I'd also suggest updating your content often. Google seems to crawl sites that have lots of new content more often than they crawl static sites. And I have no proof of this, but I strongly suspect they like WordPress sites better than some other platforms.
You should also consider how you'll be promoting your site. If only via clickable links, then dashes are fine. But if you'll be talking it up on podcasts, in videos, or in person, saying "bull dash dog dash pet dash food dot com" is going to be a bit cumbersome.
That is absolutely true. And sometimes you have to make your own "back against the wall" moment. Quit your job, move to a new country, blog about it for all the world to see - whatever it takes to light a fire.
I see (and have personally experienced) the shiny object problem a lot. Just saw one person post on another forum that he's "tried several things over the last four months and nothing works."
Try ONE thing for six months or a year, and do it every day. Laser focus and bulldog persistence wins...
I just heard an interview with Lynn Terry of ClickNewz and she talks about getting a blank page to rank. According to her, it's all in the backlinks. I imagine the same could be done with a redirected domain.
Regarding your first question about content - no, you can't use the product owner's...
Funny, I was just having this discussion with a friend of mine. She - and a lot of other people, I suspect - feels *validated* when she makes something more difficult than it has to be. For example, rather than buying a cake mix in a box (just add eggs and oil) she buys the ingredients and bakes...
I think it really depends on your market. If your readers are heavy Internet users, most any color link - as long as it's different from the text - will work. We know that different colors indicates a link, so we'll at least try to click it. But if your market is not Internet savvy, it's best to...
The best thing I ever did for myself was unsubscribe from every list I was on. Every day my inbox would fill with advice about how to make money online, offers of ebooks, videos, and multi-thousand dollar private coaching programs, all designed to turn me into an Internet marketer. And every day...
Fantastic article. I found this particularly insightful:
This is a big stumbling block for a lot of my clients. They think they don't know anything of value, so rather than writing about what they know, they end up making things far more complicated by trying to write about what they themselves...
Well, I just wrote a long detailed reply to this, and found out I can't post it because I'm not allowed to post links - even fake ones, apparently. ;)
Oh well. What you want to do is Google php redirects to find out how to cloak your affiliate links, and hyperlink text to find out how to use a...
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