Monthly Archives: January 2009
Freelance Writers: How to Immediately Make More Money
Blogging A long-time client asked me to call him this week to talk about social media marketing. It’s a service I offer that he’s interested in, but doesn’t know very much about. It was one of those, “I know I need to be doing this, but what’s it all about and how can it benefit my business” conversations. So, I called. I realized very early on in the conversation that what he really wanted was to simply outsource his social media ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – January 13th 2009
Links Is There Really Such a Thing as a Social Media Expert – Michael Gray questions if many self proclaimed ‘experts’ can back up their claims of being the best in their field. 35 Basic Tutorials to Get You Started with Photoshop – If you want to create a new logo for your blog, you will find this article very helpful 15 Firefox Plugins that will make your blogging more fun and productive! – A nice roundup of firefox ...
Continue readingHow to Use Traditional Media Tactics to Make Your Blog Stand Out, Get More Traffic and Increase Sales
Promote your blog I read an interesting article this morning entitled Bloggers Erase Lines Between Traditional and New Media. The gist of it was two bloggers who had repeatedly been denied press passes by the NYPD (the police department is in charge of handing out press passes) finally obtained them. This got me to thinking, what really makes an authority blog – ie, one people go to first for their information on a particular subject. As there are hundreds of ...
Continue readingHow to blog on a (very small) budget (Part 2-Images and Scripts)
Blogging In the first part of this mini-series, I introduced the concept of saving money while blogging. As many of you will understand, there are running costs associated with running a blog: domain names and hosting costs are among the primary expenses we need to account for as bloggers. Furthermore, marketing and effective advertising can cost a small fortune if not performed effectively. Following on from last week’s article, this week I will ...
Continue readingImprove your Recent Posts
WordPress Coding & Design A lot of themes these days comes with the Recent Posts code added already. It’s a basic list, usually just set to display the last 5 or 10 posts. A nice list but are you making the most of it? Remove the current Post A recent posts list comes into its own when the user is on a single post page. It allows them to see the most recent posts you’ve written on the site. However, if the page they’re on happens to be on that list then ...
Continue readingHow much do you rely on your feed reader?
Blogging Like a lot of bloggers, I check my RSS feed reader regularly. I use it to keep up to date with what’s happening in the blogging world, to keep up to date on the latest gadgets and games and I also subscribe to some sports and entertainment blogs. In total I subscribe to about 75 blogs. I logged into my NetVibes account today to see that all my feeds were gone. All the category tabs I had set up were still there however the feeds were gone. ...
Continue readingExact Factor: Track Your Blog’s Position In Search Engines For Free
Search Engine Optimisation Whether you own an online business or a blog, you would want to know your position in search engines for specific keywords and also the position of your competitors. This is where Exact Factor, a site that helps you to track your position and your competitors’ for free, comes into play. Exact Factor is a completely free site (at present) that helps you to track search engine position for your site or blog. Though there are many other sites ...
Continue readingTweetBacks: Track Who’s Talking About Your Blog On Twitter
Blogging News Trackbacks, pingbacks, Google Alerts… There are lots of ways to find out who’s talking about your blog posts. But it’s more difficult to know if you’ve been mentioned on Twitter, where a variety of URL-shortening services disguise the final destination. Now there’s a way you can tap into those conversations. TweetBacks, by Dan Zarrella, is a service that finds links to your blog that have been posted to Twitter via ...
Continue readingOnline Profits Internet Marketing and Business Training Program
Blogging News There have been a lot of new blogging training and coaching programs launch in the last year or so, including Authority Blogger, The Biz Web Coach and Yaro Staraks popular Blog Mastermind course. This Monday, January 12th, sees the launch of a new training program for bloggers and marketers called Online Profits. The launch price is $48 per month however this will increase to it’s regular price of $98 per month on January 17th. The program ...
Continue readingTracking Content with Google Alerts
Blogging If you blog long enough, it is inevitable that your content is going to be copied and shared around the Internet, some of it to your benefit, some of it not. But regardless about how you feel about how others use your content, it is important to track it and follow it the best that you can. Even if you have no plans on stopping any potential infringements, finding out where your content is appearing and what is being used can give you an idea of ...
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