I’m not usually a lover of ‘meme’ or ‘link love’ type blog posts, but I’ve been amazed how successful the T list was amongst the travel blogging community. I’ve lost count the number of blogs that linked to my travel blog and participated, but we are talking a few hundred travel related blogs, and it [...]
Filed under: Blog Promotion Tips on July 9th, 2007 | No Comments »
Well, um, I have just uploaded my first video guide to Google video, which I hope you enjoy and can understand my dodgy English accent.
The video provides a few ideas on making your blog more search engine friendly. Maybe the video blog guide will get me more female readers, maybe it’ll drive you all away.
This [...]
Filed under: Video blog guide on July 2nd, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Let’s be honest, most of the default Blogger Templates are horrible, and its got to the point now where you visit a new Blogspot blog and you think ‘oh not this template again’ so, over the past week I have been playing around with blogger on my travel photo blog to see what I can [...]
Filed under: Blog Promotion Tips on June 10th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
