Monthly Archives: March 2008
Blog What You Know – Blog Your Life
Blogging Most of the real blogs you create will be a marathon, rather than a sprint, because creating a popular high-traffic blog will take years, rather than months. (By “real” blogs I mean conventional blogs, which grow over time. A blog is just a Web site, so you can create blogs for any purpose – for a product launch, or an event, or as a sales tool for example.) Can you face creating content about your chosen topic for years? ...
Continue readingSEO Keyword research trailing hyphens and silly mistakes
Search Engine Optimisation A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about one of my pages which seemed to be lost in google’s neverland. Not to be confused with Michael Jackson’s neverland. No small children were involved in the abuse of this page. The page is question is this one: http://hubpages.com/hub/Smoked-Trout-Creams- I have left the url rather than a link via a keyword because one thing I had failed to notice is the trailing hyphen at the end of the title. Unlike a ...
Continue readingHow to Host a Blog Contest
Promote your blog Blog contests can single-handedly drive lots of traffic to your site, or even encourage people to take actions to promote your site (such as linking to it). It can encourage people to return, if your method of entry involves something like subscribing to your feed via Feedburner or some similar engagement. You may have no idea how to begin the process of hosting a contest, however. You might even think you need big bucks to host a contest, but ...
Continue readingGo On, Start blogging Now
Blogging I’ve heard many successful bloggers tell business people interested in blogging to “just jump in and start.” At first glance these experts don’t appear to be taking a careful and reasoned approach. Shouldn’t they be advising people to gather data, research the arena, establish goals, and plan their execution? Isn’t promoting the “jump in and start posting” philosophy a bit impulsive and perhaps ...
Continue readingWriting for the Web Means Writing for Attention!
Blogging Copywriting Styles Don’t Always Work when it Comes to Selling Your Web Content Today. Writing for the Web the Best Way Means Relaxing Your Web Reader’s with a Soothing and Informative Page Layout. ENTERTAIN YOUR WEB READERS AT ALL TIMES The next time you cruise the web looking for particular information regarding any important subject matter, analyze the sites that you most enjoyed pulling that information from. Why did you enjoy ...
Continue readingI’m a Blogger, Am I a Writer?
Blogging The main reason why I decided to join blogging and do it professionally is because of my passion in writing. Though that is the case, there are still some doubters (or non-believers) saying that being a blogger does not mean that you are a writer as well. Some people are pointing that having a blog means instant publishing without even undergoing a supervision of an editor or any other critic. This is what differentiates a writer from a blogger. ...
Continue readingCreate a Heat Map of Your Blog
Search Engine Optimisation One of my favorite marketing blogs is Neuromarketing by Roger Dooley. Earlier this month, Roger published a post that led me to find Feng-GUI, a website that offers free heat maps of your blog, so you can learn where the hot spots are and what people are looking at on your blog. Feng-GUI is promoted as “Feng-shui for graphic user interfaces”, and it’s meant to simulate eye tracking. While it can certainly be argued that ...
Continue readingYour Blogger Template Could Be Holding You Back!
Blogger “Content is king” has become a blogging mantra: if you develop great, unique content you should also be able to gain a wide readership for your work. But then you only get one change to make a good first impression. If your blog’s appearance doesn’t stick in the mind of the casual visitor, how can you be sure they will remember what you have written? One of the great criticisms of Blogger powered blogs is that so many of ...
Continue readingSandbox Or No Sandbox??
Search Engine Optimisation The simple premise of the Google sandbox is this: Google doesn’t want to list spammy sites. Some spammers, however, have been able to get sites listed quickly, get good ranks using questionable techniques, and make a buck before Google can react. Because of this, Google seems to have increased the importance of the age of a website among its ranking factors. So now, to be designated “Not Spam,” one of the things a site has to do is, ...
Continue readingTake a Coffee Break – It’s Free!
Around The Blogosphere, Blogging Busy bloggers like their coffee. Every time I check out Twitter, someone else is putting on a pot or making a Starbucks run. Chris Garrett seems to be the worst offender, but I see plenty of other guilty parties. Me too. I love my coffee. Joffrey’s Coffee and Tea Company is offering a beta test for bloggers. Visit the Joffrey’s website and sign up to get a free bag of coffee and turn others on to your blog. It’s a win-win ...
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