Blog Training with Posterous is a great way to get used to blogging on a regular basis. Posterous is a quick and easy way to create short posts via email. No sign up, no profile to create, just an email account where you send your posts.
Here’s the home screen…you will notice at the top [...]

Google is deploying “universal search” – a comprehensive search result that provides semantic results from multiple content sources. Given that a Google search will produce relevant Web pages, blogs, photos, videos, audio clips and other media types when a user types in a search term, can you really optimize for semantic search?
In a word, yes. [...]

Corporate blogging is quickly coming into its own. The Internet is an awesome medium because it’s so good at putting people directly in touch with one another. Solid corporate blogging strategy takes advantage of this ability, but if not executed well, the results can be disappointing at best, and disastrous at worst.
Corporate blogging is just [...]

Adweek covered a recent study conducted by Universal McCann that shows some interesting things about US consumers and social media. The survey was a repeat of one done in September 2006 by the research firm. The second survey showed that the number of survey respondents who regularly read blogs jumped from just over 50 percent [...]

Yesterday, I wrote about why small businesses should blog, and said that one of the primary benefits of blogging was the ability to reach specific consumers. Blogging also provides a great opportunity for small businesses because many big competitors don’t take advantage of social media. The opportunity isn’t limited to writing blogs, either. Blog advertising [...]

Last week, I talked about the value of enabling comments on your blogs. Comments from readers are like gold because they can tell you how well you’re reaching them with your message. Leaving comments on other blogs is likewise valuable, not only as a blog promotion tool, but also as a way to keep up [...]

Small business owners are developing a big interest in RSS marketing. Business blogging is just hitting stride, and on the horizon are other exciting tools that can improve search engine visibility and draw customers to your site.
Drawing customers to a site is one thing, but how do you keep them coming back? A good RSS [...]

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 [...]

WordPress has proven itself to be an good program for some to utilize for writing your blog.  It’s a favorite of a high number of individuals and businesses all over the world.  Although WordPress can be a favorable blogging program for those just starting out, it can be slightly remedial for the image you are [...]