Coming up with good topics for your blog posts can be a struggle, especially after you have been blogging for a while. When I get inspired, blogging is easy for me. When I have to sit down and write like it's homework because I need to publish two ... Read More
I get a lot of newer, aspiring affiliates on the Sugarrae site and when you've never done affiliate marketing before, all of the terms can get a little confusing. So I created this glossary of affiliate marketing terms to help newer affiliates and ... Read More
I always run my affiliate links through redirects - also referred to as cloaking affiliate links - for several reasons:Running them through my redirects means I have a click count to match up to the one the merchant is reporting. Affiliate links ... Read More
This past weekend Google sent out a round of manual penalty notices citing "unnatural outbound links" - later confirmed to be targeting sites publishing compensated content and reviews where the blogger is linking out to the brand or site that ... Read More
Sometimes an AdSense unit won't display an ad to a user for whatever reason. When an AdSense unit doesn't show an ad, it leaves an odd amount of space within the content, and reduces my ability to monetize those pages - and I find that unacceptable. ... Read More
If you follow me on Twitter, then you know I sometimes complain about the current state of the industry - most notably centered around what passes for research and discussion these days. It feels like people want to be handed the fish - with little ... Read More
Google Alerts is a free service offered by Google that will alert you to new content Google finds on the web that contains keywords you specify. Google Alerts is most commonly recommended as a way to monitor your brand - and your competition's brand ... Read More
I've become obsessed with site speed over the last six months, systematically working through each of my sites to improve their speed. Supposed SEO benefits aside, the faster your site is, the better the user experience. And the better the user ... Read More
In August I published a post examining a common question in email marketing – do email subscription pop-ups work? The post detailed how I went about implementing pop-ups via OptinMonster (affiliate), as well as the results I attained in using them on ... Read More
In mid-July of 2015, I decided to flip the Sugarrae.com site to https using SSL. In the last eighteen+ months, Google has been pushing hard to "make SSL happen." They even said it might give you a bit of a rankings boost, no doubt knowing that tons ... Read More
If you've ever run your website through the PageSpeed Insights tool to find out what you need to do to improve your page speed, you've probably gotten the following message:Optimize images Properly formatting and compressing images can save many ... Read More
No matter how much people might say they hate pop-ups, they work when it comes to increasing subscribers to your newsletter. Period.Back in 2011, I began testing the use of pop-ups on various sites I owned. Everyone I knew claimed they found them ... Read More
