Those of us that are Amazon affiliates received wonderful news yesterday (you can read my email announcement here – opens in a new window). The Amazon Associates program announced that they will be paying us a flat 12% commission on all sales generated through Native Ads on our sites during the month of November. This…
Happy Tuesday, everyone! For the next 7 days, I will be asking my readers to share a blog post of theirs in the comments here so I can pin it to one of MY boards on Pinterest. That’s right, for the next week, I’ll be having my own little Pin Party =) Interested? If so,…
It happens to all bloggers from time to time – we open the create new post screen, see that big BLANK white space we need to fill with words and then: our mind goes completely blank. What happened to all those great post ideas you had as you were falling asleep last night? What happened…
Well, I gotta tell ya, Last month was a darn good month for traffic (and sales) to a little test site of mine from Pinterest. What I’m doing to get more traffic and clicks from Pinterest is REALLY WORKING! I even impressed myself…haha! I managed to increase the traffic by 189.4% in ONE month. Yes,…
What does it take to rank well in Google? Do backlinks matter anymore? Does it really matter if your content is good or not? Let’s talk… Not too long ago I read an exceptional blog post over on Moz. It is titled: The Two-Part SEO Ranking Model: Let’s Make SEO Simple I HIGHLY encourage…
It was a cold winter day just shortly after my birthday on February 18, 2007 when I got the wild and crazy idea to make a website and learn to make money online. That was 3,396 days ago… 9 years, 3 months, and 18 days ago… Who-da-thunk I’d still be here today? My husband believed…
One day you’re ranking awesome in Google – the next day you’re not. POOF, those good rankings disappear and you don’t even rank for your domain name anymore. What the heck happened? There are many reasons this could happen, but now add in the fact that OTHER sites linking TO your site could cause Google…
Do you think it’s possible that ONE outbound link on your site could cause a SITEWIDE Google penalty? I never really thought so until I started following a situation that is being talked about a lot online. Let me fill you in… This conversation seemed to have all started with an open letter to Matt…