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Affiliate Marketing for Bloggers: How to Monetize Your Blog

So you’ve built a following online and are ready to monetize your blog. There are many ways to make money online, but from my perspective, affiliate marketing is way #1. Why? Over 80% of brands and 84% of publishers use affiliate marketing. It’s a billion-dollar industry, and best of all, […]

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Search Versus Social: Analysis of One Blog's Traffic Sources

Earlier this morning Fred Wilson published an interesting comparison of his blog’s traffic sources where upon splitting “the top ten” referrers “into three categories”, he discovered the following breakdown: Direct — 50% Social — 40% (with nearly 1/2 from StumbleUpon) Search — 10% These numbers amused me to say the

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Amazing Blogging, or How To Succeed By Helping Others

Yesterday, one of the luminaries of digital marketing, Avinash Kaushik tweeted: In his Google+ post Avinash shared that his blogging strategy has been to follow these 4 principles: 1. Staying focused 2. Publishing only original stuff 3. Sticking to publishing only what’s “incredible, relevant, of value” to your audience 4.

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Should Bloggers Worry About Google's "Farmer" Algorithm Update?

With the fairly recent Google’s “Farmer” Algorithm Update multiple bloggers (affiliates in particular) became concerned (subject also brought up by Joe Sousa in his recent post here), and started wondering if they (as content producers) may be affected by it. The short answer is: “No, as long as what you

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Blog Comment Spam: What It Is and 5 Funny Examples

Comment spam, a common form of spamdexing, has been a longstanding problem for blogs of all kinds. In search of “quick and easy backlinks” some people engage in it themselves, others hire “blog commenters” for as little as a couple hundred of bucks month (many which actually call themselves “SEO

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3 Social Media Engagement Mistakes Committed by Bloggers

Social media engagement can be defined as getting people involved in a thoughtful interaction within a social medium, as well as an encouragement and support of such interaction. As a blogger myself, and a frequent commentator on blog posts of others, today I’d like to focus on social media engagement

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