From the monthly archives:

June 2007


A blog that’s a Web site – via TypePad

June 29, 2007

When I suggest to a small business owner that a blog might be a useful business tool, I often hear: “I don’t want a blog – I want a Web site!” “A blog IS a Web site,” I reply, “you can create a site that looks like a Web site on a blog platform.” Now [...]

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Traffic building: Eight ways to get links to your blog

June 28, 2007

The Web is built on links. If you can get a link from a blog which has high traffic, your blog will get a boost, not only immediately, but more importantly long term, because links from high traffic blogs give your blog legitimacy and visibility. “Link-building” is an art form. A decade ago, you got [...]

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A Web site versus a blog: why not have both?

June 27, 2007

There’s an interesting discussion on “Web Site Woes: Why Can’t I Just Kill It & Blog?”: I get such dismal traffic to my Customized Newsletters website that I wake up with dreams of trashing it altogether. Why can’t I just put it all on a blog? Blogging is something I know how to do and [...]

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Five steps to help you to make money blogging

June 27, 2007

I’ve been writing professionally for 30 years, and if there’s an easier way to make money than blogging, I haven’t found it – and I’ve looked. So how do you make money blogging? Most new bloggers want to make the process more complex than it is. Keep it simple. The more simple your process, the [...]

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Money blogging: getting paid to post on your blog

June 25, 2007

When “cash for blogging” options arrived a year or so ago, there was an uproar in the blogosphere. Traditional bloggers believed in blog purity. Get paid to post on their blog? Never! Bloggers who cheerfully accepted payment were derided. Times change. In “The Haunting Archives of Ethically Driven Publishers” Aaron Wall comments that “advertising techniques [...]

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My current favorite blogging platforms and why I like them

June 24, 2007

TeraPad There are dozens of blog platforms, and I’ve tried many of them. Some are great. Some are horrible: I spent three figures on one platform which was a complete and utter disaster, and which I won’t name. My current favorites are WordPress, TypePad and TeraPad. Why I like WordPress WordPress is as simple, or [...]

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Another beautiful WordPress theme from Performancing

June 23, 2007

I love WordPress, and as an aficionado, I’m always on the lookout for new themes. Performancing’s been producing gorgeous themes, and they’ve outdone themselves with this theme for photo blogs. Makes you feel like starting a photo blog just to use the theme, doesn’t it? Technorati Tags: themes, WordPress, photo blog Related PostsEstranged: Latest Performancing [...]

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Blog traffic: you don’t need huge traffic to get results

June 22, 2007

Every blogger wants traffic. But have you asked yourself WHY? You don’t need hundreds of thousands of visitors a day to your blog (although it would be nice), you just want enough traffic to help you to achieve your blog’s goals. You want results. For example, the main goal of this blog is to win [...]

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Blog content: how often should you post to a blog?

June 21, 2007

Problogger has an interesting post “8.9 Posts Per Week – Too Many? Not Enough?”. They conducted a mini-survey, and discovered that the respondents’ average number of posts was 8.9 per week. Obviously the bloggers who responded were people who take blogging seriously. So, are more posts per day/ week better? It obviously depends on your [...]

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Affiliate blogging: the more you blog and promote, the more money you make

June 20, 2007

Whenever I visit Amazon.com, before I decide whether or not a book is for me, I read the reader reviews. I scour the Web for reviews of just about anything that I want to buy, and I’m sure that you do this too. Everyone does it. We hate to get caught out when we buy [...]

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