joi, 4 iulie 2013

An Evergreen Content Case Study

An Evergreen Content Case Study


An Evergreen Content Case Study

Posted: 03 Jul 2013 03:06 PM PDT

Posted by ChristopherFielden

Creating timeless content is something all SEOs should aspire to do. Why? When placed in front of the right audience, amazing content is highly likely to generate ongoing interest, engagement, links, and traffic, leading to increased sales/conversions and brand awareness. These results tend to make all but the most difficult client quite happy.

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In 2012, I decided to undertake an evergreen content experiment. I created a piece of content that I planned to update regularly over an extended period of time. I was in this for the long haul â€" I wanted to keep working on this content for at least a year. The aim was to see if putting ongoing effort into one page on a website would prove more efficient than spending time planning and creating multiple pieces of fresh content.

Common content performance patterns

Many creative content campaigns produce spikes of interest when they're released and then dwindle in popularity. If you're nodding your head in agreement, this might look familiar:

Creative campaign referral traffic spike, taken from Google Analytics

When shared, you see a brief spike in traffic, and then visits decline. This example is taken from the release of a well-received infographic that saw a lot of visits when it was shared on Reddit.

A spike isn't always a bad thing. At the last count, this example generated over 35 decent quality links (ranging from DA 30 to DA 82) and thousands of social shares. This is a good result, but I wanted to try and create something that saw continued growth in traffic, engagement, and links over time rather than a spike.

Evergreen experiment

So I could share the results openly without contravening any client confidentiality agreements, I decided to conduct the test on my personal website. I write fiction, and I originally created my website to showcase my short stories. I launched the site in October 2011.

Image by Rose Craft

I'm not famous. No one knows who I am. No one found my writing, because no one was searching for it. Aside from friends and family, few people read my stories. Boo hoo.

In an attempt to gain an audience, I decided to try and make my website useful to the short story-writing community (people who write short stories also like to read them). I'd spent a LOT of time researching short story competitions to enter. I'd found a few decent resources, like Booktrust, that listed some writing competitions, but none of the lists or calendars were exhaustive or kept very up to date, and many of them didn't list the full range of details I was interested in (closing dates, prize money, word count limits, genres, publishing opportunities etc).

So I decided to create an extensive short story competition list on my website.

Research

I was fairly certain, given the amount of competition lists in print magazines and the amount of writing websites I'd found, that there would be an audience for this type of content. To be certain, I did some keyword research.

There was an audience. Further research showed there was a large amount of long-tail keyword opportunities.

So I created the page, initially listing details of approximately 50 writing contents. The list went live during April 2012.

Page content

The page format is fairly simple. I started out with two tables, one listing regular writing competitions (monthly, quarterly, triannual and biannual) and another listing annual contests. Over time, I've added more tables so the resource is as easy to use as possible.

At the top of the page I openly invite users to contact me to have writing competitions listed. I also invite users to let me know if any of my details are incorrect, out of date, or if they find any broken links.

Use of outbound links

Again, to make the resource easy for writers to use, I've linked to all the competitions I've listed. I've read all sorts of discussions regarding outbound links and whether it's best for them to be follow or no-follow, as well as discussions about how many links you should have on a page alongside concerns about the quality of the sites you link to and whether that has any impact on SEO.

As there doesn't seem to be a definitive right or wrong way to do this, I decided to ignore all these concerns and just link to the most useful page on the different competition websites for the user. The only exception is when I link to a competition website that updates its URLs each time it updates the competition details. In this instance I link to the homepage to avoid excessive administration and maintenance of the page.

All links are followed.

Page maintenance

Image by Abhisek Sarda

From the day the page went live, I decided that I was going to display the date the content was last updated prominently at the top of the page. I wanted users and search engines to be able to see that the page was cared for and updated regularly.

I've read many arguments against using dates. This is usually because time constraints mean webmasters can't update content regularly and the date often has the opposite effect, showing how out of date the content has become. But as I knew I'd be updating the page regularly, this wasn't a concern.

I update the page at least twice a month, sometimes as frequently as twice a week, depending on how much time I have available.

On average, one competition contacts me a week, asking to be added to the list.

I respond to the vast majority of comments, either privately via email or as a comment, depending on what seems most appropriate given the subject matter.

Technical notes

My website is pretty basic. From a technical standpoint, I have ensured that the menu structures and URLs made sense and that my authorship has been setup correctly. Aside from that, all I've done is generate content. I've purposely kept the amount of pages on the site low, only adding new pages when I have to. At the time of writing, the site has 36 pages.

No linkbuilding

While undertaking this experiment I haven't done any active link building at all. Any links the website has gained have been natural. Likewise, I haven't undertaken any outreach. I have only engaged with writers and competition administrators that have approached me directly.

I did this to see how well the page could perform naturally, with internet users initially finding the content via organic search. Over time, this has led to natural interaction through comments, social sharing and links (and the unavoidable plethora of spam comments in my inbox). But I haven't actively pushed the content. The results have come from natural content discovery and users outreaching to me.

Results

Traffic

This first graph shows the growth in traffic to the entire site from all mediums since launch in October 2011:

Traffic from all mediums to entire site from October 2011 to May 2013

Below is a breakdown of the figures from the different mediums:

The second graph shows the visits from all mediums to the short story competition page from its launch in 2012:

Traffic from all mediums to short story competition page from April 2012 to May 2013

Since its launch, the short story competition list has accounted for 67% of all the visits landing on my website (total entries to all pages are 77,374 â€" page entries to the competition page are 51,861). Full details of growth in visits to the page from all mediums can be seen below:

Visits have increased substantially since the competition list was launched. The dip we can see in April and May seems to be due to seasonality. The page still ranks well for a wide variety of long-tail phrases, and the New Year and autumn are seasonal peaks in writing-relating searches â€" admittedly, this is a generalisation, but as the site only launched in 2011 I don't have a great deal of data to work with.

If patterns follow those of last year, I'd expect to see a rise in traffic in September.

Amount of search terms

10,728 search phrases have been used to find the page through organic search.

Most popular search terms used to find the short story competition page

Given that ‘(not provided)' accounts for 30% of these searches, it's safe to assume that the figure is actually substantially higher, so there is a lot of long-tail search involved here.

The large word count of the page copy contributes to this. At the time of writing this post, there were 11,632 words of copy on the page, of which user comments account for 3,463. At the time of writing this post, there are 66 comments on the page, some of them replies from me.

Social shares

The total amount of social shares to date is 127:

Details generated using Shared Count

I find that writers will often share the page on Facebook and Twitter, as will administrators of the competitions I list, if they run social profiles. Since the beginning of 2013, I have seen the share counts rising more rapidly, which I would expect given the large increases in traffic the page has seen when compared to last year.

Links

You can see details of the links that have been attracted below:

Data taken from Majestic SEO

Results from Moz's Open Site Explorer

The volume of links isn't huge. But this project is aimed at slow growth, and I haven't actively asked anyone for a link. I want links to be entirely natural, only coming from those who think the content is worth linking to of their own volition. The only exception I can think of is me writing about the experiment.

As the resource becomes more widely recognised, I would expect the amount of links to increase accordingly. Recently, I have received my first university (.ac.uk) link, and started to receive correspondence from university lecturers who are involved with creative writing courses, asking about writing opportunities for their students (which led to me adding the ‘Writing Competitions for Young Writers & Children' table to the page). This bodes really well for the future, as relevant university website links are likely to help the site's performance greatly. And this kind of natural link building should make my backlink profile Penguin-proof long into the future.

I guess the key point here is that it's taken almost a year of developing this content to start gaining links of this quality. Now that a handful of lecturers have found the site and started using it, it'll be very interesting to see how the link results fare over the next twelve months.

Hmm, I feel another blog post coming on in the not so distant future…

There are a couple of other points to bear in mind:

  1. I've done this work in my spare time, around work and other commitments. If you had the time to focus fully on projects of this nature you could probably generate these types of results far more quickly.
  2. The links generated have been entirely natural as I haven't actively asked anyone for a link.
Point 2 proves that detailed, focused content can work in its own right. You don't have to outreach and link build to see some level of success.

Does this type of content help conversions?

Due to the growth in traffic to my website, I have increased my audience and engagement with my site. I'm beginning to be recognised as a thought leader (and a brand, I guess) in my niche area. Users have started to approach me with all manner of queries. I also receive frequent requests to proofread other writers' work. If I had more time, this is a paid service I could consider offering in the future. So producing the content has revealed business areas I could expand into.

Ultimately, all the extra traffic has led to a rise in the number of people buying the book I sell through Amazon and Lulu. I now sell a few a week, compared to one every couple of months.

So, in answer to the title above, ‘Yes.' I am getting what I wanted â€" a wider audience for my writing.

Amount of referrals other sites receive

Below you can see the amount of referral visits my page generates to other websites:

Referral traffic received from my competition page between January 2013 and May 2013

One of the writing competitions I list was kind enough to share this data with me. They were first listed on my site in January 2013.

A breakdown of figures can be seen below:

The highly relevant traffic I can offer writing websites makes being listed appealing to most competitions. From speaking with the administrators of the competition in the example above, I know that the traffic also converts well into competition entries, so they are very happy with the results related to me listing them.

This means that when I receive enquiries I can be confident in the value my list offers.

Summary

So far, this experiment has proved that investing time in creating content that is updated regularly can bring excellent results. In 2013, the page attracts between 6,000 and 9,000 visits a month, 22% of which return to the page time and again.

All you need to emulate this is some vision and common sense:

  • Find something your target audience wants
  • Give it to them
  • Keep the content fresh with regular updates and improvements
  • Listen to user suggestions and make changes accordingly
  • Listen to user suggestions about other resources they might find useful, and create them

That's a content strategy that is likely to keep me busy for the next few months and generate excellent results.

Keep it simple

One of the more common mistakes I've seen SEOs make is developing content no one is interested in. You might end up creating something sexy based on an amazing concept, but will it actually gain you the result you or your client wants to see? Sometimes the more mundane ideas, like generating a useful list, can work far more effectively. It might not be sexy, it might not look awesome, but it is useful and can appeal to a community.

Keep it simple.

I believe you can learn more from those three words than you'd like to believe. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts in the comments.


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How to Watch Tonight's Fireworks at the White House

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Find out how you can watch the celebration, then enjoy some of our favorite Fourth of July moments from the last few years.

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Seth's Blog : Magic beans (three steps to a successful marketing promise)

 

Magic beans (three steps to a successful marketing promise)

You know the story: Jack traded the family cow for some worthless beans that turned out to be magical.

How did that deal go down?

1. The individual has to be open to hearing the offer at all. Jack was bored, disillusioned and aimlessly walking to market. Sure, it was a shady guy on the street, but Jack's standards were low. If you want to do business with people with more resources than Jack, it helps to have the trust that comes from previous engagements, and the permission to deliver your message.

Most of all, Jack was in the mood to buy. Creating a mood is far more difficult than finding one.

2. The person hearing your story has to want to believe it. This is more subtle than it sounds. Uber, for example, offers a newfangled way to call for transport in big cities. Many people haven't heard of it or used it, largely because they don't think they need it, aren't open to something new, or are unwilling to go through all the steps necessary to get the app, etc. So, even if it works as promised, there's no urgent need felt by some, so they don't care. 

In Jack's case, the prospect of escaping his dreary life (and getting rid of the pesky cow) were both welcome offers. He hoped they'd be true.

3.  It has to be true. You must be able to keep the promise. If not, you're ripping people off and shortcircuiting any chance you have to build something of value. If the beans hadn't grown, end of story. Future sales will come when Jack tells his friends...

Marketing failure occurs because at least one of these three elements isn't present.

 
     

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miercuri, 3 iulie 2013

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis


Nigel Farage Blasts European Parliament for Hopeless Positions on Youth Job Programs and Global Warming Programs

Posted: 03 Jul 2013 07:29 PM PDT

The always entertaining Nigel Farage says there is a "Gathering Electoral Storm" in his blast of European Parliament for Hopeless Positions on Youth Job Programs and Global Warming Programs.



Link if video does not play: Nigel Farage: There is a Gathering Electoral Storm...

Once again, Farage hits the nail squarely on the head.

Mike "Mish" Shedlock
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com  

Non-Manufacturing Services ISM Fails to Meet Expectations; New Orders Plunge

Posted: 03 Jul 2013 10:35 AM PDT

The June 2013 Non-Manufacturing ISM Report On Business® shows a slowing in NMI™ to 52.2%, well below the Bloomberg NMI consensus figure of 54.5%.

ISM at a Glance

Non-ManufacturingManufacturing
IndexJuneMayPercentage Point ChangeDirectionRate of ChangeTrend in MonthsJuneMayPercentage Point Change
NMI™/PMI™52.253.7-1.5GrowingSlower4250.9491.9
Business Activity/Production51.756.5-4.8GrowingSlower4753.448.64.8
New Orders50.856-5.2GrowingSlower4751.948.83.1
Employment54.750.14.6GrowingFaster1148.750.1-1.4
Supplier Deliveries51.552-0.5SlowingSlower65048.71.3
Inventories54.551.53GrowingFaster550.5491.5
Prices52.551.11.4IncreasingFaster4552.549.53
Backlog of Orders5251.50.5GrowingFaster546.548-1.5
New Export Orders47.550-2.5ContractingFrom Unchanged154.5513.5
Imports53.549.54GrowingFrom Contracting15654.51.5
Inventory Sentiment61.562.5-1Too HighSlower193N/AN/AN/A
Customers' InventoriesN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A4546-1


ISM Discussion

New orders plunged 5.2 percentage points to 50.8%, barely above contraction. The Business Activity Index registered 51.7 percent, 4.8 percentage points lower than the 56.5 percent reported in May. Yet, the employment index surged to 54.7% from 50.1%.

I expect this divergence to resolve to the downside.

Mike "Mish" Shedlock
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com  

Time Expires; Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi Under House Arrest - Al Hayat TV; Obama Warns Egyptian Military

Posted: 03 Jul 2013 09:28 AM PDT

Time is apparently up for Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi as Al Hayat TV Reports Morsi Under House Arrest.
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is reportedly under house arrest after the military ultimatum expired Wednesday, reports Al Hayat TV.

Morsi's spokesman denied the report, although word of the house arrest provoked cheers in Tahrir Square.

This comes as Egypt's military moved to tighten its control on key institutions before their afternoon ultimatum expired.

The military stationed officers in the newsroom of state television on the banks of the Nile River in central Cairo. Troops were deployed in news-production areas.

Under a plan leaked to state media, the military would install a new interim leadership, the Islamist-backed constitution suspended and the Islamist-dominated parliament dissolved.

Demonstrations turned violent overnight. Clashes between supporters and opponents of Egypt's president have left at least 39 people dead since the protests began Sunday.

Meanwhile, President Barack Obama is urging Morsi to address the people's grievances and the White House is also warning Egypt's military that a coup could jeopardize relations with the United States.

The tension in Egypt is having an impact on global markets - especially the oil markets. Oil is now trading above $100 a barrel for the first time in close to a year. Egypt's Suez Canal is a major transit route for crude shipments from the Persian Gulf.
Is Obama confused? Does he like the Muslim Brotherhood? Or is Obama simply playing both sides of the setup?

Mike "Mish" Shedlock
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com 

Portuguese Bond Yield Spikes to 8% as Portugal’s Coalition Splinters on Austerity Fatigue

Posted: 03 Jul 2013 04:04 AM PDT

Action has heated up in Portugal where the Ruling Coalition Splinters on Austerity Fatigue.
Portuguese borrowing costs topped 8 percent for the first time this year after two ministers quit, signaling the government will struggle to implement further budget cuts as its bailout program enters its final 12 months.

Government Tensions

Social Security Minister Pedro Mota Soares and Agriculture Minister Assuncao Cristas will hand in their resignations to Coelho today, broadcaster TVI reported on its website last night, without saying how it obtained the information. Both ministers are from Portas's CDS party.

The EU may consider extending the deadline for Portugal to meet its deficit targets if economic conditions worsen, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, head of the group of euro-area finance ministers, said on May 27. Dijsselbloem said the government hasn't yet requested another change of timetables and targets.

On March 15, the government announced less ambitious targets for narrowing the budget deficit as it forecast the economy will shrink twice as much as previously estimated this year. It targets a deficit of 5.5 percent of gross domestic product in 2013, 4 percent in 2014 and below the EU's 3 percent limit in 2015, when it aims for a 2.5 percent gap. Portugal forecasts debt will peak at 123.7 percent of GDP in 2014.

Gaspar's resignation shows the risk of reforms faltering, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Chief Economist Pier Carlo Padoan said yesterday at the Lisbon Council in Brussels. "Fatigue may suddenly erupt and the temptation to go backward may be very, very strong," he said.
Portugal's Prime Minister Won't Step Down

The Financial Times reports Portugal's Passos Coelho pledges to stay as prime minister
Portugal's beleaguered prime minister has pledged to stay in office and seek to establish a stable government despite the resignation of two key ministers and the threatened break-up of his ruling coalition.

Pedro Passos Coelho said on Tuesday night he would stay at his post and work towards a "rapid return to stability" to avert a political and economic crisis that would endanger the country's €78bn bailout.

"I will not resign or abandon my country," Mr Passos Coelho said.

However, opposition parties called for an early general election two years ahead of schedule, saying there was no possible solution for the governing coalition.

"The country needs a new government with democratic legitimacy," said António José Seguro, leader of the centre-left Socialists, the main opposition party.

The prime minister was speaking hours after his government was rocked by the resignation of Paulo Portas, foreign minister, less than 24 hours after Vítor Gaspar had quit his post as finance minister.

Mr Passos Coelho said he had refused to accept the resignation of Mr Portas, leader of the conservative Popular party (CDS-PP), the junior partner in the two-party government coalition.
The government of Portugal is now burnt toast. There is no way it can survive. But will any other government do what is needed (default and tell the EU where to go)?

Eventually some country will, as soon as the pain is severe enough.

Mike "Mish" Shedlock
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com

Military Coup Pending in Egypt; President Morsi Says His Blood is Cheap Price to Pay; Oil Spikes; Did We Learn Anything?

Posted: 03 Jul 2013 12:32 AM PDT

On Monday, the Egyptian army gave Islamist President Mohamed Morsi 48 hours to meet the demands of the citizens else the military threatened it would "announce a future roadmap and measures to oversee its implementation".

From an oil perspective, this flareup should have little bearing as Egypt is not an oil exporter. However, as we have seen in the past, any flareup of any kind in the Mideast tends to drive the price of oil higher.

This time is no different. In the past week Crude has risen from $93 to $102 and is up from $86 since mid-April. To be fair, correlation is not causation, and part of the rebound came before news of trouble in Egypt.

Brotherhood Defiant

With that backdrop, please consider the Financial Times report Egypt: Brotherhood defiant as deadline approaches
They have been jailed and tortured, hunted in the streets and blacklisted from public life. But a year after winning the presidency and reaching the pinnacle of their 80-year quest for power, Egypt's Islamists are again facing a threat to their existence.

President Mohamed Morsi was fighting back yesterday against what his supporters have dubbed a military coup against his democratically elected government.

In a defiant late-night speech, Mr Morsi made clear he would make no concessions to his opponents and said he was prepared to shed his blood to defend "legitimacy" in Egypt. He warned repeatedly that any moves against him could lead to bloodshed – an assertion that his opponents interpreted as a threat of civil war.

But this time, the president's Muslim Brotherhood and his millions of supporters made clear, they are not about to give up.

"If the military takes any street action, we will stand in front of the tanks," vowed Gehad Haddad, an official in Mr Morsi's Freedom and Justice party.

Following huge street protests on Sunday against what critics see as the president's ever more autocratic and erratic rule, Egypt's military leapt back into politics on Monday and demanded that the president and the opposition negotiate a compromise by today or submit to the army's own political "road map".

Under a draft of that road map, leaked to the to official MENA news agency yesterday, the constitution would be suspended and the Islamist-dominated legislature dissolved, if a power-sharing agreement were not reached.

One Picture Says It All



For the third consecutive day, anti-Morsi protesters packed Tahrir Square in central Cairo.

Image courtesy of Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters as posted on the New York Times.

Morsi Defies Egypt Army's Ultimatum to Bend to Protest

Also courtesy of the New York Times, please consider Morsi Defies Egypt Army's Ultimatum to Bend to Protest
President Mohamed Morsi rejected an ultimatum in an angry speech Tuesday night as Egypt edged closer to a return to military rule.

Mr. Morsi insisted he was the legitimate leader of the country, hinted that any effort to remove him by force could plunge the nation into chaos, and seemed to disregard the record numbers of Egyptians who took to the streets demanding he resign.

But before the president's speech, Egypt's generals took control of the state's flagship newspaper, Al Ahram, and used it to describe on Wednesday's front page their plans to enforce a military ultimatum issued a day earlier: remove Mr. Morsi from office if he failed to satisfy protesters' demands.

As both sides maneuvered, tensions rose on the streets of Cairo and other cities, where violence erupted between groups of protesters and Mr. Morsi's defenders, primarily members of the Muslim Brotherhood. At least 11 people were killed — four shortly after Mr. Morsi's speech — and dozens more were wounded as gunfire broke out in at least two neighborhoods of the capital. Angry Islamists gathered in the street with a sheet stained with the blood of one of their allies.

Mr. Morsi refused to back down. In an impassioned, if at times rambling, midnight address broadcast on state television, he hinted that his removal would lead only to more violence.

"If the price of protecting legitimacy is my blood, I'm willing to pay it," he said. "And it would be a cheap price for the sake of protecting this country."

At a demonstration in support of Mr. Morsi near Cairo University, assailants firing birdshot wounded at least 40 Islamists. A further 35 pro-Morsi demonstrators were wounded with rocks, police officials said. Groups of Islamists began seeking the attackers, beating suspects and dragging a person along the street.

In Alexandria, 33 people were wounded by pellets in clashes between Mr. Morsi's opponents and supporters, with gunfire from both sides, police officials said.

Mr. Morsi's government appeared to crumble around him. Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr resigned. Six ministers have now announced their resignations since the mass anti-Morsi protests began Sunday.
Did We Learn Anything?

  • Please note that the US gives billions of dollars every year to Egypt.
  • Recall that president Obama supported the movement that put Morsi in power.
  • Recall that a US installed puppet president in Iran led to the Islamic revolution.
  • Recall that US troops on sacred Mideast soil was a primary reason behind Osama Bin Laden's 911 attack on the US.

So what do we do now?

I expect more meddling with similar results. And when the negative results come home to roost, expect more government surveillance, more wiretappings, more phone eavesdropping, more loss of freedoms, and more trashing of the constitution as we become more like them, all in the name of freedom.

Mike "Mish" Shedlock
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com

Damn Cool Pics

Damn Cool Pics


‘90s Pop Stars Then and Now

Posted: 03 Jul 2013 06:49 PM PDT

Keith Flint of the Prodigy



Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails



Fiona Apple



Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray



Adam Duritz of Counting Crows



Celine Dion



Snoop Dogg (now Snoop Lion)



Christina Aguilera



Richard Ashcroft of the Verve



Jewel



Shania Twain



Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots



Garth Brooks



Gwen Stefani of No Doubt



Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind



Beck



Courtney Love of Hole



Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction


Marilyn Manson



Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam



Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins



Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum



Spice Girls



Thom Yorke of Radiohead



Natalie Merchant



Bjork



Chris Cornell of Soundgarden



Hanson



Lenny Kravitz



Gavin Rossdale of Bush



Matthew Sweet



Jakob Dylan of the Wallflowers



Foo Fighters



Seal



Alanis Morrisette



Shirley Manson of Garbage



Darius Rucker and Hootie and the Blowfish



Liam Gallagher of Oasis



Jay-Z



Jon Spencer of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion



Mariah Carey




Borrowing for a Future: American Student Debt [Infographic]

Posted: 03 Jul 2013 06:11 PM PDT

As the old saying goes "It takes money to make money," and that's becoming more and more true of a college education in the United States.

Click on Image to Enlarge.
Borrowing for a Future: American Student Debt
Courtesy of: OnlineColleges