Blogging Tips
VR suggests 11 places to put your email form, including on your blog, and for that I think the most important place is on your single post pages (interior posts)
I’ve never had to transfer a feed from Feedburner until today … actually, I’m on the receiving end of a transfer, but anyway, I noticed that Feedburner now offers an easy “transfer” option. Here’s what it looks like: Source: Feedburner
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…