As I’ve mentioned in a previous post where we featured the free SEO tool Traffic Travis, we are going to run a contest and are giving away ten (10) professional version of Traffic Travis worth $99.
To join the contest, you only one thing:
- A Blog / Website
- Write an article about your experience using the free version of Traffic Travis entitled: “Free and Easy to use SEO Tool”
- In the first paragraph of your article, put a link to traffictravis.com and seo-hacker.com using any anchor text that you so desire. After that, you can place additional links to us as you deem necessary.
- Send me an e-mail in sean (at) seo-hacker (dot) com notifying me of your blog entry’s link.
Judging Criteria:
Blog Entry content – 40%
Pictures/screenshots – 20%
Enthusiasm – 20%
Links back to SEO Hacker and TrafficTravis – 20%
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Traffic Travis SEO Tool Contest
Thursday, February 24, 2011
How to Land a Guest Post at Problogger | SEO Marketing | SEO School | Learn SEO Online
I’ve been writing posts for the last three or so years (has it really been that long?!?). My writing frequency, I have to admit, is quite erratic. When I started, I used to write at least three posts in a week. Now, given a lot of other commitments, I barely have the time to sit down and finish a post within a week. Though I still try, believe me.
Anyway, you might ask, how long does it take for me to finish one post? It depends on the topic of course. The minimum time (the fastest I can) for me to whip up one post is around an hour or so. Those are for posts that which I generally know the lesson by heart and all I have to do is to let my fingers to the keyboard work. But, truth be told, there are some special cases- cases wherein, yes, it takes me 10 hours (or longer!) to create just one single post.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Blemished Commitments | God and you
Was there ever a time in your life when you said “Enough is enough, I’m giving all this up to God.” and then soon after you tell yourself “Maybe I’ll do it just one more time again.” or “Maybe I’ll do it in a lesser manner.” right there and then your surrender to God becomes incomplete.
I stumbled upon this verse in Malachi during my quiet time:
“But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ By offering polluted food upon my alter. But you say ‘How have we polluted you?’ By saying that the Lord’s table may be despised. What you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not evil? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not evil? Present that to your governor will he accept you or show you favor?” - Malachi 1:6-8
Compromised Surrender
There are things in life that we sacrifice to God and give up to Him in our hopes and expectations that He will help us through. But somehow we find ourselves wanting to get a taste of that which we just surrendered. It’s natural for us to look back and compromise and long for the things that we told ourselves we’d never have anything to do with again.
There was one time that I surrendered to God lately – but I found myself wanting to compromise the commitment. I wanted to go around and find loopholes in the very commitment that I surrendered up to Him. Imagine that.
My heart was all for the commitment during the time that I gave it up. But the heart is deceptive above all things. Sooner than later, I found myself wanting to work my way through the commitment I made little by little – until I was surprised that I have broken it completely. That blemished commitment that I made became no commitment at all and left me feeling sorry for myself.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Is Your Heart In Good Soil? | God and you
Many perhaps of you, unlike me, have read this Parable from the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew 13: 1-23, Mark 4: 1-34, Luke8: 48) before. You’ve also probably attended a Bible Study class about it as well. You may also be aware that in Luke’s account, Jesus was specifically asked to explain this parable compared to the others (v9). (Personally, I would like to believe this to be an important daily learning, not to mention a task to be taken notice of by the apostles.)
But apart from learning this Parable in the context of the Gospel, how do you understand it? More importantly, are you applying it? How about in the face of problems and trials?
If however you have not read about this Parable, I encourage you to do so that you may share with my personal insights and learnings.
- The Hardened Soil. When you’re suddenly interrupted by your classmate, office mate or friend while rushing for a deadline, you so desperately want to get over and done with, do you relate with him/her with grace? Could this person see Jesus from you in this brief, one-on-one encounter? Or did you just blow up a probable one-in-a-million chance of exhibiting a reflection of your Lord and Savior?
- The Rocky Soil. How about in those occasions when you’re asked by your parent/s to run an errand, a chore you totally don’t feel like doing, but did so otherwise? Are you willing to do so again when asked so now? How about that demanding, irritating, unappreciative colleague or classmate who asked a favor, needed your help; did you do so from the heart or only because you think (hoped) he or she will treat you better after this?
- The Thorny Soil. Remember that day when you worked so hard to the point of skipping meals, saying ‘no’ to your favorite concert, ‘no’ to the long awaited get-together with friends for a noble cause (i.e. family gathering, a Bible Study). Only to find out your efforts were in vain… the kiss-ass employee got the promotion. You were still not allowed to go with your barkada to the long planned beach outing. You were still unappreciated…
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Traffic Travis SEO Tool | SEO Marketing | SEO School | Learn SEO Online
Traffic Travis is a fresh new tool I’m recommending to you. As I always say, “what’s an SEO specialist without his tools?” This tool makes life a heck lot easier for me. And just so you know, the Traffic Travis team has allowed me to give away 10 professional editions of their software.
Want one? No? I’ll tell you why you SHOULD want one.
Who the heck is Travis?
I honestly don’t know. But what I do know is that Traffic Travis is a tool that caught my attention with the recommendation of our linkbuilder, Jason Acidre. It’s a cheaper and simpler alternative to the well-known SEO tool, Market Samurai. I also tried Market Samurai but I wasn’t really too impressed because of the fact that it runs on Adobe Air and eats a lot of RAM when left open compared to Traffic Travis which runs on it’s own executable platform.
As an SEO tool, it gives you the ability to gather data on a lot of SEO-related information about a certain website. Those data can be acquired for free from different other tools (which I previously used) but then those tools do not have the integrated functionalities for its data to work with each other unlike Traffic Travis does. Also, why waste time going through a variety of free tools when you can have all the data gathering you need in one place?
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
What to do with Black Hat SEO | SEO Marketing | SEO School | Learn SEO Online
This is a very interesting (and funny) video that I stumbled upon in Youtube. The question is: “What should we do with the Black Hats?” Should we kick them out? Hate them? Love them? Give them a job?
I personally like Rand Fishkin’s answer. Very profitable. But that’s just me. The 50 different SEO practitioners in this video have very interesting answers.
Enjoy!
Be the Difference | God and you
In our time today, mediocrity, consistency and loyalty are respected. Faithfulness compared to fruitfulness is more recognized. Perhaps this is why many students feel not the need to excel. And no wonder many of our citizens stick it out in their jobs without the need to have a sense of fulfillment. Thus, the world knows ‘loyalty’ than prestige.
God said in His Word, “You are fearfully and wonderfully made”. Do you believe this? Have you ever thought this verse through?
Do you know that He knows your every gift, each talent and your every skill? Did you know that He was the one who placed that desire in your heart? He made you…wholly and completely. But are you giving Him back the honor and praise for His blessings?
God has given each of us a mission to live. In which case, He uses our gifts and talents for Himself, to glorify Him. All of us recognize skill and niche for something that many of our peers, classmates or workmates don’t even take interest on. I bet even once in your life you’ve also asked yourself why you were good at it, right? So my next question for you now is, why aren’t you stretching yourself?