These popular bloggers are F.A.K.E (See their names)

Since getting into blogging, I have come across so many bloggers and most of them are fake. I have been hanging around and reading their blogs but recently, I found out they really are F.A.K.E.

The list of these fake bloggers is long. They are both men and women.

The fun is these are very popular bloggers and almost everyone is saying they are the best. But I think they are F.A.K.E. Here are their names:

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WARNING!!! The Danger of Sponsored blog Posts!

Do you accept sponsored posts to make money on your blog? That is ok but here is the danger you may not know. Serious Warning

Sponsored blog posts are posts you publish on your blog in exchange for something – Money, free copies of software or ebook, free access to a platform, etc.

It has become a common way for bloggers to monetize their blogs. They get paid something between $10 and $1000 (and even more) to review advertisers’ service and link to it from the review post.

There are generally 4 or more reasons an advertiser would pay you to write about his product;

  1. To instantly have traffic from your community. Once the sponsored post is published, you are required to mail to your list, share on social media, etc. This instantly will start driving traffic to the reviewed product page.
  2. To continually have traffic from your blog. Advertisers expect the sponsored post to be well positioned on search engines in the long run. That way, they will keep having targeted SEO traffic from your blog.
  3. The third reason (which happens to be a bad idea for Google lovers) is to pass PageRank and boost their SERP ranking. They insist on not adding the nofollow tag to any link on your post pointing to their product page. Some insist on keyword-rich dofollow links.
  4. Branding is another reason some advertisers want to associate with some influencers.

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Website Security Warning ~ Weekend Shock! 534 attacks in 24 hours!

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Last weekend, during a chat with my friend Joy Healey, I decided to login to my CloudFlare (Content Delivery Network) account just to check out a few things after she mentioned some technical issues with her blog.

My blog has been running on this CDN for the past 2 years and there has been practically no security issues to deal with from my end.

NB: Joy has create a blog post sharing her experience and how she got her issues resolved. Check her post here

Now, while talking with Joy, I thought maybe a solid CDN could be the solution she needs. It’s important to note that the CDN technology is complex and I’m no expert at it. The main two things I need from a recommended CDN are: 

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Content locker for WordPress ~ Unlock huge traffic to your blog!

content locker

Do you know that traffic to your blog is being locked? I will show you where and how to unlock it with content locker for WordPress.

Once your traffic is unlocked, you’ll see a rush for your articles.

Each an every visitor to your blog is supposed to trigger a flow of more traffic to your blog but because we are not giving them the means to do it, we are somehow locking the flow of that extra traffic.

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How Citations Inconsistency affects Local SEO!

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Local SEO is all about answering the question: “Your customers are looking for you, but will they find you”?

With 86% of smartphone users engaging in local search, a good local SEO campaign is of paramount importance in order to gain and expand online visibility for your business.

Not to mention that the thrust of any local search marketing campaign is in creating online citations on all the relevant places; generic and niche directories.

You might have heard of this, but let me state this again ”95% of users turn to search engines to find the address, phone numbers, hours of operations, price list (other similar business details) of a local business to shop locally.”

These stats establish the fact that “correct and consistent” citations go a long way in attracting targeted traffic through local search.

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Content promotion Strategies ~ Stats why VIDEO is a must! [Infographic]

Content promotion Strategy

Recommended tool in this post on Content promotion Strategies: Uscreen!

We are in the content age where everyone seeks to dominate his/her industry. The current trend tells us that consumers are tilting towards video content. Therefore, if video production is not part of your Content promotion Strategies, you are leaving out an important ingredient.

In today’s post, I have published an infographic that shows us jaw-dropping statistics confirming the fact that readers are beginning to pay more attention to video content than traditional articles and emails.

Before we get to the graphics below, it’s important to note that video marketing has two broad phases. These are Production and distribution.

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