Ever since the Internet came into inception, blogging and sharing online came quickly after. The Information Superhighway is full of websites where you can post personal blogs, recipes, novellas; ranging from fiction, nonfiction in almost every genre you can imagine. WattPad is no different. But there is one significant difference, however: Wattpad has become a platform for creators. Much in the same way YouTube has, WattPad in its short history has already launched the career of a young writer by translating her novella from computer screen to film screen in the form of a Netflix full length film. But how did WattPad gain this momentum, and how did this then 15 year old find success in such short order? WattPad’s Humble Beginnings Originally launched in 2006, WattPad began as a ebook site for mobile users to access full copies of over 17,000 books from Project Gutenberg. And by 2009, over 5 million users had downloaded the WattPad application. To put this into perspective, this was…
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Pete Trbovich, and you overthink SEO! That phrase is a tag on my own blog, for the occasional content marketing post. Really, I don't measure my expertise by my own website's ranking; I'm a freelance writer for the web who only needs a website as a virtual business card. Instead, judge my SEO expertise by the writing I do for clients - linked from my site on a regular basis. In 20 years of freelance writing for the web, I have had the same argument with the majority of clients. That argument is that clients never stop making demands on how I write, while completely ignoring all the non-text factors on their site that are tanking their traffic, conversions, ad impressions, sales, and so on. I
posted that argument on Reddit's r/freelancewriters forum and
got a lot of agreement, so I know this isn't just me. SEO (Search Engine Optimization if you just started playing along at home) is supposed to be the science/art of attracting web traffic through search engines. But…
Are you an eCommerce entrepreneur depending upon content marketing to gain exposure for your product or service on the web? Do you want to know the secret of having your site rank high on Google? Do you want your website to shoot to the top of a Google SERP (Search Engine Result Page) like greased lightning? If you answered "yes" to all of the above questions, TAKE A NUMBER, because everybody in the whole wide world answered "yes" to all of the above questions too! No, but really, SEO content marketing is the field within which I
have based a 20+ year career in freelance content hacking for the web. And yet, it is the one discipline which is jam-packed with more hoodoo, voodoo, snake oil, urban legends, conspiracy theories, and outdated alchemy than any other tech field. Thanks to this topic being saturated on the web, you can scream about it all day every day and not get heard over the noise. Let's start with some obvious, concrete logic. For once, everybody can drop their wacky schemes…
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