Getting Your Blog Noticed — part 4.

Friday, November 14th, 2008

When you are selling a blog, trying to bring attention to it, you have to treat it like any other product – and that means PR.  You want people to know about your web site.  You have to tell them about it.  You can submit posts to social bookmarking sites for starters, not just the […]

Getting Your Blog Noticed — part 3.

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

Now we are going to talk about RSS feeds, which are increasingly popular.  Providing a good one can drive a whole lot of traffic to your blog.
RSS can mean two things: Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication.  Whatever you call it, it is basically a light XML format used to distribute news on the […]

Getting Your Blog Noticed — part 2.

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Now, web directories can only do so much.  Advertising your blog falls primarily on your shoulders, and you have to take responsibility for that.  So, get your blog’s address out there wherever you possibly can.  Any piece of communication you put out there, your blog needs to show up on it somewhere.  Write up an […]

Getting Your Blog Noticed — part 1.

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Unless you are just blogging for your own personal enjoyment, you want to get your blog out there – especially if you are doing it to get paid.  That can be hard, especially if you aren’t really sure what to do.  So it is definitely worth it to take a look at some strategies to […]

Back Off from Black Hat

Monday, September 8th, 2008

There are a number of strategies you need to follow when learning and implementing blog link advertising.  The most important of these involve relevancy.  So many people are into black hat tactics these days.  They prefer to stuff keywords and links into places where they do not fit.  They will hide links, or cut corners […]

Love Your Blog

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Blogging for fun is one thing.  Blogging for money is another.  A lot of us are used to blogging as a means of personal expression.  For those of us just getting into the whole idea of professional blogging and blog link advertising, the concepts can be seriously out of reach.  It sounds like another language […]

Let Your Visitors Speak for Your Blog

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

“The Customer Rules.” These three words speak volumes in business. Customer communication, service and loyalty are the goals of every marketing campaign.
And nothing delights a business owner more than a satisfied customer. In fact, they are so satisfied with the product or service they purchased that they want to tell the world about it.
Customer testimonials […]

Got Your WOM-BA? Sting Your Competition with Word of Mouth Buzz Agents

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Imagine this: you are looking for a product, service or a piece of information you need for your million dollar project.
You’re searching online and come across what might be the answer, but you don’t know the company. Hmmm, what to do? Aha-you think, let me ask Joe, he might know them.
You: Ring, ring: Hello? - […]

AdSense Comes to FeedBurner RSS-Is It Right for Your Blog?

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

The power of instantaneous access to information is one reason why RSS has become one of the most widely used Internet tools. FeedBurner which was one of the first in the game, was purchased by Google in 2007.
Athough the rumor had been floating around cyberland about the contextual ads inclusion, it was only formally announced […]

Knock, knock? Who’s Visiting Your Blog? Crazy Egg Can Tell You

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Driving visitors to your blog is a challenge within itself, but you need to know WHO is visiting to make the event work for you.
Enter “Crazy Egg” that offers you a myriad of ways to get information about your visitors without getting into a techno funk to do it. You create tests to see what […]