some pretty interesting stuff in there but, the part about social signals reminded me of something I’ve been wanting to post about for a while. So here goes. (more…)

Google Are Masters At Link Building

August 16, 2012 by Wayne Icard | No Comments | Filed in Business, Marketing, SEO, Traffic

Yesterday, I came across a blog post by Danny Sullivan on SEL called “Link Building Means – Earning Hard Links, Not Easy Links” and in the post he went on about how webmasters need to earn links link from websites that people will actually see and want to visit through that link. If you haven’t checked it out yet, I highly recommend it.

One of the things that really got my gears turning was when he mentioned that he wanted Google to actually get some real world experience link-building. (more…)

Getting Shared On Facebook Is Worth 600% More Than Getting Tweeted

August 9, 2012 by Wayne Icard | No Comments | Filed in Business, Marketing, Social Media, Traffic

Eventbrite released the results of a case study they did that tried to – measure how much a share on the various social networks are worth in real dollars. Eventbrite is a company that sells tickets to events happening near you on their website. When I visited the site (more…)

$500K Per Year For Wearing T-Shirts? Jason Sadler Does It.

August 6, 2012 by Wayne Icard | No Comments | Filed in Business, Marketing, News, Social Media

A few years ago a man named Jason Sadler of iwearyourshirt.com had the idea of letting companies pay him to wear a T-shirt for their company. Hold on, wait. Who else does that? It just occurred to me that either John Chow or Jeremy Shoemaker does that. Well, as it turns out, they both do it. They don’t do it the same way this guy does it but, it is part of their business model. (more…)

Does Success Really Depend On Luck?

August 2, 2012 by Wayne Icard | No Comments | Filed in Business

I came across a video where Warren Buffet was speaking about something called The Ovarian Lottery. In it, he was saying that he has “been extremely lucky” to have been able to accomplish all that he’s been able to accomplish. He’s is right. He’ lucky he’s smart and lucky he was born in a country with economic opportunities. Quite frankly, he’s lucky he was able to find interest in the things that he is successful at. (more…)

Domain “Famousbloggers.net” Hijacked Over The Weekend

July 30, 2012 by Wayne Icard | No Comments | Filed in Blogging, Business, News

So, I was going through my email the other day and saw an email from Ana Hoffman that said “You’ve got to read this”. Ana Hoffman is an internet marketer who blogs on Traffic Generation Cafe. Now when I saw that title I was basically thinking – ‘If this is an ad, I’m unsubscribing’. I got tired of 1999 style email ad-titles back in… well…1999. For me, it’s really rude when a title like that turns out to be an ad. (more…)