Monthly Archives: February 2008
Blogging is the New Black
Writing I want to start off today’s post with a little exercise. First, I want you to close your eyes… Did you do it? If you did, how long did it take you to realize that with your eyes closed you couldn’t read what came next? Stick with me here, I’m not trying to be funny or make you feel stupid. The point of the exercise is to raise some questions. Do you always believe what you read? Do you always do what you are told? As a ...
Continue readingGetting Something for Nothing: Is it Time to Give Up on Free Article Marketing?
Promote your blog I recently read the NY Times bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek. One of the things the author, Tim Ferris said was to remove the word “Free” from your marketing. His reasoning? More or less, people looking for free stuff are lower-end customers. They are the ones who will make the most demands on your time and usually buy nothing, or very little. He explains it better than I ever could, but that’s the gist of it. So, this got me to thinking ...
Continue readingBlog Orientation: Make Your Blog New-Reader Friendly
Blogging Is your blog new-reader friendly? If you’re promoting your blog, you’ll attract a constant stream of new readers. You need to make these newcomers comfortable. Welcome your newbies. Get them up to speed on the subject of your blog, and help them to become regular readers. Here are five ways to help your newbies: 1. Add orientation posts to your About page Your About page is your primary tool to orient newcomers. In addition to ...
Continue readingThe Right Post for Guest Blogging
Blogging Now that you think you are in the right time for guest blogging, the next question would be: what kind of post will you make? Aside from the fact that the blog owner will require you to post an original post exclusively for his blog, you might also wonder about its content and how you will write it. Guest blogging will be another milestone for your blog, but some relevant factors should be considered before you submit a post. Here are some of ...
Continue readingWordPress themes and plugins for the week
WordPress Themes PLUGINS Listdown CategoriesAn extension that will display the categories as a list or dropdown list, to show the number of posts per category or hide empty categories and more. Good for bloggers who have lot of categories arranged in stacks.(Most of us do -right?) Socialize MeA nice plugin that gives custom messages for visitors from different social medias like Digg and StumbleUpon. It identifies them as to which site they are from and ...
Continue readingUsing Social Networking Sites to Generate Massive Amounts of Traffic
Blogging Everywhere you look, you hear advice from bloggers, would-be SEO gurus and “Internet Marketing Experts,” regarding Social Networking sites as a traffic generator. Many of them are saying the same thing – “Use social networking sites to generate massive amounts of traffic.” I have no doubt you have heard it all, so I am not going to repeat the same old stuff. I have experimented with many of these sites. At least all the popular ones ...
Continue readingSEO Keyword Research
Search Engine Optimisation Knowing SEO goes well beyond just entering meta title and keyword data into a page, and it’s more than targeting the keywords in your titles, tags and text. The most important step is one often overlooked, and that’s making sure you choose your keywords properly from the beginning. To do that, your SEO keyword research is crucial. It doesn’t have to be as time-consuming as it sounds. Here are simple steps to researching the ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – February 5th 2008
Links StudioPress WordPress Theme Released – Daily Blog Tips have released a new wordpress theme. Very nice. The Butterfly Growth Model – An interesting post from Skellie. Interview With David Airey – Graphic Designer And Blogger – Freelance Folder interview graphic designer David Airey. How to Keep Your Subscribers – Some tips to help you keep your readers subscribing. I Don’t Really Have 34,015 RSS Subscribers – ...
Continue readingWordPress 2.3.3 released
WordPress WordPress released a new version of it’s blog software today to resolve a security issue. WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. A flaw was found in our XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow any valid user to edit posts of any other user on that blog. In addition to fixing this security flaw, 2.3.3 fixes a few minor bugs. If you are interested only in the security fix, download the fixed version ...
Continue readingFour Free Blog Site Promotion Tools that Really Work
Promote your blog EVERYONE CAN USE FREE PROMOTIONAL TOOLS EVERY SINGLE DAY It continues to amaze me how so many blog site owners out there still pay huge bucks to web site promotion companies to do most of the promotional work for their on line business that the blog site owners should be doing themselves for free. By applying just a few of the following techniques to their overall blog site promotion weekly schedule, any blog site owner that is open for business ...
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