Sujan Patel is the co-founder of Single Grain, an SEO Agency based in San Francisco, CA. Single Grain specializes in helping start ups and Fortune 500 companies with their digital marketing strategy. You should follow Sujan on Twitter.
One of the most important things for any business is productivity. Business owners need to stay productive if they are going to grow their businesses. They need to inspire employees to remain productive in order to keep profits up and make their employment worthwhile. One simple but great way to stay motivated towards business productivity is to read blogs that inspire you. Here are ten great blogs by young entrepreneurs...
It would be safe to assume that everyone reading this article, is in some way familiar with the popular social bookmarking site Digg.com. You might use it to promote your articles, or maybe you just go to find articles and inspiration for future writing, either way you've used the service. Overtime, having had articles on the front page several times from various projects, I have had the opportunity to notice several good...
Has social networking damaged your social life? A strange question to ponder don't you think? Your sitting there thinking to yourself what is this guy on, thats impossible. But is it impossible, is it so difficult to imagine that social networking in one way or another has had some negative impact on your social life? The fact is, its true, social networking can very well, impose negatively onto your life outside of the...
Anyone that has been writing for any amount of time has become familiar with writers block. Even the greatest writers in times past sometimes spent years in a creative slum, unable to find even the smallest spur of inspiration. Fortunately, we have so much information readily available that we are usually able to overcome this challenge rather quickly. The Internet has proven to be the main source of inspiration for bloggers, as...
Backlinks are the golden path to page rank. Building backlinks however, can be a slow and tedious process every blogger has to face. We constantly find information on the web telling you to “write quality content”, “get involved with social networking”, “establish relationships with readers and other bloggers”. All of these are excellent points and hold a lot of truth, but what if you want to speed up the process? What...
Imagine this. Let's say, that like a whirlwind romance, you all of the sudden get popular on StumbleUpon or hit the Digg homepage and hoards of traffic are coming in to see your work, what could you do to keep them coming? Many new bloggers live under a mis-belief that landing on a popular homepage will increase your traffic for the rest of eternity, when in reality you will be back to normal...
Blogging, for many is a business, and just like any other business you will have to show some level of appreciation among your peers. Do you have to like them? Absolutely not! Can you benefit by befriending them, Absolutely. Many bloggers looking for their big break, tend to leave this stone unturned, they avoid communication with fellow bloggers, seeing them as the enemy, or worse yet the competition. Many of...
Digg, much like many other social bookmarking tools, is built around a small community of highly “ranked” users that control ninety percent of the overall success for the other millions of registered members. It is not a big secret that an article does not have to be excellent in order to climb through the Digg infrastructure and come to rest on the homepage. As I am writing this, a quick look at...
With more than two million registered users, StumbleUpon has rapidly become a major player in the social networking craze that has swept through the computers of millions of web users, worldwide. Founded in 2001 by software engineers, Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith and Justin LaFrance, the three Canadian Nationals set forward to build a new take on an age old tool, the search engine. Later purchased by Ebay, Inc. in 2007, StumbleUpon...
SES San Jose is next week and we’re all looking forward to it. It is a good chance to network, learn some new tips and relax. Here the top 5 sessions you must attend at this years SES San Jose: 1. Universal & Blended Vertical Search Day 1 11:00 to 12:30 “Search isn't just for web pages anymore.” Let’s face it, search engines are evolving, and its going to affect your rankings. Google...
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