Remember when blogging was all about your blog posse, visiting their sites to see what they were up to? Remember surfing through your blogroll everyday before Facebook came along and moved all the fun over there? Well, for the next month you’re going to want to tell Facebook to eff off because for the next [...]
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If you needed another reason to move away from Blogger or Blogspot, here’s a doozy. In a little seen article (until now) printed on a Blogger help page a couple of weeks ago, Google has announced it has put in place technology that will allow it to censor blogs on the free Blogger platform for [...]
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I do a lot of online training for bloggers. I spend a fair amount of my time teaching bloggers how to use WordPress as well as teaching them how to best optimize their website for the many search engines. I am no longer surprised to find that some of my clients don’t know what web [...]
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A blog is in fact the base of your outreach to the marketing world. Many companies use blogging as an advertising tool; but not successfully. And their flaw lies in the fact that they use blog as a platform to expose their products to the world. What should they do? They should use the blog [...]
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List the top three goals for your blog in order of importance. What do you want to get out of your blog — more customers, brand recognition, a way to offer coupons and special pricing, a way to create a marketing email list? Will you create a page of testimonials? Will you create an email [...]
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Image by Akbar Simonse via Flickr I’m sure you’ve heard this over and over again regarding blogging: Content is king. That’s true — I’m not here to refute it — but you could have Pulitzer Prize-winning content but no one will know that if your design is overpowering your words. While design is definitely subjective [...]
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Tribal Blogs is a place you can go to meet other bloggers and network with them. Tribal Blogs is not a place where you can go to dump on people who ask for suggestions. I’m stating this because other sites seem to encourage the criticism of other bloggers. I won’t name the networks but several [...]
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Is Blogspot holding you back?
by Jennifer Brown on January 19, 2012
I work with a lot of brands who are always on the lookout for bloggers to review their products and services. Reviewing brands’ products and services is a huge cottage industry lead by the Mommy Blogger but really a revenue generator for millions of people. The trend I’ve noticed, lately when talking with brands, is [...]
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