Those of you who subscribe to my newsletter will know that I sent an email out yesterday about my new project Rise Forums. Do not worry if you are not currently a subscriber as I later decided to publish the newsletter as a post. There are a huge number of blogging and marketing blogs out … Read more
Infographics have become very popular over the last few years. This is no doubt due to people sharing images and content through Facebook and Twitter. When I first viewed infographics, I generally found them quite interesting as they packed a lot of useful information into an easy to use image. Not anymore. Marketing companies use … Read more
Rise Forums is a brand new premium discussion forum for bloggers, developers, designers, affiliate marketers and online entrepreneurs. Our aim is to build relationships with our members and give them help and feedback on their online projects. If you are sick of internet marketing forums in which you are constantly being bombarded by products and … Read more
A quality domain name is essential for branding and promoting your key projects. I registered my first domain name in 2000. Even back then, finding the right domain name for a project was a difficult task. Finding a good brandable keyword in a domain name has become easier over the last few years has become … Read more
More and more people are using blogs to promote themselves and their business. In the past, blogs were an afterthought for many companies, being used to publish relevant company news if and when required. Over the last two years, companies have taken their blogs more seriously due to Google’s stance on low quality links. The … Read more
Google authorship has become an important part of promoting yourself and your content through Google. Once you have configured authorship correctly, your profile image will be displayed on all of your websites and articles in Google’s search engine results. This raises your profile and encourages more people to click on your search listings. Setting up … Read more
Getting followers to visit your social media profiles takes a lot of hard work. It also takes a lot of time. Yet social media is not something that website owners and companies can not pay attention to. Creating a relationship with your followers can be difficult. If your updates about your business or pictures from … Read more
Three months ago, Glen from ViperChill wrote a fantastic article about SEO entitled “Revealed: The New SEO (When Google Takes Freshness Too Far)“. One of the key concepts that he addressed in his article was the freshness factor that Google uses in its ranking algorithms. All search engines should, of course, include the freshness of … Read more
I started working at 16 years old at local swimming pools and sports centres. My Dad was the manager of another sports centre so I did not have to do much work to get the job. I had swum a lot growing up so I gained my lifeguard qualification and walked into a job easily. … Read more
Despite my thirteen years of working online, my desire to help people sometimes hurts my bottom line. It is something I have battled with on many occasions. Whenever someone asks me for help, I always tried to email them back and help them out when I could. Sometimes all I do is point them in … Read more