Sunday, September 5, 2010

What To Twitter And Include For Google Searches

I came across an interesting article the other day about Twitter and seo in general and I know there’s a constant stream of information about what works and what doesn’t in seo and social media, but this information came about as a result of a seminar hosted by SEOmoz in Seattle recently. In the ever changing world where people involved with search engine marketing are continually chasing Google’s tail to find out what the search engine is looking...

Blogosphere Trends + Guest Posting

This column is written by Kimberly Turner from Regator (a great tool that gathers and organizes the world’s best blog posts). – Darren While Darren and his family are on a well-deserved holiday, he has lined up enough pre-written content and guest posts to keep ProBlogger readers supplied with plenty of quality reading in his absence. So it makes sense that, this week, we’ll be focusing on the art of the guest post. The most important thing to remember is that guest posts are a win-win situation...

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Affiliate Marketing Blogs Get a Redesign

There’s nothing like a new custom wordpress theme to shake things up and get you motivated! I’m crazy about having a custom theme for my established blogs, it’s the best way to show you mean business and stand out from the crowd. With that said, I noticed two of my favorite affiliate marketing blogs recently had their own blogs completed redesigned. Let’s take a look! JonathanVolk.com The new theme over at JonathanVolk.com has added a lot more...

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Turn WordPress into Cash Generating Q&A Site

WP-Answers is a cool new plugin that will convert WordPress into a question and answers community like Yahoo Answers. People can register and ask questions and then other members can then answer these questions to gain points. The question asker can then choose the best answer which is promoted to the top and the answerer gets extra points. The plugin includes 6 premium themes that are fully widgetized and include a theme options panel. [ Theme...

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

How to Outsource Your Blog… Or Part of It

You don’t need to be a big-time blogger to need to outsource some aspect of your blog. A beginning blogger with a serious business plan might want to contract a designer to create a skin for their blog. A entrepreneurial blogger might want to outsource some writing, or have an agency provide social media strategy for the blog. There are plenty of reasons why you might outsource some aspect of your blogging. But once you’ve identified the need, how should you proceed? Don’t make your first step...

Listening to the Voice of the Audience

I was just reading Patti Stafford’s post on Staying Motivated when you are not seeing results and I had to chuckle to myself because I’ve just recently changed things up big time on my own blog. For seven years I’ve written about myself and my life through my blog. I started doing a photograph a day in 2005 and would post the photo and write something about it or about my family. I began to wonder why I wasn’t getting many comments. I figured...

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

A Four-Step Guide to Generating Sales Leads from Your Blog

Dean: Did you know you can use your blog to make money offline? Blogger: Offline? What is this “offline” you speak of? Dean: It’s the opposite of “online.” Blogger: (confused silence) Dean: You know. Offline. Not on the internet. The real world. Blogger: (shaking phone) Not only does this stupid phone drop my calls, now it’s translating them into crazy moon language. Okay, I jest. But to listen to some bloggers, you would think a blog’s only...