Bare Feet Studios

MAY 19, 2009

Bloggers who had earned a decent or better Page Rank saw their status tank to zero once Google realized they were being being paid for certain posts by advertisers. To its credit, Google also penalized its own Japan division who used the pay per post tactic in an attempt to compete against Yahoo.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Here are some of the best articles I have stumbled upon , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. 10 common misconceptions dispelled – do muscles turn to fat if you stop exercising and answers to 9 other questions. 5 cool tips to help Google penalize you – aka, 5 things not to do.

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ProBlogger

MAY 19, 2022

Blog RSS feeds. RSS feeds provide them with fresh content without having them to give away their information. Consumers should have control and RSS feeds fit perfectly into this strategy. With the word “social” everywhere, “where to network” is no longer the right question to ask.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

Does Google PageRank Really Matter? : Ask these questions and then answer them. 10 Metrics to Check When Your Traffic Crashes : With Google consistently trying to provide the best search experience, your rankings may fall at any time. This beginner SEO question comes up often. Have a look. Should I Change My URLs for SEO?

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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. I should mention that Google announced a few months ago they do not crawl the keywords tag anymore. The Google external keyword tool is a good place to start to see which phrases are popular in your audience.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 8, 2010

Did you know that 20-25% of Google searches every single day are brand new? In the third month after launching a new website, I received almost 1,000,000 unique visitors from Google. How to Dominate Google in a Matter of Hours Do you know how 1 in 4 Google search queries are unique each day? Home What the F ? The result?

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Koka Sexton

AUGUST 28, 2010

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Use CommentLuv for better comments I just finished my daily ritual of reading my favorite sites. Asking questions of your readers is a great way to encourage comments and I do not do enough of it. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed !

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Viper Chill

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Align RSS Images – I like to use images in my blog posts and I know I’m not alone. This plugin aligns images in your RSS feed so they are exactly where they would be on your site. I created a page that specifically tells new commenters about the sites RSS feed and how to subscribe.

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Viper Chill

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Although factors other than links apply, I will say that Google are very favourable towards Wikihow for a large number of terms. Attractionhowto.com is a really terrible website and doesn’t even have the six pages I counted unless you include their RSS feed. 1 site ranking Wikihow.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 15, 2012

Before we get started, I just thought I would mention a few Google algorithm changes that you should know about when thinking about link building in 2012. Google’s Panda update. You can even use the Google Algorithm Change History chart to match a spike in search rankings with a specific Google update.

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Viper Chill

DECEMBER 3, 2009

I also ran a small experiment that meant I paid people with over 500 Facebook friends $10 to post a link to my RSS feed. What was your success rate when it comes to convincing people to post a link to your RSS feed? I use a Twitter landing page and I have increased my RSS by using it. That means you’re awesome.

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Viper Chill

MAY 6, 2010

Head on over to their homepage and enter the niche that you’re writing in or even the RSS feed of one of your favourite blogs and you’ll instantly see their blog posts which went viral. If people are searching for it in mass on Google, it’s probably safe to say that your blog readers would like to know about it too.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 21, 2010

I remember the days when traffic from the service would only have a 30% bounce rate, and while it’s around 80% now, a percentage of visitors still leave comments and sign-up to your RSS feed which is what most people want them to do. Maybe you need to make your RSS more clear (like I mentioned on our coaching call) in the left sidebar.

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Viper Chill

JANUARY 4, 2010

I had to head over to Google Reader to read other internet marketing blogs, Google Apps to read my ViperChill email and GoNutshell.com to get a hold of my task list. Page 3 My third and final tab on Netvibes is used for reputation monitoring: Here I have simply added RSS feeds from places like Twitter Search and Google Blog Search.

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Viper Chill

DECEMBER 21, 2009

If you want rankings on Google, you need links. Google Search – Google is always the place I start with my internet research because it gives quick, accurate results. Depending on what you know about your niche, you can use Google for two things. If you want authority in your niche, you need links.

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Viper Chill

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Instead, all I cared about was having more pages indexed in Google so that I could get more search engine traffic. Instead of answering my own sub-heading, let me answer the opposite question: who should not read the site. Unlike these days, I didn’t care about building an audience or getting comments. ViperChill is back.

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The Way of the Web

APRIL 7, 2011

With limited time in the day and countless startups appearing in my RSS feed that get filed for the mythical ‘when I get some spare time’, that visual reminder makes all the difference. Say 25% of the T-shirt recipients are like me and have a blog. So that’s potentially about $10,000 worth of links.

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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. Your title can also be used to ask a question so that when people start reading it they’re already in the frame of mind where they’re going to give you a response. I have a question — should I tweet my own blog posts?

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Koka Sexton

MAY 1, 2007

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS How to Tell an Employee He Smells As a business owner, you’re going to have to deliver bad news every once in a while. They may begin to feel bad about themselves, question their ability to do the job or resent the person who delivered the news.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 11, 2010

That may be in the form of subscribing to the RSS feed and getting future updates or clicking on a post in the right sidebar. This is similar to how many of us don’t notice ads on websites, especially the ones in Google search results; we initially see but then ignore them so often that they may as well not be there.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 3, 2010

Today I want to share: The Truth About Blogs and Money by Jonathan Fields, Quieting the Lizard Brain (Video) by Seth Godin, Cracking the Google Algorithm by Stuntdubl, 11 Characteristics of Highly Influential Bloggers by Tamar and 33 Ways to Be Remarkable by Diggy. Some visitors do click around and subscribe to your RSS feed.

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 12, 2010

If you use Google Reader in a list format for example – like I do – then your headline determines whether myself or anyone else using the service will click on your listing to read the post. Headlines with questions are also one of the best ways to get people to leave comments on your posts.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 24, 2010

Do you see the RSS section in the top of the right sidebar here? With that question your mind should instantly zone in on the things that you believe are important to your blogs’ growth. to the RSS feed. Although I’m impressed with other Google services, they really seem to have neglected this one.

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Viper Chill

JULY 5, 2010

June 1st : 6,866 May 31st : 7,543 Change : +677 I really don’t know what is going on (I’m still down over 1,000 Google Reader subscribers compared to usual) so that would suggest I’m at least over 8,500. The time on site also increased slightly so that shows the quality of traffic was higher. But with Feedburner, who knows.

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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. If you want to outrank me in Google for phrases that send me traffic then feel free. I don’t rely on this site to make money; I simply enjoy writing here.

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 4, 2010

Instead of just choosing random images from Google and Flickr, why not “team up&# with a photographer and use only their photos for your blog. Transparency / Ask Your Questions I hope I’ve revealed enough information in this post which kept you interested and excited for the future of this blog. It’s good to be back.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 1, 2010

target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 63 Comments adamquean says: April 1, 2010 at 11:21 am Great to see the site doing so well glen. The big value of your blog is that you provide people with very specific advices and examples (like screenshots from the Google Analytics). (I’ You could say that we prefer signal over noise.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 15, 2010

Especially from Google. Get Youtube Traffic Not only can I get more traffic to my site from Google searches that click on the video, I can also get traffic from people who are using Youtube search to find videos. If my keyphrase is getting 100,000+ searches per month in Google, I’m sure it must be getting quite a few in Youtube.

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Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

What a conversion actually is varies from site to site, but for me, my conversions were product purchases and RSS subscriptions. I also put prominent RSS hints on popular pages such as the blogs list. If I’m right, then I have a question for you: what have you already done today? Content simply gets most of my attention.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 19, 2010

I’m being tongue-in-cheek with that question but it does reflect how a lot of people think. Before I talk more about this, I do want to say that Google look down on sites selling text links. Reply Daniel says: August 7, 2010 at 1:18 pm On getting sites started and ranked on the first page of Google?

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Viper Chill

DECEMBER 13, 2009

This site was actually very successful: we quickly grew to 10,000 members, we ranked highly in Google for DJ related terms and we were even highlighted in the book DJ’ing for Dummies. Less than six months ago, I had never heard of the terms, SEO or Google PR. Reply Glen says: December 14, 2009 at 11:47 am Hey Pat!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may need a refresher course on social media etiquette — and perhaps real-life etiquette also. Considering the above example, I pose a question on Facebook etiquette: Is it appropriate to let these requests sit in pending mode or to reject the friends outright??

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Viper Chill

MARCH 18, 2010

You are here: ViperChill » Business » Backstage Pass: How I Do What I Do Backstage Pass: How I Do What I Do Written by Glen, this post has 57 Comments I’ve never really liked the question “What do you do?&# target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 57 Comments book says: March 18, 2010 at 11:17 am Thanks for this post Glen.

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 18, 2010

With over 4 million RSS subscribers according to Feedburner, it’s clear they’re not struggling. If you agree with this, then let me ask you a question. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 88 Comments Onibalusi Bamidele says: August 18, 2010 at 11:18 am Really great post Glen, Exactly! Yet, they are being surpassed.

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Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 63 Comments Oscar - freestyle mind says: February 18, 2010 at 11:05 am Thanks for another great analysis Glen. If you Google “blogging rules” today, you will be given a list of over 26 million returns. We are just starting out with our blog and are often asked the question of how long a post should be.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

There were the usual suspects but the Google Custom Search Engine was new. It is the first time that we have covered Google CSE in the workshop and it generated so much interest that UKeiG will be producing a fact sheet on it. Try something else other than Google. Have one Google free day or hour a week. OR site:gov.uk

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 9, 2012

Discover the answers to those questions and many more here in 45 of the best guides to Twitter tips, tools and tactics of the past year. Mark Walsh reports on an experiment by a digital agency “not to see whether corporate Twitter hands could answer tough questions, but to find out if they would engage in a conversation at all.”

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