Do you or your clients have a local business ? If so Google local listings is a great way to get free traffic and leads.  Getting on top can be very beneficial and I have seen local businesses that I  have worked with really grow because of it . Local listings truly only work if you have an actual business that caters around local retail and services.  It is of course important to have a good landing page...

Many bloggers have commended me for my blog design. Being a web designer myself, I have the privilege of quickly doing adjustments to my blog design, spicing it up from time to time. And this had proved to be extremely useful. And one of the major abilities a blog design can have is to convince it’s spectators to convert. Well, in this case, subscribe to my blog. So, how exactly can you optimize you blog...

Have you ever heard of the 80/20 rule? In economics, it is said that 80% of the world’s riches are generated by 20% of the world’s population. (Give or take 5% they say) And the cool thing about this theory is that it can be applied to almost any instance of the worldly matters. Yes, even blog content creation. Shall we apply the theory then? 80% of your long-term blog traffic is brought to you...

There are some of us bloggers that tend to write what we want, our way, hoping that our communities will embrace what they are being told. But some of us tend to go the extra mile and make every single post that comes out of their blogs matter by making sure that’s exactly what their readers want. If there’s one product that people didn’t ask for, and there’s another one that people absolutely...

A countless number of bloggers over the past few years had talked about using forums to market your blog. I almost hate to say this – but it had become an overrated thing to say that “Do forum marketing! It will bring you traffic and backlinks”… But rarely does one talk about actually how to do forum marketing… As I mentioned in my earlier post, I’m in a very competitive...

Forum traffic is good. Very good. But, I find many bloggers becoming too self centered in forums and can’t see any benefits beyond getting traffic for their blogs. And yeah, backlinks of course. I find forums as the most powerful means of social networking. Everyone is familiar with the concept so I don’t need to go ahead and tell you the ABC’s of it right? The bottom line is that it lets...