Archive for Blogging Tips
4 Ways My Blogs Help My Business
Chris Brogan, an extremely entertaining speaker at SOBCon08 in Chicago, asks How Does Your Blog Relate To Your Business? Since there were already 39 comments when I found his blog, I thought I’d give my answer here.
Answer: My blogs are one of my primary marketing tools for my business.
Through my blogs, and search engines, […]
Upgrading WordPress with a Plugin
I just upgraded (manually) this site to test out the new 2.5 version of WordPress. I’m totally in love with the new interface! (Here’s more detailed account of all the great new features in 2.5 here) It’s elegant and such an upgrade for usability.
Anyway, one of the new features with 2.5 is it includes links […]
Use Photoshop Online for Free
I’ve been using Adobe Photoshop, the market leader in image editing software, for well over 10 years and there are still things I haven’t learned yet. Now Adobe is offering their Adobe Photoshop Express version online for free.
This is great news for those of us (i.e. bloggers) who don’t want to plunk down a couple […]
An Email Newsletter Template to Emulate
I’ve been sending email newsletters for several years now and have to admit I haven’t perfected the skill of offering an email that maximizes click-thrus and actually gets read.
One of the most unique and effective examples I’ve seen of doing a blog-related email newsletter is from copywriter and internet marketer Michel Fortin. I can’t recall […]
How to Tweak Your Meta Tags on Your WordPress Blog
In my new video tutorial package — 7 Steps to Optimizing Your WordPress Blog — I give the “best practices” I’ve used from more than a year and a half of blogging to garner more than 60 percent of my site’s traffic from the search engines (namely Google).
One “best practice” or step that I […]
How to Market Your Blog in Two Hours a Day
One of my clients, Jonathan Fields, just asked a bunch of great bloggers (including me) this question for a post on blog marketing:
“If you had 2-hours a day to devote to no-cost, off-blog (even off-line) marketing for your blog, what would you do?”
I’m privileged to have my answer included among an all-star blogging cast that […]
Why Your Blog Needs a Most Popular Posts List In the Sidebar
As I’m continuing to see more and more “Most Popular” lists pop up on blog sidebars, I thought it was time to share my experience with them and give a couple of reasons why they are probably a good idea for your blog.
Four Questions with Maki from DoshDosh.com
I’ve been reading Dosh Dosh, a site dedicated to helping you make money online, for a couple of months now and have been impressed by not only the practical advice I’ve gleaned off it, but also the style and quality of blog writing you can find there. So I emailed Maki a couple of questions […]
Tweak and Test, Tweak and Test
The beauty of the web is that you can instantly change things and quickly see how they work.
It’s so fast and caters to my drive to constantly improve what I’m doing on the web.
And with statistics programs like Google Analytics, I can look back and quickly see if what I’ve done has worked, or failed […]
More Bloggers Switching from TypePad to WordPress
I love WordPress if you can’t tell. We only do custom WordPress blog design.
So you know why I love it when I see big-time bloggers like MicroPersuasion’s Steve Rubel making the switch.
John Jantsch over at Duct Tape Marketing has already done it. And I talk with more and more TypePad bloggers wanting to make the […]
