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Every blogger has posts they feel have really hit the mark; what many call pillar articles or foundation content. When Liz Strauss (Liz Strauss) decided to celebrate the 4th Birthday of her Successful Blog with a Bring ONE Link offer she motivated me to compile these links for my readers.
There are now so many posts I wish every regular and new visitor knew about here that I decided to write this compilation so YOU don’t miss some of the most important information I’ve researched and shared.
This would be a great post to save in your Delicious or StumbleUpon account so you can return to it for reference. We will continually update and add to these important resources to keep them current just for you. Is there anything else you would like to see here? Just let us know.
MOST IMPORTANT CONTENT:
We have added so much top information, but these posts are among the most often shared:
- How to Make it Easy for Others to Recommend You
- How to Geo-Target Social Media and Blogs
- Small Business Internet Marketing Priorities
- Why Blogs Going Local is Where the Money In Blogging Is
- Blogging Collaboration Processes
- What Blog Outreach Is
- How to Choose and Use Keywords for Your Target Audience
- How to Use Your Keywords In Content
Most Important Social Media Links:
- Most Important Social Networks
- Twitter Best Practices
- LinkedIn Lead Generation System
- LinkedIn Resources
- Google Plus Tips
- How to find the best Google Plus Communities
HOW TO GROW or SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESSES:
- Small Business Internet Marketing – What to do first – what to make your priority and how to do it
- MEME: BizLuv in Support of Small Businesses – Why the economic crisis makes this essential
- BizLuv MEME: Specifically What Bloggers Can Do to Support Businesses, Causes and other Bloggers
- Marketing is NOT Evil – It is how we find what we desire. Read about how Word of Mouth Marketing (WOMM) can benefit buyers and sellers alike
- KEYWORDLUV: How Using KeywordLuv Benefits Us All
FREELANCING, JOBS and CAREERS:
- Freelancers: How to Get More Freelance Work
- Why Your Blog Should Have a Hire Me Tab
- Setting up Your For Hire page: Do’s and Don’ts
- LinkedIn Lead Generation System
- LinkedIn Resources
- How to Land Fastest Growing, Highest Demand Careers and Jobs ~ If you want to switch careers or before you decide to go to college see the video and info in this post
LOCAL SEARCH DIRECTORIES:
- How Businesses can get FREE Business Listings in Local Search Directories * Best Local Search Post *
- Why Local Search is so important. Use our shortcut to getting any business or Web site with a physical address listed in Major Local Search Directories including Google Maps, Yahoo! Local, Bing, SuperPages and many more.
- Scan the Local Search Categories in the right sidebar for comprehensive information on and how-to obtain listings in specific Local Search Directories
HOW TO MAKE MONEY BLOGGING:
- Top How to Make Money Blogging Resources; Who REALLY Makes Money and Teaches Their Methods Best
- How to Create a Successful Blog Based Business – All blogs are not created equal; what you need and how to get an optimized blog even if you don’t have technical skills.
- Super Thesis Resources and why we wish we had installed Threaded Comments from the beginning.
KEYWORD RESEARCH / SEO:
- ANCHOR TEXT: Are You Playing Hide and Seek with Your Market? Identify your most important goals and the keywords and pages related to them.
- SELECTING KEYWORDS: The Importance of Researching and Selecting Your Keywords First to make your content easy to find and keep your posts on topic
- TRACKING SEARCH POSITIONS: Tracking Search Engine Positions: Free, easy way to track
BLOGGING BUDDIES, BLOG OUTREACH, GUEST BLOGGING:
- How Guest Blogging Can Change Your Life – Guest post by Greg Rollett of Rock Star Lifestyle Design and Internet Marketing
- Blog Outreach: 8 Compelling Reasons You Should Be Doing It NOW – Guest post by Affiliate Marketing Expert Murray Newlands
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DOFOLLOW and BLOG COMMENTING:
- KEYWORDLUV: How Using KeywordLuv Benefits Us All
- Use our DoFollow Lists and Tools to increase your incoming links
- How We Increased Our Blog Traffic Over 76.63% in one month by first commenting and then sharing other bloggers’ content across Social Networks
- How We Encourage Community and Comments
AFFILIATE MARKETING:
- Merchant Affiliate Marketing Management – What businesses who offer affiliate programs need to know.
- Massive Affiliate Reference Resources with links to Power Affiliates, Affiliate Forums, Affiliate Training – includes How to Evaluate Merchant Ecommerce Stores so you know which will convert BEFORE you promote them. This post uses an excellent gift affiliate program as the example store.
PAY PER CLICK ADVERTISING:
- How Not to Lose Your Shirt on PPC Advertising
- My Step-by-step Method for Evaluating Your AdWords Account – what settings to use and why
- Why PPC Summit is the Very Best PPC Seminar EVER – ?(no longer live events – now AdWords Advantage Webinars instead)
ORGANIC SEARCH SEO SEM:
BLOG DIRECTORIES:
- Coming eventually: Which Blog Directories are most important and why. Start with PostRank, Technorati, MyBlogLog, Blog Catalog and the blog directories reviewed by Keller Hawthorne at FresheVenture.
WEB ANALYTICS:
- REVIEW: Mastering Google Analytics: Easy to Understand Free e-Course
LOGO and WEB DESIGN:
- What Makes a Great Logo – How to create or buy one; the differences in deliverables between $50 and $1000+ logos.
- What NOT To Do With Your Existing Web Site When You Upgrade or Remodel
SOCIAL NETWORKING:
- Social Networking is NOT Chat – How to get your content shared by others, where you can find us and what to do if you would like us to comment in your blog and send you traffic in our daily travels across the Internet.
- How Monetizing Social Networking Sites THIS Way Benefits Everyone
- Twitter FriendFeed Quick Start – How to get up to speed right away at Twitter and on FriendFeed
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Twitter: jamesmspacey
November 8, 2010 at 11:51 pm
Ok. I’ve got a couple Red Bulls and I’m strapped in for a good long read. Thanks for sharing these posts. I’ve only recently stumbled onto your blog and now I feel I’ve hit the jackpot.
james would love you to read ..Weight Loss 4 Idiots
Twitter: GrowMap
February 2, 2011 at 12:01 pm
Thank you James,
If you have questions as you read or any time just ask them in the comments and I will answer them as I can. Anyone who needs immediate answers can use the contact info tab here to connect with me live.
growmap would love you to read ..Small Business Advice Fast and Easy to Find at BizSugar
Very useful info. These is exactly what I was looking for and it`s what I need if I am to become more than an amateur photographer. Thanx and keep up the good work.
Twitter: GrowMap
February 2, 2011 at 12:09 pm
Hi Baseball,
You can use the CommentLuv blog search engine to find other photography and baseball related blogs who will be interested in your tips on taking photos at games.
growmap would love you to read ..How CommentLuv Grows Businesses and Blogs
Unlike to some statements, better informed blogs still grab in subscribers including me. My first time here. I found so many interesting articles in your posts especially its discussion. The many replies reveal I am not alone that thinks this way
Twitter: GrowMap
February 2, 2011 at 12:06 pm
Hello diamonds,
Your comment proves my point that even though some are clearly interested in linkbuilding they can become readers and learn much from the blogs they visit to comment int.
If you ever have questions feel free to ask them here.
growmap would love you to read ..Google Monopoly- The Google Guillotine
Great article. Thanks for the info
Twitter: LaJollaHomesPro
March 27, 2010 at 10:53 pm
This a great resource page for any blogger who is just getting started. Your tips touches all the bases for promoting a website in today’s Web 2.0 environment. A website does no good without traffic, and it takes a lot of work to get good positioning on search engines. I’ve used some of your tips for my San Diego real estate site.
Twitter: GrowMap
April 3, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Hello Geoff,
I just added another link on tracking search engine positions that you will want to see and do be sure to get all your free Local Search Directory Listings.
I visited your blog and found that you are a DoFollow CommentLuv KeywordLuv site so I added you to my new KeywordLuv list and post. I also added you to my Dofollow Blogs Twitter list and KeywordLuv Blogs Twitter list.
I would like to talk to you about collaborating with other bloggers including many that are in real estate or home improvement. That is the best and fastest way to improve your search engine positions and make your site easier to find.
Please contact me through the contact page here or the email address in the comment I left in your blog.
.-= growmap´s last blog ..KeywordLuv: How Using It Benefits Us All =-.
Twitter: GrowMap
February 2, 2011 at 12:05 pm
Hi Geoff,
I recently published a compilation post called Small Business Internet Marketing Where to Start that prioritizes what any business will want to do online.
growmap would love you to read ..Small Business Advice Fast and Easy to Find at BizSugar
Twitter: dautopartsshop
March 26, 2010 at 6:39 am
Fabulous! all the articles are really worth of a read, with recession small business units need proper guidance to keep fighting which they can get from this list of articles…cheers!
Twitter: GrowMap
April 3, 2010 at 8:12 pm
Thank you. I hope you’ll share this page and our blog with any other business owners and bloggers you know. You can use the post I’m featuring in CommentLuv for this reply to connect with us across Social Networking communities and find us in blog directories like Technorati and elsewhere.
.-= growmap´s last blog ..Who Can You Benefit by Sharing GrowMap? =-.
Thanks for this post. I am fairly new to blogging and getting my post listed in Google and stuff is something that I have not done successfully yet with my blog. So this has helped me a lot and i am checking all this links slowly.
Twitter: GrowMap
March 3, 2010 at 6:19 pm
Hi Shane,
The fastest way to get new content listed is to have someone link to it from a page that is already in the search engines on a site that gets crawled regularly. Commenting in a dofollow blog might even work.
Your site is indexed at Google. You can confirm that by searching on any unique content on your page. I used “Your Home’s Sale in 10 Days”. Your challenge will be getting it to the first page for phrases that are important to you.
See the post I’ve featured in CommentLuv for how to figure out which search phrases those are and how to track your progress.
.-= growmap´s last blog ..Search Engine Positions: Easy Free Ways to Track =-.
This is great Gail! This type of listing makes it easy to navigate. I wish I could locate more quality sites like yours. Full of great information and easy to navigate. I learn something each time I stop by. Thanks again!
.-= Tim @ Classic Car Auto Insurance´s last blog ..Collector Car Insurance Application Hints =-.
Twitter: GrowMap
March 1, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Thank you Tim,
I do share my methods with others so that they can create well-organized reference sites out of their best content too. Whenever you have something specific you’re seeking that relates in any way to online marketing try using eMarketingMatador’s eMarketing Search Engine.
That search engine was created by Keith Hagan to search only specific high quality sites he selected. I use it when I can’t remember where I read something or I am researching on a particular topic.
I also use the Zuula blog search function to find the most recent, relevant blog posts on any search. Just click on the blog tab to use it.
.-= growmap´s last blog ..Search Engine Positions: Easy Free Ways to Track =-.
Great! I’ll check both the eMarketing Search engine and Zuula. I’m learning more every week. Thank again Gail.
.-= Tim from Classic Car Auto Insurance´s last blog ..Collector Car Insurance Application Hints =-.
Twitter: GrowMap
March 3, 2010 at 6:12 pm
Any time Tim. I hope you’ll be a regular here. If you have any questions I am happy to answer. I usually have links to content I’ve already discovered or written that I can quickly lay my hands on. You or anyone else finding it would take far more time.
.-= growmap´s last blog ..Search Engine Positions: Easy Free Ways to Track =-.
i think all this shows your great effort towards the establishment of Growmap and it seems to be very inspiring and i will definitely try to make use of it. keep it up
Twitter: GrowMap
March 1, 2010 at 6:29 pm
Hello Shane,
I know a couple of real estate bloggers who have excellent sites and understand how to maximize their efforts online. If you would be interested in collaborating with them (and me) contact me directly.
.-= growmap´s last blog ..BizLuv MEME: How to Support Your Fav Businesses =-.
Twitter: tanmay2346
December 17, 2009 at 12:48 pm
A lot of useful information in those links, thanks. I feel that it might even be too much for me to “digest” in just one week.
Twitter: GrowMap
December 21, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Hi Tanmay.
You can take as long as you need. We’re not going anywhere. The good thing here is that you can get answers to any questions the posts may raise.
very useful information thanks. will bookmark so i may return
Twitter: GrowMap
December 21, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Welcome Michelle,
There are several ways to remember what we do here besides bookmarking us – although if you look at your bookmarks that will certainly work.
You can also subscribe to comments or Subscribe to our RSS or Subscribe via email
Twitter: tanmay2346
December 3, 2009 at 4:11 pm
While I was comparing blogs online, I discovered your blog – quite by accident. After reading several posts, I think this is a good blog.
I really liked your blog!
Twitter: GrowMap
December 7, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Welcome Prajakta,
I’m glad you found us. This is a great post for getting a feel for what we do here. Also check out the categories in the right sidebar. If you don’t find what you’re looking for feel free to ask in the comments.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Blog Outreach: 8 Compelling Reasons Why You Should Be Doing It Now =-.
Twitter: 12
November 14, 2009 at 6:05 pm
hi GrowMap,
~ Steve
Just wanted to let you know that I just found your comment in my Akismet folder. Don’t know why it went there instead of posting immediately, but I fished it out. Your “Friends of the Guru” exception is alive and well.
Anyway, great summary of your great posts. BTW, what a slew of comments here.
PS. Sorry, I don’t have a twitter account (at least not yet).
.-= Steve@trade show guru´s last blog ..Are Trade Shows Obsolete? =-.
Twitter: GrowMap
December 7, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Hi Steve,
No worries. I have to rescue real comments from Akismet all the time. I really value my “Friends of the Guru” exception and hope my readers have checked out your blog. We love comments here so drop by any time.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Are You Playing Hide and Seek With Your Market? =-.
Twitter: adsmarket
November 8, 2009 at 3:17 am
This post really hits the mark for anyone who is just starting out in blogging for profit, affiliate marketing, and any of the topics you cover. I have shared this with our media team to help them stay more informed without having to jaunt all over the web for tutorials and advice. Thanks so much for putting it all in one place!
.-= Daneka´s last blog ..Adsmarket and PlusTrees.org: An Innovative Reforestation Initiative =-.
Twitter: GrowMap
November 8, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Welcome Daneka,
My pleasure. That is how I see my blog – a reference resource. Would you believe that I originally started creating Web pages just to keep track of and share my own research? Don’t forget that you can ask any question you have in the comments and I will personally answer with specifics.
Thank you for sharing this post with others.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..How to Evaluate a Merchant Gift Affiliate Program =-.
Twitter: LottoMan01
November 7, 2009 at 6:09 pm
No, I don’t believe so. Why Twitter and not here on your blog?
.-= Sire´s last blog ..How To Turn Off The Internet On The iPhone =-.
Twitter: GrowMap
November 8, 2009 at 7:17 pm
The Twitter list is handier than a post although here would be a good idea too. I may make a TweepML list so others can follow instantly. Having them in Twitter makes it easy to quickly see which dofollow bloggers have Tweeted a post I’d be interested in so I can go comment and share it. That speeds up the process.
Oh, and check out that backlink tool mentioned in the comments of the post I’ll add to CommentLuv for this comment. I’m going to use it to keep track of my comments instead of subscribing to comments so I don’t have to manage all those emails.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..What is UP with Backlinks from Google, Yahoo, Bing? =-.
Twitter: LottoMan01
November 6, 2009 at 4:48 pm
OH, I see your strategy, give em a whole lot of interesting topics to study so that they have to keep coming back. So that’s why they call you The Internet Strategist?”
OK, it’s worked, because I haven’t time to come read them now so I’ve bookmarked it for later.
.-= Sire´s last blog ..The Child Of God =-.
Twitter: GrowMap
November 6, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Hello Sire,
Good to see you here again so soon. Liz’ offer of a link motivated me to finally compile this post and I use it more than anyone as a shortcut to sharing specific information.
I do my best to convey that I consider this blog a reference resource not a serial story.
Years ago I realized no matter how well I managed ppc accounts for small businesses if their sites did not convert or their shopping cart did not work they could not be profitable. I ended up advising them on far more than just pay per click.
It became obvious that what I was actually doing was total Internet Strategy and I changed the title on my business cards to Internet Strategist. Back then it was an uncommon term. Now it is ubiquitous.
Only those who understand that they must continually expand and improve on what they’re doing will succeed. That was true prior to Social Networking and is far more true today.
That is also why I am always recommending collaboration. There simply are not enough hours in the day for any one person to become an expert on everything. Better that we each understand the big picture and specialize in something and then swap that expertise for what else we need to know.
The fast path to success is knowing who is the very best on any subject and having a relationship with them that allows you to ask specific questions and get the very best answers.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..How to Evaluate a Merchant Gift Affiliate Program =-.
Twitter: LottoMan01
November 7, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Gee where does that leave me? lol
I’ve always considered myself a ‘jack of all trades’, proficient at doing a little of all tasks but not an expert in any. I can sort of apply this to my blogging life as well. I suppose that means I have to leach of others
.-= Sire´s last blog ..Three Ways To Increase Your Ad Space Earnings =-.
Twitter: GrowMap
November 7, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Hi Sire,
I don’t consider it “leaching” – I call it collaborating and we all need to do a lot more of it to be truly successful. Have you discovered my dollow list at Twitter? I see that as an easy way to keep in touch with other dofollow bloggers and what they’re doing.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..What is UP with Backlinks from Google, Yahoo, Bing? =-.
Twitter: ArticleDirec
November 6, 2009 at 12:07 pm
This is a great post, for novice or experts. All the crucial information in one place, under one page. Thank you for sharing
Twitter: GrowMap
December 7, 2009 at 11:36 pm
You’re very welcome. I created this post to make it easier for new readers to see what we do here and for regular readers to see posts they may have missed.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..How Guest Blogging Can Change Your Life =-.
This post is just what I needed. You have supplied me with very informative information. Now I can take what I have learned here and put it to good use.
What an awesome list, I think you really deserve a biiig thanks from all of us
Thanks for making everything so much easier with the great tips and for teaching us plenty of things, keep us updated in your future posts as well
thanks dear thanks for the post, i will surely join you in Digg, since your blog is dofollow i am adding you in my list too and soon joining you in Twitter too, it will be my pleasure to get connected with Dragon
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