Your Blog’s Editorial Calendar – Get Organized, Then Relax
Blogging Your blog is a publication, and because it is, it needs an editorial calendar. The term “editorial calendar” comes from publishing. The calendar shows the major editorial features planned for upcoming issues of a newspaper or magazine. Magazines and newspapers set up editorial calendars so they can assign stories to writers, and also they can sell advertising. If a magazine has an issue with the theme “your first baby” in its calendar, the advertising staff will be selling space in that issue months ahead. An editorial calender makes blogging easy, because it assigns ...
Continue readingThe Mind of an Entrepreneur versus The Mind of a 9-5’er
Making Money I was talking to a girlfriend of mine a couple of weeks ago. We’ve been friends for over 17 years. We used to work at the same legal publishing firm in New York City (ahh, the good ole days). Anyway, our conversation that day left me thinking how the mind of an entrepreneur is vastly different from that of somewhat who works in corporate America. Let me explain. And yes, this does have to do ...
Continue readingGoogle has you by the balls
Search Engine Optimisation What to do when google decides to hide one of your pages. There you are, following the rules you have decided are true. Write good quality, unique content, generate a few backlinks and hey presto ! Your site will be found and rank in the search engines for the keywords you have targeted. You are generating traffic (and income) then all of a sudden, wham! Traffic dries up. No search engine ...
Continue readingDarren Rowse and Chris Garrett release ProBlogger Book
Blogging News Today Darren Rowse announced the release of his first book entitled ‘ProBlogger Book — Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income‘. The book was co-written with former BloggingTips author Chris Garrett and is now available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The book is available in paperback and it’s 240 pages covers such topics as : How Bloggers Make Money Direct ...
Continue readingSet Blogging Limits
Blogging, Blogging News There has been a lot of buzz lately about Blogging to Death ever since the New York Times wrote about the deaths of high-stress bloggers Sunday. It’s discussed in the recent post here, “Is Blogging Killing You?” There is also a post, “What’s Wrong with the Blogosphere?” at Performancing, where Raj Dash points out: I find one day’s blogging to be far ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – April 8th 2008
Links Why having a slow website will hurt your blogging income – A great post from Peter Alguacil about the negative affects of a slow blog. Why you should actively link out from your blog – Don’t be a hater, spread that link love people! New Entrepreneurs-Journey.com Design – Yaro beefs up his blog with a brand new theme. 52 easy ways optimize your blog while on your coffee ...
Continue readingFive Simple Steps To Generate Tons of Blog Traffic
Promote your blog 1. TEST KEY COMPONENTS OF YOUR WEB DESIGN FIRST If your website or blog is not generating any traffic, there is not even a good way of testing the main ingredients of your marketing campaign to see why it’s not working. And you can’t roll out a large traffic campaign before you’ve tested your site because you risk losing sales and looking unprofessional to potential business ...
Continue readingIs Blogging Killing You?
Blogging News It might sound like an amusing question, but it appears that there could be some truth to it. Is blogging killing you? According to an article in the New York Times on Sunday, blogging can be fatal, or at the very least, contribute to an unhealthy lifestyle that could lead to death. Sadly, two well-known bloggers, Russell Shaw and Marc Orchant, died in the past few months from heart-related ...
Continue readingBlog Posts: Longer or Shorter?
Blogging Which do you prefer in blogging posts? As a blogger, it really depends on the topic and the mood which I am in. There is no real prescribed number of words in a blog post but it would be wonderful if you know your limit. As I mentioned, I prefer either one in blogging but of course there is a limit which I prefer to practice in every blog post. Just posting one to two sentences is not my practice ...
Continue readingAdd Social Bookmark Links to your Posts in Blogger
Blogger Social bookmarking services are a useful way to aggregate your content across the web and bring more awareness to your blog. Services such as Digg, Stumbleupon and Del.icio.us allow readers to bookmark posts of interest and offer a means for others to discover them too. In this post, I’ll explain how you can add bookmarking links to three popular social bookmarking sites beneath each of ...
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