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Feature of Blog Marketing
Blog marketing is truly only as difficult as you make it out to be. However, if you have never had a blog before, and never marketed anything in your life before now, it may be a little more difficult to understand. If that is the case, you should st...
How Long Does It Take for a Blog to Get Popular?
When you planned to create your website, you knew that it could reach millions of potential visitors. But now that your website is live, visitors are few and far in between. So, where are the visitors? And why aren’t they coming? To understand what...
Get Paid at SocialSpark
Here's an new twist on both blog advertising, social networking and getting paid to post: SocialSpark. Register your blogs there and let advertisers find you....
“My News Feed” Widget
BlogCatalog.com has come up with an interesting replacement for the BlogRush widget. It displays your own blog posts (on however many blogs you have registered with BlogCatalog) and some other activities such as Diggs. You'll see one in the right-han...
One Page a Day Challenge!
The best blog design in the world is nothing without lots of good content. We know that we need to post often, but sometimes it’s hard to keep up. We let things slide. So Eric Giguere has posted a challenge on his blog: Write a page a day for e...
Raise Your Blog’s Rank with Links on Facebook
As you know, getting links back to your blog from highly ranked web sites is a great way to both promote your blog to new potential readers and raise your blog’s ranking in Google and other search engines (so more people can find it.) A good so...
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Blidget!
I just discovered this site where you can make a widget of your blog posts. They call it a “blidget.” This widget, or blidget, automatically picks up and displays your last few blog posts. It is your very own private BlogRush-type widget,...
Can Real Traffic Exchange Help?
I’m currently trying out a service called Real Traffic Exchange. It puts text ads on your site with links to other sites. Your ad for your site, in turn, is shown on other sites in the Real Traffic system. These do not compete with Google Adsen...
2000 Links to Your Blog for Free? Yes!
Do you want 2000 links to your blog for free? Yeah, I thought so. In case you are new to blogging and/or search engine optimization, let me explain. A big part of how Google determines the Page Rank (PR) of your site is by how many backlinks (one-w...
BlogRush Category Update
I just reread the message that appears in the blog category area of the BlogRush dashboard. What they are saying seems to be that if they don’t think your post fits into the subcategory you selected, they move it to the General category. Tha...
New BlogRush Categories Hurt Your Blog?
I eagerly awaited the promised new blog categories at BlogRush. Now I’m really disappointed! The new categories have really hurt some of my blogs. As bad a fit as some of the overly general categories used to be, some of my blogs no longer fi...
Use Articles to Promote Your Blog? See this!
It’s not enough to design and write a great blog. You still have to promote it. Preferably you should promote it in as many cost- and time-saving ways as you can, as long as they are legal, are search engine safe, and they work. One of the be...
BlogRush Flavors Are Here! Who Cares?
Blog design is my priority, but let’s face it. We all have to be constantly on the lookout for good ways to promote our blogs. Especially quick, easy and free ways. So I was thrilled with the idea of BlogRush.com, and I told you about it a we...
Blog Promotion Instantly with BlogRush! No Charge.
As of today, there is a terrific new way to get more readers to your blog at no cost. It puts a list of related blogs (in your chosen topic area) in a widget on your blog AND lists your blog on other related blogs. The idea is to get more readers,...
Raise Your Blog Ranking Virally
Viral Reciprocal Carousel is a great free way to raise the ranking of your blog with Technorati and other opinion leaders while getting new blog readers and helping out other bloggers. Sound great? It is. This system has resulted in great success f...
Footer Ads Problems
I’ve removed the footer ads from this blog for now. The Close button kept creeping down the window. Today when I got here, the Close button was completely gone, and there was no way to close the ad window. Yikes! These things are like weeds....
