Finding Relevant Conversations

As I’ve previously mentioned, networking with others in your topic area is extremely important for building your base of site visitors. If you haven’t already established yourself as a regular within the communities that serve your niche, you may be wondering how to find them. Here are just a few examples of searches you can run on your favorite search engine to find the communities you... read more

Networking Is Key

Many a business person will tell you that networking, and the contacts you have available to you, is a huge key to success. That applies to the one-person, online, work from home business as well. The difference, however, is that much of that person’s networking will be virtual and online. I have a huge network of contacts to draw upon, but I’ve never actually met 99.9% of them face to face.... read more

Social Networking with Benefits

I don’t tend to talk a lot about SEO on this blog because that’s what my SEO blog is for. Still, since this blog focuses on making a living online, and this post is about a social network that pays you (yes, you heard that right), and this social network also has SEO benefits, I thought I’d combine it all into one here. In case you aren’t familiar with social networks, I gave a... read more

The ABCs and 123s of Social Networking Sites

Social Networking – What is It? I get asked this fairly often, so I thought I’d give a brief explanation. Social Networking sites are all different in some respects, but they all have some things in common. Common Social Network Characteristics As the name implies, they are “social”, and revolve around a community of users who are all actively participating in some way (rather... read more