Monthly Archives: June 2011
5 Social Toolbars to Help Increase User Engagement on Your Blog
Social Media, WordPress, WordPress Plugins I’ve sure you’ve come across social toolbars before: you visit a blog and see a bar at the bottom of the page with social sharing buttons, a search bar or maybe a even a chat feature. While some blog owners prefer to add social sharing buttons to their blog template (above, below or on the side of the content), others prefer using social toolbars. Toolbars with integrated social features, like sharing and chatting, can really help ...
Continue readingMake Your Blog Into A Book
Blogging You’ve been blogging for years. You’ve been talking passionately about what you know a lot about. You’ve accumulated tons of amazing content on the subject matter, all spread across many, many blog posts. So why couldn’t you take that content and reformat it into a book? You can. Here are a few ideas to get you started. But before I show you how to do it. Here’s why to do it. The publishing world has changed. You don’t need to have a ...
Continue readingShould Bloggers be SEOs?
Blogger, Search Engine Optimisation One great and controversial question that has been in the blogosphere for a very long time now is that of whether bloggers should focus on SEO or if they should focus only on delivering quality content. Every side to this argument has a valid point but I’ll be giving you my opinion below. Understanding the Real Value of Your Traffic and Time How do you generate traffic to your blog every month and how much time do your invest into ...
Continue readingTop 5 Ways to Make Money Online
Making Money You want to make money online, maybe even a full time income. The guru’s tell you that you can do it too. However, they don’t always tell you how they do it. This article will give you a glimpse into the five business models that these guru’s use to make money online. Many guru’s actually use several of these business models at the same time. They generally start in one area and after some success they expand into other ...
Continue readingHow YouTube Brought Me 1.1 Million Video Views
Video Blogging We all know that YouTube is the leading video site online for over six years now and counting. Millions of people go to YouTube everyday to view videos on all types of videos. But I’m not here to talk about these funny videos or the home videos of grandpa backing the car into the garage. I’m here to talk about our subject which is the form of building traffic to a given website. You can go to YouTube and see many videos that try to teach you ...
Continue readingMost Americans On Facebook
Blogging There are more statistics that lend to the belief that Facebook is the predominant social media platform. A recent study reports most Americans are using the popular site and in fact, if you are between the ages of 12 and 50 you’re in the minority of only 4% if you don’t consider yourself a user of Facebook. According to Edison Research, 51% of Americans overall have a profile on Facebook and that’s up from 8% only three ...
Continue reading5 Must Have Maintenence Tools for WordPress Blogs
Search Engine Optimisation, WordPress, WordPress Plugins It’s very important to perform blog maintenance on a regular basis. It not only helps to keep your blog running and loading properly, but it also helps with SEO and search engine rankings. Google and other search engines are not fond of websites with a lot of errors and issues; so you want to have as little as possible. It’s a good idea to use some, if not all, of these tools to help keep your blog running smoothly and maintain your ...
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Relationship Marketing – The New Way to Success?
Blogging, Making Money Many people have gained success with under-handed tactics, shabby products, poor customer service, and other unethical practices. The success, however, was short lived and people grew tired of being taken advantage of. It became harder for new marketers to step in and see any kind of success because so many others had already tainted the market with bad products and poor public relations. A few marketers came on the scene and set up new ...
Continue readingHow to Really Get Results as a Blogger
Blogging Blogging can sometimes be challenging but the fact is that there is no secret to being a successful blogger. I’ve gotten emails from people who have been blogging for years but couldn’t make a cent online. It sounds impossible, but believe me, it happens. A lot of these people ask me what I’m doing to get the results I get so fast but the truth is THERE IS NO SECRET.
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