Several weeks ago, I was handed a project. An online retailer was selling two competing products from two different manufacturers. I was asked to help Product A gain market share because they were getting killed by Product B on this particular site. After doing simple online research (just checked out the site), I was able [...]
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I hear it all the time. “I am going to start a blog and make tons of money!” Every time I hear or read this comment, I just have to laugh. Over the years, I have seen a lot of businesses come and go. One of the #1 reasons that I have seen most businesses [...]
Discovering your content to be poor and unsatisfying? The popular method of getting search engines, specifically Google, to spider your website and rank your content highly is to produce quality content. A niche-fad that still exists is to get as many quality articles as possible published on your website. Companies and individuals pay thousands of [...]