On October 2011, I wrote a piece, “How to Start a Blog Which Stays Active even after 5 Years” which was published as a guest post here. It went on to become the second most popular post out of 21 articles published in the same month. The fact that the month’s most popular post was written by Daniel himself automatically makes this article as the month’s most viewed guest post.
Please allow me a brief premise how this is achieved. To put in question, how do you write a popular guest post in a popular blog? Hopefully, the tips can help you creating engaging contents that would be read over and over.

Your company’s Facebook fan page is one of the best marketing tools you’ve got. Billions of people use Facebook, and there’s no reason why you can’t connect with at a least a few hundred or thousand of them. It will be difficult, however, if you make these minor errors that can make a huge difference. What’s wrong with your Facebook fan page? It could be…

There are hundreds of different formulas or paths to achieve a successful blog, but most pathways will have some basic concepts that will always remain the same. I am so sure you must have read most of it on many blogs (the most often repeated one – Original and well written content) , which is quite a necessary factor , but not the only factor. To keep it easy I have broken it down to three simple steps. This post is made for basically word press based blogs but can be applied to other websites as well.

Search engine optimization makes sure everyone can find you, but is it always the right move to target every person, regardless their location on the globe? Local SEO focuses on the fact that some stores in certain industries benefit from local consumers. This is especially true if you also have a physical store where customers can come to find out more about your products or services. While the Internet opens up potential sales and network channels that didn't before exist, you're making a mistake if you forget about local SEO. Read on to learn what you should do to make sure you're utilizing local SEO correctly.

As the popularity of Facebook grew so did the importance most people give to “Likes”. They pretty much represent the social-proof currency of the web these days (i.e., the more “Likes” you or your fan page has, the more popular you must be). The consequence is an obvious one: people started finding ways to generate fake “Likes”.

Having a website that gets noticed is very important for most businesses. You want your site to stand out from the crowd and attract visitors. But this can be a challenge. However, there are some simple ways that you can improve your On page SEO to make your site do some of the legwork for you.

Building a blog and keeping up with your editorial calendar (if you aren’t using one, you should) is only half of the story; the other half is getting it in front of future readers and learning about, and then applying, the little tricks that will help you get more and more readers, but of the right kind – those who will stay longer and return for more.
Assuming that your content is good enough (all the tricks and “secrets revealed” in the world won’t help you increase your audience if your content sucks), you can proceed to the next stage armed with the tips below. Just remember, reading about “how to do…” isn’t the same as actually doing it; and you can’t decide whether a technique works for you before you’ve tried it – so read this post, and ACT upon it!

Social media has changed the way we look at things like movies, sports, television shows and even the news. It has taken the place of water coolers in the office as a place to share our viewing experiences and our opinions of social and political events.

Around three months ago I started working with mobile apps. I handle the Android side of development, my brother the iOS side (iPhone and iPad), and there’s a designer that takes care of the visual aspects.
We already shipped a couple of simple apps (here’s the website of the company if you want to check it out, though it’s in Portuguese), and we are working on some complex ones too that will take a while to get completed.
Last week I released an app that I think you guys might find useful: it’s called To Do List Simplified.

It’s every blogger’s dilemma; writing fresh content for their website.

This may sound cliché, but the blogging world is all about nothing else but content. What makes people compelled on your blog is the combination of your topic, opinion, writing style, and most of all, freshness.

Your blog will definitely go a long way if you start writing new and up to date content. Compare this with a newspaper. What kind of person will read the same news over and over again? This same principle applies to your blog. If you don’t update your website with a fresh content, there will be no reason for people to visit. As a blogger, you must always have something new for people to see.

Even though it may seem as if users are not appreciative of web advertisements, a lot of the time, they will not mind an ad that creates value for them. This does not mean that certain rules have to be abused when creating them - there is still a proper and improper way of creating the ads. If you do it right, you will see a huge difference in terms of sales and traffic to your site. Get the basics wrong, and the entire world may come descending on you. When creating them, your goals and target audience must always remain at the front of your mind. Web ads are crucial for the site to add some value to the business.

Every serious blogger out there must have discipline and dedication. And when I say serious, that actually comprises many aspects of what it means to be good in blogging; in anything in life actually.
And while being persistent, dedicated, professional, passionate about something, may only represent words that we use in order to describe what we want to be like, there is one thing that encapsulates all this elements, and acts like a proof that we are in fact headed in that direction.
That is having a plan, a schedule, a routine. In blogging that will mean having a publishing schedule, a deadline, if you will. And this by itself screams professionalism, dedication, true passion for the things you write about.

For the freelance writer, there are many text exchange sites online that can connect you with clients who need well-written articles. However, your mileage may vary. Some sites offer poor remuneration, while others have limited amounts of articles available to write. Before deciding on which site to write for, it's important to investigate and decide which would be a better fit for you. In order to help you with your decision, we've provided some details on three of the better text exchange sites.

One of the first questions that people ask when they join Twitter is, “ How do I get more followers?” Some people want to increase their followers so that the messages they share through Twitter reach a larger audience and others want to earn more followers so that they appear as more of an expert in their field.
Unfortunately, there’s no real science that you can employ to ensure you gain a larger following, but there are a few things that you can do that can give you a better chance of earning one.

Being unemployed is perhaps the most stressful situation anyone can experience, particularly if job prospects are slim in your field. As unemployment in the United States remains painfully high, particularly among recent college graduates where 54% are unemployed or underemployed, the competition is fierce for the few good jobs that become available.

It looks like Google is willing to experiment even with sacred elements of search, like displaying 10 results per page. The guys from Search Engine Land and SEOMoz started spotting last week some pages with only 7 results.
Here’s a link to the Search Engine Land article talking about it: 7 Is The New 10? Google Showing Fewer Results & More From Same Domain.

Increasing traffic and exposure to your blog can be a tricky undertaking to start. But, in the end, isn't that why you started the site in the first place? There is a lot of information and hype about how one can increase their site's SEO, which is a great way to drive traffic, but there are even simpler ways to drive traffic through social outlets. Luckily our social media accounts and platforms can act as extensions to our websites and blogs, making it the natural way to build your reputation. If traffic is your main goal, and you are confident with your content, then look to social engagement to build your site's reputation and exposure.

I have an important business presentation scheduled 8 days from now, and I figured I should bring some business cards to exchange with people who will be there. The cards I had in hand were old and with incorrect information on them (e.g., old email and telephone number), so I decided to get new ones.
After researching a bit on the web I found a local company that does both the design and the printing of the cards. They are quite expensive (around $150 for 1,000 cards), but their work looks solid, so I decided to go with them.