Blogging has changed the way I do business. On the internet you can create your entire business with a blog instead of a traditional website. Once you set up your blog and become part on the conversation in the blogosphere, nothing will ever be the same. You will want to make sure you get off to a [...]
43 Folders have an article on what makes a good blog - have a voice, be obsessed and accept your obsession, they are a product of attention times interest, they make fart noises, they inspire, they try and they know when to break the rules. I’ve had a reasonably good blog before but that led to waking up every morning with 1200 comment spams in the in-box, verbal abuse and various diatribe. In the end I rebranded and hid - Pigwork is no longer my domain name.
Even though it isn’t time for my Tuesday technology tip, I wanted to share this information with you. When you make a post to your blog these days, it is likely to appear in many more places than just on your blog. This is all thanks to the magic of syndication, which basically means that your [...]
If you’ve been holding your breath while the NFL decided Brett Favre’s fate, it’s time to get back to work. Of course, this is an example of using a current event to get your reader’s attention. You might also have noticed that I am starting to use more graphics, and that is because iClipArt is [...]
The aim of this post is to show you how easy it is to turn ordinary links into nofollow links; regardless of whether you know HTML or not.
Note: This is a how-to post. If you’re interested in learning more about nofollow, there are many great posts about it on the Web; I’ll point to some at the end of this post.
The first thing you need to do is create a link.
This morning I went to the networking meeting held weekly in my city. I like to visit them about every 6 months or so to see what they are doing. It is not a group that would be a good fit for my online business, but I do offer them tips on how to promote [...]
One part of my online business involves marketing for three small businesses. I write articles, blog, and send press releases for a handyman, an insurance agent, and a plumbing company. You can do the same thing as you are building your online business.
I began by setting up a blog for the handyman two years ago. [...]
July brought with it many great posts to help new bloggers blog well.
Here are my favorites, broken down by category - please enjoy!
21 Ways To Make Your Blog or Website Sticky
Most of you know that I have more than a dozen blogs. No, I don’t post to each one every day. Yes, they are all on different topics in various niches. Three of them are for small businesses that I market for.
The biggest question I get is regarding where I come up with fresh ideas [...]
Pinging your blog after each post is important to your overall SEO (search engine optimization) strategy. Each time you ping your blog post, many blog directories are notified that you have some new, fresh content. They, in turn, send out their spiders to see what you have written and index your post.
Both Pingoat and Pingomatic [...]
Today’s Tuesday technology tip will cover trackbacks. A trackback is used to let another blogger know that you have written something about one of their posts. It is the only way the other blogger would find out that you had referred to him or his post, unless you used his name or something that he had [...]
I can’t overstress the importance of blogging when you are writing and marketing your eBook. Your blog will be the best way to get your name and information known on the internet, giving you the opportunity to gain visibility, credibility, and profitability online. It will also give you the content you need to finish writing [...]
This weekend I was a guest on the Pigskin Podcast to talk about NCAA Football 09. Be sure and check it out!
I am often asked to give my opinion on which blogging platform is the best. The truth is, I use both WordPress and Typepad, and believe they both have some good and bad points.
Typepad is user friendly and is hosted by Six Apart. In the three years I have been with them, their service has [...]
Here at Ebiquity, we’ve had a number of great grad students. One of them, Akshay Java, hacked out a search engine for twitter posts around early April last year, and named it twitterment. He blogged about it here first. He did it without the benefit of the XMPP updates, by parsing the public timeline.
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