This week sees an Acme sponsored approach for the travelling business show, recognized by one and all as Carnival of the Capitalists makes a stop at a blog where small business and economics, along with a few untimely anvils, are always on the edge of...
Search engines and directories: Knowing the difference
Everyone wants their blog indexed by the major search engines. It’s a reasonable desire on the part of a blogger. The most important search engines are Google, Yahoo Search, MSN Search, the new Amazon owned A9.com, Ask Jeeves, AOL Search, Teoma, and...
Blog posting frequency: How often?
Blog posting frequency is one of the most frequently asked blog questions.How often should a blogger post to a blog is a question that has an ambiguous answer.It all depends.My personal preference, in the form of the obligatory disclaimer, is to write...
Previous posts still bring visitors
Blog posting on a regular and long term basis pays off in visitor traffic.Older posts are like a good gift that keeps on giving.Like a beautiful flowering apple tree, a blog continues to grow and bear fruit. It also provides sustenance from the past,...
Blog interviews: A growing trend
Blog interviews, and in particular blogger to blogger interviews, are becoming an important feature of the blogosphere.More and more we see one well known blogger interviewing and picking the brain of another blog writer. The results are usually very...
RSS teleseminar with Rodney Rumford a success
The second of the tremendous teleseminar series, hosted by John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing was held Wednesday, February 23 at noon Central Standard Time.The special guest this week was Rodney Rumford, the highly knowledgeable founder of My RSS Creator.com...
2005 Business Blogging Award Winners announced
The 2005 Business Blogging Awards winners have been announced.Congratulations to the winners in the various categories, and also to all of the nominated blogs.It's just too bad that everyone couldn't win the vote, as all of the nominated blogs are true...
Bloggers as book publishers: Redux
Bloggers are might be the ideal book publishers, not to mention authors of books, but the book publishing process is filled with lots of hard work and a need to keep good records.That includes careful recording of everything completed, or written, or...
RSS teleseminar with Rodney Rumford
The second of the tremendous teleseminar series, hosted by John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing is set for Wednesday, February 23 at noon Central Standard Time.The special guest this week is Rodney Rumford, the highly knowledgeable founder of My RSS Creator.com...
Bloggers as experts
Blogs are a powerful tool.In fact, maintaining a blog can transform an ordinary everyday person into a local, national, or even international expert in their field.That phenomenon can definitely can happen for business bloggers.Just ask my good friend...
Carnival of the Capitalists at The Raw Prawn
This week sees a business and economics approach for the travelling business show, recognized by one and all as Carnival of the Capitalists makes a stop at a blog where economics, business, and politics are always on the menu.This week's tremendous lineup...
Bloggers as book publishers
Bloggers are naturals when it comes to the book publishing industry.It makes sense when you think about it.Blogging is micro-publishing, done by yourself, on your own timetable.Bloggers are prolific and talented writers, and virtually (pun intended)...
Trackback for Blogger hosted blogs
Among the many weaknesses of using Blogger as a blog host, is the lack of the very important trackback feature.Trackback of blog postings enables other bloggers to carry on a conversation, over several different blogs, on the same topic. The discussion...
Wearable blogs: Bloggerwear clothing
Wearable blogs might be just around the corner.I can see it now......the latest blog post scrolls by on the blogger's clothing.Well...that idea might be a bit into the future, but don't despair.Bloggerwear is here today.Susannah Gardner of Buzz Marketing...
Band names: An idea
The Bloggers.What a great name for a rock band! Or perhaps something in the indie music, or alternative music fields, perhaps.I offer the name as an idea for budding rock stars everywhere.Can't you just picture it.The Bloggers sweep the world in the...
Interviews: Success is only a few words away
If you are like most blogers, you are constantly seeking new and different ways to promote your blog or website. You want more visitor traffic, as potential customers and clients, or even simply as readers for your thoughts and ideas, but you’ve found...
Business Blogging Awards voting closed
The voting for The 2005 Business Blogging Awards is now completed.The polls were closed as of noon Pacific Standard Time today.Overall, the concept of honouring business blogs was a good one. For too long, the various blog awards shows have ignored business...
Blogging: A contrarian viewpoint
Blogging has some possible bad points?Say it ain't so!After all, on this business blog, the chances of anything bad ever being said about blogs is akin to claiming the Earth is flat.Right?Well, partially true.There are still many unreconstructed blog...
Carnival of the Capitalists at Weekend Pundit
This week sees a thought provoking adventure for the travelling business show, recognized by one and all as Carnival of the Capitalists makes a stop at a blog where politics, economics, and opinion are the order of the day.This week's tremendous lineup...
Google filters: How to avoid them
Some of the major concerns, of many search engine optimization (SEO) professionals, are the various alleged filters employed by Google. It is thought, that the search engine giant has placed many dampening and blocking devices, in its algorithm. They...
Blog comments help everyone
Writing comments on other people's blogs helps everyone.Comments on another blogger's post helps them.Placing comments on other blogs helps you.Talk about your win/win situation.When you visit other blogs, adding a comment makes the blog post writer...
Advertising: Testing its value
A businessperson once said that she knew one half of her advertising expenditure was wasted. The problem was she was not sure which half that was. Is that how you feel about your advertising spending? If so, then you need to test and track your ads for...
Linking out is seeing the light for blogs
Few topics in search engine optimization, cause as many heated disputes, as the concept of linking out to other sites. Whenever the subject of linking to other blogs and traditional sites arises, in conversation or on and internet message forum, the...
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