Time is passing you by whether you move towards your business goals or not. What you're doing now is fear based. Reorient your mind to a positive, optimistic, pleasure based style of thinking and start going after your goals while focusing on the rewards and not the possible loss of time...
Take advantage of every moment, unless you planned on taking time off. Procrastination, waiting till "later," thinking you have all the time in the world... Don't. Do what you want to be doing, business or otherwise. The more time you waste taking in crappy entertainment instead of chasing...
On Google's Inside Adsense Blog they've just introduced Matched Content units.
Aka they've finally gotten around to knocking off Taboola, Outbrain, and those outfits.
To use them, you have to be a site with "multiple pages and high volumes of traffic." You have to check your site...
$5,000 unfortunately just isn't a lot, even in the IM and SEO world. That makes me think that I'd go for a cheaper priced item that I can still make sure is high quality, over one very high priced item like a super backlink from some newspaper .
I'd either get a lot of content that I could...
Way to keep this signal:noise ratio high, @emp. If we all resorted to google only, there's be no point of a discussion forum. I'd rather talk to real humans than read some text-broker MFA content.
@Andrewkar, I'm learning here. What happens to kevlar when UV rays beat on it? Becomes brittle...
One of them talked about "owning" the media. He who controls the media controls the culture of the niche, and then you make it do what you want, such as share and link (to you). That's powerful stuff.
The one about the 25 day content and promotion spree put so many ideas in my head...
The power of humongous indexation shouldn't be overlooked in terms of how much page rank juice it generates and passes around. That could account for the rankings its getting.
This is the exact kind of site that the new "doorway pages" update is going to tackle, I bet. Autogenerated, snippet...
I've had sites where Google has ignored both the Robots text file and the Robots meta tag, together and individually. One other option is to make sure you exclude these pages from your sitemap, and also to specifically exclude them in Webmaster Tools. But in the end, Google does what it wants.
@Viperchile
The only problem I see with that approach is that you won't have any history of providing that service. No testimonials about it, no insight into the surprises and challenges, and an inability to answer intelligent questions about the process and possibilities. The last person...
I don't think it's his responsibility to govern another man's thoughts, energies, persistence, and work ethic. If they don't want it, nobody on this planet has the power to get them to do it. You can't do it for them. Of course, that's not to take away from the many who committed and are...
It's a little late to jump in here now, but I must say that essentially all of my personal business goals were put on hold so far this month thanks to distractions of various forms, including the day job, family responsibilities, and householder stuff to do.
All isn't lost though. I have about...
Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
There's no real need to read it unless you like overly verbose books that use long winded stories to lengthen themselves and drive the point home.
With that said, this impacted me personally quite a bit because I tend to hold on to things longer than I...
Do it by hand as you go. Link to pages you want to rank or send traffic towards. If the page you just published is one of those, search your old pages and add links to them to the new one. Simple as that. Use anchors that get people to click or ones that use the words you want to rank for.
Maybe you can't throw out a specific number, but you could say something like...
"A good number is when it stops increasing our traffic, rankings, and conversions. Then its not worth further effort on our part and its not helping our customers either."
The data will tell you when its good...
This could be a great opportunity for your vertical instead of some huge parody Haris Pilton account.
I can imagine targeting your niche itself and purposefully giving bad advice in a humorous tone, doing satire, and interacting in the same manner. Get a ton of followers and then once in a...
Nice thread, pulled me out of lurker mode.
You've said "niche" and not "keyword." I'll typically start searching random topics and terms I come up with in my head in the niche. If I come up with them, others are likely using the same terms when searching so it's going to be representative in...
I haven't cared a lot about page speed before reading a lot on this forum, but I think that's important now.
I also think we need adaptive designs, if not fully responsive now. It's not negotiable any more.
I agree with @Callum Short about too much javascript. I don't mind mobile menus...