September 29, 2008 – 10:55 pm
If you register for my WordPress SEO Teleseminar, you will get a very sweet bonus. A few months ago my friend Naomi Dunford wrote an ebook called SEO School: How to be an SEO Ninja, a fantastic ebook on search optimization that anyone could understand (well, anyone who likes their beginner SEO mixed in [...]
September 27, 2008 – 7:41 pm
To put it simply, Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer is absolutely the business. If you’re using Windows XP or Vista as your operating system (no Macs), you need to give this blog software a try. It’s a free download from Microsoft.
This video shows you everything you need to know about how to use Windows Live Writer [...]
September 25, 2008 – 9:11 pm
Social Media Marketing 1 [16:14m]:
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Social Media Marketing 2 [13:43m]:
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Social media drives traffic to your blog. Period. But there’s better ways and not-so-better ways to do it. In this (late) audio post, I go over in some detail exactly how to use StumbleUpon and Twitter to drive traffic to your blog. I know that sounds a bit mercenary, but when you hear the details [...]
September 25, 2008 – 12:23 pm
The value of learning search engine optimization for your blog cannot be overstated. SEO is an equal partner with compelling blog content: each enhances the other. I’m doing a live seminar by phone to provide you with specific, step-by-step information for tools, optimizing blog posts, and optimizing your overall blog design.
To maintain a personal, conversational [...]
September 24, 2008 – 10:48 am
I’m going to share with you an easy method for writing coherent blog posts, which will allow you to stand out from the crowd and attract a readership. Far too many bloggers are writing rambling, incoherent blog posts that go all over the road. A coherent blog post is one that holds together from [...]
September 23, 2008 – 7:00 am
On October 1st, I’m having a teleseminar (seminar by phone) about WordPress SEO. This seminar will help you improve your blog SEO by improving your search results rankings and increasing search traffic for the right keywords. It is specific to the WordPress blogging software on a self-hosted blog.
I introduced the seminar yesterday and presented some [...]
September 22, 2008 – 7:06 am
On October 1st, I’m holding a teleseminar on WordPress SEO. It’s going to give you specific information and actions you can take to improve the search optimization of your WordPress blog. Why am I doing this? There’s a lot of information on the web about SEO. Tons of it, in fact. But that information often [...]
September 20, 2008 – 11:55 am
I was meditating outside in the middle of the night in the pouring rain, oblivious to the pelting and the cold and centered in utter stillness when the message came in. It was already getting old by precious minutes when I got back inside and checked my messages.
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT
Men With Pens will redesign. Their [...]
September 12, 2008 – 4:23 am
I’m putting together a webinar on blog SEO (search engine optimization), and with your feedback, I’ll be able to make it the best it can be. I’m creating the webinar in response to your answers on my previous poll regarding your most burning issues in blogging. Knowing more about SEO was the third most popular [...]
September 11, 2008 – 9:11 am
The Blog Launch Formula [3:04m]:
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This is an audio post, which is now happening every Thursday according to my new & improved editorial calendar. I have some written notes that I’ve added some helpful links to, but the real meat is in the audio, so I hope you enjoy it.
Yesterday’s post was on The Top 10 Ways to NOT Launch [...]
September 10, 2008 – 11:03 am
Write a bunch of posts but never tell anyone you have a blog.
Write one post, tell everybody you started a blog, then don’t write anything for a month.
Fill your blog with every conceivable form of cheap advertising so that it drowns out your one lonely little post.
Do not think about what [...]
September 8, 2008 – 7:35 am
We all need a little help one in a while. Sometimes we have questions and we’re tired of not getting anywhere with search. Sometimes we want somebody else who doesn’t look at us blankly when we talk about blogging to bounce ideas off of. And sometimes, we’re just completely stuck on some technical hang up [...]
September 5, 2008 – 11:27 am
UPDATE: comments are now closed. Thanks again everyone for participating! This was amazingly successful and I’ll be doing it again! Subscribe to the blog in the meantime.
I’m doing it AGAIN. Oh… did you think I was done helping you increase blog traffic? No, my friends! For you see, now it is time to take the [...]
September 4, 2008 – 5:02 am
This is a guest post by Kelly McCausey
Most blogs today with high readership have one thing in common: Opinionated bloggers! It’s one thing to share news and information. It’s another thing entirely to share opinions.
News–even important news–can be fairly dull when repeated across hundreds of blogs. Bold, spoken opinions about that news is engaging. [...]
September 3, 2008 – 12:12 am
Note: Comments on this post are now closed. This post had 135 comments and 25 Trackbacks (Trackbacks are still open). This is much better than the first one of these I did last year. If you check out some of the comments you’ll see people really benefited. But at this point, it’s time to close [...]
September 2, 2008 – 7:04 am
If you can’t see the poll questions below in your reader or email, please click through to visit the blog. I’d love to hear what your toughest blogging challenge is!
Think about what your most pressing question is about blogging. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just ask someone and get an answer?
Well, now you [...]
