by Spiritual Marketing on October 28, 2009
In this e-book I will share my knowledge and experience about online publishing, marketing and making money. There are roughly four aspects to this craft: putting content online, optimizing your content for search engines, promoting your content and making money off of it. I will help you figure out what kind of content you will [...]
by Spiritual Marketing on October 27, 2009
AKA: how to avoid getting banned by google adsense.
Short answer: you should get an adsense account when the online properties you are going to be using it on have at least 100 visitors a day among them.
I know this blogpost will likely not be read by those it needs to reach: newby online marketers who [...]
by Spiritual Marketing on October 26, 2009
Marketing gets a bad rap these days. So does SEO. Marketing gets a bad reputation because it tries to sell what’s not worth buying, not to mention lying to us. SEO gets pulled down by the many people who use techniques meant to deceave the search engines about sites and pages. In both cases it’s [...]
by Spiritual Marketing on May 14, 2009
Evelyn Saenz, one of my all time favorite lensmasters – because she makes just excellent lenses – is not really into SEO. I think she’s only just catching on (sorry Evelyn). Which makes her question relevant for a lot of people of course (what would a blogger do without newby questions?)
She’s just discovered the one [...]
by Spiritual Marketing on March 5, 2009
I’ve had several online conversations lately with people which have clarified my own position about online marketing. I have long had the policy that I am only putting energy into blogs, social networks, bookmarking services etc. if they have followed links. That is, other than twitter. I prefer blogs that are self hosted, but that’s [...]
by Spiritual Marketing on January 13, 2009
An SEO review is not complete without a look at links.
Yesterday I tackled on-page SEO factors: what AJ can do on her lens to make it most likely the search engines know what it’s about, and which serps (seach engine result pages) it should show up in.
However, in a competitive field like weight loss on-page [...]
by Spiritual Marketing on November 8, 2008
Generally speaking there are two ways to do squidoo well:
Finding key words that are popular, but haven’t been covered by other websites and lenses yet
Making excellent lenses on a subject you are really into – even though there may already be a lot of information out there on the topic
The first is what I’d like [...]
by Spiritual Marketing on September 11, 2008
I’d like to illustrate the power of links, and the power of google, a bit today.
I got a few links recently – on one lens this one link from an outside blog had the effect of:
One visitor from that blog – most likely the owner checking whether the link worked
10 visitors from google that same [...]
by Spiritual Marketing on September 8, 2008
All lensmasters should know a bit about SEO (Search Engine Optimization). For this post I decided to get back to basics: what links within squidoo actually count towards your link popularity? In other words: which links will help your page be found by search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing?
For this post I simply looked [...]