Viper Chill

APRIL 1, 2010

To you I want to say that what you’re doing is fine, but as my aim here is to help people as much as possible, I feel the need to say your time would be best spent focusing on your content and carving out your own niche. If you’re reading this in a feed reader or inbox, thanks for subscribing!

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 26, 2011

What does it really take to build a hustling and bustling blog with a thriving and active community around it? Google likes a natural link building footprint, which includes links from various sources, like blogs (in-content and comments), article directories, Web 2.0 How do you know whether a blog is Do or Nofollow?

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Viper Chill

JULY 5, 2010

Although I don’t have any goals for the size of the community here, I still think it is an interesting metric to monitor. If you’re reading this in a feed reader or inbox, thanks for subscribing! What they don’t know is it provides you additional exposure as long as you create a valuable content.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 1, 2010

You can see how many people are subscribing to your RSS feed and from which sources, and if you use the new Google Analytics integration, you can see how many clicks each individual post is getting from feed readers. Around two years ago I had over 350 feeds in there as I was a total information junkie.

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Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Meta Tags When you search for a site in Google, you’ll see a snippet of content under the page link. Therefore, if you save your images as “minimalist-marketing.jpg&# or whatever your content is about, then Wordpress will automatically generate that text. The post and homepage titles are the most important.

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Viper Chill

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Although I don’t have any goals for the size of the community here, I still think it is an interesting metric to monitor. If you’re reading this in a feed reader or inbox, thanks for subscribing! you just proved a that content is what matters. I hope this month is a great one for all of you!

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 2, 2011

I’ve already written about Google’s recent algorithm update that has resulted in many websites losing search rankings while benefiting WikiHow and eHow, both considered content farms by many SEOs and Internet marketers. Google’s algorithm was intended to address content farms and lower their rankings. But eHow gained.

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Viper Chill

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

I could become a news / content site that makes money through advertising. If you’re sick of all the slimy marketers out there and want to get updates from someone who is actually going to show – for free – how they make money, then make sure you subscribe to the RSS feed. I am keeping up with the RSS Feed.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 9, 2012

Dave offers “25 ideas for ways you can get value out of Twitter, with a mix of business and personal focus,” such as meeting new people, staying on top of the news, influencing the influencers, and re-purposing content. Hint: it helps to have a community manager. 10 Twitter Features You Might Be Missing by GigaOM.

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Viper Chill

JULY 19, 2010

Adding Content to Your Site As I wrote in my post on How to Dominate Google , search engines generally tend to follow people. Long-tail Automation To really get a site going I like to add a lot of content to it. I outsource this process and while you certainly don’t have to produce that much content, I do find that it helps.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

Think instead about social media traffic, good content, a cleanly coded website, slow progressive growth, and your site’s authority. This post is a somewhat technical approach toward dealing with duplicate content issues. Your strategies must employ content creation, community management, local/maps optimization, among others.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 24, 2010

I’m actually writing this sentence (not the post) on March 11th 2010 sitting on a feed count of 4,717 subscribers (I’ll explain this later). My feed jumped from 8,500 to over 11,500 according to Feedburner. I promise there are more non-readers than readers who would never want to read content this long.

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Viper Chill

DECEMBER 21, 2009

I’ve been interviewed about marketing using guest posts over 10 times, I’m mentioned on the homepage of a guest posting community and I’ve written far more of them than I care to remember. writes content for another website and this act makes you a ‘guest blogger.’ In essence, someone (you, perhaps?)

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Viper Chill

MAY 26, 2010

I ran a DJ blog which I later let die due to other interests and I even ran ViperChill for a year (a long time ago) without getting one single comment or feed subscriber. 7 months of producing the best content I could, utilising Twitter, commenting on other blogs and everything else you can think of hadn’t produced results.

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Viper Chill

MAY 6, 2010

You are here: ViperChill » Social Media » How I Generated One Years Worth of Content Ideas In One Hour, And You Can Too How I Generated One Years Worth of Content Ideas In One Hour, And You Can Too Written by Glen, this post has 66 Comments I have a confession to make. Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!"

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Viper Chill

JUNE 21, 2010

The more you use the service, the more the system “learns&# about your interests which in-turn provides you with more relevant, fascinating content. Here you’ll find content from all over the web which you know other people have enjoyed, so it can lead to some great discoveries.

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Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Instead of dwelling on the sale, I want to praise the growth of such a big community and share the steps involved in duplicating my success. If you are desperate to get your feed count past 1,000 subscribers then, this is also for you. And finally, I made sure to show my feed count. This post is for you as well.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 3, 2010

Besides sharing how many new feed subscribers I’ve gained and how many pageviews this site has had, I also reveal the top traffic sources and referring keywords to ViperChill. Although I don’t have any goals for the size of the community here, I still think it is an interesting metric to monitor.

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 9, 2010

Although I don’t have any goals for the size of the community here, I still think it is an interesting metric to monitor. July 1st : 7,543 July 31st : 8,174 Change : +631 For writing so little, and having a lot less traffic than most months, July didn’t turn out too badly at all in terms of feed growth.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 26, 2010

Use it to engage your audience (on a Fan Page) with questions, contests, photo and video sharing and sharing relevant content that makes people want to keep coming back to your page. It’s a great place to drive interactions with your company if your corporate website is rather boring and hard to content manage.

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Viper Chill

MAY 17, 2010

First, if you look at their traffic stats with Compete you can see that they have traffic spikes and dips at around the same time: Then, looking at feed subscribers , despite the large difference at the start of the graph, their growth rate is on a very similar consistent rise. With those fundamentals alone you can go very far.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 11, 2010

Keep It Clean Simple Stupid) but it’s clearly aimed at your design, rather than the messages in your content or your story. In the case of Upgrade Reality, there were a few random ads that weren’t really relevant to the site content and hadn’t made money, so they weren’t worth keeping. That’s it.

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Viper Chill

MAY 10, 2010

A site’s authority may rapidly rise and fall depending on what the blogosphere is discussing at the moment, and how often a site produces content being referenced by other sites. The audience of politics and web news blogs are far more likely to link to content they enjoy, rather than the readers of gossip blogs.

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Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

I of course like seeing the traffic go up, but I’m more focused on building a community than seeing some nice spikes in my Google Analytics account. I had 3 guest posts go live this month on some big blogs which obviously had an impact on the stats but apart from that, I just focus on writing the best content I can.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 19, 2010

What you may not know is that since June 2009, the blog has consistently been making over $4-5,000 per month (over $6,000 in January, this year) without doing anything more than publishing new content. Their list posts have gone hot on StumbleUpon and they may even have had a big-blog mention and suddenly their feed count looks impressive.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 3, 2010

And I don’t even do this manually; the process is automated thanks to RSS feeds. Comments help you to show a form of social proof that you can’t fake without a lot of time and they allow you to see if people are really interested in the type of content you’re putting out there. That’s it.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 1, 2010

Although I don’t have any goals for the size of the community here, I still think it is an interesting metric to monitor. If you’re reading this in a feed reader or inbox, thanks for subscribing! target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 64 Comments Dev | Technshare says: June 1, 2010 at 11:10 am Wow. awesome stats man.

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Viper Chill

JANUARY 19, 2010

In terms of structure, I like to map out exactly what I’m going to talk about in the guide and get all of my content sections down first. If you’ve made it this far, I have to try and tempt you to subscribe to the RSS feed (or get free email updates ). Peeps love this type of content. I am currently (you guessed it!)

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Viper Chill

APRIL 15, 2010

My writing earned me close to $100,000 in 2009 and if you produce any form of content online, this is definitely an area you should be working on. Oftentimes I’ll have a title in mind and then simply fill out the content of the post. Quality content is a must.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 8, 2010

If someone wants to know the results for American Idol, what if you could be prepared to write content the minute the results are revealed? target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 170 Comments Dev | Technshare says: June 8, 2010 at 11:09 am Woww. With so many niche sites, you need a lot of content. That’s awesome Glen.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 30, 2010

Some of the most common you’ll find for sale are: Blogs Clickbank ready affiliate sites Popular Clickbank products & sales pages Niche content sites Dropship product sites Forums Paid Membership sites Niche communities The ones I have highlighted in bold are the ones that I usually go for.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

The bottom line: If your content is good enough to stand on its own, it will be Retweeted. Streaming only your blog’s RSS feed on Twitter. (If Using your Twitter feed as a chat room for conversations that are exclusive in nature and not as a broadcast medium. FriendFeed is a service but it’s also a community.

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 25, 2010

target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 135 Comments Alex Tong says: August 25, 2010 at 8:23 am sofa Reply Glen says: August 25, 2010 at 8:25 am I can’t tell if this is spam. Reply Ian says: August 25, 2010 at 10:41 am I’ve been going through my feed reader this week and getting rid of all the junk. jojo is neutral territory.

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Viper Chill

MAY 20, 2010

I don’t know if I really am helping people grow or providing valuable content, but I’ll spend my time caring about that, rather than the feedback I get. This week I closed my biggest business deal, turned 21, and was interviewed by a blogger with over 110,000 feed subscribers. But i recently the community of Flickr.

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 18, 2010

It doesn’t matter what niche I define myself in, it matters what I’m writing content about. Zen Habits , with over 190,000 feed subscribers, is a blog with emphasis on productivity and minimalism. Decide what the main thing you want to help people with actually is, and then just focus on writing content about that.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 4, 2010

Links from other sites to your site are basically a ‘vote’ that tell search engines you are trusted and you are a good resource for whatever your content is about. Flippa is a place for people to buy and sell websites and has a very interactive community. Facebook lets you keep in touch with friends and family.

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