“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” -William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693 Work with other bloggers not against them One of my Twitter followers (@richwallace) Rich Wallace said it best today in a tweet when he said: “When it comes to blogging, there should be no ‘competitors’…only, partners.” Rich [...]
One of the ways to promote your website or blog and gain additional visitors is to submit your URL to do follow websites. Most importantly, some of these do follow sites have a high pagerank and authority in Google’s eyes thus increasing search rankings. Dofollow: Let the link love flow with do follow websites Do [...]
Monitor who is copying your content Yesterday I came across a service provided by Tynt that apparently allows bloggers to track where text copied from their website is being used. Tynt provides a piece of Javascript when inserted into your theme creates a backlink to your blog post or site when your content is copied [...]
Unlimited link love A terrific way to increase back links is to submit your blog to a ‘dofollow directory.’ Today I came across a new ‘dofollow RSS feed directory.’ ‘Dofollow Love RSS Directory‘ is a free human-edited blog directory where you can submit the RSS feed of your blog to get more exposure for your [...]
Kevin Ekmark asks: How can you avoid blogger burnout? It happens to the best of us. Many of us start with the intention of posting every day, but it becomes just too over whelming and we crash. Some day it feels like I’m working on more than 20 different things at the same time. I [...]
Today’s guest post is with Mommy blogger, WordPress user Allison also known online as Alli ‘n Son. Allison will be sharing a list of her favorite WordPress plugins with us. By Allison When I first started blogging, just over a year ago, I decided right away to jump on board with WordPress. The draw of [...]
This is a guest post from Lisa “Peale.” Lisa writes the blog, Privilege, on style, occasional anxiety, and the raptures of living. Previously, Lisa spent several decades in high-tech, most recently as a Vice President of Services for a multi-national software company. She graduated from Princeton in 1978, and has an MBA from Columbia. She [...]
WordPress Tip: Use the WordPress Slug I’ve published over 1000 blog posts and I am always learning something new when it comes to blogging. Writing a blog post is only half the process. I never paid much attention to the slug feature inside WordPress, until recently when I started to consider useless words also known [...]
One of the best ways to bring a lot of traffic to your site is to write about a controversial subject. If you choose to blog on a controversial topic, then be ready to handle the debate that might come as a result of your post. Here is a few things to remember when writing [...]
Growing your blog readership with Google Analytics Google Analytics is a powerful tool for monitoring all aspects of your blog’s traffic, from website referrals to search engine activity. It is also good for determining what keywords are already bringing visitors into your blog and further using that data to grow your readership. Log into your [...]
