Blog Away your Fears: Your First Month of Blogging
Blogging If you’re hesitant about starting your blog – you tell yourself you’ll start a blog when you find the perfect topic, or the perfect WordPress theme – or (fill in your own excuse here) – this article will help you to get started. Once you’ve been blogging for a month, you’ll be a much more confident blogger. So here are six tips for sailing through your first month of blogging: 1. Keep your blog’s focus in mind It’s easy to lose focus on a blog. Perhaps your blog’s topic is “golf”. You write a couple of posts about golf, ...
Continue readingContent is King
Blogging Or is it? This is something you have probably heard time and time again, but is it true? The answer, of course is Yes. And No. My thinking is that content is definitely King, but a few things have come to my attention lately. One, I wrote recently about my lost hubpage (Smoked Trout Recipes) due to a trailing hyphen in the URL which seems to cause it to disappear to certain search engines. So, ...
Continue readingThe Right Advertising Revenue for Your Blog
Making Money If you have a blog, odds are good you’d like to bring in a few bucks. There are actually several options for doing this, but not all will work well for your blog. Even something as simple as the placement or the selection of ads could make a potentially lucrative ad program bring in nothing but pocket change. Here are some of the major blog advertising options, and some tips on choosing the ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – March 25th 2008
Links $5641 Worth of Cash and Prizes to Be Won With Over 30 Winners! – Etienne has called upon a lot of friends to offer a huge amount of prizes. The keys to getting the most out of StumbleUpon.com for your marketing – A good guide about using stumbleupon to promote your blog. Personal Branding, Personal Connection – Some good tips about branding your blog. Blogging Software for Mac ...
Continue readingWhat I Learned From Blogging
Blogging There are moments in a blogger’s life when one gets reflective of their achievements in blogging as well as their future goals and aspirations for it. As I’ve mentioned in my profile, I have been blogging since the year 2005 and how different was blogging then! Anyway, here are some of the things which I’ve learned from blogging from the serious to the most unbelievable ones. a. ...
Continue reading3 HUGE SEO Tips That Will Deliver Higher Google Rankings
Search Engine Optimisation Great links to other like-minded blog sites work in search engine optimization to your benefit if done correctly, but link building is not the only SEO technique that works like a charm. There are some other major technical steps you can take starting today that will improve your blog site’s ratings exponentially if you proceed in the most concise manner. I have listed some of them here today. ...
Continue reading5 Factors to Calculate Your Blog’s Worth
Making Money There are many page rank checkers online that will also provide you with a “value” or “worth” of your blog, many of which you can show off with a special button directly on your blog. Unfortunately, most of the valuations those websites provide seem overly generous. How then can you calculate the value of your blog if you want to sell it? The best way to start is by ...
Continue reading7 Ways to Ensure Your Readers Feel Welcome
Blogging Regular readers are the soul of a successful blog: besides the steady stream of page views and subscribers provided by regular readers, you are also assured of more backlinks, recommendations and commentary through building a loyal audience. But how can you convert a casual visitor into a loyal reader? Make them feel welcome! By making even the casual reader feel welcomed to your blog, you offer ...
Continue readingDesign Podcasts
Links Podcasts are a great way of sending and receiving information. It’s just so much easier to listen to something while doing other things, allowing me to multitask. I’ve even tried my hand at doing a monthly cast, but here are some design related podcasts for you to check out. The Prepared Mind Discussion about designing human interaction. I personally listen to this show but they ...
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Blogging While posting is the most important thing you can do to establish and maintain a presence in the blogosphere, there are many other options available that can help create or maintain a high profile for you and your business on the Web. Commenting like crazy on posts that others write, especially on popular sites not only reminds the big-time bloggers of your existence, but can also get other ...
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