You can’t please everybody, so don’t even try.
Be honest with yourself when you decide what, how and why you write in your blog or on your website or even in your marketing materials. You will want to be genuine with your audience and the only way to do that is to own it. You can try to fake it, but I don’t suggest that because it will make your life harder than necessary. It may even cause you to put…
Success is in the mind of the beholder.
Measuring the success of a blog can be quite ambiguous and it should be based on the long term and short-term goals of the individual or business.
Consider how you measure the success of your blog.
Is it by…
the number of visitors?
the number of comments?
the Retweets?
the links from other bloggers to your posts?
How you assign a value on any one of these items depends on WHY you…
Blogging for Business
If the main goal of your blog is to increase traffic to your site and ultimately attract new clients, then this post is for you. This is going to be short and to the point.
Don’t be stingy
Stop worrying so much about giving away your knowledge. After all, it is your knowledge that will attract the right client. People don’t want a hard sell when they arrive at your website and aren’t going to engage in…
I was reading an article at Blogussion late last night, and I got fired up about the topic and the comments from the guest author. So rather than hijack his comments, I thought I would share my thoughts here with you to see what you think:
So, the article I am referring to talks about the New King is Marketing. I completely disagree with that statement, along with quite a few others that are commenting on that post.
Balance is…
I just got finished reading an article on Robs Web Tips about connecting with a-list bloggers, and this must be the tenth article I have read lately talking about these so-called “A-Listers”. While I really enjoyed Rob’s article, and I read several others while I was on his site (just discovered his site today and subscribed) which were excellent posts, I just really have a problem with this class warfare that non “A-Listers” are creating by constantly talking about the…
I read plenty of articles explaining proper SEO, keyword density, image optimization, title tags, backlinks etc, etc… It seems to me, while getting wrapped up in all that, bloggers are forgetting the most important factor of SEO: Your Content.
Article after article I see, while they might have all the right things going on in the background, forget about the human factor.
Sure you might (big might) be able to get up the SERP’s by trying to game the system,…
There are over 133 million blogs worldwide according to Technorati, that means that unless you are writing about underwater basket weaving (I see that one mentioned a lot), chances are there is plenty of competition in your niche. To separate you from every other blogger, you should be providing something they are not. While this is very difficult in some niches, it is not impossible.
Some blogs stand out because of a great design, or custom widgets. I prefer the…
