A Very Productive Video Conference
Yesterday afternoon I enjoyed a Google Hangout with the three other Newsletter Partners, Sheryl Loch, Mitch Mitchell and Ben Barden. This was by far the most productive Hangout we’ve had to date so I thought I would share some of the highlights with you.
Newsletter Frequency
We’ve been sending the Hot Blog Tips Newsletter out four times a week, one for each partner; now we’re going to send just twice a week. We’ll send my Blogging Tip and Sheryl’s Weekly Video Tip out on Mondays and Ben’s Quick Blogging Tip and Mitch’s Featured Blog Tip will go out on Thursdays. That’s just two issues a week with twice the value. What? You’re not subscribed? Subscribe today, it’s free blogging tips by four pro bloggers. Nuff said!
Newsletter Theme
Ben’s wife happens to design newsletter templates so we’re going to hire her to put together a nice template for the Hot Blog Tips Newsletter. She did a fantastic job on Ben’s Newsletter so I’m excited to see what she comes up with.
Blog/SEO Changes
Sheryl and I stayed after class and came up with a couple of post ideas and discussed a few SEO tactics. More on the blog posts later but for the SEO stuff, we decided to go No Follow for the most part. Those that comment correctly, often and/or share the post via CommentLuv will still have the opportunity for do-follow links but gone are the do-follow comments that are there simply as a link building task by those bloggers. We also discovered a couple of things like multiple H1 tags and such on the blog and we’re fixing those right away.
Watch Us Live On Air Next Sunday
Here’s the big one! I’m super excited about this idea. Next Sunday at 1PM Eastern Time we are going to get together for another Hangout but this time we’ll do a Hangout On Air that YOU can watch live, in real time, right from Google Plus or YouTube. We may even have a surprise guest and you will be able to participate via chat.
Like I said, this week’s Google Hangout was super productive and I would encourage more bloggers to network together the way we have as newsletter partners.
Can You Attend?
What do you think? Do you have any ideas or comments about our recent newsletter changes? Have you tried Google Hangouts out? It’s basically a very cool online video conference program. Will you be there for our live Hangout this Sunday? I certainly hope you can make it and you have my personal invitation to attend.
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It was great to chat with you guys and I hope to see some more people listening in on Sunday. Looking forward to it!
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Thanks Ben, It really is pretty exciting and should be a lot of fun. We’ll see you Sunday.
It was cool to finally “meet” you and find out a bit more about you!
Sorry that Brian and Mitch were a bit out of line. I try to keep them straightened out, it is just so hard! ;-}
Brian and Mitch are the two keeping you in line young lady. lol
Haven’t tried Google hangout at all, but it sure sounds fun. It would be nice getting a chance to talk to all of you or even if its just to listen in. I love what you all are doing here.
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They are pretty fun Sonia, we’ll have to have you on as a guest some time.
Yes – you have to love the excellent sharing opportunities Google+ Hangouts has brought to the world of social sharing and communication. This is one of the features from Google+ that still deserves praise today for the initiative they took in offering the user such a great Sharing options.
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It’s true Anton, everything from video conference to screen sharing and able to record and broadcast in real time too? We’ve came a long way since the days of AOL messenger.
I think the blog/SEO work is the most valuable information to give someone! It is the most important information! I can’t get enough of your blogs! i really enjoy reading all of them! you guys seem like a really fun group of guys!
Thanks Jake and I’ll try to address SEO in one of the hangouts.
Thank you for the invitation, I will make sure to be there on Sunday. Only tried Google hangouts with family members.
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thanks for sharing
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Good deal James, thanks.
Hey Brian this is so awesome, you know I want to get into the Google hangout so if you ever want to do one with me let me know, I also know Jeevan Jacob from Blog Networking 101 was also mentioning it in out Twitter Chat Today. P.S. I would love to have you as a guest on our Twitter Chat as well, we can discuss Blogging, Google hangouts, your blog, and more.
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That sounds fun Brian, as long as the Twitter Chat is on the weekend.
This seems great. Google Hangouts can be the best place to have a conference and discuss stuff like these. If you do it in future, can I join in?
The goal is to have one every week Rajkumar, eventually.
You did a pretty fun discussion on Google hangout and happy you’re not going to change the Comment to no-follow.
Great news with the do-follow links, however it’s good you try to maintain your blog effectively against spammers they are everythere. Thanks for keeping the CommentLuv anyway
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IT seems very enjoyful discussion in Google hangouts keep this work going on in future
next time i want to join Google hangout sessions please let me know when it will be going happen on next time.
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