I am a big believer in article marketing. If you’re looking to generate traffic to your website, writing articles and then posting those articles on various sites is the cheapest and quickest way to get visitors to your website.
There are a lot of nuances when it comes to article marketing. For example, 90% of the success of your article depends on the title. If your article doesn’t have a good title, people won’t open it and read it. Yes, you should provide good content in your article body, but …

Today’s slideshare presenation is brought to you courtesy of Hubspot. They’re an inbound marketing firm based out of Boston, MA. I’m not selling anything from them, but I am working on my Hubspot inbound marketing certification.
Why am I working on a certification from Hubspot?
Because I like a lot of the things that they do as a company when it comes to inbound marketing.
Although I don’t entirely agree with everything that they point out in this slide presentation, I do think that there’s value in the thoughts expressed.
I …

I think that’s what I’m going to call this tool a “Time Suck Portal” instead of monitter.  It’s a free twitter tool that lets you see in real time what people are twittering about.  Actually, let me rephrase that.
It’s a tool that lets you follow in real time what people on twitter are saying about a subject that you’re interested in.  Well, actually, that doesn’t work well either.
Let me try this one more time… you know what, forget it.  Just go to the site, type in a subject in the …

Today’s post is going to be about mind mapping, mostly because I found this cool mind mapping video that I wanted to share. When I first heard the term “mind mapping” I had visions of a hospital operating room and lots of doctors prodding some poor saps brain with needles and whatnot trying to map out the guy’s brains.
Basically, mind mapping is just a way to organize your thoughts. Some people call it brainstorming, but I feel it’s differnet from brainstorming because mind mapping involves organizing thoughts, not just thought …

In theory, the principle of optimizing your web site for the search engines is very simple. What you want to do, is to have keywords on your site, that match the keywords that people type in on the search engines. The search engines will crawl the content on your site and send you searchers that will find what you have on your site relevant to what the searchers are looking for.
It’s as simple as that, in theory. Where it gets tricky is in the execution. For …

I really like this list of wordpress plugins.  I especially like that they are focused on the admin user more so than they are focused on the general user’s experience when visiting a wordpress site.
This site has a list of 34 essential wordpress plugins for admins, but here are my favorite plugins from that list:

Akismet, helps keep spam under control.
cFormsII, great plugin for making/ creating contact forms.

The other plugins that were listed, seemed like they were useful, but  I just didn’t think that they’d be useful for me. The list …

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about picking a domain name. I talked about how important it is to pick a good domain name, but I’m afraid I gave no real guidelines for how to pick a domain name.
I came across a website that conveniently lists 12 different tools that you can use for picking a good domain name. So I wanted to reference the site here.
Here are six of the 12 sites that are referenced in the original article:

Domainr: helps you find top-level domains. The dot …

In my quest to become a better writer, I took it upon myself to look up some words in the dictionary.
I have yet another blog where I post articles that are geared to specifically promote different products that are for sale.  I’ve been using the site as a test bed, so to speak, for some of the articles that I’m distributing to various article posting sites.
By the way, I’ve only found 2 sites where the juice is worth the squeeze as far as posting articles goes.  Want to know what …