If you wanted to learn SEO all you had to do was search.

I’ve been promoting influence since day one, and whoever knows me knows that whenever I’ve done a sale for one of our networks sites I’ve pushed the fact that it’s an influential site, and it’s editors are influential and that’s why the price to advertise there is premium even though they’re getting less uniques.

How do I measure the influence? It’s simple, the stats talk for themselves. A page/visit of 13, an average time of 20 minutes, and both of these stats apply to new visitors. Returning visitors at 45 minutes average time, with 19 – 25 page/visit. That means that the users are actually enjoying the content. And that’s for me influence.

I am by no means a Klout expert, I know that they are using around 35 factors to weight Facebook influence, and some factors from Twitter to measure your amplification. But that’s partially the reason I came to write my review about Klout and why I think they need to fire their staff.

Klout’s Website Sucks

If you’ve gone into Klout and used it for 20 minutes, you’d know that you could have done these exact tasks in less then 5 minutes using another platform but since Klout.com’s platform is so unresponsive at times I find myself clicking something, or waiting for a loading thing to finish and basically not utilizing my time right – and that caused me to stop visiting Klout and helping grow the influence there (vote for influential users, giving a K+ to a user, and so on).

Another problem that irritates me the most is that I monitor about 8 different Twitter accounts (businesses, personal, and other brands we operate) and Klout doesn’t have it’s own user login (why?!) there’s a “Sign with Twitter” and “Sign with Facebook” and whenever I click the Twitter option, it automatically logs me in with whatever I’m logged in with that specific browser.

Another known issue is that the “Merge Accounts” function rarely works. And when voting whose more influential (once a day, vote for 20 users) I can click “Vote” for about 100 times and nothing happens. I end up clicking “Skip” and revoting.

I just can’t believe that a company that size wouldn’t change it’s site up to something more simpler. I would have, and it wouldn’t have taken me any longer to do that.

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Ever since around 2008 I’ve devoted my life to becoming an entrepreneur, it’s just that back in 2008 my father gave it a slightly different term, being 20 years old and having no job, working on my own project without a college degree, he called it “unemployment”. I’ve had my passion, and when 2009 hit I took that passion to the next level.

With all the stuff I’ve learned from working with some of the most talented “SEOers” in the industry I’ve implemented it into the blogging world, basing on organic growth. Never bought a single link, and focused most of my time on building a brand, with no guidance.

Now in 2012, I think I’ve succeeded at making a name for myself in the blogging world. People recognize my blog, some know me by first name, some were excited to meet me and that brought me some business but most of the people I meet don’t realize that this entire industry is smoke & mirrors. It’s hard to make money, you have to work hard to make it, and the longer you’re not taking action the more money you’re losing

Building businesses is not an easy task, and it’s a fact that you won’t be seeing profit on your first year. I’m so tired of seeing these entrepreneurs over-evaluating themselves at such a high ates yet they’re not making shit. If you’re keen to grow yourself and want to open a business, first research the market before you’re going to open that business. You don’t just open up a business because you’re passionate about a topic. That’s called “having a hobby”, with massive stupidity to turning it into a business. Start by defining your targets and I’m not talking about a target “I’ll get 100,000 uniques and then probably people will start advertising” – it’s just not how it works.

Over the last three years I’ve had the pleasure of meeting all sorts of entrepreneurs. The artistic type, the talented, and the hustlers, who like me know how to “pimp” these talents and put together plans to make real money. You might think you’re a hustler – but the way to really be a hustler is to commit to something and not work on 10 different things at once. Remember: “he who begins many things finishes but few.”

Most of these artists have a brilliant talent at what they’re doing, but talent doesn’t cut it. And while I’m at it, artists are not only fashion designers or painters, it’s also web designers, and web developers (like me). The problem is that they don’t know how to take it to the next level, and with all do respect, it’s their fault.

Arrogance & ignorance, and the failure to understand that when you’re not making any money you don’t say “I’m not going to do this project because it doesn’t meet my hourly pay” when you’re not making shit to begin with.

Here’s an example:

An artist is being offered $7,500 to paint a 4×7 painting for a lawyers office. However “your specialization” is only bigger paintings. Here’s where you’re wrong, you’re being hired for your talent and you will do per the request. Just like if I called a welder tomorrow and requested to take the same chair, but make it a bit taller – he’d customize it. Take that example and look at it in this way, if you’re a web developer and someone approached you with $10,000 to make a framework for a website, but your previous works were $25,000 I’m sure you could find a way to make a low-budget website because that’s your specialty. But you don’t ever ever decline an offer. You take every money you can from everyone you know and that’s how you become rich and I’ve seen so many developers giving up these opportunities because they “had no time to deal with it” yet they’re just going to stay at home and wait for another deal to come through when it never does. All it takes is to define the walls and explain to them what you’ll be doing and what they can expect. The idea is that you need to become a business man and learn to negotiate and maximize revenues.

Everything I do is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

You can’t be picky.

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global $wpdb;
$find_this = “/home/”;
$replace_with_this = “/”;
$database = $wpdb->get_results(“SHOW TABLES”);
foreach($database as $database_tables):
foreach($database_tables as $database_table):
$table = $wpdb->get_results(“SHOW COLUMNS FROM $database_table”);
foreach($table as $column):
$column->Field;
$wpdb->query(“UPDATE $database_table SET $column->Field = REPLACE($column->Field,’$find_this’,'$replace_with_this’)”);
echo “UPDATE $database_table SET $column->Field = REPLACE($column->Field,’$find_this’,'$replace_with_this’)”;
endforeach;
endforeach;
endforeach;

A big thank you to Alexander Conroy (@Geilt) for writing this script out.

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America demands invention and innovation to succeed, therefore we must act as a whole to continue the reshaping of today’s industry whether it’s offline online. Innovation is the key for success. Never stop innovating. Always develop, re-invent the wheel and reverse engineer.

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Whether it is you are running a social network, an e-commerce or a simple WordPress site like Bloginity you are in the market to generating more pageviews. I have figured out a simple arrays that lead a user to browse 6+ pages per session and I spoke about it in my previous article on how to increase pageviews. Among displaying ‘rand’ images, eliminating titles to get the users curiosity to increase CTR there are other tools to help that.

First and foremost your presentation is everything. Keep it clean, don’t have a website that’s overly cluttered like Huffington Post or a design that’s disgusting as Perez Hilton’s site.

Here comes a product of which I wanted to blog about for a really long time. It’s called Nrelate, those who work close with me know how much I respect their work and how much I recommend their plugin for any WordPress lover, so much that I almost wanted to keep Nrelate just for myself and that never happens as I believe in sharing everything I know with all of you.

If you’re a WordPress user you know that there is a fair amount of related-content plugins, such as YARRP, however, what I found about YARRP is that it seriously damages your MySQL, creating huge amount of tables slowing down the entire server completely. Since that’s not an option to consider, we are moving towards other plugins, here comes an attractive package.

Head over to Nrelate.com and give it a try. You won’t regret it. Follow @Nrelate

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Here is the perfect explanation of social media:

The guys at Bully Breed Rescue posted this on Facebook 21 hours ago. 730+ shares with donations to the animal hospital.

And here’s an update, 8 hours ago.

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If you’re a person who recently got a Social Media job and have no idea what you’re supposed to be doing, you’re at the right place. You’re probably making $30K – $55K/yr in salary but the best part is that you’re being paid to learn your job. You are not a specialist, and you are not a “Social Media Specialist” (yet).

Social Media is just a term for the current on the net. Just like Web 2.0 is. Just a name.

You must ask yourself the question – what is the power of my influence? Am I influential? How do I measure that? Well, you can, in a way.

Tweet a question – is anyone listening to you? Perhaps some will read it, and others timeline will just crowd up with your tweet there, and measure how many response. Those are your best users. List them.

You must use Twitter lists. It’s so important, make a list for all the users that respond to you and start communicating with them on daily basis. Make an effort and read their tweets, socialize with them. You are the brand’s voice now.

I don’t believe in “listening to your clients” I believe in socializing with your clients. VIP style. They are special, they are your new friends, they are within your “power circle.”

Considering Facebook’s messed up timeline algorithm, I don’t even want to get into “why your’re not heard on Facebook”, there are so many symptoms to each page. Starting at, how many interests does a user have to how many of them narrow down after the bajillion filters that Facebook does to make that impression on their time line. Bottom line, too much mathematics and calculations so unless you’re at 25k+ users just test. Post stuff and see what gets an attention (formatting especially).

If you’re having issues with a site not displaying thumbnails/description/title on Facebook share – you can easily debug it here https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug.

Here are some you should be using:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Foursquare
• Flickr
• StumbleUpon
• Google+
• LinkedIn
• Tumblr
• WordPress
• Blogger

There are plenty more networks that are niched for your industry (maybe less and maybe more) for example. Instagram is a fantastic community for our friends over at BenTrovatoBlog.com.

You might want to review OnlyWire.com if you’re using several networks at a time and would like to automatically post to plenty at once.

There are so many tips I can share. Feel free to follow me on Twitter @danielhaim and ask away.

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‎2012 is here. Like Kendrick says, “I was a black sheep, but now I’m just a goat”. This year, I won’t be following anyone, or trying to be coolcat like others I admired, this year I’ll be a goat. the greatest of all times. Wishing all of you the same, and lots of luck, health, and self-growth. Happy new year and welcome to the future.

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