That is a very good question and today’s guest poster Kathy Partak is going to tell us why. Why use Twitter? By Kathy Partak Social Media is the new frontier and if you aren’t making your way to learn how to get involved, you’re being left behind. It doesn’t matter if you have a home-based [...]
How I got called a spammer by Rose DesRochers Contact Commenter is a WordPress plugin developed by Ajith Edassery. Contact Commenter allows you to send a mass email to your commenters instantly. I don’t recommend using the plugin. Actually, I am removing it from my personal blog. Here is why:
By Sharon Housley Podcasting is a great new medium, but creating a podcast is only half of the work. Promoting a podcast is equally critical to it’s success. 1. Educate the Public. It is important to remember that podcasting is a relatively new technology and not everyone understands or knows what podcasting is. It is [...]
By S. Housley Reading RSS Feeds While many have resisted the urge to decipher the meaning behind the acronym RSS, the vast majority of technically knowledgeable online surfers have begun incorporating RSS into their daily routines. Why go through the hassle of understanding something new, the novice might want to know? Because it saves time, [...]
By Wayne Hurlbert How many people are linking to my blog? That’s the question asked by most bloggers, whether to measure the blog’s popularity, or to vaguely place its ranking in the various search engines. Most bloggers have heard somewhere that having more incoming links improves rankings in Google. Very few blog owners move beyond [...]
By S. Housley There is little argument from webmasters and publishers that RSS brings in traffic. So once you’ve made the leap and created a feed, how do you tell your visitors about the feed? 1. Submit Your RSS Feed to RSS Directories. This will not only increase the number of sites linking to your [...]
By DJ Nelson A lot of people want to blog because they see it as something they should have, but they don’t want the chore of maintaining one. You have a business to run, you have a family to manage, and perhaps you really don’t enjoy writing. That doesn’t mean that you can’t create interesting [...]
By Wayne Hurlbert Blogs can change your life. In fact, if you post to your blog for any prolonged period of time, the blog is almost certain to be the catalyst for some life altering experiences. It’s the nature of the blog that’s the cause of this success. When a business adds a blog component [...]
By Sharon Housley New websites are being launched daily. In order to compete, webmasters need to find alternative ways of producing themed websites. Highly focused articles are often sought by wembasters. Why? Because content on the web is still king! In order to attract search engines and site visitors, webmasters rely heavily on providing new, [...]
By Donyell (DJ) Nelson 1.You have your own domain name and web hosting but you decide to host your blog elsewhere. Why? If your website is www.anythinghere.com then your blog should be hosted at www.anythinghere.com. There is no reason for you to use an external blog service. First of all you are putting the control [...]
