Monthly Archives: January 2008
How social networking sites can work for you
Promote your blog Last week I wrote about using free publicity to attract traffic. This week I’d like to examine another self-promotion venue: social networking sites. Most people have a MySpace page, a Facebook page, or both. Even if you hate these sites, you’re probably on there somewhere simply because these and similar social networking sites are a good way to, well, socially network. They help you keep track of your friends, find people you used to know, ...
Continue readingTips for increasing RSS Subscribers on your Blog
Blogging One of the metrics you will use to measure how well your blog is doing is the number of readers subscribed. But how do you get people to subscribe to your feed? Mark over at 45n5.com started a conversation about Your best Tip to Increase RSS Subscribers so I thought I would continue the conversation. So lets get on with the list of best tips to increase RSS Subscribers. Write really good posts – I know someone would post this in the ...
Continue readingSentence Structure: Are you Following Stale Advice?
Writing Strunk and White, in the Elements of Style, recommend that the words you would most like to emphasize ought to be left until the end of the sentence. A sort of “save the best for last” method. As bloggers, should we be following standards like these? Or are blogs, as a medium, the opportunity to create all new style elements? If you have read my other posts here, you most likely already know that I firmly believe in knowing the ...
Continue readingA Day in the Life of an SEO Writer
Writing I’ve been a freelance writer since 1993. Last year, I started to do SEO writing, and my days have changed tremendously. Following is an account of a day in my life of an SEO content writer. SEO Writing: The Daily Rundown 7:00 am -9:00 am: I set my alarm to get up at this time now because I’m not a morning person. “Before SEO,” as I’ve come to think of it, I would climb out of bed sometime between 7:30 and 9:30 am. I never used to get ...
Continue readingFour Ways to Creatively Promote your Blog by Writing Articles: get Links, get Known
Promote your blog “Article marketing” is a way of promoting your blog by writing articles for popular article directories. Writing a series of articles for others gives you links to your blog. It also helps you to become known in your niche, so that your blog gains credibility. While article marketing is not as effective as it once was, it’s still a viable marketing tool. And if you think creatively, you can use article marketing to powerful ...
Continue readingWhat is your state of mind while blogging?
Blogging An idle mind is a devil’s workshop. So you better blog! I’ve wondered, what is is that makes John Chows and the John Cows look smart and cool than anyone else ? Why do they have huge fan following?Both the guys are fun frolic and jolly ! Be it in their bad times or good, they “look” smart and cool. I don’t know about you but I’m impressed. I’d like to have a conversation with at a smiling beggar than a ...
Continue readingWhy Blogs Die
Blogging Technorati’s State of the blogosphere report last year stated they were tracking 70 million weblogs and were seeing 120,000 new blogs being created every day. Whichever way you look at it, that’s an awful lot of blogs. An interesting snippet was also a new word in my vocabulary, a splog. A splog is a spam blog and Technorati claim to have purged 341,000 splogs from their system. If you are interested in the full report it is here. So with ...
Continue readingWordPress themes and plugins for the week . Jan 15-22
WordPress WORDPRESS PLUGINS Stat 24 – This nifty plugin will show you stats like where the visitor actually came from, the referrer, page views, geo reports etc. Out of date – This plugin will throw up a notification message on top of all articles which are older than the suggested time period. Social bookmarking – This is the big daddy of all social bookmarking plugins. It supports 130 social bookmarking sites. Other than that ...
Continue readingHow New Bloggers Can Get Incoming Links
Search Engine Optimisation For a new blogger, boosting search-engine ranking and getting valuable incoming links can be a nasty catch-22. It’s a bit like applying for your first credit card. You can’t get one until you have a credit history, but you can’t get a credit history until you have a card. You can face similar issues getting incoming links as a new blogger. Until you have a decent PageRank, no one wants to link to you. But you won’t get a ...
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Are You Doing Any of these Self-Defeating Actions in your Blogging?
Blogging Sometimes we do things because we want to achieve a particular objective, only we come to find out later that what we were doing had the opposite effect from what we wanted. We didn’t know until it was too late. And sometimes, we even know that what we’re doing isn’t good, but we justify it to ourselves by saying we’ll get what we want… Except that we don’t. We hurt ourselves, our visitors, our reputations, ...
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