Congratulations to Peter Kimmich from TryOurLA.com, the winner of the $10,000 Business Boost contest! I was floored by how many truly worthy submissions we received. There were international submissions, funny submissions and submissions from site owners whose topic really stunk -- literally. And the sites ran the gamut from glimmers in the eye to businesses that could see the finish line of being able to cash out in a very big way. There are so many very talented, ... Keep reading »
Two and half years ago, I was stuck. My business was doing alright, but I was really struggling to take it to the next level. Then 15 minutes with Aaron Wall changed everything for good.
For me it was Aaron; for you it might be someone else. For all of us, though, there are times when we just need something to put our business on a brand new growth curve. So what better gift could I give you than a ... Keep reading »
Two and half years ago, I was stuck. My business was doing alright, but I was really struggling to take it to the next level. Then 15 minutes with Aaron Wall changed everything for good.
For me it was Aaron; for you it might be someone else. For all of us, though, there are times when we just need something to put our business on a brand new growth curve. So what better gift could I give you than a ... Keep reading »
Back in January, Aaron wrote about the corrosive effect that Twitter is having on marketing online. Because Twitter links are no-followed (and often TinyURLed), sites like Google never see the links that people tweet. There's also a very temporal nature to Twitter that, as Aaron puts it, makes the content "here today, gone today." Since then, he's even gone so far as to say that he's going to cut back on social networking because of negative effects like ... Keep reading »
If your site was deleted from the Google index would anyone other than you notice and care?
That was a quote from Aaron in "How Does the Algorithm View Your Website?", and nothing has ever rang more true to me.
See, I had a site in the same mold as so many others that I had had success with. It was a very easy model for making great money: find a ... Keep reading »
Today Aaron Wall has the best definition I've seen yet of what constitutes search engine spam. It's simple, clean and true. We should all apply it to our sites.
Patrick posted 21 More Really Funny Search Queries today and invited others to do the same. I know I get some pretty interesting queries, so I decided to take him up on his offer.
Here are 10 keyword phrases that have actually brought people to my site over the past 4 weeks.
blog get more visitors
Looks like Tarzan is having trouble getting people to his site.
how to get money from revenue generation
That search answers itself.
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Frankenstein's ... Keep reading »