Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 2, 2011

I thought Google had added a nofollow algorithm for article directories and that it wouldn’t count those links because the idea is to get your links from publishers who use your articles rather than to rely on links from the directories. About Us What’s a Maverick? » Should We Continue To Trust Google?

Small Business 164

Small Business Google Directory Hubpages 164

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 9, 2012

Community manager Jen Lopez explains how SEOmoz increased its total Twitter followers by 250% to over 27,000 people. Hint: it helps to have a community manager. Twitter gets new, Facebook-like feeds & features by DevBeat. How We Increased Our Twitter Followers By 250% – Whiteboard Friday by SEOmoz.

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Tools Twitter Tips B2B 203

Viper Chill

AUGUST 12, 2010

Don’t tell me something I know : If your headline says something like “Why exercise is good for you&# or “How to increase your feed subscribers&# then I probably won’t read it. A year or two ago I did this for a popular topic – how to increase feed subscribers – but in a way that was new and promised value.

Content 78

Content How To Examples Questions 78

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

The newsletter, which was sent within the first week of the month, would include new research findings from surveys conducted by research groups such as the Pew Research Center, new discoveries from a marketing firm’s eye tracking study, or data that was recently culled across a multitude of SEO agency case study reports.

Marketing 264

Marketing SEO Case Study Small Business 264

Viper Chill

JULY 19, 2010

target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 126 Comments Dan says: July 19, 2010 at 8:24 am Too cool Glen, I find myself copy and pasting every article to all my web guys. I believe quality links ARE better, but I’ve never seen someone prove in a case study that directory submissions are not worth their while. This is gold.

Industry 76

Industry SEO Strategy Directory 76

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. They simply read it because they like seeing a big blog case study unfold before them. I’ve made most of the blogging mistakes you can think of.

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FeedBurner Blogger Sites NoFollow 76

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. to the RSS feed. As for Feedburner: every day my feed count changes by 1-2k. Here’s how.

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FeedBurner Feed Feedly Google Reader 75

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. Thanks for the link!!

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Report StumbleUpon Travel Sites 68

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.

Report 68

Report Case Study SEO StumbleUpon 68

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 want to help you live it too, so make sure you grab the feed. That way there is going to be a year-long blog growth case study that people can follow and learn from.

Report 64

Report StumbleUpon Travel Case Study 64

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.

Sites 76

Sites Collaboration Blogger RSS 76

Viper Chill

APRIL 26, 2010

A recent case study of Dessert Gallery illustrates just how powerful it can be. Master the news feed algorithm. Because Facebook filters what appears in a user’s news feed based on comments, shared friends, recent interactions – the more hands you get on something, the more likely it is users are seeing your brand and content.

Social Media 80

Social Media Strategy Digg Forums 80

Viper Chill

JUNE 1, 2010

However, June is a new month and I’m ready to get back into work-mode and see where I can take this blogging case study. 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!

Report 70

Report StumbleUpon Sites SEO 70

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. Finally, there was something about his feed subscription box which just didn’t look right. Now his content is far more targeted to his community and people are getting a lot more value out of his writing.

FeedBurner 74

FeedBurner Sites RSS Case Study 74

Viper Chill

MAY 10, 2010

Decide on a Brandable Name Because these blogs write so much, they don’t have as many people coming to their blog via feed readers as you would expect. If you go by RSS feed subscribers and Technorati rank, you might think they still are. My next case study? Last year TechCrunch were a much bigger blog than Mashable.

Technorati 78

Technorati How To Sites Analysis 78

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. This isn’t just some coincidence.

Blogger 76

Blogger Sites Delicious Comments 76

Viper Chill

MAY 20, 2010

Your Social Circle is a Huge Gauge To Where You’ll End Up Numerous studies have shown that people are not only highly influenced by their social circle but you can also estimate how much money someone is making based on how much their friends are making. But i recently the community of Flickr. Not the point in itself.

Project 94

Project eBook Influencer StumbleUpon 94

Viper Chill

APRIL 15, 2010

The title is the most important part of your blog post as it gets shared on social media and helps feed readers decide whether a post is worth clicking through to read. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 69 Comments Benny the Irish polyglot says: April 15, 2010 at 11:23 am Excellent and inspirational post once again Glen!! Great post.

Skills 76

Skills Sites Blogger Hubpages 76

Viper Chill

APRIL 19, 2010

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. In order to get mentions on other blogs then you need to be focusing on being involved in the communities for that industry online and providing the very best content that you can.

Adsense 77

Adsense How To Sites Forums 77

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.

Project 84

Project Software Products Comments 84

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.

Buy 76

Buy Sites Compete Price 76

Viper Chill

JANUARY 19, 2010

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 ). target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 125 Comments Steven Aitchison says: January 19, 2010 at 12:47 pm Wow! Articles like this one are posted at least once per week. And yes, they really are this long.

eBook 85

eBook Price Sites Products 85

Viper Chill

JUNE 8, 2010

target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 170 Comments Dev | Technshare says: June 8, 2010 at 11:09 am Woww. Reply Steve says: June 8, 2010 at 11:55 am Hey Glen Another great post, all of the mini sites seem a good idea, maybe after one event one has run its course you could do a case study on setting it up, monetizing and following through its life.

Google 84

Google Adsense Directory Eventful 84

Viper Chill

MARCH 4, 2010

First of all, I have been studying SEO day and night since I was 16 (almost 5 years ago) and I’ve ranked on the first page of Google for some of the most competitive keyphrases in the world. Flippa is a place for people to buy and sell websites and has a very interactive community.

Google 87

Google How To SEO Sites 87