Megan Hills
"my thing-ster"
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Up until recently, article marketing used to mean writing a 'how to' article (preferably a keyword laden one) and pasting it into as many article directories as you can (like Articles Base, Article Directory and Article Dashboard).
Having your article duplicated on a multitude of top ranking sites meant that people had a better chance of finding out [...]
When it comes to search engines, YouTube remains ahead of Yahoo!, safely in the number two spot behind Google (Ref: ComScore). Interestingly, what videos rank well on YouTube doesn't always rank well on Google, and visa vera. Considering YouTube is owned by Google, this is kinda weird.
Apparently, 'Google proper' relies heavily on inbound links (i.e. [...]
Following my two previous posts on YouTube: Making a business-ish video and Set up your YouTube account with a good user name, it's time to put that baby onto YouTube and let the world see it.
Why are we bothering with YouTube again?
Because it's very, very popular. Here's the latest stats that I nabbed via Mashable (social media news [...]
Following from the last post: Making a Business-ish Video, you are going to move from the director's chair to that of 'film distributor'.
In this post we'll look at setting up your YouTube account.
Here are the 11 easy steps required:
Go to YouTube
Click on the big blue 'create an account' button (they make it pretty easy for [...]
This post is about making you making a video. Yes, you. And not a family film or a goofy tape to send into a bloopers show. A proper business-ish one.
A video to pop onto YouTube, your website, your blog site, your e-news, etc. A video that serves as a marketing vehicle, so to speak.
The saboteur's [...]
You know those guys in goggles and white jumpsuits on the tarmac waving paddles at airplanes?
A 'landing page' is like one of those guys. Waving at your target market – showing them that you are their guide for a secure place to rest and have their needs met.
Imagine how annoying it is when a whopping [...]
(Cartoon in homage to the great Garry Larson
and his 'School for Gifted Children' masterpiece)
This 'mobile-optimised' post leads on from the previous posts:
Should your website be smart phone savvy?
How to Have a Mobile-Friendly Website.
This is the last consecutive post on this topic, promise!
And I'll be brief.
Why? Because I only know a bit about this. Even [...]
This post leads on from Should your website be smart phone savvy? which bandies the rumour that 70% of internet searches are now being done on a mobile device. Except it's probably more than 70%.
I have to be honest about one thing…
We're not just talking smartphones. We're talking any mobile device with access to the internet. PDAs [...]
A smartphone is the Swiss Army knife of the 21st century.
It’s a mobile phone that offers more functions, including – but not limited to – Internet browsing. Think iPhone and BlackBerry, that kind of thing.
What other functions?
Well, I use it to:
take photos of my partner while he’s snoring on the couch, with introduced props for extra [...]
I'm going to keep this post simple.
Powerful content writing (i.e. writing for the web) generally requires a degree of simplicity. So this is going to be Zen-like in it's minimalism. This will be a post of few words. More like a meditation. A web writing meditation. Okay, I'll shut up now. On with the post…
I [...]
