WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 5, 2008

Bloglines is a helpful free tool for monitoring blogs you've already identified; you can add their RSS feeds and monitor posts from one spot. Once you have a feel for the blog ecosystem in your industry, you can begin blogger outreach: Commenting is a great way to start. Contact the blogger as the next step.

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WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 9, 2009

She explains how to use tactics like blogger outreach, social networking and social news marketing to create engagement with prospects and move them toward your solutions. For those marketers, reading this announcement is a starting point. Another noteworthy post from SMT is Social Media ROI - a financially sound method.

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 23, 2007

tool, followed by RSS feeds and podcasts. WordPress and Blogger are the most popular blogging platforms, while Feedburner is the preferred RSS feed creator. "This suggests a high degree of confidence in (Web 2.0 tools)," according to survey co-author Robert Lesser. Blogs are the most frequently used Web 2.0 Clearly, Web 2.0

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 27, 2009

Acknowledge other bloggers you admire? The prolific guest-blogger also contributed 10 Innovative Blog Business Models —a post detailing 10 methods beyond the obvious (AdWords) to monetize a blog, such as selling educational courses, eBooks, premium content, consulting services (hmm, that sounds familiar) and digital products.

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WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Blog SEO: 5 Tips To Improve Ranking and Increase Traffic by PCWorld Mike Keller offers a helpful set of tips for new bloggers to optimize their blogs for search, covering basics such as variable title tags in Blogger (note: this won't work with all templates), meta tags and setting up RSS feeds.

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 10, 2008

Platform There are a wide array of options for building and hosting your blog, from the big 3 online options— Blogger , TypePad and WordPress —to software applications and content management (CMS) systems with blogging features. Blogger from The Blog Squad, as well as forum discussions.

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Bloggers Ponder Google's RSS Syndication Stats by MediaPost Online Spin Following Google's acquisition of Feedburner , Max Kalehoff ponders the importance of the "reach" metric for bloggers. Personally, I'm skeptical. No, the only metric that really matters to "those seeking to monetize through advertising" is revenue.

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 29, 2008

Like the seven deadly sins in Christianity, these vices can relegate a blogger to the underworld of the blogosphere though the judgment of readers. Writing a couple of posts per month (or less) is not conducive to getting traction with search engines, RSS subscribers or other bloggers. Gluttony: Avoid the "it's all about ME!"

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 5, 2006

If (like me) you've chosen Blogger as your platform for online disquisition, you've noticed that it's fast and reasonably intuitive, but lacks a few basic functions. The folks at Quick Online Tips have rectified that with Free Essential Tools for Bloggers , an excellent list of add-ons that expand the capability of the platform.

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 6, 2006

on WebMarketCentral, as well as to 5 Tips for Promoting Your Blog to Popular Bloggers on Peter Davidson's excellent BeConnected blog. Peter provides some wise advice about how promoting your blog to bloggers is completely different from traditional PR. I pointed him to Why Write a Blog for Business?

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WebMarketCentral

JUNE 28, 2006

And there's Kelly Allan , operations and marketing consulting expert at Kelly Allan Associates ; Yvonne DiVita , author, speaker, blogger , and diva of smart marketing to women online; Mike Schultz , a brilliant marketing of professional services at RainToday.com ; Jay Lipe , author, consultant, and head of Emerge Marketing ; and Ardath Albee , president (..)

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 18, 2009

A high number of RSS subscribers is going to be your best Google indicator." According to Chris, "You are going to have to push Google Reader to your visitors and you WANT ALL your subscribers in Google Reader.this is going to be real important to getting ranked well in Google.

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 1, 2006

A few of Charlene's key findings: - Although overall blog readership is still a small percentage of the total population, blog readers and bloggers themselves are highly influential. - "Blogs.entered the common mainstream this summer during the political conventions."

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WebMarketCentral

JUNE 10, 2008

At last week's Blogging for Business conference , Shannon Johnson of the What About Mom blog mentioned that someone should write a post about search engine optimization (SEO) for mommy bloggers. I figured for sure such a post much already exist, but when a Google search on "SEO for mommy bloggers" came up empty, I decided to fill the void.

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Follow me on Twitter badges / logos / buttons by limeshot marketing Lots of bloggers are adding Twitter follow-me buttons and badges to their blogs, but thanks to limeshot, you no longer have to limit yourself to standard light-blue-and-white graphic. It's free and very simple to set up.

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

by ProBlogger Blogger Darren Rowse makes the case that while writing useful and unique content is essential to blogging success, it isn't enough. Who Do Rockstar Bloggers Host With? Writer Steph Auteri outlines several strategies, tools and examples to help in selecting a "totally rad" blog name. So what is?

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WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 3, 2009

While their free and blogger plans offer limited funcitonality, their Pro ($60 per year as of this writing), Super Pro ($120/year) and Enterprise ($300/year) plans offer impressive capabilities at very reasonable cost. 17 Online Free Web Based Applications That You Probably Would Love To Use!

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WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Mail), social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace), blogging platforms (WordPress, Blogger, TypePad), media sites (Flickr, YouTube) and more. It includes features like a People Sidebar for staying in touch with your social connections, an integrated RSS feed reader, blog editor and web clipboard. And it's free.

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