Google Penguin Update: Does it Affect Your Blog?

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A few months ago, the Google Panda update shook the blogging world.

Many webmasters found their blogs had either moved up or moved down. Some found their blogs knocked off the Google entirely.

This week, Google has introduced yet another update: The Google Penguin update.

Have you noticed a significant change in your traffic over the last few days? If so, this may be Google Penguin at work.

If you’ve noticed a drop in traffic or want to inoculate your blog against potential harm, read this article carefully. Read more…

Fiverr for Linkbuilding: Pros, Cons & Dangers

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Fiverr is an often underlooked, slightly dangerous yet highly effective platform for building links. It’s quite often used by advanced SEOs.

When used properly, Fiverr can help you generate a ton of backlinks to your site and help you boost your rankings very quickly.

If you’re not careful with Fiverr however, you can get burned. You could end up wasting time and money and even get your site penalized if you’re not careful.

What is Fiverr and how do you use it to build backlinks successfully? Read more…

5 Marketing Tactics to Avoid in 2012

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In 2011, the tectonic plates of the internet marketing landscape shifted.

The underlying fundamentals of many strategies, including SEO and social media have changed.

Marketing in 2012 is going to rely much more on customer connection than tactics.

Of course, having strong strategies is important. It’s just that many of the strategies and tactics that marketers have come to rely on no longer work.

Here are 5 such tactics. At one point in time, these tactics were cutting edge. Today, they’re completely outdated. Read more…

Why and How Every Blog Post Should Be SEOed

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While it’s true that content is king, bloggers very often underestimate the role SEO has in blogging success.

Even when they do SEO, a lot of bloggers only optimize their main page. In reality, each and every post needs SEO attention.

Doing so will help you rank not just for your home page, but for all your other pages as well.

Most successful bloggers will agree that the vast majority of blogging traffic doesn’t come from home page rankings. Instead, it comes from many blog posts.

Here’s how to SEO each and every blog post for the maximum amount of traffic. Read more…

Creative Ways to Use PLR to Generate Traffic

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Many of the best ways to generate traffic online involve publishing content. Even if you’re a marketing master, you still need to have high quality content to make many of the best marketing tactics work.

That’s where PLR content can help. Instead of having to write this content yourself or spend a lot of money on outsourcing, you can use PLR content instead.

What can you do with PLR content? You can use it to generate boatloads of traffic. Here are a few creative ways you can do so. Read more…