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Quality SEO development and keyword research is vital to the success of any internet entrepreneur or blogger.  While there are a variety of other factors that come into play when creating a successful business, I think we all can agree that no traffic means no one knows about you exist.  This sole fact makes the importance of SEO keyword research immensely important.  Pat Flynn of the Smart Passive Income blog recently did a live walkthrough demonstration on how to develop and build out both on site and off site SEO for your website from start to finish.  It’s highly detailed and covers all the basics.  So if you’re looking to learn more about SEO, be sure to check out the tutorial video below (embedding disabled – click video to watch):

I should note that the SEO training video above uses a tool called Market Samari, which I recently bought and have come to rely on heavily.  It is a fantastic tool that makes SEO and keyword research much easier.  Enjoy!

Blacklinks are essential to the long-term success of any website whether it be a internet business or a simple blog.  Backlinks are what will generate most of your traffic typically to your site.  As a website owner and aspiring entrepreneur like many, I have given much time to researching and creating backlinks to techlifemashup to help with the organic flow of traffic.  As such, I am always looking for new and better ways to create backlinks , preferably methods that don’t involve too much repetitive manual labor to be honest.  Needless to say, I’ve picked up some good tricks along the way in my research that will help anyone looking to build backlinks do just that! More »

Building traffic is one those things any website owner or blogger wants to do, but doesn’t always know how.  While many people will point you to social networking, there are few who actually tell you how to use social networking to build traffic.  Facebook has over 300 million users spaning across the globe! Taking the time to make a fan page on Facebook is a great way to build traffic to your blog or website. It’s also a excellent way to promote a product, event, or anything else you want a lot of people to see. I recently created a fan page for my blog (techlifemashup.com), and have been quite happy with the early success of it. I would encourage anyone else who is interested in maintaining an easy channel of communication among many around their blog or website to also look into using this tool. More »

Most entrepreneurs just starting out usually have a very limited budget.  It’s therefore very important for new entrepreneurs to spend money as wisely as possible to get the most out of each dollar.  When you are getting ready to launch a product or service to the rest of the world, you want to do so in the most efficient way possible that is going to attract the greatest number of people.  Today we’re going to look at how you can use Google Adwords to do some cheap, but highly effective market testing  for your next idea! More »

Video is now the fastest growing area of the internet advertising market.  Sites like YouTube, Hulu, and others have continued to assist in the digital media explosion that the internet has seen over the past few years through video.  You can see examples of this first hand on major news sites such as CNN who have switched a majority of their main page content over to video featured stories as oppose to traditional text.  So what exactly does this mean to you?  Well, if you’re an avid internet entrepreneur and/or blogger, you’ll want to read on to see all the reasons why video blogging is a must! More »

Backlinks are one of the most important elements of building traffic to your site. The more backlinks you have pointing to your site, the higher you will rank in search engines. The higher you rank in search engines, the more traffic you will see to your site.  The more traffic you have coming to your site through backlinks, the more money you’ll make.  While there are many different methods you can use to get more backlinks (some good and some not so good), I’ve highlighted the top 5 safe and most effective methods that have worked wonders for many including myself. More »