Monthly Archives: February 2008
Promoting Your Blog with Entrecard
Promote your blog Entrecard is one of the newest blog promotion sites that’s causing quite a buzz around the blogosphere. In short, Entrecard requires no monetary commitment but a fairly significant time commitment in order to provide real benefits. Entrecard gives bloggers the opportunity to create a virtual business card that looks like a 125×125 ad. As an Entrecard member you’ll install a widget on your blog that provides a place for ...
Continue readingSpring Clean Your Blog
Blogging In another month it will be spring. While you’re making up your seasonal “to-do” list, consider adding more than the usual closet cleaning and gutter clearing to your list. Since you’re organizing the rest of your life, it’s a good time to spring clean your blog too. Here are a few things to look into: Links – Check your links. Most bloggers have several links in each post. In many cases, the link is the most important part of the ...
Continue readingHow to increase the number of people commenting on your blog
Blogging First off, take away all those misconceptions from your mind about commenting. - You can’t make every single visitor comment. - You can’t expect everyone who’s commenting to praise you or your blog. - You are not responsible for the comments. - You can’t expect legitimate comments. Feeling a bit like a boring topic isn’t it? Well, in fact it is. Commenting is something that’s looked upon by every blogger. We ...
Continue readingBrand Building
Design & Coding Last month I talked about how branding is more then just a logo, but the entire package. Well here are a few tips to help you develop that brand and expand it. Who are you, and what do you want people to believe about you. This is the foundation for any good branding strategy that should reflect in everything you do. What’s your message? Hip and high tech, or formal stocks and bonds. Where are you in the marketplace, and where do you want ...
Continue readingHow Are You Going To Earn Money This Weekend Using Your Blog?
Making Money I always hear from many bloggers that most of the posts made on weekends get less notice. Not many people read your blog on weekends. You are blogging either to make money or make friends or sometimes to do both. There are few instances where people blog to get their name out. If you want to earn money, you are probably thinking of new ways to earn money from your blog. With less people visiting your blog on weekends, you will not earn enough ...
Continue readingA week in blogging
Around The Blogosphere Darren writes an interesting post on How to use humor in your blog to bring about a change. Remember that open letter to Google AdSense team he wrote after they deciding to pull down the referrals? This post will give you insight on how to use a similar strategy on your blog. Michael thinks that blogs bridge the gap between business and social media. I very much agree and urge you to read this post(in fact a video).Good insights there. ...
Continue readingOrganizing Your Blog’s Advertisers
Blogging If you have multiple advertisers on your blog, you really need to make an effort to keep them organized. Since different advertisers start at different times, it can get confusing quickly. There are a million ways to stay organized with this, but here is how I do it. I have an “Advertising” folder in the folder I keep in the folder for all my blog stuff. Inside that folder I have a “* Current Advertisements” folder. I add ...
Continue readingNSFW: How and when to warn your readers about adult content
Writing Live nude girls are great, don’t get me wrong. But before you go wild and start posting naked images all over your blog – or even one image – you need to stop and consider your audience. Most people, including your friends, parents, neighbors and little sister, might get in trouble for opening a website at work or at school that contains images of nudity. This also goes for images of body modifications, lewd words in large print, and ...
Continue readingThe easiest way to get links when your site is pretty new
Competitions First thing I should do is clarify the title. This is the easiest way to get links without spending a small fortune buying links from a link Broker. Ok now that I have you all excited, here is my big secret. Here it is . . . Hold a competition. That’s the big secret. Pretty easy right? Now before you just go throwing up a blog competition you need to define everything like it’s a marketing campaign. Because that is essentially exactly what ...
Continue readingPower-Packed Resources for Bloggers Ready to Get Serious
Links Power-Packed Resources for Bloggers Ready to Get Serious “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” Have you ever heard that saying before? It’s an ancient Buddhist proverb. When are you ready to “get serious” with your blogging? When the articles below are just the very thing you’ve been looking for. SpyFu Online Keyword Research Tool A brilliantly devilish tool to look up all kinds of information ...
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