Monthly Archives: March 2008
Blogging Research – Keeping Up with Information to Generate Content
Blogging As a blogger, you deal with information. Keeping up with the flow of information in the subjects about which you’re blogging can be a challenge. You need to stay up to date in your area, but too much information is as bad as too little. There’s always the risk that you’ll drop into a black hole of information overload, and will spend time researching and managing information which you could be spending on creating blog posts. ...
Continue readingChoosing a URL for your blog post
Blogging, Search Engine Optimisation $400,000 cars always appeal It is slowly sinking into my sometimes Neanderthal-like brain that the URL you choose for your webpage (or blog post title) has a distinct bearing on it’s visibility to the search engines. Picking something witty and clever is a waste of time. The search engines don’t do “witty.” In fact, I sometimes wonder if they do “factual,” either, but that’s for another, “inspired rant.” That term by the way, I ...
Continue readingGenerating Buzz for Your Blog
Blogging The power of blogs is buzz, or conversations and Web links that bounce from blog to blog and gather mass and impact. Companies that use blogs as buzz-building tools are finding substantial readerships of people who avidly want to know what the blogger has to say and respond with comments to every new posting. The best part is that they often spread that message to others within their sphere of influence through blogs, instant messages, or ...
Continue readingFree PR for Your Blog
Promote your blog Even though blogs rely heavily on search engine optimization and the blogosphere to spread the word, you don’t need to have your own public relations team to get a little media coverage. In fact, there are several ways you can do your own PR for your blog for free. Create a Press Page The first step should be for you to create at least a press page for the media to visit. This should have some basic information about you as a blogger and ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – March 11th 2008
Links Blog Monetization Strategies e-book – BloggingFingers has released it’s first e-book Craziest Internet Marketing Contest You’ve Ever Seen – $5,348 in FREE Cash & Prizes – Winning the Web is hosting a huge competition with prizes from a range of different sites. How Important is Design to a Blog’s Success? – Another good article from Vandelay Design. Everything I Know About Blogging – A great post ...
Continue readingFive More FREE Ways to Generate Great Web Visitors to Your Blog. Part Two
Promote your blog Since my last posting on the topic of free ways of generating web visitors to your blog was such as success, I am expanding a little bit on that topic for my conclusion to the topic. I will continue to explore all of the best ways to make sure that you are getting the BEST viewers to your blog that can possibly handle in future posts, and that means the quality of the viewers, not just quantity. If you want the viewers to come back continually ...
Continue readingThe “Always” List in Blogging
Blogging Last December, I wrote a blog post here in Blogging Tips entitled “The Never list in Blogging” wherein I shared some of the things which bloggers should never do in their blogging career. This is the continuation (though its a bit late) to my previous blog post which focuses on its exact opposite: The “Always” list. a. ALWAYS know what you are blogging about b. ALWAYS acknowledge source/reference items c. ALWAYS be ...
Continue readingIs the Blogroll Dead?
Promote your blog This is a question we’ve heard before. Is the blogroll dead? Perhaps a better way to phrase the question is to ask whether or not your blogroll is an effective use of the valuable real estate on your blog. In other words, is your blogroll bringing in an adequate return on your investment (in this case, the investment is your time and the space allocated to it)? Let’s face it, if your goals for your blog include monetization ...
Continue readingSearch Engine Optimization tips for Blogger Templates (Part 3)
Blogger One of the great things about Blogger is that we have access to the complete template. With a few simple tweaks Blogger users can easily optimize their blog template to achieve better rankings in search engines, which in the long run can attract far more visitors to our blogs. This is the third and final installment of the SEO Tips for Blogger Templates series. In Part 1, I explained how the header section, meta tags and titles could be adapted ...
Continue readingDealing with the Not-Trolls
Blogging Every blogger has to deal with trolls from time to time, but do you also have to contend with the not-trolls? Right now, I have a not troll visiting my blog on a regular basis and though he’s not vicious or even rude, he constantly questions my credulity. What is a not-troll? Someone who comments on blogs to stir up controversy, but in a subtle way. Someone who politely questions your authority on various matters. Someone who doesn’t ...
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