Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 2, 2011

» Should We Continue To Trust Google? 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, puh-lease! About Us What’s a Maverick?

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Viper Chill

JANUARY 1, 2010

ViperChill has been ‘relaunched’ now for 2 and a half months and the community has grown by over 1,000 subscribers in this time which amazes me. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 28 Comments Oscar - freestyle mind says: January 1, 2010 at 12:30 pm Congrats for your website grow! I can see how SU is still working well for you.

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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? Let’s face it: most commentators on any blog appreciate a high-quality backlink or two – after all, link building is still the cornerstone of top Google rankings. How do you know whether a blog is Do or Nofollow?

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Viper Chill

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Therefore, I decided to write all of them down and then head on over to the Google Keywords Tool. When using the tool, I decided to think of phrases that people who could possibly want these products would use in Google. The search term I entered received 79,000 exact searches in Google every month. I love your post.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 1, 2010

If you see that a certain site is sending a lot of RSS subscribers, you can work to get more traffic from that source. Google Analytics Before Google Analytics came along there weren’t really that many decent tracking tools available. If you’re serious about your website, you can learn a lot from this tool.

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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. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 88 Comments Joshua Noerr says: July 5, 2010 at 10:54 am Wow, I believe this is the first time I didn’t have to scroll down to leave a comment!

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Viper Chill

APRIL 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. I have never been part of a more awesome community online of people who really want to succeed and help others do the same. You could say that we prefer signal over noise. Anyway – keep up good work!

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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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Ari Herzog

MARCH 3, 2011

The blog platform, as an open source community, is collectively shared by anyone and everyone who contribute code and provide feedback about what works and what needs improvement. Google XML Sitemaps helps search engine robots know what the site looks like, enabling you to see the best post when searching for a keyword.

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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. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 108 Comments Pat Flynn says: August 4, 2010 at 8:27 am Congrats on the move dude, I’m sure you’ll love it in Thailand!

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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. The job of your headline is simply to get people to read the first sentence of your post.

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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. How We Increased Our Twitter Followers By 250% – Whiteboard Friday by SEOmoz. Top 7 Ways to Save Time on Twitter by OPEN Forum.

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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. A look at if an online community was created with different values. How to use Google Instant as a powerful link building x-ray – instead of fearing Instant, utilize it with these tips! Link Building.

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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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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. If you want rankings on Google, you need links. Depending on what you know about your niche, you can use Google for two things.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 21, 2010

With StumbleUpon, it’s all about the users and the content that the community enjoys. Either way, it’s good to take full advantage of all the features available and become a genuine, helpful user of the community. Define Your Interests When you sign-up to StumbleUpon you will be asked what topics you are interested in. That’s it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

Does Google PageRank Really Matter? : 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. Your strategies must employ content creation, community management, local/maps optimization, among others. Notorious S.E.O:

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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

MARCH 3, 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. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 79 Comments Tom | Build That List says: March 3, 2010 at 11:07 am You have some fantastic stat’s (and some numbers that I would love to be able to claim as my own.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 24, 2010

Do you see the RSS section in the top of the right sidebar here? to the RSS feed. If you’re reading this in Google reader, could you please click the ‘like’ button just below this sentence? Although I’m impressed with other Google services, they really seem to have neglected this one.

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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. What a conversion actually is varies from site to site, but for me, my conversions were product purchases and RSS subscriptions. Question, this RSS feed – what does it do exactly?

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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

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

APRIL 19, 2010

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. Before I talk more about this, I do want to say that Google look down on sites selling text links. You can of course optimise specific pages on your site.

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Viper Chill

JANUARY 19, 2010

If you can find what problems people are searching for online, and rank in the top results of Google with a solution to that problem (your guide), then there’s a lot of money to be made. 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 ).

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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. Anything that shows community on your site is also a good thing in my eyes. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 79 Comments Glen says: June 3, 2010 at 7:43 am Of course, in the ultimate blogosphere irony, nobody will tweet or comment on this post.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 22, 2010

The author knows this but I doubt he cares – the traffic he receives from Google must be incredible. Despite having over 20,000 apparent RSS readers, writing a guest post there will get you no more than 10 clicks on your site. played it safe with their portal, and then Google came along with their simple search interface.

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Viper Chill

MAY 10, 2010

Can you really take in 50-60 posts every day from your favourite blog in your inbox or in Google Reader? Picking a brandable name means that people can easily come back to your site time and time again via the address bar in their browser or a search engine like Google. Last year TechCrunch were a much bigger blog than Mashable.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Streaming only your blog’s RSS feed on Twitter. (If It’s important to understand the communities you contribute to and to understand the rules of the sites that you target. FriendFeed is a service but it’s also a community. It’s about the collective, the community, and the common good.

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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. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 88 Comments Onibalusi Bamidele says: August 18, 2010 at 11:18 am Really great post Glen, Exactly! Ev Bogue is owning the minimalist area, if you type the keyword in Google you know what I mean.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 4, 2010

You are here: ViperChill » SEO » How to Really Build Backlinks and Dominate Google How to Really Build Backlinks and Dominate Google Written by Glen, this post has 160 Comments Without a doubt, the most frequent post request I’ve had on this site is a post about link building. Google lets you find awesome websites.

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