Been blogging since 2005 and I absolutely love it. Having worked for small and big startups in Silicon Valley, helping them market stuff online, from cars to software, I quit my corporate job and took to blogging as a profession. I share everything I learn about blogging and online marketing here on the blog. Everything from my successes to failures and everything in between, so you can learn too. I hope it is useful.
How To Do Keyword Research
In this article, I’ll show you how to do keyword research in 2021. Read on… But first, what is keyword research? Keyword research is the process of finding what people are searching for on Google and other search engines, related to a term/phrase/topic of interest. As you might already know, we all use search engines like [...]
How to Make Money by Publishing Articles on Your Blog
Ok, let me make it short and simple. You own a blog. You need money. You’re ok with publishing guest articles on your blog as long as it pays you. You open your blog to guest blogs. Sh*t hits the ceiling. You’re swarmed by thousands of low-quality blogs asking for guest blogging opportunities. Even worse. Your blog is now [...]
How to Make a Website in 10 Mins (Free)
Here’s my latest video. Transcript below. In just ten minutes, when this video is over, you will have an amazing good looking website of yours that you can share with your friends. 100% free! Let me show you how. Hey, if you’re here for the first time, just a quick introduction. My name is Mani Karthik and I’m a blogger from India. [...]
4 Best WordPress SEO Plugins in 2020
Video Transcript: Once you add an SEO plugin to your WordPress site everything will just fall into place and will be perfect right? First page ranks, ton of traffic, and lots of money!! No. In this video, I’m going to break some of the myths about this whole damn thing called SEO for for WordPress. And… tell you from my experience, some [...]
4 Best MailChimp Alternatives (2020)
If you’ve been using MailChimp and is looking for a better, cheaper alternative, you need to watch this video. Let’s go. MailChimp is an extremely popular email marketing tool. From back in early 2000s to today, it’s been the go-to tool when it comes to emails for bloggers, startups and even some big companies. The reason I personally [...]
Should You Start a Free or Paid Blog?
Video transcript. So you’re thinking of starting a new blog and people keep saying different things, some are saying you should start free, some are saying you should invest money and buy a domain, hosting etc…so what’s the truth? Let’s find out in this video. So, I’ve been a blogger for the last 10plus years and here’s my [...]
5 Best Free Digital Marketing Courses Online
Video Transcript Learn Blogging – https://manikarthik.com/blogging 1. Moz – https://academy.moz.com/ 2. SEMRush Training & Certification – https://manikarthik.com/learn 3. Yoast – https://yoast.com/academy/all-around-seo-training/ 4. Conversion XL – https://cxl.com/institute/career-change/ 5. Ahrefs [...]
SEMrush Content Marketplace Review – Worth it?
SEMrush, the popular SEO & content marketing software has launched a content marketplace for anyone trying to find a good quality article writing service. How good is it? Let us check. I’m a big fan of SEMrush. It’s a tool that I use daily for my SEO purposes. When they launched the content marketplace, I was excited! If [...]
5 YouTube Tools to Grow Your Channel
In this video I’m going to show you 5 amazing tools that will help you grow your YouTube channel – no bs, the real deal! Stay tuned. Have you ever thought about it? Everyone can make videos, but why do only a few make it big? Why does YouTube recommend only a few selected channels and not others? Why do videos that some channels [...]
5 Things to Learn from Recent Google Updates
So, even as we speak there’s a Google update going on. There was one last month around the first week of January. And there was one on Nov 7th. What’s going on, and what is Google trying to do here? As webmasters, what can you learn from these updates? Here is a podcast, where I discuss five such learnings from the recent [...]