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How to Measure Your Blog’s SEO Standing

By Mikkel Juhl On March 10, 2010 9 Comments

If you can see facts about your blog, it will be easier to see if all your SEO work is wasted, or if it is worth the time it takes.

Check Your Rankings

You can easily check your rankings by searching on a keywords phrase or just a specific keyword in Google. This process can easily be confusing if you have lots of keywords. You can of course get a program to do all this.

Rank Checker

There’s a free plugin made for the browser Firefox (which in my opinion is the best browser ever made). This plugin is called “Rank Checker”. Rank Checker can check your rankings for lots of search phrases and in search engines like Google, Yahoo! and Bing.

How to Install Rank Checker

  1. 1. Open Firefox, if you don’t use Firefox you need to download it. It can be downloaded from here: http://firefox.com/
  2. Go to http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/ and click on Download Now
  3. An install windows will appear on the screen, when it comes you should click “Install Now” and then restart Firefox.

How to Use Rank Checker

Open Rank Checker’s settings by choosing Functions -> Rank Checker -> Options

Set Rank Checker to check the rankings of all your rankings in Google.com (unless you do not blog in English)

Start Rank Checker by choosing Functions -> Rank Checker -> Run

Google Analytics

To measure the power of your optimization work you have to use a great web-analysis tool to your blog. Der is lots of tools to do this, every single tool has its benefits to measure the power.

Well the most widely tool is Google Analytics. Google Analytics is free, and it is getting improved all the time and it is presenting all the important facts in a great visual way.

Access Google Analytics

  1. Go to http://google.com/analytics/
  2. Click on the blue button to your right.
  3. If you already have a Google account (AdWords, AdSense, GMail or any other) you can use the mail and password from that. If you do not have a Google account you can create one by clicking on the link
  4. Log in to Analytics with your Google account informations.
  5. Click on the blue button (again).
  6. Write your informations, and click the agree check-button.
  7. Copy the track-code to your header in you theme (in WordPress it is: Appearance -> Editor -> header.php

Quick View of The Possibilities With Google Analytics

When you opens reports for a webpage profile in Google Analytics you will see the Dashboard. This is just lots of facts for the chosen period.

You can easily get the visitors count showed, you can choose if it should be referral, search traffic or direct traffic. You can also see the bouncerate. These numbers is the percentage of people who are leaving your pages again. Unless the visitors has clicked on something.

The average time usage on a blog is interesting relative to SEO. A high average on a blog is usually a sign that it is great content you provide your readers with.

Increase Sales by Setting up Goals

If you are setting up goals in Google Analytics you will be able to set the converting-rate for actions on specific things. You can see how many choose not to buy in a buying process. If you set up a goal will you be able to check the converting-rate for:

  • Newsletter Subscribers
  • Sales
  • Creations of Accounts
  • Downloads

How You Can Set Up Goals

  1. When you are on the Dashboard you click on Edit, right under the bounce rate.
  2. Click on Edit Goal One
  3. Fill out the URL, chosen step, goal value and activate the goal.

You can easily improve your blog, much more with Google’s “Website Optimizer”. You can create split tests, for your landing pages, see which pages that creates the best converting rate. You can go to the Website Optimizer, using this link:

https://www.google.com/accounts/Serv…bsiteoptimizer


Do You Know How Often Your Readers Want You to Post?

By Mikkel Juhl On March 8, 2010 11 Comments

Have you ever asked yourself this question: “How often should I post?”

You probably have, maybe you came to the right conclusion, maybe you didn’t. In this post we are going to get through a couple of points which could change your way of writing blog posts and how many.

Quality over Quantity

Would you rather read 70 short and very bad articles each week, from a blog or 7 kick-ass articles each week?

Now not everybody can produce 7 kick-ass articles each week, and some articles are better than others.

In general you should find a balance where you feel you can provide value to people and still produce more than 3 articles each week. The length of the post doesn’t matter, but don’t publish an unfinished article. You need to get every single point written, before you hit publish.

You just need to think of it, how you would like yourself to have it. If you can publish 14 kick-ass articles each week, I think that you should stay with a maximum of 7-9 articles each week. Of course depending on your niche, but in most niches 7-9 kick ass articles will be just fine.

If you can produce those 14 kick-ass articles then I recommend you to write 4 guest posts each week and then schedule some of next week’s articles. If you are capable of doing that, you really are cool. I should be the first to admit, that I can’t do that.

I am not creative enough to come up with 14 different topics, maybe if I tried I could, but then I would easily get burned out, but again, if you can do that, then go for it. To publish 4 guest articles each week, really is powerful. You will be able to get something from those articles, you send to the blog owners.

So try to find a balance where you will not get burned out, or where the quality of what you write will drop. I think 6-8 posts is just fine. That is how I am writing, weekly.

It’s Up To You

That’s the truth. You decide how many times you want to post each week. The more frequent you post the better it is for building traffic and a better Google Rank, but what do readers really want?

Nobody can read 1000 words everyday if it is boring posts, if your posts are good then publish 1000 word articles each day, but you will at some point find it hard if readers skip your blog posts, because you simply post to many articles.

So finding the balance between you and your readers is probably what you need to do. You can try and explore what other people in your niche are doing. How frequent do they post to their blog?

Do you think by slowing a bit, down they would get more comments? Or do they need to post more frequent?

There is no exact “formula” you can rely on, it is completely different from every niche. Some niches just want loads of information, news etc (like the tech niche), while other niches are aiming for more story telling and so on – more experience based than news based.

So it depends on your niche, how often you should post.


2 Ways to Increase Your Affiliate Sales

By Mikkel Juhl On March 6, 2010 2 Comments

This technique is a quite simple technique, which lots of people actually don’t take advantage of which they should, it just went through my mind and it really was an awesome idea because people don’t use it. I haven’t seen one page at all where they use this relatively simple technique. For those who doesn’t know much about affiliate marketing I will just explain it in a few words.

Affiliate marketing is you selling another one’s product to a customer where you get a percentage of a sale, the percentage varies from product to product. A product which has a rate about 50% is a quite good products for you to sell to others.

That was short, but that’s the basics. I see lots of newcomers in affiliate marketing just promoting lots of products they haven’t tried yet and maybe even isn’t yet to try. That is something you shouldn’t do, you should stand up for what you say. Not just say some crap about this product you haven’t tried, which in the end even can be scam and methods that doesn’t work. Please understand the importance here.

If you offer your audience some bad stuff they will never ever gain trust to you and if they don’t trust you, you will not be able to sell them anything. So you are really playing with your audience here, don’t offer some bullshit to them, it has to be value.

When you are trying to sell affiliate products you should start with a review of the product where you are mentioning some of the benefits maybe some of the stuff that could have been better – then you show you have read it, but you are still satisfied with this product and want to recommend it.

Also be sure to tell something about the creator of the product. It can build up some credibility and make the person buy because he/she knows that person who you are talking about. So that is definitely a way to gain some trust on this affiliate review.

When you have written your review you should create your own sales page (this takes time, but it is worth it if you want to sell this product) where you explain the benefits of the product (no negative stuff here, that should only be in the review) and (here is the main part) that you offer a bonus if people buy with your affiliate link.

Then they should send the receipt and then you will send the bonuses you will give them because they bought through your affiliate link. You might already have a product (of yours) which you can offer as bonus, it just have to have some value. The bonus should at least have the half price of the product (the one you try to sell)

If you offer those bonus you really should gain a couple of more who wants to buy it through your affiliate link, I really see this as a very powerful way of doing affiliate sales.

I hope you can use this blog post to something, it really is powerful if you have the audience and the strong will to succeed online. Willingness is one of the keys to success online.


Build Trust Using Your Profile

By Mikkel Juhl On March 4, 2010 6 Comments

I know lots of bloggers and every single person in the blogosphere should know lots of other bloggers. It is what you should be doing every day. Connect with other bloggers, build relationships.

Networking is something you really have to do as a blogger. You simply need to connect with other bloggers. So as a blogger (no matter what niche) you should connect with bloggers like you, it’s critical for your outcome as a blogger.

You need to “build” a profile. A profile consists of these things:

  1. A brand
  2. How you are (sense of humor, negative or positive etc.)
  3. Your writing style (should be unique)

You should not write a profile and tell “hey this is me, I’m like this” it should be something people will recognize you from. Let me give you an example. Jordan Cooper. He is a nice guy, he is honest and is extremely funny (though many people doesn’t appreciate the honesty of him.)

That’s his profile, this profile is something that somehow “defines” you. Who you are. It wouldn’t be hard not to change your writing style and how you are, because if you want trust from your readers, you will have to real, so be who you really are, in real life.

I guess if you met me now, you will be surprised how much I talk like I write. I try to make my content to sound as much as if it was me who actually were talking.

Now I don’t think that you are acting in a way online, you would not be able to act if it was offline. Because if so you will find it easy to change your writing style, etc. If you change your style all the time people will not build that trust around you, which is needed in a online business.

If you find it easy to build up a profile around your blog, then you definitely have succeeded.

Remember your profile is also a part of your brand. It is how you act, it’s who you are

I’m not as shy, online as I am in the “real” world. I am more spontaneous and probably also easier to talk with here. Well I’m not shy in “real” life, only if it’s someone who I don’t know – but aren’t we all a bit shy?

It’s just important that you maybe show a personal side of yourself on your blog, it doesn’t have to be in your post. But on your about page, that’s very important. Mostly because that it will build some trust, people would probably (after they read your awesome content) want to know a bit more about you, as a person. How you are on the other side of the screen.

So stick with one style of writing, of course your writing will improve a lot, through your blogging journey. Mine is still, I think everybody’s writing style improves, but there would not be radical changes to your writing style.

As it is now you probably already have a profile, unless you’ve just started blogging, but maybe it’s time to do a bit of changes, here and there. It can be healthy for your blog, maybe go to a person you know (in “real” life) and ask them what they think about your writing styles etc?


How You Write a Great About Me Page

By Mikkel Juhl On March 2, 2010 7 Comments

What Exactly is An About Me Page?

An about me page is a simple page, which explains who you are, what your blog is about. My about me page is one of the most frequent visited locations on my blog and 70% of all my visits is new visits. This proves that new readers want to know more about you.

An about me page is much like exchanging business cards, you want the most important things to be there.

What Should an About Me Page Include?

You know how to write an about me page, it is like every other blog post, this is just about yourself.

  • Show your elevator pitch, an elevator pitch is an overview of what your blog is about. It should be quite sort, though it can be longer than a normal elevator pitch. You decide.
  • Information that interest the persons reading, it should be something inspiring about you.
  • Your goals, you could include your goals with this blog “help someone” or somthing like that.
  • Who you are. A picture of yourself, links to social media profiles, etc. stuff that can help people know more about you.
  • State your expertise. Show what you really are interested in, what you have acheived.

You could make your about me page in a “interview-style” – so you have a person who is asking you a couple of questions, that could be a great way to make an about page. Also a new way of doing an about me page and a funny way to do it.

Making Your About Me Page Fancy

I have few ways to make your about me page looks more like you are an authority and just make it look better in general.

  • Make headings and sub-headings to make it scannable. Like “Who Is Mikkel?”, “What Is The Purpose With This Blog?” etc. just make it easy to read.
  • Include testimonials, if you include testimonials people will know that other people recommend you. Somehow shows some kind of social proof.
  • Photos with the big guys. This really doesn’t mean anything, but if you have a picture with you and one of the big guys in your niche, then put them up. That is also some kind of social proof.
  • Link to blogs you like to follow and in that way they might feel obligated to link back to you, but they really aren’t. So don’t be mad if they don’t link back to you.

If you include a few of these things you should have a quite good about me page. Just review yours if you have already gotten one.


How to Become a Good Teacher

By Mikkel Juhl On March 1, 2010 2 Comments

The first thing I’ll tell you, is probably the most important thing you will hear today. If you take nothing away from this blog post (and you better take a lot more away from this blog post.) I tell you that teaching isn’t about what you know, it’s about how you lead.

And of course you are all leaders here.

You are leading your students (blog readers) the path to information and independence. And that’s the path that only you knows.

There’ll be days where you aren’t in the mood of teaches your blog readers, especially in the start. You will feel like you lose the control of your blog.

When you aren’t in the mood of writing, (which you probably will be someday) then it’s okay to take a break. For one of more days, but you should just be aware of that it can affect your blog’s traffic. That’s probably the only consequence of not writing everyday.

If you write everyday then your blog’s development will be much faster than if you were

It’s all about habits. When you write blog posts, like science, instincts can be used. So listen to them. Understand what they are telling you.

Habits are so important in blogging, I have talked about that before. But really if you are going into an awesome period where you are just writing like crazy, you know? When you are in a mood like that, then don’t stop, promise me that. Just keep writing.

Ultimately, what characterizes any good teacher – every good leader, is his faith in himself. With trust comes the confidence of others. Of course it also helps to be right ;)


How Interaction Made My Blog Better

By Mikkel Juhl On February 27, 2010 8 Comments

When it comes to the blogosphere, content is king – or at least that is what they told you. I have another perspective on it. I think that relationships is king. It is quite easy to establish a solid readership, where everyone is commenting, tweeting and so on. It just takes time.

The thing while you may have lots of people reading your blog but you aren’t really interacting with anyone of them. If you actually try to interact with people who is commenting or just reading your blog, they will feel much more welcome and probably more likely to stay on your blog for a longer time.

Interaction Through Blogging Alliances

If you read this blog everyday, you would know what a blogging alliance is, to be short it is just a community of bloggers, you connect and stuff like that.

“Everyone thought Batman could beat the Green Hornet, because Batman had all those gadgets. But the Green Hornet won because he had Kato.” – Carrie Bradshaw (from Sex and The City)

If we look at this quote and believe what it says, it generally says “two bloggers working together will be much likelier to succeed, than if you only were one blogger.”

It is easier to build a blogging alliance than it sounds, almost everyone likes to connect and talk with other people. Especially bloggers, they love to connect. While you aren’t just connecting inside these blogging alliances, you are helping each other. Not by commenting, not by guest posting, not by sharing social traffic. Simply by trying to improve each other’s blog, with critique.

You can set up an alliance which do all the stuff mention above, but the only one you will fool is yourself. If you say to yourself: “Wow! I actually have an average of 10 retweets of my post.”

Of course I could do that as well, but if you are 9 people in this alliance and retweeting each other’s stuff then it is easy to get 10 retweets, in average for those posts.

What you really should do is share the link to your latest post. Ask them, what can I do better in this particular post? That would be much better, you get critiqued by the fellow members. They have to tell you, what they think honestly. In that way you will be able to improve your blog.

By the time you will improve and people will actually retweet your stuff because it is great. I don’t say that as a blogging alliance you shouldn’t retweet, comment and all that – but only if you feel inspired to do so.

This is a way to connect with the other bloggers in your niche, you will have something to discuss, really build a friendship that way.

Interaction Through Social Media (Meeting Potential Readers)

If you are in a non-techie industry people will not have other blogs, maybe not on Twitter, maybe not even on Facebook. At least not every single person would be on those sites.

However I am quite sure that some of them are, if you are on Twitter you will be able to interact with them in that way.

You could use TweetDeck (or something similar) do a Twitter search for your niche and whenever they talk about your niche, it will pop up. If they ask a question you could answer it in that way, you could just chat with them about this subject.

You can use Facebook, create a group about your niche and in that way start to interact with people who loves to do the same thing as you do.

Interaction is One Key, But Only One

Interaction with readers and potential readers takes time, but it will pay off, no doubt.

If you are polite and interact with your blog’s potential readers, you certainly have increased the chances of them to read your blog. It can be hard to interact with the people in your niche, if there isn’t many of them on Twitter or Facebook, but I will guarantee that there will be a couple of them on these social media sites.

It isn’t hopeless for you to start communicating with your niche. You can work together in blogging alliances with the other bloggers in your niche. You can interact with many of your  potential and readers on Twitter.

I have truly improved my blog by doing this. I have interacted with other bloggers in my niche and with potential readers and I really think it have helped me a lot, I build my community around interaction and you should do so too.

Interaction will give you one key and you will get closer to success. Unfortunately you need more than just one key to succeed.


How to Craft Remarkable Headlines

By Mikkel Juhl On February 24, 2010 4 Comments

The other day I was talking about how to craft great opening lines. We are today going to talk about something similar, headlines. The most important factor when it comes to get your article read, and I’m telling the truth it is deadly important.

TASK: I want you to every single time there is an example, for you to make another example. In that way you will get lots of practice out of this post, it is so important to practice.

Headlines for Starters

You can’t just read a series of articles and books and expect you are a good copywriter. It takes lots of practise to write good headlines. When you are starting out you should look what other people did. Though, you have to study headlines that works, that is a good way to start writing great headlines.

You can look books, browse Amazon, popular articles – in that way you can get lots of inspiration on how you can write a good headline.

When you are writing headlines you should try to implement keywords. Go for the small ones, instead of the big ones. If you are writing a post ‘How to Make Money Online’ – then you should go for smaller keywords than ‘Make Money Online.’ Keep it small but still recognizable, so they know what the article is about. You will with that method be much more likely to get traffic from Google.

You shouldn’t reveal too much in your headlines. You should go for a headline like this ‘How to Get On Top of Google, Quickly’ instead of a headline like this ‘Do SEO and Get on Top of Google’ – the first one is not revealing how, but only what. Which is important.

How to Craft a Good Headline

When it comes to crafting headlines it is also important that you get to the point. No jokes, no wordplay. The direct headlines works better.

  • Example: ‘FREE subscription to Blog Master Club’

When you are writing headlines you should sure to mention the benefits. People want to learn something from posts (or whatsoever)

  • Example: ‘Read This Book and You Will Instantly Make $1000 Each Month’

You see, this headline ^ is not revealing anything about how to, it tell you exactly what to do and it mentions a benefit.

People love news, it doesn’t have to be a fresh new, the reader just don’t have to know it.

  • Example: ‘Now Introducing, the newest Twitter app, tweet simply by speaking!’

This type of headline ↓ allows you to be direct, provide a benefit and take a commanding posture. It isn’t conversational(the opening line should be conversational), it is dictatorial, but it in a good way. Again this is very clear, the reader know what it is about.

  • Another Example: ‘Become a Famous Blogger in 60 Days’

Start the Headline With a Question

When you are creating a question-headline, people shouldn’t be able to just say “no.”

  • Example: ‘Are Your Readers Ignoring You?’

The answer for most people would be no, because they haven’t been told so. That’s why the headline should go like this instead:

  • Example: “Are Your Readers Secretly Ignoring You?’

Why?

Instead of asking a simple question you should ask ‘Why?’ – That is another way to focus on the benefit when reading your article. You can replace “Why” with the following:

  • Here’s Why
  • What
  • When
  • How
  • Example: “Why Some People Almost Always Gets 1000 Retweets”

In this particular example we are using the words ‘some’ and ‘almost’ which modifies ‘always’ to make it more plausible.

Why Provocative Questions Works

Provocative questions is questions that involves a reader directly. The question has to relate directly and state the benefit clearly. It should make the reader say “Yes” or at least “I want to know more”

  • Example: “Do You Make These Mistakes When You Are Writing Essays?”

Here’s Why ‘How to’ Headlines Should Be Crafted

A ‘How-to’ article is an article that should make things better and/or easier. You should state a need, again by using benefits.

A how-to headline immediately shows the benefit because it begins with ‘how to’ or simply ‘how.’

  • Example: “How to Quit Cigarettes In 30 Days”
  • 2nd Example: “How to Safe Time and Make More Money”

These headlines is so great, mostly because they gives us a huge benefit. Benefits is probably the most important stuff when it comes to crafting headlines.

How to [Task] That [Benefit]

When you are creating these headlines it is so important that you state a benefit, state the biggest benefit in the post. When you should find the biggest benefit, it is probably all about being to specific as possible.

  • Example: “How to Get a Dog and Be More Energic”

You can also try to leave the to, it doesn’t play that big role.

How to Craft Great List Post Headlines

The content in the list posts is crucial and the most important thing when it comes to get shared on social medias, but the headlines definitely helps. Any headline that lists a number of reasons, secrets, types or ways will work because it makes a specific promise.

These types of headlines is also very good for showing your expertise in a particular field.

  • Example: “10 Secrets to Making $1000”
  • Example: “How to Be Direct – These 3 Delicious Ways”
  • Example: “Are You Using Social Media for Your Business? Here’s 3 Reasons Why You Should”

This was a lot, take notes. You will not be able to craft perfect headlines after reading this post, you need to practise and just start writing headlines. As the time goes you will see what works and what doesn’t work that well.


How to Write a Great Opening Line

By Mikkel Juhl On February 21, 2010 25 Comments

Do you want to make sure that your entire blog post gets read?

The headline is definitely the most important thing for attracting readers to your blog posts. Definitely the most important factor, when it comes to getting people to read your blog posts, or just considering reading your blog post.

While that isn’t the only thing you want to focus on, when you are getting people to read your blog post. I believe that opening lines is and will always be the second most important  thing, when it comes to this. The opening line’s purpose is to get people to read the next lines.

There are lots of ways you can write a great opening line. I will only demonstrate a few of them, the ones that I find most relevant.

Arouse the Curiosity with a Question

We could start out with a question-type of opening line. The question could be anything, there is different ways of lay out questions for your opening lines.

Photo by Apoxapox

1st Type of Question to Ask: Ask a question where everyone would answer ‘yes’.

That’s a technique lots of copywriters have used for a long time and it works. An example of a question could be: “Do you want to be an a-list blogger?”

If the reader answers “yes” to this question, then he is wants to be an a-lister (simply). This means the reader wants to read on, because you have his attention.

With this opening line, you will get the attention of all those bloggers who is wannabe be a-listers. The thing is, your opening line should have much relevance to your headline. thus, this opening line would go very well with the title “how to become an a-list blogger?” – it would be perfect, because the reader can relate to this opening line.

I think you have the general picture of how to make a “yes” question as an opening line.

2nd Type of Question to Ask: Ask a question that makes people wonder what the answer is. Make them interested in reading beyond the opening.

This is yet another technique that people in copywriting have used for quite a long time. A great example of a question would be: ‘How did I Jump From a PR1 to PR8?’

Start the Post With a Quote

A quote can be very effective, no matter where it is on the post. When the right quote it chosen it is deadly powerful in the opening lines. If you use other people’s words you could build some authority or credibility around your blog post.

It is very hard to find a matching quote for a post, especially for an opening line. It’s much easier to build a post around a quote, than to find a quote to fit around your blog post. If you want to have a quote as an opening line, I would go out and find a quote and write a blog post around that specific quote.

Statements

I have “studied” a couple of blogs, which I read daily. Blogs on how to blog and a totally irreverent view on blogging.

When I looked at their opening lines I saw the same thing, over and over again. I am definitely not saying that, that is wrong (though variation is good). I saw statements in almost every single post, and I know that most of my opening lines is statements too.

Statements is very powerful (when used correct) and really lead the reader on and make them read the entire blog post.

What I would do to make the statements much more powerful than some of them are now.

  • Make it sound conversational
  • Deliver it with confidence

That would be the two main things to improve your statement opening lines.

Solve a Problem, By Identifying It

You should begin to see the power and importance of identifying the reader’s need or solve a problem. It is a key for you, if you want to write a killer blog post.

Of course you should never (ever) tell them how they solve the problem in the opening line, but you should tell them, that you will solve the problem later. If they want to solve the problem, then they will most definite read on.

What Was Your Most Effective Opening Line?

I have shared my experience, I’m still on my journey. Everybody is. That means that there is methods that works better, or equal. I really would like you to make a good opening line, the best one from you so far?


Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda

By Mikkel Juhl On February 19, 2010 2 Comments

Okay, you got me, I’ve been watching Sex and The City in the last couple of weeks, I (my sister) have the box and I started watching it a couple of weeks ago, not finished yet.

Carrie Bradshaw (the main character) is a writer if you didn’t knew. She writes a column called Sex and The City anyway let’s get started.

There is an episode called “Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda” – which means “Could Have, Would Have, Should Have.” I think this headline was amazing, and I thought about a way I could implement in on a blog post. Unfortunately Julie Roads did this before me, but I think it is worth for me to comment on.

The blogosphere changes as fast as you can say “blogosphere.” So you can’t expect everybody to keep up with everything in the blogosphere.
You can always look back and say “coulda, woulda, shoulda” – and yeah we do make mistakes. In life and in blogging.

You just have to move on. Okay you have to learn from your mistakes, but don’t think way too much about the past. You should rather go and look into the future. Of course learn from your mistakes, but you need to look into the future. Because it is in the future things happens.

“Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.” -Denis Waitley

Uniqueness

And you are all special, we are all unique. That is also why you should not go to a blog, which has success, and then copy the things they do and then expect that your blog will succeed.

We are all unique and there is no exact formula to success. That’s why you I don’t think you should ask guys like Darren Rowse how they build traffic or stuff like that. If you get the chance talking to these so-called ‘a-listers’ you should ask them questions you just can’t get an answer to anywhere else.

You shouldn’t ask them questions you can find with a simple Google search and thereby get 55.000 relevant answers to those questions. I haven’t told you that I am at the Third Tribe, but I am, and the first live call I was not impressed. The questions which was asked was something like this “Should we have links in the content of our blog to our e-commerce site?”

I just think it is waste of time, of my time, of Brian and Darren’s time. I think we should (everyone) take time to ask some relative good questions to anyone we are talking to. Instead of just asking a question. Okay, we are a bit off track here. You will also get much more noticed if you ask a great question. It doesn’t matter if you are talking to me or Darren, ask questions that is worth asking.


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