There’s a (long!) blog written by Amanda Lewis on the Yale Herald site regarding self-promotion as it relates to blogs. Although she takes her time, she does a decent job of covering the basics of self-promotion and the benefits that come from doing it well.
The piece is written from a student perspective, but don’t discard [...]
There’s no way around it: blogging takes time. When it comes to blog marketing, one question that comes up a great deal is authenticity. Can a blog authored by a professional writer achieve the same authenticity as one written by the CEO?
Yes. The perspective of the writer may be different, but that’s true regardless of [...]
One of the mistakes bloggers make concerns the frequency of their posts. Your blog traffic will increase substantially if you post consistently. Some bloggers choose the daily posting schedule; others post less frequently, but still manage to maintain a regular posting schedule.
Your best bet is to be consistent, regardless of the posting schedule you [...]
To make the most of business blogging, you’ll need to commit some time and energy toward learning good blogging techniques. While your blog content should focus on your audience, you’ll want to stay mindful of the opportunities you’ll have to promote, optimize and market your blog.
A good training course can help you recognize and manage [...]
You know that you need to promote your blog, and you know about blog directories and catalogs, but you’re looking for other ways to build links. Blog promotion isn’t limited to directory listings. You can use other avenues to build permanent links to your blog and to your site.
First, look at your business. What do [...]
There’s a nice interview with Matt Cutts on 4Holteliers.com. Matt Cutts is in charge of Google’s Web Spam team, and in the interview, he talks about using your Web site to reach your target customer. As a little bonus, the site has posted the 20-minute video version of the interview as well. It [...]
What comes to mind when you hear the word blog? Is it a bunch of words on a web page, ideally expressing a message of some sort to the reader? That is what many people first think of when they hear this word, and, initially, this is what many first time blogs are comprised of. [...]
Yahoo! has just announced that they have expanded the number of ad keywords a site may exclude to 250 terms, up from 20 exclusion terms previously. Yahoo’s Excluded Words act on context sensitive ads displayed in search results. These excluded words can be applied to ad groups and entire ad campaigns. Yahoo’s exclusion approach is [...]
Although in the grand scheme of things, RSS feeds are novel additions to the World Wide Web, the fact of the matter is that they are not going anywhere anytime soon, if ever. They have become a welcome aid to many businesses because they offer a way to get significant information to customers fast.
Remember the [...]