This interview is going to get lot of fire & controversial for Charles Floate & myself too, as recently Charles sold his DFYLinks to Gary Wilson Getmelinks, there was big controversy around Charles Floate but he managed to explain well on a Twitter post why he sold DFYlinks to Getmelinks Gary Wilson, you can read it here :

So I met Charles at DMSS Bali Conference 2019 and I did follow his grey hat techniques he shared on his blog & got some rankings on tough keywords doing parasite SEO.  I did interview with him at DMSS Bali and it was long interview packed with value he is sharing how he ranked websites & flip at higher price.

Charles Floate first garnered attention from his controversial The God of SEO blog. He published posts and guides that came from his experience of successfully ranking sites in organic search. At 19, Charles was generating 60,000 blog visitors a month – an impressive feat, especially when content marketing didn’t exist.

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 As part of our Bloggers Ideas interview series, today we have  Tim Soulo from Bloggerjet.com who have joined SEO world about 4 years ago, mostly working full time for different projects, doing some consulting and bootstrapping some personal projects. He will be answering various questions related to  SEO, Social Media & other Internet Marketing stuffs . So lets start with the interview.

First of all thanks a lot for accepting my interview proposal. I and my readers are very pretty glad to have you . Please tell us about yourself and your educational background.

Hey Jitendra, thanks for having me!

It’s really hard to describe what I’ve been doing for living for the past 6 years: I was involved in all kinds of internet marketing; I was building websites and online tools; creating and launching new products in different markets; optimizing web business of various online companies. So I guess that is something like “online business consulting”.

And a few years back I’ve started a personal blog where I was sharing some of the lessons I’ve learned along the way. It’s called BloggerJet. As for my education – it’s totally unrelated to marketing. So everything I know I’ve learned from books, blogs and friends.

How Can I Grow My Home-Based Business?

Well it really depends on the kind of business you’re running. If you have a solid product that really solves some issue – you can try putting up a sales page and buying ads. Oftentimes it’ll work if your product is good enough.

In case you don’t have any product idea yet, you can always start with a blog about something you’re passionate about and try to use this blog to attract clients.

You may also take products of other people and promote them either with ads or with your blog. That would be affiliate marketing. I mean there are tons of ways to launch and grow a home-based business.

How Can I Pitch My Product to Large Companies?

Well there are three fundamental rules you should follow:

1. Build a killer product.

2. Build a killer product.

3. Build a killer product.

If your product is really awesome, you won’t have any issues pitching it. Large companies may even reach out to you and offer you to become a partner if your product is worthy.

What Are Some Good Business Books to Read?

I’m a huge book lover and I can easily suggest you 20 good business books to read. But I’m going to name just three which I think are crucial for any business owner:

• Tim Ferris – 4 Hour Workweek
• Daniel Pink – Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
• Robert Cialdini – Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

These three books cover absolutely different topics but each of them is absolutely crucial in running a successful business.

 If you build your site with WordPress what plugins should you install?

•  WordPress SEO by Yoast is an absolute must.
• Sharebar is perfect for displaying floating social media buttons next to your articles.
• PopUp Domination will skyrocket your email subscribtion rates with a fancy email optin form.
• TweetDis (this one developed by myself) will allow your visitors to tweet quotes from your articles with just one click

Is Guest Posting useful and how do you benefit from it? Matt Cutts recent article on guest posting had create panic situation among all webmasters.

I think Matt Cutts was referring to low quality articles that SEO companies create in hundreds and send out to every blogger in a hope that he may blindly publish it. Quality guest articles will always be a perfect tool to build traffic to your website and help it rank in search engines.

We shouldn’t stop our guest posting activities no matter what Matt Cutts says.

How do you improve your e-mail subscription rates?

The best known trick to improve e-mail subscription rate is to offer a freebie that can only be delivered to an email address of your visitors. Add PopUp Domination here and you will absolutely nail it!

However there’s a downside to offering a freebie like an ebook. After people get it they’re no longer interested in your further email updates and most of them will just unsubscribe after a few emails.So the workaround would be to turn your ebook into a series of emails and call it a “Free Email Course”.

The email subscription rates of an email form with a free ebook and the one with a free email course are exactly the same. But the people who opted for your email course will actually be looking forward to receiving those emails from you.

What e-mail management tool should you use?

I use MailChimp because it’s free and right now I don’t need any more features than those that it offers me. But I keep looking towards Aweber and Vero as well.

How do you convert social media traffic into business?

Social Media traffic is ten times worth than SEO traffic when it comes to making money with it. So most marketers I know don’t try to sell directly to visitors coming from social networks. They prefer to nurture them first.

The process is as follows:

 1. Send traffic from social media to a landing page with a freebie (preferably email course)

2. After people opt in, send tons of value their way for free to make them trust you and percieve you as an authority

3. Announce a free webinar to help them solve an issue they’re facing

4. On this webinar explain them what can they do, to solve the issue. But don’t explain HOW to do this

5. Pitch them your premium product that will show them HOW to do the things you’ve shared with them in your free webinars.

Voila! You’ve got paying customers!

How do I know if social media is generating leads for my business?

 You can quite easily setup event tracking in Google Analytics to see where your leads are coming from. Social Media is a very solid source of leads and then it’s up to you if you’re able to convert them into paying customers. But the formula I’ve shared above should really do the trick! That’s it. Thanks for having me for this interview, Jitendra. Hope that was helpful to your readers.

I hope you enjoy this interview, Tim had shared best strategies. So readers try to learn more and keep exploring in online marketing. Keep sharing knowledge and keep helping each other.

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Hey you bloggers we are back again with another brilliant interview.

As part of our BloggersIdeas interview series, today we Uttoran Sen here, he is the founder of guestcrew.com, and having good experience in Online Marketing, SEO and also called Social media expert. He loves blogging a lot. In this interview he would be sharing some useful SEO strategies.

Let’s start with interview!

Please introduce you to my blog readers? Explain who are you apart from blogging life?

Answer – Hey, am Uttoran Sen – a self proclaimed SEO and Social media expert, an online writer and the CEO and Founder of Guest Crew.

Other than blogging, am a 27 year old guy who loves to read books, play online multi-player games like Travian and a lucid dreamer.

Please define terms “blogging” and “money making from a blog” your experience on them?

Blogging, in my opinion is a platform that can be used to reach an audience. When you monetize your reach – it becomes – Make money from Blogging.

I have made money from CJ, Adsense, Infolinks, Kontera, Chitika, payperpost, sponsoredreviews and pretty much any platform that was ever made to monetize blogs. My niche blogs have made a total of $17k from Adsense alone so far.

What type of hosting services you would recommend to bloggers? As reliable hosting is very much important in blogging ?

Go for a VPS is you can afford it. Guest Crew is hosted on a level 5 Hostgator VPS – we have occasional issues, I find atleast one downtime in 2 to 3 months time. There are a number of web hosts that I have come across; each of them had their own issues. If you are on a shared hosting and your blog is getting a lot of traffic – then no web host will be good for you. Move to a VPS as soon as possible.

I prefer hostgator because their live chat help is excellent and they solve script related issues that no other hosts does.

What inspire you to build a big guest platform guestcrew ?

I was one of those early birds who started doing guest blogging back in 2007. I used guest blogging to promote my own blog and my client’s blogs. I was an active guest blogger doing several hundred guest posts a month. The process is very time consuming – and wasting time on getting a post published is not a constructive use of our time. Time should be spent on writing great content – not trying to get it published.

So, to simplify things – I started Guest Crew.

Guest Crew is nofollow, so it is safe to use for guest blogging. Other than guest blogging we have social features which can be used to promote your content on the social media. Guest Crew already have a good portfolio of Influencers who can promote your content.

How many years you have been blogging.What do you feel about blogging?

I started blogging back in 2005 – it is ages now. I got my first domain in 2006, before that it was mostly free hosted blogs like – blogspot etc .

Blogging provides a platform to reach an audience – it is fun, it’s a source of income – for me it was hobby when I started out. I made a few sites on yahoo’s geocities etc. but nothing worked as good as blogspot. It was when the traffic had started to flow and I got my first clicks on my niche sites that I saw it’s true potential.

Very quickly I started doing niche research and built a small network of micro niche sites – each getting about 200+ unique a day and converting to about $800 to $1200 a month. I still do not have a primary blog though, unless you count my personal blog at UttoranSen.com or the Guest Crew blog.

I focused too much on micro niche blogging, did not really had any time left to build a strong personal blog. Am still trying that with UttoranSen.com.

How many blogs do you have? Which blogs do you follow regularly?

At this moment I have only two blogs. My personal blog and the Guest Crew blog. I had over 30+ blogs at a time on different niches but slowly I have sold them all. Guest Crew takes away most part of my time – so really do not have time for anything else. I follow a number of blogs regularly.

Popular A-list blogs that I follow.

Copyblogger – Here is my latest Guest Post on Copyblogger.

JohnChow – My Guest Post on Johnchow.

WriteToDone – My Guest Post on WriteToDone

BoostBlogTraffic – My Guest Post on BoostBlogTraffic

Problogger – My Guest Post on Problogger

LifeHack – My Guest Post on Lifehack

KissMetrics – My Guest Post on KissMetrics

Some more Top Blogs that I recommend:

Smart Passive Income

Moz Blog

ViperChill

Apart from these, there are a number of blogs that I follow and recommend to others:
Growmap, by Gail.

Make a Living Writing, by Carol.

BloggingCage, by Kulwant.

Seo Writer, by David.

Adrienne Smith, by Adrienne.

Aha-Now, by Harleena

Basic Blog Tips, by Ileane

Famous Bloggers, by Hesham

Enstine Muki, by Enstine

Kabenlah, by Emmanuel

What are your tips on traffic generation? Please reveal some must use techniques to get more traffic to new blogs?

Sure, traffic generation is not that difficult. One just needs to be disciplined and consistent. Here are 3 traffic generation tips that one should absolutely follow.

Organic Traffic: Organic traffic is not that difficult to get. There are two big issues with this step. Some people don’t optimize and some over optimize. You just need to get a balance and keep going on.

At one time, I had a 100k+ monthly combined traffic on my small group of health blogs. It was never difficult, you need decent content – nothing extra ordinary and it is something that you can create yourself. Give 3 to 4 hours a day for content creation. That can easily get you about 1 really good – 1500+ words article.

Once you complete the article – take a small break and get refreshed. Then get back to work and start revising. Once you are sure that your article is great – post it. Do basic social promotions and some comments on related blogs. That is just enough.

Repeat this step everyday and in a few months time you will get some 100 to 200 very high quality content. Your organic traffic will rise everyday and in a few years time – you will have a very strong blog with thousands of visitors a day.

It is a slow process, you have to work hard – and be really consistent and disciplined about the entire process. But it will work out in time.

Social Media: Social media requires work – that is constructive social media. There is plenty of fake profiles and fake traffic available in the social sphere. Anyone can manipulate and send traffic – but that is not a long term strategy.

If you want a long term benefit from social media – start working on your social profiles.

Give it time, spend atleast 2 hours a day on your social profiles. Make sure to tweet atleast 8 times a day and keep following targeted people. Try to build as many profiles as you can on separate social networks. Focus on the big ones – Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, G+ etc.

Here are a few additional tips:

1) Make self promotion look good.

2) Post natural content on the social media.

3) Share videos and infographics related to your business. Your followers should know more about you.

4) Write informational articles about the social network where you share your content.

Referral Traffic: Referral traffic comes from various sources. Here’s a list of things you can do to get referral traffic.

) Be active on the smaller social sites like – blogengage, blokube, dosplash, kingged etc.

Build a really strong profile in these sites – make sure to comment and engage with others. Then post your own links and get referral traffic.

2) Do Guest Blogging – Guest blogging still works and you can use Guest Crew to do nofollow guest posts and be safe from Google.

3) Blog comments – Blog commenting does not really works for the SEO purpose as it used to in the past. However for getting referral traffic – blog comments is a great way to do it.

4) Do round ups – link to others – promote other blogger’s posts. They will do so in return. That is how it always works – bloggers reciprocate.

How to handle guest post spam request?

The Easy way is to join a site like Guest Crew and mention clearly on your – “Submit a Guest Post” page that you only accept guest posts via Guest Crew. Since, guest crew always checks content for quality, all spam requests will be filtered out before reaching you.

Alternatively, spent another hour going through the requests and delete the 90% of the spam and reply to the 10% of the good ones. Some people delete the entire lot of guest post requests, with more and more spam getting into their inbox – I can’t really suggest them otherwise! But one should look at the benefits before killing guest blogging completely.

I allow guest posts on my sites mainly due to the following 3 reasons:

1) There are good writers out there and they have their own voice and style. My community can always take benefit of new ideas and tips and my blog can make sure of fresh content.

2) Am already active on multiple social networks – but I can’t be everywhere. When I accept a guest post and publish it – I make sure to explain the guest blogger for promoting the post on the social media. I have got plenty of traffic, social shares and comments from their promotions. I get traffic from social sites that I did not even know about.

3) Having a multiple author blog helps a blog to grow quicker. You can’t do everything yourself – you will need others to boost things up.

Matt cutts is now against guest blogging. Would you still prefer guest blogging?

Matt Cutts is against anything related to link building that works. Technically, he is right – links should not be built, they should be earned. The only problem is that it does not happen. If you don’t build links, your competitors will build them and beat you at Serps.

Anyway, Guest Crew is nofollow – so we are not worried about Matt Cutts.

What to do best in guest blogging.

Aim for bigger blogs – target the A-list blogs. One link from a huge site makes a major difference. It can help you land a big client as well. There is no point building hoards of smaller and spammy backlinks. Get a guest post on a strong blog that is related to your niche. Try getting a few of these every month and you are all set to make a popular blog yourself.

How to Reduce Landing Page Clutter?

We are doing a landing page redesign ourselves. You can check it on guest crew when we are done.

A Good landing page should have the followings things:

–      Name and Email id signup form.

–      A video or an image next to it.

–      And a few points explaining why the target audience should subscribe / buy etc.

Anything other than that, like social sharing buttons, extra information, useless details, longer signup forms etc. are all waste of space. If you want an optimized landing – keep it up to the point and nothing more.

On which platform you share your content, please share some unique content marketing platforms ?

I share my content pretty much on all possible platforms. There is no point leaving a single leaf unturned. I have used social bookmarking sites, article directories, sites of all sizes for guest blogging, web 2.0 sites etc.

Things change with time and I no longer do article marketing. That particular marketing method has run its course and no longer works. Here’s a few platforms that I do suggest for content sharing:

–      Build strong profiles on major social sites – facebook, twitter, g+, linkedin, pinterest, stumbleupon, reddit etc.

–      Be active on the smaller social sites like – kingged, blogengage, blokube, dosplash, bizsugar, inbound, scoop.it etc.

–      Share your content on web2.0 sites like medium, linkedin today (long form posts), storify, etc.

–      Share your content on the community blogs of popular sites like buzzfeed, moz etc.

What kind of certification courses you would recommend to SEO & Online Marketing enthusiastics?

I don’t recommend any courses. If you want to learn something – go do it, get firsthand experience and learn from it.

Whay type of tools you use for keyword research please share.

I have used several tools over the years, saw them getting changed or shut down – and I had to move on to using other available tools. Adwords tool was my favorite, now it’s changed into keyword planner.

Am sharing a keyword search tool that I have used extensively over the years – Hope you like it.

I hope you all readers enjoyed interview of Uttoran sen !

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Lorem Ipsum website ranking on Google by SEO Ninja Kyle Roof, I met him at DMSS Bali 2019 and I interview him how he rank his website with Lorem Ipsum, this experiment gathered huge attention from the SEO community, soon Kyle Roof many website was deindexed by Google.

Kyle Roof is the co-founder of High Voltage SEO, a bespoke SEO firm with locations in Phoenix, Berlin, and Melbourne. Before co-founding Internet Marketing Gold, a scientific SEO community, Kyle was the Lead Tester for the SEO Intelligence Agency, overseeing over 300 single variable tests on Google’s algorithm. I did his tool review Page Optimizer Pro here check it out ?

I am sure in this interview you will learn lot about his ranking strategies and how is able to beat Google algorithm.

 

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Jitendra Vaswani

Jitendra Vaswani is a Digital Marketing Practitioner & international keynote speaker currently living digital nomad lifestyle and founder of  internet marketing blog BloggersIdeas.com & Digital Marketing Agency DigiExe. During his more than 8 years long expertise in Digital Marketing, Jitendra has been a marketing consultant, trainer, speaker and author of “Inside A Hustler’s Brain : In Pursuit of Financial Freedom” which has sold over 20,000 copies, worldwide & contributor of “International Best Selling Author of Growth Hacking Book 2”. He had trained 10000+ digital marketing professionals till date and has been conducting Digital marketing workshops across the globe. His ultimate goal is to help people build businesses through digitization make them realize that dreams do come true if you stay driven.  Investor in
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