New Year, Great Look and Big Plans – Hello 2012!

Blogging Goals And Resolutions

I’m pretty excited to post our first article of 2012. HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone! We’re starting the year with a brand new look. I spent the better part of yesterday setting up this new theme by wplook^($) and all of the work involved with this type of project. Overall, I am pretty satisfied with the look. If it performs as expected, I think we’ll be set for a while. Let me know what you think.

I debated whether or not to write a New Year’s Resolution type post or not but I got caught up in the excitement and decided to share our plans for Hot Blog Tips. I’ll limit it to just a handful of goals for now, we all have work to do, right? Continue reading →

Three Underused Blog Comment Generating Techniques

I could easily change the title of this Thursday’s Quick Blogging Tip to, “Three Under-Used Relationship Building Techniques“.

I have been blessed with some of the greatest blogging friends online. You comment, share and help one another. Thank You for that. One question I consistently get asked is, “How are you getting so many people to comment on your blog?”. There are plenty of steps we, as bloggers, take every day to encourage our readers and subscribers to comment. We take the time to reply to blog comments, we add a call to action by actually asking for comments on every post and make it easy for people to post comments by eliminating silly hoops to jump; or at least we should. Continue reading →

Linking Out To Other Blogs And Getting Noticed For It

Getting The Attention When Linking To Other Blogs

image - Blog Links Linking out to other blogs is a great way of building business relationships, share relevant information and support your content. Today’s Quick Blogging Tip Thursday topic will be getting noticed for linking out to other blogs.

Is Linking Out To Other Blogs A Good Idea?

Before we get into the best ways of getting recognized for your outgoing links, I’ll spend a few seconds on whether it’s even a good idea or not. There will always be a great debate on linking out to other websites with varying degrees of opinion on either side. Many bloggers refuse to link out, afraid they will leak “link juice“, send traffic running to the competition or that it will make them look amateurish. I reject the idea that being stingy with links is “good for business“. That’s goes for the no-follow issue as well but without getting into that debate, I will just leave it with a quote by SEOptimise,

Outgoing links are one of the most underestimated weapons in the arsenal of every SEO and webmaster. Continue reading →

15 Ways Google Alerts Help Bloggers

Google Alerts are simply automated messages sent to your Gmail account whenever Google indexes web content that included your selected keywords or keyword phrases. This is a free tool provided by Google. You can choose to include several keywords to narrow down the search alerts or even put your keywords in “quotes” to even further narrow down the relevancy. Continue reading →

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Linking Out To Other Blogs And Getting Noticed For It

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Is Linking Out To Other Blogs A Good Idea?

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