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Do you know you can change your domain name without losing search traffic? Yes, it’s possible. But once you have changed your web address, you need to do some post-site address change things to ensure you don’t lose organic traffic. If you don’t tell Google about this change of address,you might be putting your site’s organic ranking into danger. Let me help you with fixing this potentially big error. (In the below example, I have placed a URL change request using the Google Search Console. The process is the same for anyone needing to change their domain.) Let me first give you a background of why I had to change the URL of one of my popular niche blogs. If you are a regular reader of Shou...

Every single marketing or product blog suggests you start building an e-mail list. The number one method ofdoing thisis by giving away an e-book, or a course, or something that is somehow valuable aroundyour nicheand in tu,capturing a reader’s e-mail information. This is good advice becausee-mail marketing works bydistributing your content and making sales of your products. But, most of the advice stops there. They talk about e-mail collection strategies, but do not go beyond that. Today we’ll cover another areaof e-mail marketing that is generally not covered: The reasons your users are inactive. Defining an inactive e-mail subscriber An inactive e-mail subscriber hasone or more of the fol...

Wow, you’ve just gotten a new visitor on your blog. Congratulations! From the look of things, theyfound your blog posts very interesting and are now wondering if you’re someone they can coect with.Who knows? Maybe you’re a good fit for a potential business partnership. So theydecide to find out more about you. Obviously, the firstplace to start finding more about you is the About Page. (Interestingly, the “About Page” is also the most viewed page of many popular websites.) Unfortunately, your new visitor can’tlocate your “About Page”, or worse, they saw one which sucked. Because of this, theydecide to take theirbusiness proposalsomewhere else because they came to conclusion that you’re not ...

It’s a no-brainer that content upgrades areone of the best ways to create a highly targeted email list. Did you ever wonder what would happen if you addedquizzes as a content upgrade for lead generation? Well, it would not only increase your lead generation by 200% but it would alsoincrease your overall user engagement by a similar margin. Many big brands are already using quizzes to capture leads & if you haven’t started using themyet, you can start doing it today. Today, you will be leaing about Riddle, which is a great tool for email marketers to create quizzes, polls, tests, and surveys. These are also called “interactive content”. Before we move ahead, here are some interesting fac...

Kinsta hosting is not new, but a few of you might not knowabout it yet. Kinstais one of the top names in the Managed WordPress Hosting industry & is also where ShoutMeLoud has beenhosted for the pastyear. A few days agoI upgraded my plan which now lets me host up to 20 WordPress sites. I will leave the full detailed review on Kinsta for another day, but if you are interested inleaing more about them, you can do so from the following two links: The other day I had to add a sub-domain to my blog (which is hosted on Kinsta) and install WordPress onto that sub-domain. Sub-domains are helpfulwhen you wish to add new stuff to your existing domain. What kind of stuff? Well, you can add many new...

If you are one of those bloggers who is using a free WordPress theme, you are likely changing your theme around a lot. Two of the most commonly asked questions regarding changing a WordPress theme are: Will it affect myblog’s SEO? Will it affect myblog’s traffic? The answer to this question changes with different scenarios, and I will try to answer this question from all angles with regards toWordPress, SEO, and traffic. But before I move ahead, there are a few things that you should know: Many WordPress themes like GenesisandThesiscome with built-inSEO options, and if you are using the theme’s SEO feature, chances are high that your blog’s SEO will be affected. If you are using anSEO WordP...

Will they come back? To be profitable and celebrated, yourwebsite needs retuing visitors. Now, the content you provide on your site will have the biggest impact on whether or not people retu, but there are other factors too. One such factor is your domain name. Have you ever read an article you really liked or found an interesting fact online, and then forgot where you found it? You may try to Google it, but sometimes you just can’t find it again. You don’t want that to happen to your site. You want people to visit your site, be struck bythe brand name, and never forget it. This will make all of your promotion a little bit easier. Just think, if you do a great job picking your name, every si...

There is no doubt that having a professional email address like [emailprotected] is a necessary thing & if you don’t have it until now, you are missing out a lot. You might say, it’s just an email address & how does it matter? Let me tell you; your domain email address creates a lot of impressions & if you use a generic email address to send or receive email, you may not be taken seriously until you are already super popular. I have already talked about setting up domain email address earlier. If you haven’t done that until now, you can refer to below tutorial for the same. Today, I will talk about Google Apps domain alias feature which will help you to save a lot of money for yo...

Being online is all about branding, and it doesn’t matter how you do it, but more people see your brand name, more they are likely to remember it.Using a good URL shortening script you can also configure it to see stats and other details. Moreover, with growing need of short URL’s (As short URL’s are easy to share on sites like Twitter), it’s a good idea to use your brand name.There are many online resources which let you shorten your long URL links to a compactand much shorter in letters, which are quite easier to share on social services. Today, I will be sharing an easy to follow tutorial for those, who would like to self-host a URL shortener under their domain name.If you own a website ...

Godaddy is one of the top domain registrars, and I useGodaddy to buy domains whenever I come across $1 or $2 Godaddy coupon code, I end up buying at least one domain from them. Usually, whenever I find a high CPC and exact Keyword match domain or any good domain name while researching, I note them down in Eveote. Sign up:www.Godaddy.com(Use Coupon:CJC99COM) And when Ever I come across any such irresistible $1-$5domain discounts voucher from Godaddy, which usually happens once in a month, I grab that domain name Instantly. I’m not talking about simple 20%, 30% domain off here, but usually big discounts like you can buy domains for $1-$5, I make the purchase. Also, if you are into domain flipp...