Archive for May 10th, 2006

Business Blog Networking

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Bloggers are great networkers.  Anyone that’s blogging at this stage of the game is a person who likes to:

talk
meet people
share ideas

It stands to reason that these same types of people are ones that enjoy conferences.  Which, of course, explains the large amount of blogging, social networking, podcasting and web 2.0 conferences that we all get [...]

iTunes Marketing

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

As with all marketing endeavors, the easiest way to market to a demographic is to ‘get inside their heads’ and understand how they think.  Of course, that’s easier said than done.
However, with iTunes it’s not actually that hard to do.  Look at popular podcasts.  You can do a search for a term like "social networking" [...]

Low Paying Keywords

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

We all know AdSense is a great way to promote your blog. However, it’s difficult to afford it’s use long term.
To utilize this powerful method of getting your name out there, consider using low paying keywords. I like to go to Overture and use their Keyword Selector Tool to find keywords that [...]

Subscription Chicklets

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Because of the ’stickiness’ that an RSS enabled site creates, you should place a great deal of thought into helping your readers discover your RSS feeds. 
Notice how most popular sites put their subscription chicklets (ie Subscribe with MyYahoo! and Subscribe with Bloglines buttons) in the area of the screen as what is referred to [...]

Share Your OPML

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

OPML allows other users to take your blog subscriptions and easily add them to their blog reader.  OPML allows for any number of lists to be easily transferred, but most of the time when you are referring to OPML on blogs, you’re discussing blog subscription transferring.
Share Your OPML is a site that’s gaining rapid popularity.  [...]