I have spent a tremendous amount of time on iTunes (probably too much) figuring out how to improve my rankings. One thing I’ve noticed is how incredibly important a name is on iTunes. What I recommend is that you think about the name of your podcast like you think about a google search. Let’s suppose…
Let me put it simply: Do not even consider hosting your website with iPage. The experience that I have had with iPage was horrendous. Trust me, there are much better hosting plans available for only a tiny bit more money. The problems with iPage The site that I ran on iPage was incredibly slow. I thought it…
There are two ways to remove a category from showing up on your WordPress Theme’s Home Page: (1) You could dive into your theme’s functions.php file, or (2) You could install a really simple free plugin that will do this for you. Method #1: Functions.php This is not terribly difficult to do, but will require some…
The average visit duration is how long the average visitor to your website or blog spends on the site before leaving. Most internet marketers carefully watch total pageviews, but far too many miss this incredibly important metric. Visit duration is a big deal because it shows how well your site does at getting casual perusers…
I have spent hundreds or thousands of hours over the last few years learning whatever I can about SEO. I have read everything from Moz to Seach Engine Land to the well-researched posts on Viperchill. Net result? Absolutely nothing. But before I get into the meat of this article, I want to make a few…
There are an abundance of simple “How to set up wordpress” tutorials online, so I’ll spare you those details. What I want to teach here are the little-known secrets that can set up your Wordpress site for massive success. Tip #4: Set up permalinks before anything else Your wordpress site creates a link structure that is vital…
The headline is king! I have learned that readers are far more likely to click on a headline of “15 Creative Tips for Shooting Sunsets” than a headline of “Sunset Photography Tips for Landscape Photographers.” The best tip for thinking up great headlines is to go to magazines.com and browse the headlines of major magazines, and then repurpose…
Over the last two years, I am fortunate to have grown an audience of over 100,000 fans on the Facebook page for one of my blogs. Along the way, I’ve learned some truly genius tips for building a community on a Facebook fan page. Today, I thought I’d share a few gems with you. 1….
The picture below sums up this post fairly nicely. In the last 60 days, Pinterest has sent 237,806 people to my website, while Facebook has only sent 61,141 people. If you aren’t much of a math whiz, then I’ll break it down and say that Pinterest performed nearly four times better than Facebook. While the…
I recently read a book called The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs. I was very skeptical about buying the book since I didn’t recognize the author Carmine Gallo, but I was intrigued enough to bite. It didn’t take many pages before my head was filled with ideas. Surprisingly, instead of finding ideas on making business…