I’ve read comments on a few forums now about how people dislike blogs that don’t offer “link juice” and use the no follow tag. Firstly, by default Wordpress uses the no follow tag on all links within the comments section, and personally, I think this is the right decision.
If you are writing comments on blogs [...]
Filed under: Blog Promotion Tips on June 30th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The internet is a great place to learn, and they are a number of people who I look up to and value their opinion. One person is Steve Gibson, a marketing consultant from Edinburgh, and today I found out that he has entered the Blogosphere.
If you want to market your business and improve sales and [...]
Filed under: Blogged Out on June 30th, 2007 | No Comments »
Don’t get me wrong, you’re not going to get thousands of visitors every week, despite it having a member base of over 25 million, but Facebook, is a free way to make new friends, and network yourself to people who are your targeted audience.
Here are 5 reasons why you should sign up with Facebook today.
Applications
They [...]
Filed under: Blog Promotion Tips on June 19th, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Directories are a great way to get one-way links, but let’s be honest; they are some pretty bad and very good directories, so how do you know which one is the best one to choose to promote your blog.
Well, design goes along way with me, because I feel that if they have put that time [...]
Filed under: Blog Promotion Tips on June 19th, 2007 | No Comments »
I wanted to update you on the development of my travel photo blog, which is powered by Blogger. As I mentioned I am running this small experiment to learn how blogger works and to see how easy [or difficult] it is to rank a free blogspot blog on the 1st page of Google.
Yesterday I added [...]
Filed under: Blogged Out Project on June 18th, 2007 | No Comments »
My good friend Chris, who is an admin at the WebTalk Forums [pop by and say hello] has launched an interesting new service, where bloggers can register on his blog, and write their own blog post promoting their blog or business.
I asked Chris to tell me all about his new service and this is what [...]
Filed under: Blog Promotion Tips on June 16th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I’m a big fan of Wordpress, and I think it’s great what the theme and plugin designers do to create excellent work, in their own time, for free. This is partly why the Wordpress community has been so successful.
I’m not a theme or plugin designer, but what better way to put something back into the [...]
Filed under: Blogged Out, Wordpress News on June 13th, 2007 | No Comments »
As I mentioned in a previous post, I created a Travel photo blog using Google’s Blogger, primarily to understand it more so I can help readers, but I also wanted to see how quick I could rank the blog on the 1st page of Google for ‘travel photo blog’ and I’ve been amazed so far.
On [...]
Filed under: Blogged Out Project on June 12th, 2007 | No Comments »
How about interviewing someone in your niche, so if your blog is about gadgets try and get an interview with someone who invented one of the gadgets you’ve reviewed.
Why? Well, last week I interviewed Chris Garrett – I’ve read his blog via RSS reader for a while, and like what he writes about, so I [...]
Filed under: Blog Promotion Tips on June 12th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Great, so I’ve managed to find 70ish RSS readers, who enjoy reading the blog, but what do I know about these readers – nothing, maybe I am the nosy type, but I like to know who is reading the blog, and that’s why I created an ‘introduce yourself’ post where everyone and anyone can leave [...]
Filed under: Blog Promotion Tips on June 10th, 2007 | 4 Comments »