Monthly Archives: September 2009
Check Your Email Spam Folder Regularly
Productivity In many peoples eyes, Google has taken on the mantle of being the biggest, baddest and most evil internet company online today because of how much control, influence and power it has (a title previously owned by Microsoft). However, there is no denying how useful some of their applications are (e.g. Google Maps). For me, their best application is Gmail. I was lucky enough to get a beta invite to try out Gmail many years ago. The thought of ...
Continue readingRebadge Your Blog Content With Zinepal
Blogging If you’re looking for a way to rebadge your blog content, one of the best new tools around now is Zinepal. Amazingly, its creators are marketing the tool to busy and mobile readers, editors and journalists and special interest groups, but I think they’re missing a trick by not targeting blog publishers. Let me tell you how it works and you can judge for yourself. Collect Your Content Zinepal allows you to collect content from web ...
Continue readingThe Use of Italics and Underlining
Writing Since computers, webpages and blogging is so popular, these days it’s hard to determine what should be underlined or italics. Most bloggers simply use their own preference to show that something stands out and we don’t really think of the rules involved. “What? You mean there are rules for it?” Yes, there is. These rules were set back in the day of manual typewriters when sending manuscripts and queries off to publishers. ...
Continue readingA Unique Angle Might Be All You Need
Blogging Sometimes you would like to write about a topic that has already been fairly saturated, so you may decide to skip that article for the day. But just because a lot of people have already covered a story does not mean that you can’t throw your two cents into the pot as well. Don’t pay attention to what others have already written. Instead see if you can write your article from a unique perspective. Having a unique perspective on a ...
Continue readingHow To Stop People From Stealing Your Blog Content
Blogging Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but it is also the most destructive, at least when it comes to online content. When other websites steal (i.e. republish without permission) content from your blog, you are hurt in several ways: Your content becomes duplicate content in the SERPs. While search engines try to determine which copy was the original (yours!), they aren’t always accurate, and your content could be ranked lower or ...
Continue readingWhat every beginning web designer should know: 5 tips for fresh web designers
Design & Coding I am the lucky one, I have had the fortune of being surrounded by a group of experts who have been more than generous with their wealth of information. Finding people who are dealing with the web on a regular basis and who are willing to give you guidance is invaluable.
Continue readingHelp A Reporter Out – Blog Publicity
Blogging Every blogger is always looking for ways to get publicity and links to their blog or website. Help a Reporter Out (HARO) is a great example of a site that might just get you on the “publicity” map. Each day, Peter Shankman the founder of HARO, sends our 2-3 emails with a list of reporters who are looking for experts and stories about specific subjects. If you fit the bill and reply quickly – you might get the publicity that ...
Continue readingMore Friends
Promote your blog Maybe the title of this post should really be “Nah nah nah nah, Nah nah nah nah, Hey hey hey, Click HERE!”, because it’s time to get your blog into the world! Blogs come and go, but you don’t want yours to be one of the ones that falls off of the face of the planet. Popularity comes in waves, but there are a few things that you can do to keep your blog on top, or at least closer to the top rather than at the bottom of the ...
Continue readingComma Chameleon – Part 2 – A Bit More Tricky
Writing Here’s Part 2 of the Comma Rules. There’s only a few left, but they can be a bit tricky for some of us. If you missed, COMMA, COMMA, COMMA CHAMELEON: COMMON COMMA RULES, PART 1, please go back and read through it as well. General Comma Rules, con’t: * A comma should follow expressions: namely, for example, that is, for instance, especially. - Some members of the political party plead guilty; namely, Chester Dester, Lucy Lurker, ...
Continue readingCreating Content Your Readers Will Want to Share
Blogging Part of the branding process of your blog is the redistribution of your blog content. Redistribution, as I have mentioned, will increase the visibility of your blog and alert people to the presence of new and updated articles on your site. Keeping this in mind while planning out topics for your upcoming articles, or thinking of new topics to write about can help you organize your thoughts and create better strategies around your blog content. In ...
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