Business blogs give your website a boost in the search engine rankings, particularly with Google, Yahoo search, and Microsoft's MSN search.I have been saying that for awhile, not only here on this blog, but also in my article at SEO Chat called Blogs...
Blog News Agency: Could it work?
Adam Curry has formulated the idea of a Blog News Agency. Thanks to Trudy Schuett for the link.The Blog News Agency would be a cetnralized global network, providing blog based news to the mainstream media. As most of us are already aware, the major news...
We're on the blogging radio
Blogging as a radio show? It might work.The fertile mind of Jeremy Wright has brought forth the concept of blogging on radio.At first blush, the concepts of blogs and radio would seem to be miles apart. On closer examination, however, they seem to have...
Farm Computers I Have Known
***Here is a change of pace for your reading enjoyment. This is a humour column I sold to a Canadian farm publication a couple of years ago. For those who don't know, agriculture is one of the several sources of income I have to draw upon. By its very...
Paid for writing blogs
I was having a blogging discussion with some friends the other day.Needless to say, they had not heard much more about blogging than it involved discussing what the writer had for lunch.I was telling them about the concept of business blogs and how a...
Bloggers helping bloggers
Bloggers are a tremendous, if perhaps underutilized support group. We often see blogs, where people with various illnesses and concerns help and support one another. The blogging community forms, for them, a widespread therapy group. The realization...
Permanent links now working
I finally have this blog's permanent linking feature working.Yay!My thanks to Jeremy Wright for his fixing my delinquent coding.For those of you who may not be aware, I am nowhere close to a computer coder. I learned how to use a computer the hard way....
Publicity and bloggers
I have written a few times about the value of blogs to your public relations and publicity efforts.By keeping and maintaining a business blog, you have a built in press release, updated on a daily basis. All you have to do is alert the mainstream media....
E-mail as a posting idea
E-mail.Blog comments.Both are huge, and usually untapped, sources of blog post ideas.Reading and even posting selected e-mails from readers, is a healthy source of post inspirations and concepts for even the most prolific bloggers. Highly regarded baseball...
Blog stats: helping your readers
It's often considered to be bad form, according the stiff upper lip types who care about such niceties, to post about your blog statistics.They say it's not interesting to your readers. Perhaps it is boring to some readers, but I am personally very interested...
Yahoo search is all new
For those not aware of the wild, and occasionally wacky world of internet search engines, former search powerhouse Yahoo is getting back into the game, in major league style.Yahoo is challenging industry dominant Google search, with a fresh new algorithm,...
Business blog: how to article
I just had published a fairly indepth article entitled Blogs and Search Engine Optimization published on the SEO Chat website.For those of you who are not familiar with SEO Chat, it's a site and forum where the main topics of discussion are getting higher...
Blogging up to date
Hi all.I have been out of the blogging picture, so to speak, with illness.I am attempting to catch up on the comings and goings in the blogging world, which turns with amazing rapidity. Even a few days of missed blog entries, and a regular blog reader...
Where are my posts?
I am very ill with something I managed to catch, but I don't know what it is. I am posting half awake and half asleep.I'll be back with posts soon.Than...
Business blogs vs e-mail newsletters
As recently as a couple of years ago, people looked forward to receiving your company's opt-in newsletter.Is that the case anymore?Opening an e-mail box, only to see hundreds and even thousands of e-mails, is a sight that scares off even the most e-mail...
Visitor traffic: Building with fun
You want more visitor traffic, I'm sure. Well, maybe you have enough already, but you can always use a few more friends, right?Have you ever tried using those personality quizzes that appear on so many blogs? Since most people succumb to the temptation...
Internet sales: Make it easy to buy
Buying products online should be easy right?Well, if you read some of the concerns at Nice Dream, that doesn't seem to be the case.Online retailers may not be putting the same effort, into their internet e-commerce ventures, as into their brick and...
Can blogs get you jobs?
As blogs and blogging become more mainstream, the question of whether employment could be an end result was certain to arise.Many bloggers are very good writers. Many are improving as writers thanks to the continued practice gained through regular blog...
Blog business: Relationship marketing
Relationship marketing.You've often heard the term used, but were never really certain what it meant. It does sound kind of touchy feely, doesn't it? Really all it means, however, is building good long term customer relations.To turn your present marketing...
Carnival of the Capitalists selects my post
Again this week, the prestigious Carnival of the Capitalists is featuring another of my blog posts.This week, as usual, a different blog is hosting Carnival of the Capitalists. We find the Carnival has set up its tent at political blog The Trommetter...
Equity Financing: A Case Study
I was talking with some friends of mine the other day, and it struck me that they knew little about roller derby at all. That came as a surprise to me, as they were all fans of the Rock-n-Rollergames show from the late 1980s. Because they never received...
Google PageRank Questions and Answers
Q. What is Google PageRank?A. Google PageRank (one word) is the measure of the relative importance of a web page on the internet. The numbers rank from 0 to 10. The higher the number, the better the PageRank.Q. Is the PageRank (PR) number for the entire...
High search engine rankings: Trend catching
High search engine rankings Google, Yahoo, AOL, MSN, Inktomi, and other search engines can be achieved by spotting a trend and holding on tight.The relatively new and unknown Melon Blog was able to do exactly that, by catching a wave.By posting an entry...
Fired Up
The always thoughtful David St. Lawrence has a tremendous post discussing the unpleasantries of being fired from your job.David writes from personal experience, and having been fired myself in the past, I fully understand his feelings and his point of...
Incoming Links: Three Ideas For More
Incoming links are a good thing.We know that. They mean more visitors to your blog from the linking blog. The links boost your Google PageRank (the measure of importance of your blog on the internet). Links give your blog a much needed boost in the search...
Search Engines Like Blog Titles
Titles for your blog posts? Of course you have them.Do you know how important titles are to search engines?Google and the fast rising Inktomi (possibly becoming the main source for Yahoo searches) like blog post titles. They key on them, in fact.When...
Carnival of the Capitalists again
Once again, I have an article included in the prestigious Carnival of the Capitalists.This week's edition is hosted by Steve Verdon at Deinonychus antirrhopus. I didn't make that blog name up. Steve did.As always, there are many absolutely brilliant...
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