From the monthly archives:

October 2006


Retail blogs: new retailing tool

October 31, 2006

Retail stores are coming to see the value of blogging, “Go Blogging For Customers”, a report in Forbes says. The rules for blogging in the report, which include “stick to the basics, be natural, and appeal to the search engines” apply to any blogger. If you’re a freelance blogger, take a fresh look at the [...]

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The big business of blogging

October 30, 2006

Jason McCabe Calacanis’s “Email with a journalist..” exchange is an excellent primer on how to make money blogging: > > 1) Quite simply: CAN blogging be business? If so, can it be a money- > > maker in its own right for a lot of people, or just for a few, like > > yourself? [...]

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The SEO keyword secret to getting blog traffic

October 25, 2006

Want to increase the traffic to your blog? The easiest way is by choosing keywords which are entered into the search engine query boxes by the people you want to attract. Easy, right? Well… Yes and no. If you choose keywords which are highly competitive, you’re shooting yourself in the foot. You won’t rank (get [...]

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Blogging fun: use humor on your blog

October 22, 2006

Are you having fun with your blog? Whether you’re writing a freelance blog for a business, or are writing on your own monetized blog(s), try to have some fun with it. Occasionally, on my writing blog, I write a “Giggle of the Day” post, when I come across something that’s laugh-aloud funny, and blog about [...]

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When your blog is your Web site

October 21, 2006

One of the major benefits of using a blog as a Web site is the lack of fuss – you don’t need to figure out how to design a site, and you don’t need to spend big money on site design. That’s been done for you. So how do you turn your blog into a [...]

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Blogging goals: Give yourself a target and beat blog boredom

October 20, 2006

I’ve had a couple of questions this week about “blog boredom”. Both bloggers had started blogs around two months ago, and were finding blogging a strain. Blog boredom usually sets in before you start getting significant traffic from the search engines. It takes time for your blog to become indexed, and even after the blog [...]

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Blogging the holiday season: it’s all about SALES

October 20, 2006

Christmas is coming, and the geese are getting fat… customers’ wallets, that is. Whether you’re creating your own little blog empire, or are freelance blogging for a business, the holiday season, which is just about on us, is the time to make sales. Ideally, you’ll prepare for the end-of-year sales season right throughout the year. [...]

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Top quality free images for your blog

October 19, 2006

Dreamstime – gorgeous free photos for your blog (click to enlarge) You can never be too thin or too rich, and a blogger can never have too many images. Blog away – Dreamstime, my favorite stock photo site, offers free images to make your blog shine. Technorati Tags: blog images, stock photos, free photos Related [...]

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Blogging and SEO: keywords – think indexing

October 17, 2006

Web-spam, click to enlarge I’m nervous about bringing up search engine optimization (SEO) and keywords for blogs, because I know some bloggers will take a good thing much, much too far. Yes, it’s all about the keywords, but think indexing Got a reference book with an index in your office? Back in the day, you [...]

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Blogging when it’s not: the Wal-mart flog blog

October 16, 2006

I heard of the fake blog “Wal-marting across America” via B.L. Ochman’s “Strike Two for Edelman PR as Their Second Fake Wal-mart Blog is Revealed”. It’s a train wreck. Why, oh why, would anyone do this? I feel for the two bloggers, who are incredibly naive, even though one (a staff photographer for the Washington [...]

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