Blogging Is Still Relevant
With all the hype on Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin, you would think that blogs would be a thing of the past. Blogs have actually gotten stronger in the online world. Blogs have morphed into many different ways of presenting offerings from businesses. About 8 years ago, blogs have started to resemble conventional websites and many [...]
Bloggers With A Business Has The Edge
World renown marketer and author, Seth Godin has identified the small business person and the entrepreneur as the key to the future of our country’s prosperity. He states that we have seen the end of the industrial revolution. Although he doesn’t mention the information revolution, he does mention how valuable the small business person is [...]
Video And Social Media Is King
If you truly want to get the highest website rank for your blog with all the search engines, then you should be posting video to as many free video hosting sites as you can. There is a site called www.tubemogul.com that is built for webmasters who want to put up videos and blast them to [...]
Blog Design Is Important
The best design you can have regarding your blog is simple……make it simple! I had mentioned in an earlier blog post that the common elements of a blog is the header, the post area, the sidebar and the footer. All blogs contain these features. It is a matter of personal preference on how you want [...]
Is Blogging Dead?
It seems that blogging is dying with some age groups lately. According to the Pew Research Bureau, blogging among people ages 12 to 17 has fallen about half during 2006 and 2009. In the 18 to 33 year old group, blogging has fallen by two percentage points in 2010, which isn’t much of a decline. [...]
What Is Your Visitor Profile?
Do you know who your typical visitor profile is? When a visitor comes to your blog, they either got there intentionally or by “accident.” Your marketing efforts are working if your visitors are coming to your blog through referrals from search engines with the correct keywords, or from other websites that complement your niche. What [...]
Content is King
Content is truly “king” in the blog world. Any successful blogger will tell you that well written blog content and lots of it will make your blog rate high in the search engines. Search engines have a tremendous challenge of having to filter “garbage” blogs from the high quality relevant ones. We mentioned before that [...]
Thank you to all Gila River Youth Conference Participants
I’d like to thank all the great students that attended the 2011 Gila River Youth Conference in Chandler, Arizona last weekend. I was selected as the keynote speaker for this year’s conference that was held Friday, August 5 and Saturday August 6. I enjoyed everyone who attended, especially the kids who helped produce the event. [...]
Backlinks To Your Blog
The kind of backlinks to your blog are more important than the quantity. For example, if you had 50 page rank 45 backlinks to your blog as compared to 1,000 links of page rank 1 or even questionable types will actually have a negative effect to your blog. Search engines like Google need high quality [...]
Blogging Your Business With Corporate Sponsors
There will come a time, if you are a serious business blogger, that you will eventually run into a pleasant situation with another business who will approach you for exposure on your blog for their business. Usually this situation concerns itself with corporate sponsorship of you blog. A corporate entity will be attracted to your [...]
What is Valuable Content For Your Blog?
What makes the difference of valuable content versus “worthless” content for your blog? It may seem an easy answer for most. Valuable content must be timely and be carefully thought out before inserted in a blog post. By timely content, we mean that your material must relate to current events or what is relevant to [...]
Analyzing Your Blog Results
Are you blogging away from week to week only to feel lost at times because you don’t know where you stand in the online community? Do you know if you are truly being effective at attracting visitors? Are you seeing results from your blogging that make people actually walk into your store? Do you know [...]
Use Social Media Sites to Promote Your Blog
Some of you may be familiar with using social media to promote your blog. There are so many popular social sites that can indeed help you get the buzz going on with your blog. Problogger, Darren Rowes talks about using “outposts” of social media sites to tap into promoting your blog posts. Remember that once [...]
Blog Publishing
The moment you start blogging, you become a publisher. What is a publisher? The dictionary defines publishing as a person or organization that publishes periodicals, newspapers, computer software, etc. And of course, if you want to know what the word “publish” is, the dictionary describes it as to issuing text, graphics or software to the [...]
Corporate Blogging
Blogging for small busines and large corporations are vastly different animals. With small business, usually one individual can choose the content to be used and little filtering is necessary, therefore blog posting is literally a breeze. With a large corporation, there are many layers of management and especially the corporate legal department must be involved [...]
