Studies have shown that over 90% of all B2C marketers use content marketing these days. Those studies don’t say how expensive it is or how successful they are, but one thing’s for sure; it wouldn’t be that widely adopted if it didn’t work.
I know that small businesses, and s…

The goal of almost every piece of content on the Internet is to be seen by as many people as possible.
No one piece of content has such widespread appeal that it will be relevant to everyone, though, so there are a lot of posts that rank highly for a lot of subjects, but there’s no one master post with…

It’s clear that social media is beneficial to a business. You get a lot out of it. You get advertising, you get engagement, you get customer satisfaction. You get paid marketing so cheap it’s practically free, if you want it to be, and it scales well with money.
One thing that you may or may…

When you visit a website and read a blog post, what determines whether it’s one page or several? It’s a conscious decision made by someone in control at that site. Someone, somewhere, decided “this site should have pages that max out at 500 words” or something to that effec…

Depending on how much attention you’ve paid to your links over the last few years, you may be in for a surprise when you learn about nofollow. Nofollow is a meta attribute that can be attached to links, to give them different properties when Google discovers them. It’s a modifier; the def…

Content marketing is not a simple task. It’s a complex machine with ever-changing rules in a system that’s never static. To try to do everything solo, by hand, is an exercise in futility. There just aren’t enough hours in the day. That’s why there are tools for just about ev…

There are two ways to make a mobile site. One is to create a dedicated mobile site on a subdomain or in a subfolder. Something like mobile.walmart.com (now Walmart.com) is a good example. It’s distinct from Walmart’s main site, but it’s perfectly functional and indeed designed…

A blog sponsor is an entity – a person or company – willing to pay you for an advertising slot on your site. Depending on the scale of the sponsorship, they might have a permanent sponsorship logo embedded in your footer, or they might be one of several rotating ads. They might also just be a…

Remember the days of the hit counter? Back then, it seemed like every site would have a little number in their footer, showcasing how many people had visited their site over the previous years. The number was basically meaningless, of course. It was just an incremented graphic that rolled up each tim…

WordPress, as one of the most popular blogging platforms in the world, offers the ability for users to change the date on their posts, both before and after they have been published. This is a useful tool. You can set a post to appear in the future, scheduling your content drops. You can write and upload…