Monthly Archives: December 2008
The 3 Easiest Ways Of Writing Articles For Article Marketing
Writing Do you feel it very hard to write articles for article marketing? Ever wondered how you can write articles with less thinking? Want to know the 3 easiest ways of writing articles for article marketing? We have been discussing about article marketing for the past few weeks. We saw the reasons for using article marketing and also, we learned how to write articles for article marketing in less than 12 minutes. If you haven’t read those two ...
Continue readingDo you need to protect your whois information?
Domain Names & Hosting Whenever you register a domain name you need to provide the registrar with your contact details. There are 4 pieces of information you need to provide : Administrative Contact – The admin contact is the person appointed to manage the domain name. They have complete control over the domain name Registrant Contact – This is the company or individual who has the right to use or sell the domain. Technical Contact – The technical ...
Continue readingWhat’s Your Opinion Of Newsletter Pop Up Boxes?
Blogging I’ve noticed a lot of bloggers have started using Awebers pop up forms for their blog newsletter. Zac Johnson, John Chow and Chris Garrett are just some of the high profile bloggers who have started using this method to increase sign ups to their newsletter. The pop up comes up when you load the page and the visitor has to either enter their name and email or close the form. They can then view the blog page. Here’s an example of what ...
Continue readingCSS Basics: Font Styling
CSS Let’s face it, the default settings on browsers are hardly great for the look of your site. So next step, with your HTML page, is to add in some font styling. The Font Properties Font properties work on any selector that contains text. Most font properties are easy to spot as they start with the word ‘font’, however our first selector is simply ‘color’ (and our last selector is line-height). This is one point to ...
Continue readingThat’s What I Call Dedication!
Around The Blogosphere I’m not aware of any website which recognises the most dedicated bloggers online but if there was, I’m sure John Chow would be in there challenging for a trophy! On Tuesday John got taken into Hospital because he had gallblabber stones. Incase any readers doubted that he was blogging from his sick bed, he posted again a few hours later to prove that he really was blogging from hospital. John was able to do this by using his 3G iPhone ...
Continue readingTechnorati Launch Technorati Engage
Making Money I was reading ProBlogger today and was pleased to see that Technorati has launched it’s own ad network. The ad network is called Technorati Engage. It’s currently in a beta stage however sign ups are not being restricted and publishers and advertisers can sign up today. Not surprisingly, Technorati has used it’s influence to sign up some large blogs already including I Can Has Cheezburger, LifeHack and The Inquisitr. As a ...
Continue readingHow to Get Noticed Online by “Big Name” Bloggers
Promote your blog In the post, How to Use MicroBlogging to Grow Your Business, I talked about how a special report I wrote went viral because a big-name blogger “tweeted” about it. A commentor on the post wrote: “A lot of it (getting a piece to go viral) seems to be based on “big time bloggers” tweeting for you…..what happens to those of us that aren’t already known by the big timers?” That comment inspired this post. There’s no mystery to ...
Continue readingA Unique, Free Marketing Tool for Freelance Writers and Bloggers
Making Money In yesterday’s post here, I talked about an industry report I wrote that helped to increase traffic to my website and blog. Today, I want to piggyback on that topic, but take it in a bit of a different direction. How Special Reports Can Help You to Land More Freelance Writing Jobs As regular readers of my posts know, I’m an SEO writer. I mention this because SEO is still very new to a lot of small to mid-size business owners. This ...
Continue readingGoodbye Pownce
Social Media Pownce, the micro blogging service which was co-founded by Digg’s Kevin Rose, has been bought over by TypePad developers SixApart. It seems like SixApart bought Pownce for their talented staff, rather than Pownce itself, as Pownce will be closing down on December 15th 2008. I never used the service myself but I know it had a loyal following and had many great features including the ability to send files between users (something Twitter Users ...
Continue readingReader Blog Critique : Techie-Buzz.com
Reader Blog Critique Welcome to the 15th Reader Blog Critique. Last weeks critique of ToMuse.com generated some discussion but most of it was regarding the themes feedburner feedcount image! This weeks review is on Techie Buzz, a blog which covers technology, software and more. Here are the questions the owner Keith would like to ask you all about the blog : What are your thoughts of the design on the blog? Do you think there are too many advertisements on the blog? ...
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