Rules are meant to be broken, right? Sure, you can break rules whenever you want, but just remember there are consequences.
Over the past 10 years I’ve broken a lot of rules, and each time I did it resulted in a negative consequence. In most cases the consequence didn’t occur immediately, however it did occur eventually.
If you want to be a daredevil, by all means, break rules. But if you want to create a thriving business, you should follow rules. And more importantly, you should follow these rules: [click to continue…]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, it’s been impossible to miss the news about Google’s latest algorithm change… the Google Panda update.
In early 2011 the Panda update hit low quality websites that were content farms. Since then, there have been a lot of major sites lost rankings and traffic, plus there have also been several smaller-scale extensions of the Panda update. And to make things worse, Google is promising that there are more changes on the way.
So if you were one of the unlucky individuals to see a drop in your traffic following any of the Panda updates, you are probably wondering how to fix it, right? Or if you’ve been spared through the initial Panda rollouts, you are probably wondering how can you ensure your site will remain safe from future updates? [click to continue…]
If you don’t already know, you’ll quickly figure out that emotions don’t mix well with business. It doesn’t matter if you are sad, happy, or even angry, you always need to make decisions based on logic.
I know it sounds simple, but even after being an entrepreneur for 10 years I still find it difficult to control my emotions at all times. For the most part I keep my emotions under control, but every once in a while I slip up.
If you want to start making better decisions and start doing what’s best for your business, here is what you can do to control your emotions. [click to continue…]
Over the past 10 years I’ve created many businesses; some have lost a lot of money, others made a lot of money, and a few have made TONS of money. Do you know the number 1 reason why some of my businesses did well while others didn’t? It wasn’t luck… it was experience.
If you looked at my entrepreneurial life on a timeline you would see that my first few businesses did really poorly, however, as the years went on I slowly made more money. The reason is because I’ve learned what mistakes to avoid and how to supercharge my business so that I can make money faster.
Here are the 6 tactics that will supercharge your business and take it to the next level. [click to continue…]
Google is the most popular website on the Internet. So whether you have an offline or online business, it’s important that your company be found at the top of search results. If you aren’t, you’ll be losing a lot of potential revenue.
If you don’t know how to rank your website at the top of search engines, I recommend that you read the Beginner’s Guide to SEO before reading this blog post. But if you are familiar with SEO, here are 7 advance strategies to increase your rankings.
Tactic #1: Don’t be afraid to slow down
Over the past year I have been noticing a trend: if you build links too quickly to your website, it won’t rank well. But if you only build a handful of rich anchor text links each month, your rankings will start shooting up.
So my strategy with building links, even for the most competitive terms, is to only build 5 to 10 rich anchor text links. And out of those links 2 to 4 may contain the anchor text I am trying to rank for while the others will contain variations of the term.
In addition to that I usually slow down or stop building links for my major terms after 5 or 6 months as I noticed that my rankings start to naturally go up over time if I don’t continue to keep on building rich anchor text links.
The key with link building is to be patient, as it looks unnatural if your link count grows at a rapid pace. It doesn’t matter if your competitors have a hundred or a million links coming to their website, you need to build up slowly. [click to continue…]
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