Deciding whether to use social media marketing or search engine optimisation (SEO) to drive online sales has been a tricky decision in the past. However, no decision is need now. Both social media and SEO are essential in creating online awareness and and completing online goals.

Social media has always provided the perfect platform for branding and social interaction, but now, it seems it may also contribute directly to search engine rankings, making SEO and social media mutually...

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It's been a hot minute since I last posted about this here squeeze page deal...

It's been Christmas time full swing at my day job...

I'm a $1.6 M retail store manager with payroll, and budgets and employees. Very hectic, indeed!

Been throwin down 60 to 80 some hour weeks for around a month now (the glories of a salaried position). With that amount of hours, I'm making somewhere near 5 bucks an hour. Hardly worth it. That's sweatshop...

As article marketers and bloggers, we all dream of writing an article or a post and having it take off and go viral and make us tons of money.

I have personally written articles and posts in the past that were specifically designed to get me affiliate clicks for cash such as this one here >>> [ LINK ]

Continue Reading: If You Don’t Promote Your Article, It Will Just Sit There

So for my first post, I decided to share this TED talk by Richard St. John. He reminds us that success is not a one-way street, but a constant journey. He uses the story of his business' rise and fall to illustrate a valuable lesson -- when we stop trying, we fail.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgNx9Bgac1I

Keep these 8 principles in mind always:
1. Passion
2.. Work
3....

I have noticed that longer pages with more words are doing better in Google search rankings.

This is not a new observation and I do not claim to be the first to notice it.

And it is true word count by itself does not guarantee a high ranking. There are many factors involved. If you get high PageRank backlinks that seems to still be more powerful than words.

That is: a 50 word page supported by multiple PageRank 5 backlinks, will outrank a 500 word page....