I’ve come out of Christmas Holiday retirement early, because I felt I had to rant about these pay per post sites who treat bloggers like sweatshop workers and pay people peanuts for blogging.
Come on ladies and gentlemen, your worth more than $10 for writing a blog entry, which in my opinion 1) spoils your blog [...]
Filed under: Blog Promotion Tips on December 23rd, 2006 | 5 Comments »
This is my last post before Christmas so to all the readers of Blogged Out – have a Merry Christmas and a successful and healthy new year. I’ve changed the theme of this blog that many times, that I’ve lost a lot of good readers and contributors, so you’ll be glad to know that [...]
Filed under: Blogged Out on December 21st, 2006 | 3 Comments »
If you’re a blogger you might find Outpost Earth useful – an RSS feed directory, which promotes blogs and gets your blog noticed. I’ve had a few extra visitors sent my way from Outpost, so if you have an RSS feed register and submit your feed.
You might also want to check out Octora, an RSS [...]
Filed under: Blog Promotion Tips on December 19th, 2006 | 3 Comments »
The likes of Google want to see that you are adding fresh, unique content, and visitors to your website will only link to you if your content is useful for their visitors.
I’ve found it difficult to get people to link to my main business because it’s offering a service, and doesn’t really offer the visitor [...]
Filed under: Search Engine Optimisation on December 18th, 2006 | 3 Comments »
The very talented Colleen of Kalina Web Designs has recently acquired webmaster forum Web Talk Forums, and has changed it from a stale forum into a growing, friendly community.
Run by Colleen, and Grim, plus it’s friendly group of moderators (myself included he-he) the forum helps webmasters on all aspects of running a successful [...]
Filed under: Webmaster News on December 18th, 2006 | 4 Comments »
It’s difficult finding a writer that is reliable and cost effective for your business, and I’ve been lucky enough to work with Zainie, one of the members of Six Figure Writers, who has produced excellent work for me in the past for Worldwide Holiday Homes.
The group of professional writers, Denise, Jenn, Rebecca, Rob and Zainie [...]
Filed under: Webmaster News on December 17th, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Last week I upgraded to Internet Explorer 7.0 and up until tonight I haven’t found any problems. Surfing on the internet using the tabs was enjoyable and it meant that my computer didn’t freeze when I had a few copies of IE active.
Tonight though, I clicked on my Feedburner RSS feed icon and found that [...]
Filed under: Blogged Out on December 17th, 2006 | No Comments »
I’m trying out new and interesting ways to market my travel business and blog, and one route I have gone down is social networking, which has taken off in a big way in 2006. I joined up with MySpace, but to be honest, as I mentioned in a previous entry, I got pretty pissed off [...]
Filed under: Social Networking on December 17th, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Link building is a pain in the arse – I love being my own boss, and running my own business, and out of all of the tasks I have to undertake, building links is the task I hate the most. It’s tedious, and one email to 20 website owners, might bring 2 or 3 links.
I’ve [...]
Filed under: Search Engine Optimisation on December 16th, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Is it just me or is Digg a complete waste of time? Okay, there’s no doubt that if you have a unique story, that it can generate tons of traffic to your website. Let’s be realistic though, how many of them visitors are actually going to buy your product or service?
Just think of this scenario [...]
Filed under: Social Networking, Webmaster News on December 9th, 2006 | 8 Comments »
