Three Top Money Making Blogs
Posted on November 13, 2007 - Filed Under Blogosphere News | 4 Comments
The recent talk around blog town seems to be the ever hot topic of making enough money to quit your day job. That is probably the dream of many bloggers, though there are some of you who genuinely enjoy your job and prefer to keep blogging as a hobby. Taking a break from the ”How Web […]
Read More..>>How Web Design Can Affect Your Blog Branding: A Live Web Revamp Tutorial Part 2
Posted on November 13, 2007 - Filed Under Branding | 1 Comment
In the previous post, I demonstrated how changing your blog banner / header and adding an “About Me” blurb on your front page can significantly add to your blog branding. Now that you have captured your visitor’s interest, what do you want him to do next? Think of him as a kid who has found […]
Read More..>>How Web Design Can Affect Your Blog Branding: A Live Web Revamp Tutorial
Posted on November 11, 2007 - Filed Under Branding | Leave a Comment
In case you are wondering if you arrived at the wrong site, you didn’t. My site needed a revamp in image and branding, and I thought rebranding my blog over several steps as a demonstration and tutorial to readers would be a great idea. You don’t need to know PHP coding, though some HTML and […]
Read More..>>A Blogger’s Dictionary: 25 Terms You Cannot Live Without
Posted on November 10, 2007 - Filed Under Blog Tips | 709 Comments
Since I started going pro on blogging, my life (and lifestyle) has significantly changed, and I have grown and learnt so much about the developments within the blogosphere. It seems an exciting time when marketing mediums and opportunities are just exploding all over the world wide web. It has been a steep learning curve, and […]
Read More..>>Multi-Channel Marketing
Posted on November 8, 2007 - Filed Under Integrated Marketing | 588 Comments
When I first started getting serious about my blog, the two audiences I wanted to target were a) bloggers who wanted to be successful (and this can be from making money or building their personal brand online) and b) home business entrepreneurs who wanted to know how to use blogging to market their business. The […]
Read More..>>Commenting Is Not Only About Traffic
Posted on November 7, 2007 - Filed Under Blog Tips | 718 Comments
The blogosphere has been abuzz with quite a flurry of news lately, starting with Google slapping a PageRank penalty to blogs selling paid links, to the recent blooper with Google Feedfetcher that caused widespread alarm among bloggers who thought 50% of their subscribers had packed up and left. This elicited a number of responses from […]
Read More..>>StumbleUpon Sent me 149 Readers in One Day
Posted on November 6, 2007 - Filed Under Social Networks | 1 Comment
I experienced a pleasant surprise today when Google Analytics reported that StumbleUpon referred 149 readers to my blog. The more surprising discovery was that the post which had been stumbled - Writing Great Content for Your Blog - was an article I had spent less than an hour writing. That is way shorter than two […]
Read More..>>Blog NewsBytes
Posted on November 4, 2007 - Filed Under Blogosphere News | Leave a Comment
Surrendering to Google
As mentioned in a previous post, Google is cramping down on sites selling text links without <nofollow> tags by pushing down on their Page Rank. While some top bloggers are brushing off this slap on the wrist from Google, other blogs who still depend on the Google index for driving traffic to their […]
The Marketing Factor for Blog Branding
Posted on November 3, 2007 - Filed Under Branding | 2 Comments
Since its the weekend, and I would like to maintain some sort of life outside of sitting in front of my computer, this will be a light post but do keep tuning in as I have some great topics planned for the week ahead. Today’s post is about marketing your brand, I have attached a […]
Read More..>>Overcome Writer’s Block with A Writing Process
Posted on November 2, 2007 - Filed Under Writing Tips | 1141 Comments
Writer’s block is a common malady that hits all of us, and it can frustrate or even “petrify” you - to borrow this term from Harry Potter. If you intend to start a blog or information-rich site, finding a way to overcome this condition is crucial to freeing you from the state of immobilisation.
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