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.
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 [...]
Rank Math vs/ Yoast SEO Plugin – Which is better?
Which is a better WordPress SEO plugin? Yoast or RankMath?
TubeBuddy – The Secret Tool of Top YouTubers
What makes top YouTubers successful? Of course, their personality, craft and hard work. But….is there something else that is common to most top YouTubers? Yes, there is. One such tool is TubeBuddy – the secret tool of top YouTubers! For those of you who know Search Engine Optimization, you’d agree that just producing [...]
Top 10 SEO Tools for Beginners in 2020
Here are the best SEO tools for beginners in 2020.