With the increase in ad blocking, many bloggers and website owners are turning to different business models in order to generate an income from their content. One popular route is to charge people directly for reading your articles. There are different ways to do this. One way is to divide content into courses and charge … Read more
Rank Cracker is a free tool from SEO blogger and internet marketing entrepreneur Matthew Woodward. The tool allows you to import a list of the backlinks pointing to your competitors’ websites, and then it will analyse those links to instruct you on how you can go about replicating them for your own site. By reproducing … Read more
Long Tail Pro is a keyword research tool that allows you to easily see which words, terms or phrases people are searching the internet for. Being able to know which keywords are being searched, and in what volume, allows you to ensure there is an audience for your content before you write it. This makes … Read more
SiteGround are a web hosting company that was funded in 2004 by some University friends. The company now boasts 140 employees; which helps them manage the 600 tickets, 300 phone calls and over 800 chat requests they receive every day. They have data centres in three major cities around the world: Chicago, Amsterdam, and Singapore. … Read more
Back in 2003, marketing maverick Seth Godin wrote a book called Purple Cow. You know how the business world is always drowning in books written by entrepreneurs, marketers, investors, etc. Some good, some bad, some plain ugly. Rarely do you come across a business book that completely blows you away. A book that pushes you … Read more
Many design marketplaces offer deals from time to time that reduce the price of themes or offer multiple products for a lower price. If you are looking for one of the items on sale, you can save a lot of money. A great service that you should keep in mind is DealFuel. The website works … Read more
More and more internet users are blocking ads in order to “improve” their online experience. This is something that will greatly affect most website owners at some point in the future. Last week, I tackled the issue of blocking ads in my post “Blocking Internet Ads is Ethical, But So Is Blocking Ad-Blockers“. One thing … Read more
RSS has decreased in popularity considerably over the last few years. I always assumed that this was due to the increase in usage in social media services such as Facebook and Twitter, however a Google survey with around 20,000 responses revealed that only 9.5% of people had ever used RSS. I imagine the number of … Read more
The quality of your writing is a representation of you, your brand and your business. I would love to tell you all that I never let spelling and grammatical mistakes slip through, however the truth is that mistakes do happen from time to time, despite me proofreading all of my work. This is because it … Read more
The IP address of your web hosting account is not something that many people give consideration to, though it is something that can affect your website or business. I was reminded of this recently. In the past, I developed small content websites (5-20 pages) using WordPress. The problem is that WordPress is a very unsecure … Read more