Monthly Archives: November 2007
Branding and Advertising: Using your Blog to Build your Brand
Blogging Small business people rarely give much thought to building their business’s brand. Large companies have marketing departments to take care of this. So that’s “branding” and why should you care? Essentially branding is building awareness of your business: creating an identity that’s instantly recognized. Businesses undertake branding strategies for their long term effects: becoming known for what they do. Contrast ...
Continue readingHow to connect to the inactive readers at your blog?
Blogging Have you seen the difference in the actual traffic of your site and the number of participants/active users? I bet it’s huge. I recall Darren stating once that only less than 10-30% of his visitors comment on his blog. So there’s a huge potential with the inactive visitors to your blog. How do you trap (if that’s the wrong word, attract) them? First let’s see why there’s a huge gap between active and inactive ...
Continue readingUse your blog as a platform for bigger things
Blogging Yesterday CashQuests.com sold for $15,000 on SitePoint. I knew that the site would sell however even I was surprised with the speed at which the site was sold. It sold for the ‘buy it now’ within a few hours. Mani Karthik spoke about this subject today and so did Mark Wielgus. Mark pointed out that 5xMom.com is on sale for $10,000 (see here). I really think that this site will struggle to sell at this price. Mark hit the nail in the ...
Continue readingFinding the Right Social Bookmarking Sites
Promote your blog, Search Engine Optimisation On many sites, you will now see a huge cube of buttons for social bookmarking sites. While it’s always nice to give your reader options, I think this is pretty useless for most blogs. In fact, I think it just becomes too much information and background noise to your readers. What makes more sense is to find a select group of social bookmarking sites that make sense for your topic. One way to do that, if you’ve been using social ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – November 20th 2007
Links Get your family excited about blogging with a Google Party! – How deliciious does that cake look!!! Daily Bits – Daniel Scocco adds a new technology based blog to his fast growing network. The Economics Behind Selling Blog Advertising – A good guide on how advertising works. How many people does it take to develop a great blog? – A good post from Better Business Blogging. CashQuests Sold For $15k – The first post at ...
Continue readingPreview : Buxr Shopping Comparison widget
Making Money Michael Glozman, of Cheap Hosting Bargains fame contacted me this morning to give me a sneak preview of his new shopping comparison site Buxr. Buxr is the latest shopping comparison site which is targeting bloggers to promote their website. If you signed up with WidgetBucks last month then you should be familiar with how this type of affiliate widget works. Basically, you place a javascript banner on your blog to display the latest products on ...
Continue readingContent is King: How to Beat Google With Great Blog Writing
Search Engine Optimisation HAVING LARGE RSS FEEDS ON YOUR BLOG SITE CAN LEAD TO GOOGLE BLACKLISTING While RSS feeds are all the rage on many blog sites these days, if you are thinking of including another site’s articles and daily blog text in your content for your website, stop thinking that way right now. This is called “scraping” and it is illegal in every sense of the word. Stealing full content from somebody else’s site is not only plagiarism, ...
Continue readingWordPress plugins and themes for the week – Web 2.0 style
WordPress Themes THEMES – Web 2.0 Grey Blog We 2.0 ThemeThis is a simple, standards based web 2.0 styled theme that has rounded corners, thick borders and lot of gradients. It’s two column, widget ready and has a clean, sleek look. Blue Stripes Web 2.0 ThemeThis one is AJAX powered, has a lot of gradients, is widget ready, is SEO friendly,has pre-installed plugins, has rounded corners and has web 2.0 style icons. A complete web 2.0 theme. ...
Continue readingCashQuests is up for sale
Around The Blogosphere It seems like there’s no stopping the latest trend of bloggers putting their blogs up for sale. Perhaps this is due to blogging fatigue or perhaps it’s a combination of Google updating their PageRank and bloggers being encouraged by the high price which 6 month old blogs are selling for. One mans goal sold for $8,500, Shylock Blogging went for $4,000, Blogging Fingers went for $6,000 and Blog Oh Blog was sold for a whopping $10,000! ...
Continue readingGetting That Blogging Gig
Blogging Getting hired as a blogger is tougher than before because more and more people are also applying for the said position. First impressions usually last thus a very effective cover letter is essential when applying for the said position. Here are some important information that you must include in your cover letter: a. Blogging Experience – This is important regardless if you already have an established blog or even just your personal blog. ...
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