Archive for the ‘Blogging Tips’ Category
by Dee Barizo on February 7th, 2010
From the early days of the blogosphere, savvy bloggers realized they could get traffic and links by offering free posts to other bloggers. The bloggers receiving the posts were happy to get free content. It was a classic win-win situation.
This strategy of guest posting is not only effective for SEO and referral traffic, but it also builds your reputation, brand, and credibility.
If you want to have a successful guest posting campaign, consider these 3 rules.
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Categories: Blogging Tips
Tags: guest posting, seo, Sunday Morning SEO
by Darnell Clayton on February 6th, 2010
With millions out of work throughout the world, many people (with extra time on their hands) are looking for extra ways to generate income by pursuing hobbies that they love.
For some that includes blogging, which might explain many of the “how do I start a blog” questions that I receive, as well as all the costs associated with starting one (at least for those who choose to self host their own content).
While there are many excellent blog platforms out there that do not require a person to have a server, for some the price range might be beyond their budget (especially those with monthly plans).
After scouring the internet for more hours than I care to admit, here are four blogging platforms for aspiring probloggers that cost less than $25 a year. Read More
Categories: Blog Software, Blogging Tips
Tags: Blogger, Live Journal, Tumblr
by Darnell Clayton on February 2nd, 2010
Have you ever tried to cook a steak without checking the time, temperature and (most importantly) the steak itself?
As silly as that sounds, the same is true when it comes to analyzing your blogs traffic and stats, which can provide invaluable feedback on the health of your blog.
For those fortunate enough to have an iPhone, here are four apps you should consider owning. Read More
Categories: Blogging Tips
Tags: Analytics, iphone
by Dee Barizo on January 31st, 2010
In my last post, I talked about using an SEO tool to evaluate a site’s link authority. In this post, let’s look at why you should be evaluating sites and how to apply the information you get from your research.
Getting quality backlinks is the best competitive advantage you can get in SEO. Backlinks are a major part of the search engines’ algorithms and it’s much harder to copy someone’s backlinks than their keywords.
You can focus on keywords but keywords are easy to implement. Once a webmaster figures out that they are important, he can look at the free keyword tools, find relevant keywords, and then add on their website. Compare that process to building links on quality sites.
That’s why the search engines place a lot of value to backlinks on their algorithms. With the early search engines, you could just place keywords on your site and you would rank pretty quickly. Savvy SEOs realized this and created many low quality sites that dominated the search results. Google became the best search engine by focusing more on links instead of keywords on a site. This focus helped Google create search results filled with more quality sites than their competitors.
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Categories: Blogging Tips
Tags: link building, seo, Sunday Morning SEO
by Darnell Clayton on January 28th, 2010
If there is one thing that every blogging pro had in common, it would be the fact that all of them have an image or video alongside of every post that they write.
Although there are are plenty of video editing apps available on Steve Job’s favorite geek toy (after the iPad of course), users may be wondering which photo apps (out of the hundreds available) are worth their hard earned cash.
While many photo apps pretty much duplicate each other (whether it comes to cropping, hue effects, sharpening,searching, etc.) here are 7 from the app store that have really stood out from the rest. Read More
Categories: Blogging Tips
Tags: iphone, Mobile Software
by Franky Branckaute on January 22nd, 2010
Among bloggers, especially those trying to make a buck with their sites there’s a myth. It helps them to improve their traffic and stats and ultimately should bring money and pay for their next cruise to Egypt, a marvellous country with an ancient history. A country we still speak about today and people travel in hordes to visit the pyramids, look at the Great Sphinx. Even Indiana Jones went to the Pyramids.
What the Egyptians never did though was this thing called SEO. Instead they created great content, a rich and bespoke culture and history. People still speak about their culture, visit the country and take pictures of the ruins.
First I’m going to tell you a secret: What the Egyptian Pharaohs did was perfect SEO. What the oil sheikhs in Dubai and Abu Dhabi do is the kind of SEO result most bloggers try to achieve. One country is still popular more than 2000 years later. The other… who will care about Dubai in 5 years? They even don’t have an Apple store there.
SEO Doesn’t Matter for Bloggers
- Setup a blog, start writing
- ???
- Profit!!!
Most of you will now want to click away and leave this page but hang in there for a second. I’m going to tell you all the SEO you’ll ever need. That’s right, after that you will not have to worry anymore about any ‘SEO’ at all.
If you think of the Egyptians you will understand that they would have been the ultimate bloggers, better than any SEO. Let’s have a look at how their great nation would have been the perfect blog. Read More
Categories: Blogging Tips
Tags: content, seo
by Scrivs on January 20th, 2010
Odds are if you are reading this site you own a blog. Odds are even better that your blog doesn’t get as much traffic as you want. Odds are even betterer(?) that if you could make a living from your blog you would do it. Guess what? It isn’t going to happen. You don’t deserve the traffic or the money. You don’t deserve the fame and recognition that can come with a big blog. Do yourself a favor and stop pretending.
If you are still around after reading that and thinking to yourself that I need to go to hell because you definitely deserve those things, then maybe you can explain to me why you do. Do you understand how much work it takes to make a site big? I don’t think you do because if you did you probably wouldn’t be wasting your time reading this entry. You would be off working on your site and wondering where you are going to take your next cruise. Read More
Categories: Blogging Tips
Tags: content
by Dee Barizo on January 17th, 2010
One of the easiest things you can do to improve your reputation on Google is exchange blogroll links with other blogs. This strategy is not the most powerful strategy in the world, but it can give you a small boost in rankings. And if you’re targeting different keywords than your competitors, you might even get big ranking improvements.
About two years ago, I started a blog on a popular TV show. I didn’t have time to do a comprehensive link building campaign, but I still wanted to get search traffic. I exchanged blogroll links with other blogs and my traffic increased by a couple thousand visitors per month.
Reciprocal links still have value despite what many SEO specialists say, but you do have to be smart about it. Here are two principles to keep in mind.
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Categories: Blogging Tips
Tags: blogrolls, seo, Sunday Morning SEO
by Franky Branckaute on January 13th, 2010
Not that long ago I declared 2010, The Year of The Return of Content but it seems that I didn’t make my message clear enough and some, albeit older, diseases have continued to dominate and takeover the blogosphere.
Spread like a wildfire, an unstoppable worm on his way to burn the burg.
Of course I mean the unstoppable Buttonitis and still immensely popular over-tagging hype, AKA social media design killers.
Buttonitis
Hold thou, O earth, now, since heroes may hold not
I like to think that I coined the term Buttonitis and if Urban Dictionary is any measure to go by, I have.
The term itself is that self-explanatory that there’s no need at all to define it as ‘When buttons take over the look over your site and hide the content’. We all know plenty of examples of this widespread disease and they come in different variations.
Being “It” Playing Hide and Go Seek The Content
Because we are that nice and wanted to highlight the scale of things, we faced the unthinkable and visited what is probably the prototype of modern buttonitis: The Mashable homepage. We highlighted the content for you. Read More
Categories: Blogging Tips
Tags: content, design, tips
by Darnell Clayton on January 12th, 2010
Five years ago if someone told me that we would be editing images on our cell phones and uploading them to our blogs just as easily as a laptop (or desktop), I probably would have laughed in their face.
Flash forward towards today and here I am now amazed that I am able to edit video (yes video!) at a fraction of the price I would have paid to place upon my laptop.
While the video editing apps are still in their infancy (at least upon the iPhone), here are seven of the best video apps that every video blogger blessed with the iDevice should own (plus a video of my ugly mug to help demonstrate their power). Read More
Categories: Blogging Tips, Blogging Tools
Tags: iphone, Mobile Software, video, Video Blogging
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