How to Write Interesting Content for a “Boring” Topic + MORE

How to Create GIF Images For Your Blog – Step-By-Step Guide – howtomakemyblog.com GIFs are an easy way to give your blog a trendy and fun touch that your readers will love. They make for interesting content. Continue Reading On howtomakemyblog.com » Killer Secrets to Increasing the Speed of Your Blog – bloggingtips.com You think once you’ve detected that your site’s load speed is low your job is done and you can just pass it over to your tech guys? Think again. A pro SEO should also know the basics of HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript in order to ensure...

How to Write About Anything + MORE

A Primer On How To Get The Most Out Of Sitemaps – searchengineland.com Search crawlers are becoming more and more effective every day in discovering new content pages on websites. But, that process of organic discovery can be slow and spotty, so it’s hardly any solace to sites that publish hundreds of new pages a day, or publish extremely time-sensitive content such…. Continue Reading On searchengineland.com » 5 Ways to Improve Your Ranking Signals Today – seomoz.org/ugc Posted by atomni The topic of SEO these days typically brings about a deer in headlights mentality. With dynamically adaptive search algorithms and...

What Is the Difference Between Earned and Paid Traffic? + MORE

Make a Big Impact on Your Landing Page with a Small Budget Video – unbounce.com/blog Filming yourself? Awkward, yet cheap. (Image source) It seems like almost every respectable, tech-savvy company has a homepage video these days. And while it may be somewhat of a trend, it’s not without good reason. Adding a video to your landing page can produce big results. Like a 64% increase in conversions big… Continue Reading On unbounce.com/blog » How to Sell More by Focusing On Less – ducttapemarketing.com/blog/ Today’s guest post is from Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Sean D’Souza. – Enjoy! Image Credit: Sean D’Souza...

Happy Birthday Twitter: Jack Dorsey on the Ubiquitous Site and His Top Advice for Young Treps + MORE

New Crowdfunding Site Aims to Understand Manufacturing – inc.com For backers of crowd-funded physical products, the mantra has always been ‘buyer-beware.’ Here’s how a new crowdfunding site, Crowd Supply, seeks to fix that problem.About two months ago, I wrote about about Seth Quest, an ordinary guy–a designer–who came up with an idea for a funky iPad stand called the Hanfree… Continue Reading On inc.com » Startup Snapshot: Oklahoma City – entrepreneur.com A look at a surprising startup city, plus three other locations to key your eye on. Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com » Happy Birthday Twitter: Jack Dorsey on the Ubiquitous...

New OS X trojan injects ads into pages browsed by Chrome, Firefox, and Safari; even targets Apple’s website + MORE

Payroll For Collaborative Consumption Startups Gets Easier With New Braintree-Venmo Service – techcrunch.com/social Braintree’s $26.2 million deal to buy New York’s mobile payments startup Venmo seems to be paying off once more for the Accel-backed company. The company is launching an easier way for collaborative consumption startups — which could include Braintree’s best known-clients like Uber and Airbnb — to pay their contractors or users… Facebook prompts some page owners to share links to their website – insidefacebook.com Facebook is testing a new way to encourage admins to make posts to their pages this week by starting a post with...

Rock Stars, Goonies, and your Content Marketing Empire + MORE

Rock Stars, Goonies, and your Content Marketing Empire – copyblogger.com/blog/ As Beth mentioned yesterday, the Copyblogger team is back from a get-together in Austin during SXSWi. As you might imagine with this crew, we had a lot of fascinating conversations. One thing that struck me again and again was that even though we have a lot of employees you might call “rock stars,” none of them would in 10,000 years describe themselves that way… Continue Reading On copyblogger.com/blog/ » Make Money Blogging: What’s Stopping You? – bloggingtips.com Almost every blogger thinks that making money from their blog would be nice...

Increase Your SEO Business by Specializing + MORE

LinkLove 2013 – Tips, Tactics & Tools – seogadget.com/blog March 15th. A few years back, Brutus picked this date to murder Julius Caesar. And in 2013, Distilled chose this date to end their LinkLove conferences in a similarly abrupt fashion. Resident SEOgadget skydiver Tom Bennet and in-house superhero Jeanna Heeraman were in attendance, and today they bring you their review… Continue Reading On seogadget.com/blog » How To Optimize A Business Website With Multiple Locations – searchenginepeople.com/blog Whether your local internet marketing strategy includes local citations, geo-targeting, or local social media marketing, it is important to properly optimize your businesss website,...

Infographic: Mobile APPeal – Exploring the Mobile Landscape + MORE

Klout’s New Product Invites Businesses To Get Serious About Social Influence – marketingland.com Klout is hoping businesses will start to take social influence — and Klout itself — more seriously with today’s announcement of an analytics dashboard called Klout for Business. Klout describes it as “a set of tools designed to help you unlock the reach and power of your… Please visit Marketing Land for the full article… Continue Reading On marketingland.com » How User-Generated Content Powers Better Social SEO Results – socialmediaexplorer.com User-Generated Content (UGC) allows online properties to grow in size and depth through an open-relationship with online...

Nonprofit Incubator Teaches Low-Income Women to Build Restaurant Businesses + MORE

Spring Break Plans? Open Your Mind and Rekindle Your Love of Entrepreneurship – youngentrepreneur.com Spring may be in the air, but you’ve got a lot of work to do — on your business and your soul. Here are five tips for meeting your business challenges with a clear, open mind. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » How to Send Investors Running for Their Lives – inc.com Got a crucial meeting with potential investors? Here’s how to guarantee you’ll walk out empty-handed.If you follow the eight tips outlined in this entry, you will be guaranteed to suffer absolutely no dilution, as there...

How Evernote Food Can Help Market Your Restaurant + MORE

How Evernote Food Can Help Market Your Restaurant – sproutsocial.com/insights Evernote might not be the first tool you think of when it comes to marketing a restaurant, but the most recent update to its Food app certainly demonstrates its potential. Today Evernote Food — which gives consumers a place to discover, collect, and remember all of life’s memorable food moments — was updated to include support for OpenTable, Foursquare ratings, and recipe sharing… Continue Reading On sproutsocial.com/insights » Facebook announces winners of PMD Innovation Competition; Ampush leads – insidefacebook.com Facebook today announced the winners of its Preferred Marketing Developer Innovation...

13 Reasons Why Being A Blogger Rocks [Infographic] + MORE

How to Create Killer Interviews with Bloggers – bloggingtips.com There are hardly any better useful pieces of link bait than Blog interviews which actually can help to better your SEO efforts. You can use audio or video recording software and a little bit of editing which can give you a good return of your time investment. One of the most important things that an interviewer must not forget is to take time to research their potential candidates and get to know the subject material… Continue Reading On bloggingtips.com » Facebook Earned Enough In 2012 To Pay Each Employee $1.1 Million...

How Can Small E-Commerce Businesses Use SEO To Compete With Sites Like Amazon? + MORE

3 Reasons to Use LinkedIn PPC – searchenginepeople.com/blog For many people, the pay-per-click (PPC) industry is synonymous with Google AdWords. For the slightly more informed there is also BingAds (which give access to PPC advertising on Bing & Yahoo). However, one of the most under appreciated PPC platforms is LinkedIn (who else claims to put your ads in front of 3,377 people in Antarctica)… Continue Reading On searchenginepeople.com/blog » How Can Small E-Commerce Businesses Use SEO To Compete With Sites Like Amazon? – seomoz.org/ugc Posted by Think Traffic As a small online retailer your life can be pretty tough, especially...

Will A Watch or Glasses Be The Norm for Internet Users? + MORE

How a Pro Marketer Would Sell a Used Workout Machine on Craigslist – blog.crazyegg.com It doesn’t matter whether you are writing offers for a Fortune 500 company or Craigslist. To get results, you use the same basic techniques. Let’s take a look at some Craigslist ads to see what works. Then try the same techniques on your own sales pages and see if they don’t make a difference. Start with a compelling title Every offer should start with a strong headline… Continue Reading On blog.crazyegg.com » Business to Business Alternative Marketing – marketingtechblog.com One of the opportunities for Business to...

How Much Start-Up Capital Is Needed to Start an E-Commerce Website?

The Internet is still a vastly new and exciting terrain. More and more are budding entrepreneurs tapping into the web to make their fortunes. In the last year alone, e-commerce businesses raked in over $200 billion in revenue. This can be from online stores, Internet services, and more. In addition, more consumers are visiting websites for their shopping needs, which are making brick-and-mortar establishments more and more obsolete. If you are thinking of starting an e-commerce website it is important to know how much money you need to get started so that you can begin making your initial financial forecasts....

10 Twitter Feeds for a Timely Dose of Inspiration + MORE

Push to Raise Tax-Exempt Threshold for Shipped Goods – foxsmallbusinesscenter.com A bill was recently introduced to raise the de minimis level from $200 to $800. Shipping and international retail experts say the legislation could benefit the government, small business owners and consumers. Continue Reading On foxsmallbusinesscenter.com » 10 Twitter Feeds for a Timely Dose of Inspiration – youngentrepreneur.com If you’re seeking a regular diet of inspirational messages, look no further than your Twitter app. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » 6 Ways to Build Customer Loyalty – entrepreneur.com Effective ways to follow up that ensure your business is always in the...

Option to mark items as spam less noticeable in latest Facebook iOS app + MORE

Singaporean-Finnish Startup Nonstop Games Raises $2.9M For Core Gaming On iOS, Android – techcrunch.com/social Nonstop Games, a Singaporean-Finnish gaming company (yes, really), just picked up $2.9 million from two Scandinavian venture firms, Creandum and Lifeline Ventures, to build out core games for iOS and Android. The company’s team has an interesting backstory. Henric Suuronen was a head of studio at one of Europe’s biggest social gaming companies Wooga, and a director at Digital Chocolate Finland before that… Continue Reading On techcrunch.com/social » ‘Silent updates’ for Android download latest version of Facebook without Google Play – insidefacebook.com Facebook is testing a...

Creating Blogs and Products Around Hot Trends and Niche Topics + MORE

Flickr Adds Hashtags To iOS App – blogherald.com Flickr on Saturday rolled out an update to its iOS app. The new update includes the ability to add hashtags to photo titles and descriptions. For years Flickr has allowed users to add and search for “Tags” but the industry in general has moved towards the Twitter friendly hashtag setup. Flickr isn’t the first social network to jump on the hashtag bandwagon, Facebook owned Instagram also offers the tags, as does Pinterest… Continue Reading On blogherald.com » Group Writing Project: Write a ‘How To…’ Post – problogger.net Years ago here on ProBlogger...

Back to the Future: Forecasting Your Organic Traffic + MORE

Back to the Future: Forecasting Your Organic Traffic – seomoz.org/ugc Posted by Dan Peskin Great Scott! I am finally back again for another spectacularly lengthy post, rich with wonderful titles, and this time – statistical goodness. It just so happens, that in my past short-lived career, I was a Forecast Analyst (not this kind). So today class, we will be learning about the importance of forecasting organic traffic and how you can get started… Continue Reading On seomoz.org/ugc » 4 Mobile Search Trends Tackled At SMX West 2013 – searchengineland.com The 2013 SMX West conference could have easily be confused...

What Is Your Content Giving? + MORE

Responsively Retrofitting An Existing Site With RWD Retrofit – smashingmagazine.com    Since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, touchscreen mobile devices have exploded in popularity. They have introduced new problems, new solutions, new interactions, new ways of thinking and, of course, new costs to our clients. The most important question on everyone’s mind — clients and developers alike — is, “How can we provide a great Web experience to our users on mobile?” It All Started With iPhone The mobile Web was rarely considered before the iPhone (mostly because mobile browsers were so bad)… Continue Reading On smashingmagazine.com »...

This week’s headlines from across Inside Network + MORE

Accounting software startup Xero ditches HTML5 in favor of native iOS and Android apps – thenextweb.com/socialmedia/ Supporters of HTML5 for mobile were dealt a significant blow when Facebook u-turned and began developing native apps last year. Now another company is hedging its bets after accounting software maker Xero gave up on Web apps for mobile claiming that the development was resource intensive and difficult… Continue Reading On thenextweb.com/socialmedia/ » This week’s headlines from across Inside Network – insidefacebook.com A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between March 11 and March. 15. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence...

INFOGRAPHIC: Mean, Green Drink Recipes for St. Patrick’s Day + MORE

INFOGRAPHIC: Mean, Green Drink Recipes for St. Patrick’s Day – blogherald.com St Patrick’s Day is here! If you are looking for something different from pints of Guinness then try some of these drink suggestions below. If you’re a beer lover don’t forget to use these apps. [Via: Halloween Express] Continue Reading On blogherald.com » Financial Planning for Bloggers – problogger.net We all strive to have our personal finances in order.   Managing our financial resources wisely brings peace, security, and allows us to utilize our financial resources on in ways that are important to us. Proper financial planning requires work and...

Happy St. Patrick’s Day: Google’s Irish Dancers

Happy St. Patrick’s Day: Google’s Irish Dancers – searchengineland.com Today is St. Patrick’s Day and to celebrate, Google has a fun Google Logo, aka Google Doodle, with Irish Dancers doing their Irish dance. Of course, the logo spells out Google’s name, GOOGLE on the dancer’s shirts. Here is a video of them dancing: For more St. Patrick’s Day….. Continue Reading On searchengineland.com »