Business.com is a fairly large site with a lot of potential value from links.  The content on the site is largely created by their list of expert contributors, so the question is; how do you become one of those expert contributors? Business.com Contribution Guidelines If you want to guest post on Business.com, you’re going to […]

Yahoo is such a strange site. They’ve tried to do just about everything at one point or another, and they never quite seem to live up to the ideal they want to achieve. They made a search engine to compete with Google, but have come in a firm third place. They made Yahoo Answers, which […]

Ninja Outreach has a handful of different products and services you can use to get guest posts. I’ll primarily talk about their self-service tool here, but first I have to mention the premium offerings. Ninja Outreach offers several different premium services to help you with, well, outreach. If you’re looking to reach out to various […]

What do you think is the best way to get people to trust your brand and buy your product? Is it advertising? TV commercials, radio ads, web ads? Is it testimonials on your website? Is it social proof? While every one of those plays a role, one of the best sources of potential conversions is […]

When you guest post on another site, you want to make that guest post as successful as possible, so that you get as much value out of it as you can. When your guest posts are successful and popular, you’ll be invited back to write more, which further benefits you. It’s a sort of ongoing […]

I have very serious thoughts about the viability of guest blogging with an emphasis on traffic generation, some of which I’ve posted on this site before. However, it’s still one of the driving motivations for hundreds of marketers getting into guest posting, so it’s a valid enough pursuit. Some traffic is better than no traffic, […]

The Great Recession may be more or less over, but that doesn’t mean it’s any easier to get a job these days. The cost of living is always increasing. Pay rates – and consequently savings for older people – are not going up. Pensions are down, retirement plans are down, and people are staying in […]

Guest blogging can be a complex marketing plan, but more importantly, it is fraught with old techniques and guides that often lead you astray. A lot of the older tips and tricks tend to lead you to strategies Google has essentially “outlawed” in the modern day. It’s important that you get started properly when you’re […]

Fast Company is an interesting magazine and website. Many of the larger business and technology websites that have magazines were, well, older and established magazines long before they became web properties. Fast Company, meanwhile, launched both their website and their magazine in 1995. Over the intervening 22 years, Fast Company has grown to a respectable […]

One trick that beginning marketers often overlook is blatant theft. Okay, so it’s not really a trick, it’s a marketing tactic, and it’s not really theft, it’s “competitive intelligence.” You’re not doing anything illegal. You’re not stealing trade secrets, you’re not hacking servers, and you’re not phishing employees. No, all you’re doing is monitoring publicly […]