Over on PerfCast I just put up an interview with Lyndon Antcliff, who you might know better as Linkbaiter extraordinaire Lyndoman or CornwallSEO.
Get an insight into the mind of a professional linkbaiter, find out how he earns his living, what the right way to approach linkbait is ... and more.
Enjoy!
Last night I had an opportunity to interview super affiliate, conference speaker, SEO expert, blogger and popular Twitterer, Rae Hoffman, AKA Sugarrae.
Alone or with her website publishing company she has managed to dominate and profit from all sorts of competitive niches. This is one lady you need to be listening to if you want to make serious coin from affiliate marketing.
Read on after the jump to hear about networking, creating super performing affiliate sites and how to properly approach social media. Read the rest of this entry
This weekend I interviewed THE ProBlogger, Darren Rowse. We talked about:
Listen to the interview after the jump! Read the rest of this entry
A few days ago, I was able to interview Steven Snell from Vandelay Design. In less than a year, Steven's blog has become one of the most read blogs in the "blog design and usability" niche. In fact, the Vandelay Design Blog has over 1000 subscribers to its feed, a major milestone.
One of the reasons I picked Steven for an interview is that I believe he's performing the art of using a business blog to perfection. Unlike so many corporate blogs, that seem to exist just to exist because it's trendy, Steven's blog provides useful information, establishes his knowledge and authority, and makes his customers confident in his abilities. Most importantly, it gets him business. I know excellence in execution when I see it...so I present to you an interview with Steven Snell, from Vandelay Design.
1. Tell us a little bit about your design business, how long you've been on the web, and the services you provide.
Vandelay Website Design has been in business for about a year. We provide web design, blog customization and website maintenance/updates. The blog has been online online for about 9 months, with the first 3 months being very inactive.
2. I believe that all businesses should use blogs for promoting their business. But so many either don't, or do a poor job at it. How do you use your blog to promote your business?
Well, first of all, I agree that blogs are a great tool for any business that has the resources to run a blog. The whole purpose for starting the blog for Vandelay Design was to get some additional content on the site that would draw search engine traffic, and ultimately more web design business. There are so many web design companies out there that it's extremely difficult for a new one to compete well in search engines for popular words and phrases. The blog posts obviously create additional pages on the site that draw some long tail searches. In recent months the blog audience has really grown steadily and the blog itself is now more of an asset then was originally planned. The search traffic is now taking a back seat to additional opportunities that might be possible, like developing new services (such as marketing, consulting, etc.) that could be promoted through the blog. Actually, when I saw the announcement last week that Performancing is offering some new services I thought it was ironic because that is almost exactly what I would like to do at some point. Read the rest of this entry
You know a business by its people, and when I encountered Christopher Hogg, I knew Digital Journal was something special.
A couple days ago I put up a Rajbait at College Startup. It was entitled 15 Successful Entrepreneurs Who Didn’t Need College and I thought it was a rock solid article. Apparently, so did the cool kids over at Digg.
But much to my dismay, a search on the title of that linkbait turned up a citizen journalists article over at Digital Journal as the top result in Google. Even to this day, College Startup's original doesn't show up anywhere on the front page of the Google SERPS. I visited the article, and though College Startup was mentioned, the link was not directed back to my site.
Initially, as you might guess, this disappointed me. Though I was happy that the article was noticed, I was not happy that Google had identified DJ as the source. So, I contacted Digital Journal, not expecting a response (I rarely get responses from online publishers). Much to my surprise, an extremely pleasant Christopher Hogg responded with the following message:
Hi Ryan,
Thanks for the note. This was written by a citizen journalist and I've taken a look at the post and there is mention of College-Startup with a link at the beginning saying the list was created by you.
We take these issues very seriously, so I have updated the link to the one you provided, as we want to ensure proper attribution is there.
If you take a look at the article now, does it reference you in a way that you feel gives proper credit?
Please let me know.
Best regards,
Chris
Because of this great response, I knew immediately that Digital Journal was a rare breed as far as Internet sites go. So I decided to ask Chris for an interview. Here it is: Read the rest of this entry
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