I’m a strong believer in first impression. It is what determines HOW you are perceived on subconscious level even before you are interacted with. In case of blogs it is just as important, as first impression has a great chance of turning interested visitor into “fast clicking Back button” browser.

Sadly, even if the information you provide is relevant to the search!

I have seen it before and done it myself. Just think back – have you ever arrived to a site because it supposedly had info you need but was so destructed by the color combination, ads overload or awkward navigation that you simply clicked back to look for OTHER site?

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Google has changed the game (again) and I have spoke about it before but how does it impact you? What exactly do you do to benefit from those changes?

Do You Know That By Simply Commenting You Can Greatly Increase Your Authority Status?

I have wrote before in my post CommentLuv Plus DoFollow Equal Unlimited Link Love about using CommentLuv enabled blogs to boost your blog rank and it still stands true – but with one correction!

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In case anyone wonders – I’m still around and even though I haven’t posted much in last few day, I’m not ignoring my blog

This week simply comes out slightly more filled than any other normal week and time is a rare commodity. First I had to get ready for the webinar and on many requests, you can watch last night’s webinar recording by clicking its link on this page.

And also I’ll be heading to Mark Hendricks ISS 10 seminar in Florida and got a few things to get done. I’ll do my best to post from the event but generally those are so busy – I miss my queue

Commenting on blogs that provide benefits of DoFollow is one of the best ways to build incoming links. It give you deep content linking, especially when done on blogs with CommentLuv enabled and it passes Page Rank to help you build authority of your own blog.

It is one strategy I personally use and highly recommended in several posts. Problem I have is when people who comment fail to read comment guidelines and leave SPAM and what is even worse…

When Marketers I Personally Respect Outsource The Spamming Process!

Be it intentionally or not is secondary to the conversation as I still have to deal with that spam and here is latest example…

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Creating content is relatively easy for most bloggers – what becomes problematic is getting that content seen.

How Do I Get Targeted Traffic To My Blog?

Question above is perhaps one that people ask me most often and one that really has no simple answer. I don’t believe there is a single source that will simply deliver you “massive traffic”, be it an SEO, social marketing, article marketing, video marketing, forum marketing… you name it!

What I do believe is that combination of ALL will generate the results you need. What becomes problematic is time at this point and in this post I want to share simple tips how you can simplify process by using “Economy of Action” – term coined by my friend and Social Marketing Wiz Dr. Ron Capps.

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In this post I want to discuss 5 EXACT steps I consider to be an absolute MUST to be completed for each and every new blog to ensure it is properly spidered by search engines and gets good exposure from them as well as traffic!

What this post is NOT – it is not a guide to SEO, content publishing, arguments about ping list, etc. We all have our opinions and this topic can get quite large. So instead I share EXACT steps that work well for me in my business and you can choose to duplicate them or ignore!

Either way it will be fun, so keep on reading!

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SezWho was a start up that was different from other reputation management systems in a way that it allowed you to rate comments and also build your consistent reputation across multiple platforms, all the while allowing you keep comments local to your blog.

This was one feature that made me an early adopter but looks like its gone. It appears SezWho was sold out and by March 31st it will be gone from my blog, after painful migration of all the features to native comments system…

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