“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 effect.

Let’s look at four ways you can give article marketing a creative twist to make it more effective…

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 dull looking millionaire. All of us can’t be blogging superstars like John…

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 that many blogs being created, it’s a fair guess that some…

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• Out of date - This plugin will throw up a notification message on top of all articles which are older than the suggested time period.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 it’s pretty much similar to any other bookmarking plugin.
• Super Twitter - Great plugin that very well integrates twitter to your wordpress blog and even…

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 good PageRank until people link to you.

It can seem so unfair, but…