In today’s post I want to talk to you about submitting your videos to as many sources as possible to increase your blogs exposure.

When you create a video for your blog, there is no reason not to distribute the video through as many channels as possible. Rich media is all the rage these days and if your video goes viral you can go from a nobody to a somebody literally overnight. The concept is really simple. You create a video for your blog. You upload the video to YouTube,…

Last week, we ran a competition where 2 lucky winners could win a copy of Adii’s new Premium News Theme for Wordpress.

Adii got back to me with the names of the winners today. The winners are :

• Ian for this comment
  

  “It’s gorgeous and feature-rich, yet I cannot afford the theme. This is contributing to my already low self-esteem.”

  Reason : Hope the theme improves Ian’s “supposed” low self-esteem

• Thomas from ThomasSinfield.com for this comment :
  

  Because I want to offer it as a prize to my readers just like you are to build some more traffic

  Reason : Clever,…

Is Google Blog Search broken and full of spam?

Google is top dog when it comes to indexing speed but their index is chock full of spam.

The above quote is from Bruce Clay’s blog, in a post written by Lisa Barone.

I thought I’d give it a quick test for a term I coined, Gateway Blogging.

Google Blog Search results for gateway blogging. I just looooove being number one in the SERPS!

Ask blog search results for gateway blogging. Not number one as of now but I’m on the first page, at least.

Ice Rocket search results…

The number of RSS subscribers any particular blog maintains is an extremely important factor in getting your blog noticed and persuading others to take you and your blog seriously. Of course the quality of content you produce should be the #1 factor, but the sad fact is, that little widget that most of us display often provides a better (or worse) impression than anything else.

However, even a blog with thousands of RSS subscribers should constantly bear in mind the fact that an on-site viewer is far more valuable than an…

Blogging is a form of journalism. I have said that before, but I want to really focus on it in this article. To be sure, there are major differences between being a journalist and being a blogger - most notably the freedom that comes from being your own editor, publisher and critic. However, spending a couple of hours perusing a site designed to create better journalists can only help you become a better blogger. Because, really, becoming a better journalist is really about become a better storyteller and writer.

As bloggers,…