Successful Blog Business Model Examples

What is a business model? It’s the way you actually make money. For blogging it’s sometimes tricky. Why? Blogs usually do not earn revenue by themselves. You have to do something else to get paid for blogging. Flagship blogs, that…

Spiritual Link Building Advice by Zen Master Seo-ing Singsun

Tonight I dreamt of Zen Master Seo-ing Singsun again. Last time I had attempted to make an interview but the outcome of my dream was difficult to understand. Zen spirituality is not easy to grasp at all and trapped inside…

How to Promote Yourself on Social Media? The Secret of SEO 2

How to Promote Yourself on Social Media? The Secret of SEO 2

* In this post I reveal the secret of SEO 2.0! By 2023 it’s rather known as “social SEO”. At the end of the day social media is about SEO too or SEO 2! It shows how to promote yourself…

Blog Suicide: Top 7 Title & Meta Tag Mistakes that Kill Your Blog

Blog Suicide: Top 7 Title & Meta Tag Mistakes that Kill Your Blog

* I’m shocked! Not only do bloggers waste time with meta tags although most of them are worthless for Google, bloggers hurt themselves using meta tags. It does not get better it seems it gets worse. Some people even commit…

How to Write for Subscribers: Rules of Advanced Blogging

Once this blog has reached a critical mass of over 1000+ subscribers it was time to change my writing and content creation strategy. Indeed I already adapted how I blog before I consciously decided to change my approach. Did my…

10 Usability Sins that Make me Bounce at any Rate!

10 Usability Sins that Make me Bounce at any Rate!

Bounce rate is the number or rather percentage of people who leave your site almost instantly after taking a quick look. People do not click or perform any other action on your site when they bounce! Make sure to prevent…

How Trust Made my Blog Triumph: 1000 Subscribers

How Trust Made my Blog Triumph: 1000 Subscribers

Dear reader, if you’d ask me what the single most important factor in the success of my blog is I would reply: trust! Trust is a tool that enables you to communicate and work together with people. In blogging like…

The 7 Ingredients of a Wildly Successful Blog Post

The 7 Ingredients of a Wildly Successful Blog Post

The following is a contribution brought to you by serial blogger, James Duthie from Online Marketing Banter. Two weeks earlier Tad threw his blog over to me to write a raunchy guest post. It turned out pretty nicely for everyone’s…

The Right Blog at the Right Time

The Right Blog at the Right Time

My blogging journey has been long and winded by now. I feel like looking back and analyzing. It may also help you to find out when it is the right time to start a blog. I started this blog here…

How to Spot Content Theft on Social Media and Elsewhere

How to Spot Content Theft on Social Media and Elsewhere

* Content theft runs rampant on social media. It’s utterly annoying in many cases. Sites like Pinterest are often used by criminals who capitalize on stolen content. On Pinterest this often amounts to bait and switch – an ages old…

How to Find Out How a Blog Performs Over Time

How to Find Out How a Blog Performs Over Time

Why would you want to find out how a blog performs over time? You want to see whether you made some progress. Maybe your blog is even stagnating? You need to know whether it gains traction on social media and…

Introducing Traits of Green SEOs

Introducing Traits of Green SEOs

* When one of my favorite green blogs was looking for an SEO expert I was seriously tempted to quit everything else and do green SEO full time.   The best of us look beyond profits Some of the most…

How to Get Attention Blogging Part-Time

How to Get Attention Blogging Part-Time

In the past I often made a common blogging mistake. It was trying to raise hell or be spectacular to get attention from readers. You really have to be to get engagement organically. Using hatebait to get there by way…

WordPress Theme Customization: How to Simplify like a Web Dev

WordPress Theme Customization: How to Simplify like a Web Dev

Most WP themes need heavy customization or rather fixing. It’s bug fixing but also removing all the visual flaws only a Web developer can notice.

How to Get Content and Earn Credibility with Old News

How to Get Content and Earn Credibility with Old News

* Who wants to read yesterday’s news? This might sound like a rhetoric question but it’s not: Google users or searchers want to read old news. People actually seek out your old, even archaic content right now. What do they…

Top 10 Reasons Why Great Content Fails on Social Media

Top 10 Reasons Why Great Content Fails on Social Media

One day I published a post that took me a long time to write and was well crafted timely pillar content. You won’t believe what happened next!

3 Phases of Blog Growth or How to Love Blogging

3 Phases of Blog Growth or How to Love Blogging

* Starting and maintaining a high quality or flagship blog is not really easy. You need perseverance and the will to keep on blogging no matter what happens. Yet that’s still not enough to keep your blog growing. You need…

Learn How to Blog: Writing for Beginners

Learn How to Blog: Writing for Beginners

You want to learn how to blog? Excellent! You’re in the right place. Writing is the most difficult part of actual blogging. Why? Blogging and conventional writing are not the same! Beginners often don’t get the differences between websites and…

Global Food Crisis: How Bloggers and Social Media Users Can Help

Global Food Crisis: How Bloggers and Social Media Users Can Help

You may have read news about the exploding global food crisis all over the planet. You haven’t heard of it yet? Let me summarize it: It seems the whole world is starving besides us rich people in the West. We…

How to Get More Visitors for Your Blog Without Social Media Marketing

How to Get More Visitors for Your Blog Without Social Media Marketing

Please excuse my honesty! Personally I truly dislike the term “marketing” as well as combinations like search engine marketing. Even more than that I despise the term social media marketing which is a contradiction in itself. Either you socialize with…