Have you ever wanted to write your own web site reviews and completely control not only the copy but the links and keywords as well? Believe it or not - there are a few sites where you can do just that, and there’s nothing like a one-way-link where you have full editorial control!
I wrote a [...]

Welcome to the second installment of the “Tracking Your Blog’s Progress” series! This ain’t your grandmother’s bookmark! If you want your visitors to come back and bring others, you need to encourage them to use the social media. AddThis is a service that only serves one purpose - putting a little button on your [...]

Are Text-Link-Ads dead? I think they are. Back in August 2007 I wrote about the google text link ad penalty. It was pretty controversial then. Now it’s pretty much accepted that paid text links are bad and will get you banned from google. So I was on 45n5 today and was catching up on posts [...]

Last week I was messaged on Entrecard by Mike over at Bloggin’ Ads and he asked me help sponsor his new contest by supplying a prize. I’ve written many times about how running a contest can drive tons of traffic to your site and get your lots of new rss subscribers. In spite of that [...]

So you want more RSS subscriptions? There are many ways on the web to get good backlinks and link love. The link juice you used to be able to get from link directories has just about dried up for good. What is now very popular is the social aspect of the web - the [...]

Today I’m going to show you how to take those grey-hat web sites that have been profiting off your back in the search engine results and make their listings drive traffic to YOU! Blogging Mistake: Not paying attention to my SERP’s more closely!
It seems it’s always difficult to write in the morning for me sometimes. [...]

So I’m checking my email today, and I get a google alert for “www.jtpratt.com”. In my next post I’ll talk about why and how I do that. I read the email and it had one link to Marco Richter’s Blog. Specifically his post on the Viral Recommendation Carousel. It’s a novel linkbuilding concept. In some [...]

A lot of people monetize their blogs with Text Links Ads. I mean, why not? If you’re not making a pile of cash with adsense, your low traffic, better than PR2 blog or web site can make an extra hundred bucks per month using this service. Just list your site, and you can sell up [...]