How to write blog posts – it’s the most important skill any blogger will ever acquire. It will completely determine whether you succeed or not as a blogger. If you can inform, educate, entertain, uplift, encourage, and engage with your audience - your future in the online world is assured. But how do I do that? That’s what I’m going to show you in this article. Follow these ten … [Read more...]
7 Quick Tips For Getting More Traffic From Your SERP Snippet
Getting your blog post on Page #1 of Google is one thing. But getting people to click on your SERP Snippet is another thing altogether. To put it another way: your organic CTR (the rate at which people click through to your website from the organic search results) is just as important as getting on the first page of the search results. Google monitors your Click-Through … [Read more...]
Newsjacking for Bloggers – How To Get Links and Traffic From Breaking News Stories
Newsjacking is the art of riding the wave of breaking news to get massive exposure for your content. In this highly connected, news-driven world we live in there are stories breaking every hour of every day. Some of these stories have huge search volumes on Google and get massive exposure on Twitter. If you can somehow link your content to these stories, you can get levels of … [Read more...]
What Is RankBrain and Will It Replace Backlinks?
You may already have heard about RankBrain, an algorithm being developed by Google based on artificial intelligence. What you may not know is that RankBrain is already being used to rank your pages. In fact, it’s being used in 3.5 billion Google searches every day. What is RankBrain? How does it work? And how can you optimize for it? That’s what I’ll be showing you in this … [Read more...]
Rich Snippets and Featured Snippets – What Are They and How Can You Get Them?
Rich Snippets and Featured Snippets are a great way to stand out from your competition in the Google search results. Have you noticed when you type a recipe query into Google that you get a listing with 1 to 5 stars, the number of minutes it takes to prepare, and the number of calories it contains? That’s a Rich Snippet: Or maybe you typed a question into Google like … [Read more...]