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Two Tools For Optimizing Your Blog
After researching, writing, gathering links, and cropping images, optimizing a blog is usually the last thing a blogger thinks about. But the truth is, all that hard work could be going to waste if your blog isn’t being seen and the appropriate action isn’t being taken. Slow blog load times can discourage visitors from digging to deeply into your content. If a page doesn’t load fast... More...
Using A Social Browser For Social Networking
I have a new social media friend and no, I’m not talking about the tons of random friends requests you get on a daily basis. I’m talking about a piece of social networking software that can help you get your arms around the online social scene. I’m talking about Flock, the web browser that’s based off the Mozilla project. I know what your thinking. Who needs ANOTHER browser... More...
Don’t Be Shy. Ask For The Sale.
Where to place your email sign up form and RSS subscription badge is an interesting topic to me. I see a lot of variations and each solution seems to have it’s own set of mertis. Regardless of style and arrangement, the one most important piece of advice I could ever give a new blogger is to put their email and RSS subscription boxes above the fold, preferably at the top of their blog. If you... More...
What Do You Twitter About
UPDATE: Either I was smoking crack when I wrote this or these guys have changed their domain. Since I’m too cheap to afford a nasty habit like that it must be the other so, here is the link to TweetScan that works. I’ll go ahead and update the links in the post from twitterscan.com (which does show a listing in the WayBack Machines archives) to tweetscan.com. Today’s Microtween is... More...
How To Get Big Media Blog Exposure
Over the past few years blogs have enjoyed increased readership and visitor traffic. But, for the most part, the discussion about how to get traffic to your blog has involved a grocery list of techniques and ideas for bringing in new readers. I rarely hear anyone talking about how you can use offline methods or traditional media to gain blog traffic. Maybe it’s because as bloggers we try to... More...
Two Handy Blogging Tools For 2008
Here are two extremely useful tools that I am using in 2008 to help manage the information and media content I am producing and consuming. Anarchy Media Player – for adding video to your WordPress blog posts. This WordPress plug-in is extremely easy to install and use. I just uploaded the player folder to my WordPress plug-in folder and activated it. Now when I link to a video the player is automatically... More...
Breaking Down A Product Launch Blog Post
Rich Schefren’s Business Acceleration Program is set to launch this Thursday and Rich is really working the product launch cycle. He’s building anticipation, generating buzz, creating excitement with free give aways, reporting exciting response numbers, and posting to his blog like crazy. You and I could spend a month just breaking down all the pieces that have gone into the build up to... More...
How Do You Build Blog Traffic From Scratch
A few really good questions about how to get blog traffic have recently come in my email so I thought I would share the answers with you. To answer the questions I am drawing from my own personal experiences so if you have other suggestions or ideas, please share them in the comments for this article. I am sure others will appreciate the community feedback and my blog doesn’t use the nofollow... More...
Is BlogRush Better Than StumbleUpon
Which is better, BlogRush visitor traffic or Stumbleupon? This is a good question and one that has several possible answers. Let’s look at the traffic types for both visitor sources and then compare them both to get a better understanding. BlogRush was launched over the weekend and I signed up as soon as I heard it was open. Immediately I started seeing visitor traffic to my blog, OpenSourceMarketer.com.... More...
Top Ten Wordpress Plugins You Must Have Or Else
Do you ever wonder why some bloggers seem to enjoy greater success while exerting what seems like less effort than other bloggers who work twice as hard and only seem to get half as much done? Well, in this post I’m going to show you how the successful bloggers cheat the daily clock to get more benefit out of their efforts. No matter what you might think, blogging is hard work. Blogging it’s... More...
How To Add Blog Audio Using A Cell Phone
In article one, How To Create Text To Speech Blog Posts, of this three part series we used a free service to convert your text blog posts into downloadable audio files. In article two, How To Add Podcast Audio To Blog Posts, we examined what it takes to add a podcast to your blog. In this third and final article in the series we are going to learn how you can use your cell phone to create audio content... More...
How To Add Podcast Audio To Blog Posts
In the previous article of this three part series on adding audio to your blog we explored Talkr.com as a solution for offering text to speech audio publishing on your blog. In this article we’re going to cover the fundamentals of what it takes to include a podcast in your blog posts. Podcasting is very popular and a natural extension of blogging. But, before we get into the how of podcasting,... More...
How To Create Text To Speech Blog Posts
If you want to put audio on your blog but don’t know where to start then the next few articles in this series will introduce you to some of the available solutions for adding audio to your blog. In this article we’ll start by looking at a text to speech option. Then in the next few articles we’ll look at podcasting, paid services, and a free conference call solution. When we’re... More...
How To Conduct A Successful Phone Interview
If you are looking for creative ways to generate content and value for your blog readers or podcast listeners, then consider hosting a recorded call with someone who is an expert in you topic of interest. The recorded call can be turned into a downloadable MP3 as part of a series of audios, as content for a podcast, or as the basis for articles on your blog. You can even have the audio transcribed... More...
