Tag "blog promotion"
5 reasons you must guest post
Promote your blog With the advent of the new year, we are all contemplating how we can improve our blogs. We can pick a new theme, change our blogging platform, increase our posting interval, or increase commenting on other blogs. But I’m here to say that nothing, I repeat, nothing will do more for your blog traffic than guest posting. Kevin Muldoon, here at BloggingTips, provides a great service to bloggers by allowing guest posting. I am certainly not ...
Continue readingWriting Goals
Blogging Having a blog is a great way to get out there, but you need to do more than merely update your site with posts every week. You need to stay committed to your blog, which includes writing often and the site upkeep. However, being committed isn’t enough. You need to have goals. Most writers are thrilled when people visit their site and even happier when someone actually comments. These are, of course, wonderful things, but you should have ...
Continue readingJournalism Knows Best: Words To Watch
Promote your blog The best bloggers are like the best writers anywhere and they will take suggestions and advice from anywhere they can get it. The other day I was looking through my books and came across an edition of a style book for newspapers that I used back in the early 1980s. A lot of the rules that applied then are still good foundations to know today. It’s important to remember that the business of writers is to say exactly what they mean, no ...
Continue readingCan Plato’s Forms add Wisdom to Blogging?
Blogging News While I participate in the alpha and beta testing for many web services, this is the first time I am writing about a pre-alpha product. However, I think that the concept behind Plato’s Forms could be key to the future of blogging. With so many blogs and so much misinformation in the wild, there is a need to create a venue for bloggers to communicate with the companies they are writing about. On three occasions, I have been asked by the ...
Continue readingBlogging Future – Down the Drain?
Around The Blogosphere Back in the 1970s when I was a teenager growing up in the New York City suburbs I used to visit the “city.” Times Square in particular was an amazing place filled with huge billboards, a place where getting your name in lights was one of the ultimate symbols of success. However, last weekend when I strolled through Times Square I realized just how much technology and blogging have changed the world. Looking up I saw one of the ...
Continue readingWhat does the new cnn.com mean for blog design?
Blogging Usability and design testing can make a huge impact on any web site. But, if you run a blog or a small web site, the costs of wide scale usability and design testing is expensive. One of the best affordable ways to improve design is to learn from those organizations that have invested in large scale testing. Sites like Amazon, eBay and CNN are often imitated for that very reason. With CNN making a major update to their home page, it is ...
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 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 readingOneWebDay
Social Media The blogosphere is an amazing collection of people around the world – a collection that is still largely untapped in it’s power. However, various efforts are underway to find ways to harness this power. An upcoming example is OneWebDay a global event that has been celebrated every September 22 since 2006. The idea behind OneWebDay is to provide an opportunity for communities to celebrate the power of the Web for positive ...
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The Time-Strapped Blogger’s Guide to Self-Promotion
Promote your blog Life isn’t meant to be spent chained to that computer. Every now and then you just have to go out, get some fresh air, and do something with yourself. But if you’re at all serious about the success of your blog, living a life outside of the computer can seem like nothing more than a fanciful dream. Photo by Jen Dixon After all, you’re not famous, you’re not some superstar a-list blogger whose readers wait in agonizing ...
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