I recently polled a handful of industry experts to find out what they thought SEO would look like in 5 years. What factors will be the most important? What current tactics will be a thing of the past? I asked each contributor to write a short paragraph or two (because let’s face it, we all know that full-length books could be written on this subject) on their thoughts on the subject. read more...

Blog design is what makes or breaks your blogging success. Here are few things that you should not to do on your home page. read more...

My favorite Twitter tool, Tweet Adder, which I’ve been using and recommending for the past two years, had also gone through a major overhaul, removing most automation features that made it a social media traffic generation dream come true.

Which Twitter tools are still worth their salt?

Which ones provide the most time-efficient way to get more Twitter followers?

Which Twitter tools allo read more...

Conventional wisdom, and Malcolm Gladwell, claim that you need 10,000 hours of practice to qualify as an expert. We’ve examined some popular (and fun) jobs to see what it REALLY takes to become an expert. read more...

Google glass will serve as a smartphone that is right on your vision. Will Google address the ugly and privacy issues before launch? read more...

A responsive list is one where your subscribers are really engaging. It is not enough to have people on your list, but you should make sure they’re responsive. read more...

In the spotlight in the past week:

* Has indian payday loan company hacked your blog?
* Matt Cutts: common SEO mistakes to watch out for;
* social media upgrades;
* Who wins the race for privacy?
* Ghost of WordPress;
* and more.
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How do you do more (conversions, leads, sales) with less (website traffic)?

Convert your existing website traffic better.

Don't know how?

Do what I did – get a good traffic conversion plugin to help you to increase your conversions right now, without the cost of time or money.
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Email & Newsletter Design Best Practices infographic comprises useful information on how well one can design an email. read more...

You know that Amazon is a buyer’s marketplace and you should be leveraging that – but how?

This post will help you connect the dots between Kindle publishing, Blogging, and Marketing.
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In the spotlight this week:

* W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache vulnerability;
* User-generated content (blog comments) causes Google manual penalty;
* Twitter woes;
* Scam alerts;
* Government sensors Google;
* Tax-free online shopping no more;
* and more.
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On Page SEO Plugins: what are they? What do they do? Will using them result in better search engine rankings and more traffic? Which one is best? read more...

Thomas Jefferson said, “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” In order to please Google, many people will use two, three or four words where just one will do, and their writing quality suffers big time for it. When you write to the point, you stop when you have said your piece. That might be at 100 words. Or it might be at 200. In the case of thi read more...

Reverse Engineering goes well beyond the concept of 'finding good places to get backlinks from' and takes your SEO to an entirely new level. read more...

For small businesses, especially B2C (Business to Consumer), increasing your local visibility should be tops on the priority lists. For small local businesses, driving large amounts of traffic to a website is only useful if it’s the right kind of traffic. If thousands of people in Austin, TX make their way to a website for… read more...

It’s no secret that WordPress is a popular blogging CMS, but it’s also the framework that many non-blogger websites are built on. For the unfamiliar, WordPress is fundamentally flawed in terms of SEO best practices. Even seasoned WordPress developers will often overlook the obvious. Let’s tweak WordPress a little in an effort to please Google. read more...

Small businesses and startups often look to the web as a source of quick growth. Anyone who has started a business from scratch knows the challenges and difficulties that go along with this, and growing a following and customer base online may be more challenging than it sounds. If you would prefer a PDF to… read more...

This thought might scare you. What if the days of anchor text being the holy grail of SEO were coming to an end? This may be a frightening thought for many SEOs, but it doesn’t have to be. If we as SEOs are not adapting to search engine algorithm changes and being forward thinking in… read more...

Google’s advice that we should be creating web content for our readers, not for Google, is wise – at least in theory. The problem is, that Google is now penalizing those very activities that we should be doing to make great websites for our readers. Here are a few examples that I have noticed. read more...

In the spotlight this week:

* List building week at Traffic Generation Café;
* How do you know if your email marketing is working?
* Google Analytics, Blogger, Affiliate Network, AdSense, and yes – airport;
* Does exact anchor text in internal links hurt your SEO?
* What NASA can teach us about social media;
* and how to protect your blog from the recent WordPress hack a read more...