What Should I Blog About?

Posted in General on Aug 4th, 2011 | 11 comments

I haven’t posted here in a while, been busy with a lot of things. I have a few posts lined up that I really want to cover, including the launching of my SEO Competition Analysis Tool, serpIQ. I’ll cover that tool in detail in the future (hopefully this weekend).

I also have another side project in mind that I plan to document and announce here when I get time to build it. Unfortunately, time is hard to come by so currently I cannot discuss much about that one.

I’ve tossed around ideas for different blog posts but ultimately, I decided to defer to you guys. I would imagine a lot of you know me from Wickedfire so you know I’m into coding, automation, and SEO. What I want to know is, what do you want me to blog about? Are there certain topics you want me to cover? Stuff you want explained?

One idea I have that I do plan on executing on this summer is to finish my “Niche Product Site” series so that it covers all the basics of doing research, setting up your site, writing content, targeting keywords, building links, and making money from your sites. I think that series can be helpful for people, especially those new to the game.

But that’s only a handful of posts. I want to start pumping out long, high quality articles about stuff, but I need you guys to help me out and tell me what you think I should write about. So if you can, please leave some comments and let me know what you guys want to see!

Wickedfire is down…let productivity commence

Posted in General on Apr 3rd, 2011 | 32 comments

Bummer to see the site down, seems like a database corruption issue. Curious to see how things turn out in the next few days. If you have SEO questions, feel free to ask them at SEO Loudmouths…I’m going to get all caught up on the lingering open questions by tomorrow.

If things stay down for a while on WF, I’m not sure what will happen in terms of something to replace it. Too early to tell now.

PS: I’m working on something so fucking epic for SEO research you’re all going to love it. I’m hoping to launch it within two weeks and will officially kick it off (with a special Layered Thoughts discount) as soon as its ready to go. Stay tuned!

Awesome Viral Marketing Idea – Pay With A Tweet

Posted in General on Mar 2nd, 2011 | 4 comments

I found Pay With A Tweet online about a week ago and thought it was really cool. The basic premise is you have something to give away (guide, report, free app, etc) that you would normally require name and email address to download (classic list building method). Rather than require that though, the download link is hidden behind a Twitter Tweet or Facebook Like button, so in order to get to the download, a user must tweet a link to the landing page on their account and then they’ll gain access to the download page. Then, anyone who follows that Twitter user or is friends on Facebook who is also interested in gaining access to the download must click the link in the tweet/link, which has the Tweet button on it as well, and they must then tweet to all of their followers.

Depending on the niche, something like this could work REALLY WELL. Any tech savvy niches, like SEO, social media, affiliate, etc (really, any niche where people have Twitter or Facebook accounts) can create a big rush of traffic because of the exponential growth potential. Sounds really hyped up, but it seems like a sound principal.

Since I’ve just started using Twitter again and am working on growing my follower count to increase my reach on it, I think I’ll try a few tests of this system soon to see how effective it is. An ideal setup for me would be: Tweet the link, go to download page, subscribe to blog, receive download link. Seems like a really solid way to increase my feed subscriber base as well as increase the brand of the blog.

I’ll post some updates soon of ideas I want to test this system out with.

Added A Crazy Floating Social Media Toolbar…Tell Me If It Sucks

Posted in General on Mar 1st, 2011 | 3 comments

Alright, added the Digg Digg plugin to this blog today because I found it on a few sites and liked it a lot. I’ve quickly browser tested it and it definitely loads on all of them but it can load wonky sometimes. If you guys could just tell me if the thing is decent or if you hate it, that would be awesome.

Also, just cleaned out my twitter account of a bunch of old shitty tweets and will start passively using it this month to try and add some traffic here. I have a gaggle of posts waiting to be written, will start on them this week.

Happy March

I’m The Proud Recipient Of A Broken Google Design

Posted in General on Feb 18th, 2011 | 3 comments

Anybody else have this going on since they rolled out the new design updates? Kinda funny that this is happening, I’ve tried cache refreshing and switching browsers and it’s still happening. Not sure what to make of it.

It looks like they have some sort of image sprite issue going on, here’s the image that is causing all of these shenanigans: