1.6.10 - Using group chat to build your blog’s community
What is the best strategy for building a community around your website/blog? Forums have been, for a long time, the primary tool for building a community on a website. The downside here was that you needed considerable traffic (or heavy marketing) to get the forum going – nothing kills a forum more than a lack [...]
1.6.10 - Three problems business bloggers face
If you are business blogger (or a blogger chasing the dream of a high-paying business blogging gig), here are a few problems that you probably face (or will face) and some suggestions on dealing with them.
1. Despite our best efforts, traditional marketing circles still don’t take blogging seriously
The benefits of blogging – for organizations, businesses [...]
1.6.10 - Why won’t Matt Cutts link to me?
Do you suffer from no-links angst too?
Aaron Pratt of SEO Buzz Box writes about “circular linking patterns” and how A-list bloggers form their own ‘link cliques‘ and eschew their own advice of linking out to quality content for the sake of some friendly back-scratching.
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1.6.10 - Defending NoFollow Against Angry SEOs
I’m playing the devil’s advocate here, so keep that in mind in case I end up trampling all over anything you hold dear.
Google has taken a lot of flak on a lot of issues in the past few years – it’s a price an industry leader invariably has to pay.
Apart from Blogger spam [...]
1.6.10 - How To Buy Links And Avoid Google Detection?
Despite what Google and SEO gurus like Eric Ward tell you, you can easily use ’smart’ paid links to deliver the benefit of editorially earned organic links without tripping any filters or being detected as a ‘paid’ link by Google.
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1.6.10 - Becoming a professional blogger was never as easy as today
One of the most frequent questions I’m ever asked by people who are unfamiliar with blogging is ‘You make money doing this?’
It’s a rather frequent question, at first it was hard to explain what I do. But now its getting easier. It’s also getting easier and easier to build high quality sites. Mostly because I [...]
1.6.10 - Stop wasting time; dump 90% of the feeds you read
Continuing from our earlier discussion on testing your own blog’s success, let’s look at the different reasons you should be unsubscribing from the feeds in your feed reader.
But before we do that, I want to talk a bit about the different functions a blog performs.
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1.6.10 - Would you read your own blog?
A fair bit of blogging advice centers on attracting readers and keeping them. There is a lot of good advice out there as well.
However, along with that advice you also need a method to test whether you are on the right track with your blog or not.
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1.6.10 - 5 Tips For Creating Powerful Advertising
Advertising is the business of telling stories.
TV commercials tell us a story – the latest Nike Mercurial Vapor IV ad tells us how the new Nike boots help make professional footballers faster.
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1.6.10 - Danica Patrick – Sports Illustrated Feb 2008 Swimsuit Edition
Danica Patrick’s appearance in Sport Illustrated’s Feb 08 Swimsuit Edition is an education in how to leverage brands – albeit at the risk of compromising their integrity.
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