Alexa improve rankings system
Internet News Alexa, the traffic tracking site which has always been criticized for being unreliable (by me anyways!), has announced that it has improved its ranking system. Website statistics are now calculated using a wide range of sources. In their announcement they do not give much away as to the sources of their new data but I’m sure this will come out in the next few months. I have never been a fan of Alexa as ratings can be manipulated very easily and it was incredibly unaccurate for non tech sites. Hopefully this new ranking system has changed this and Alexa will be useful as a basis for the ...
Continue readingHow Does Content Affect SEO?
Writing The catch with web content is that is must be fresh and original to be most effective. If it’s not, the content can do more harm than good. Content is the one element that can keep customers coming back to your site time and again. When customers return often, your site ranking improves, because the traffic registers the site with search crawlers as a valid and in-demand site. When your content ...
Continue readingTo Achieve Blogging Success, Grow Some Marketing Cojones
Promote your blog My blog was recently in a competition. Even though it came through the first round okay (there are several rounds), one of the knocks against it was that it was a tad bit too self-promotional. This didn’t upset me because in my opinion freelance writing, as an industry, has this thing against marketing/self-promotion. Which, I think is why so many lead a starving artist existence. However, this ...
Continue readingBlog Profits via Self Promotion
Blogging If you’re a consultant, coach, creative professional or service provider of any kind, blogs are ideal tools to promote your services online. You can stay in contact with your clients, and new clients can find you via your blogs. Although you can create one do-it-all blog to promote yourself and your business, you’ll have better results if you create more than one blog. Web surfers are ...
Continue readingWhat to Do with a YourName.com Domain
Domain Names & Hosting, Promote your blog If you’re at all like me, you might already have owned the domain with your name for a little while just to be sure someone else doesn’t snatch it up. Shoot, I saw someone on Twitter say he’s already gotten his small child a domain with her name. (I’ve got to get to work on that with my three little ones). But then KelbyCarr.com was just sitting there, doing nothing. ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – April 15th 2008
Links Current Value Of Make Money Online Blogs 4-13-08 – Another great post looking at the continuing trend of making money online blogs being sold at premium prices on the net. Blogging Time Saver – Take a day off! – Good advice from Kyrsti – Use your timestamp feature and post some posts in advance before you go on holiday. Why Bloggers Should Have a Privacy Policy, and 9 ...
Continue readingBlogging: Where to Draw the Line
Blogging If you are in the Philippines, you might be familiar with the popularity of a certain Australian blogger which detailed his life with his ex-lover as well as the “scam” that he faced while being with that guy. But that’s not all. There is also the matter of exposing the secrets that high-society people have in every club or gig that they attend. This kind of blogging raises the ...
Continue readingFinding the Correct Keywords for Your Blog Content
Search Engine Optimisation When it Comes to SEO Performance, Many People Use Every SEO Technique in the Book to Get a Great Page Ranking. Keywords Optimization is Really All They Need to Succeed HOW TO DEFINE A GREAT KEYWORD A really great way to find a keyword that should be used on your blog or website, would be to first analyze the word that you are considering for it’s overall popularity in a Google keyword ...
Continue readingKeeping Your Sanity as a Blogger
Blogging, Blogging News Last week I asked if blogging is killing you. After a series of deaths (or near deaths) of popular bloggers primarily linked to stress, I found it refreshing to read Heather B. Armstrong’s (of the wildly popular Dooce.com) methods of dealing with some of the negatives of blogging in The Wall Street Journal. Heather uses an unorthodox method of anger management. She prints out the ...
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