Posts Tagged ‘linking’

If You Build Them, They Will Come

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Last week I posted on the importance of link building, and today I would like to expand on that topic a bit.  The purpose of blog marketing is to get your weblog as much exposure as possible in the hope that the end result will be customers who are interested in the services you provide.
There [...]

Is Good Content Enough?

Friday, February 29th, 2008

If you’ve read this blog for awhile, you know that having quality content is an important part of a business blog. Your readers will not only appreciate content that’s interesting and relevant, they will also reward your blog with all-important inbound links to you material.
But does quality content guaranteelinks? Can you be certain that [...]

Why Search Engines Like Link Building

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

When considering all aspects that will make your blog more visible in search engines, link building should be on the list, if not close to the top.  According to Wikipedia, “Reciprocal linking between websites is an important part of the search engine optimization process because Google uses link popularity algorithms (defined as the number of [...]

Blog Site Marketing

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Blog Marketing is how I spent a good bit of today. Not marketing my own blog, but helping someone else with theirs.
 
Want to know what I was doing earlier today? I received, and then acted upon, an email from a friendly competitor who writes about the same subject I do in one of the other [...]

Blogging Tips: Effective Commenting (part one)

Friday, March 10th, 2006

How do I effectively comment on someone’s site?
This is one of the most frequently asked questions I get.  Every company online wants to create buzz about their company.  To do so effectively, you’ll need to pay close attention to the Dos and Don’ts of Effective Commenting.
Purpose
What do you want to get out of commenting?-The satisfaction [...]

The Full Feed Debate

Monday, February 20th, 2006

While some bloggers complain that full-text feeds are the only ones they’ll read (Scoble), some declare full-text feeds are the only ones that protect you from scraping (Pirillo).
Personally, I think you’re going to be scraped either way.  You can download a free RSS scraper, easily thanks to Google, and scrape any site, whether it provides [...]

Linking to provide value to your content’s audience

Sunday, September 11th, 2005

The Guardian article "Access denied" describes the monetization of the Internet, and includes the appealing story of a homeless man who started a blog:
Jamie’s Big Voice gets readers from around the world, sometimes in their hundreds, sometimes in their thousands. He was invited to a party in Westminster where the Speaker of the House of [...]