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5 Simple Ways To Get More Blog Traffic In 2008

Posted on: January 4th, 2008 by neilpatel 117 Comments

With blogging, the most obvious things that we should all do are usually the ones we forget to. If you are looking to increase the popularity of your blog in 2008, here are some simple things you need to start doing:
Email Subscriptions – if you are using Feedburner, you are probably already using the email [...]

6 Easy Ways To Increase Your Comment Count

Posted on: November 30th, 2007 by neilpatel 89 Comments

Don’t you hate it when you write a great blog post and no one comments on it? Whether you have a few readers or thousands of readers reading your blog, it seems that many people are having trouble to get hundreds of comments. If you want to increase the number of comments on each of [...]

Have a business partner? If not, go and get one!

Posted on: November 2nd, 2007 by neilpatel 49 Comments

When it comes to money you probably want the biggest piece of the pie if not the whole pie. There is nothing wrong with it and I would even go as far as saying that if your first instinct isn’t to obtain the full pie then there is something wrong.
However, because of this attitude it [...]

Stop worrying about PageRank and start diversifying your traffic!

Posted on: November 1st, 2007 by neilpatel 63 Comments

In the last week or so it seems that everyone is talking about the Google PageRank update. The thing is, people need to stop worrying about their PageRank and start concentrating on their traffic. Nine out of the ten people I asked who’s PageRank decreased said that they did not see much, if any, change [...]

You want to be rich? Then start talking shit! – Part 2

Posted on: October 20th, 2007 by neilpatel 60 Comments

Last week I discussed how you could make money by talking shit and it seems it was actually successful for Joe Tamargo. Joe talked some productive shit to a potential client and it was so effective that they actually asked him to send over a proposal.
The other day I read a great post you had [...]

If You Don’t Place Ads On Your Blog Now, You’ll Hate Yourself Later

Posted on: October 10th, 2007 by neilpatel 173 Comments

Whether you want to admit it or not, you care about money. You probably make the majority of your income working nine to five or doing some sort of Internet thing, but why not try and make a few bucks by placing some ads on your blog?
You may hate the idea of placing ads on [...]

You want to be rich? Then start talking shit!

Posted on: October 3rd, 2007 by neilpatel 119 Comments

If you are looking to make more money, an easy way to do so is to start picking targets and email them about why they are making a mess of themselves and/or company (hopefully in a nice way).  Just for a second think about all the people with money that you want to get to. [...]

Do you use the nofollow tag?

Posted on: September 26th, 2007 by neilpatel 117 Comments

We’re all familiar with the concept of using the nofollow tag for external links, but there aren’t too many people who actually use it for internal links. The main reasons you should use the tag for internal links is because it can reduce duplicate content as well as control what pages you are giving more [...]

How do you buy text links?

Posted on: September 18th, 2007 by neilpatel 72 Comments

The topic of the ethics on buying text links has been beaten to death because at the end of the day, we all know that buying text links work whether search engines like it or not. Therefore, I am not going to discuss whether you should buy text links or not but instead I wanted [...]

How to Get More RSS Subscribers Through Feedburner

Posted on: September 17th, 2007 by neilpatel 74 Comments

If you have a blog, you probably have heard of Feedburner and are probably using it to some extent. Even though Feedburner is simple to use and setup, it seems that tons of people are making mistakes that are causing their subscriber rate to grow slowly. If you use Feedburner, here are all the settings [...]