http://blogmarketingjournal.com All About Marketing Your Blog Thu, 22 May 2008 14:09:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you use WordPress for your blog then you are going to find that you need to update your blog plugins fairly frequently. Rather than update them, it can often be a good opportunity to check out what is available and whether or not there are better plugins available to ... http://blogmarketingjournal.com/2008/05/22/update-your-blog-plugins-through-wordpressorg/ What better way to know what goes into a good blog than by getting inside the minds of the biggest bloggers in the universe! Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World's Top Bloggers by Michael A. Banks is a book involving influential and successful bloggers who write ... http://blogmarketingjournal.com/2008/05/21/blogging-heroes-interviews-with-30-of-the-worlds-top-bloggers-book-review/ Some blog directories are better than others when it comes to the amount of traffic they generate. There are hundreds of directories available and some of the niche directories may bring even more traffic. I have stuck to the more general directories in this listing. Number 5: I Blog Business ... http://blogmarketingjournal.com/2008/05/21/top-5-blog-directories-for-traffic/ What comes first, blog SEO or Blog design? An argument that has done the rounds for a long time so I am not going to enter into it - at least not in this post. Where blogs SEO and blog design do clash is where the design defeats the SEO processes. ... http://blogmarketingjournal.com/2008/05/20/when-blog-seo-and-blog-design-meet/ This is a question that all bloggers will need to face at some stage in their blogging life: Do I or do I not monetize my site and try to derive some blogging income from my blog? The bottom line is why not? The question often raised is how.  Whether or ... http://blogmarketingjournal.com/2008/05/19/blogging-income-should-i-or-shouldnt-i/ Notice the headline said to promote yourself, not your blog or website. This blogging tip is designed to promotes yourself to the socialites around the various social sites. All social sites provide a way to promote yourself through profiles. They may even provide a page that you can tart up to ... http://blogmarketingjournal.com/2008/05/18/blogging-tips-to-promote-yourself-on-the-social-scene/ Despite a lot of negative publicity surrounding the release of WordPress 2.5, it is still the number one blog software package in use at present. Like all things new, WordPress took a lot of flak for the massive changes it made to the popular blogging product. Now that the dust has ... http://blogmarketingjournal.com/2008/05/17/wordpress-is-still-the-number-one-blog-software-package/ Timing is everything, at least that is what I have been told. It seems to be true then it comes to social bookmarking as well. Do you know where your 'friends' on any of the social bookmarking sites. For many sites such as Digg, they say you have 24 hours for ... http://blogmarketingjournal.com/2008/05/16/with-social-bookmarking-timing-can-be-everything/ Blog content is becoming more important as time goes by. Internet users are now either looking for answers or looking for entertainment. If you can provide either one or both then you will gain a strong following of loyal readers. Of course, you need to attract those readers in ... http://blogmarketingjournal.com/2008/05/15/blog-content-starts-with-a-great-headline/ Two old saying contradict each other - First impressions count and Never judge a book by its cover. When it comes to blog design, your landing page is not just the cover, it essentially a snapshot of the whole blog so First Impressions Will Count. Avoid these six blog ... http://blogmarketingjournal.com/2008/05/14/six-blog-design-mistakes-to-avoid/ Feedburner is about to lose its identity, or at least, its look and feel as it migrates across to a typical Google look and feel including using your Google details to log in. According to the Feedburner blog, you wont see many changes to start with but you will be ... http://blogmarketingjournal.com/2008/05/13/feedburner-is-going-to-feel-more-googleish/ Marketing used to be about getting your name out there, getting known and talked about. Guess What? Blog marketing is no different. What has changed is how you go about it. Traditional marketing consultants often have difficulties when it comes to online marketing, particularly when it comes to blog marketing. In ... http://blogmarketingjournal.com/2008/05/12/blog-marketing-and-how-times-have-changed/ If you use WordPress and have a presence on Facebook then you may like this little blog plugin - Facebook Dashboard Widget - that enables you to stay in touch with your Facebook friends. The blog plugin is quick and easy to install running under WordPress 2.5 and utilizing the ... http://blogmarketingjournal.com/2008/05/11/social-blog-plugin-for-facebook/ Podcasts are very popular and can easily be added to your blog content with five simple steps. Since a podcast can be downloaded and listened to at any time, it makes sense to offer it as a subscription option as well. Five Steps To Podcast Success Plan your podcast: is it going ... http://blogmarketingjournal.com/2008/05/10/five-steps-to-podcasts-in-your-blog-content/ .....And Nasty. I forgot to add the tag to the end of the title! Being serious for just one moment, if you were hoping to find out how to get your blog and website services really cheap, don't bother. The two do not belong together. In today's online world, you really ... http://blogmarketingjournal.com/2008/05/09/blog-and-website-services-on-the-cheap/ This WordPress tip is aimed at those who have not bothered to update their software for sometime. If use or rely on Technorati they will soon stop indexing sites that have not upgraded to the latest software. Technorati are taking this action due to the number of security breaches that have ... http://blogmarketingjournal.com/2008/05/08/if-you-rely-on-technorati-then-you-should-heed-this-wordpress-tip/ I could also have written how to prevent halving your blogging income through Adsense. The income you receive for each click is based in part on your click through rate or CTR. As you work to increase your traffic, you need to carefully watch that your CTR doesn't start to fall. ... http://blogmarketingjournal.com/2008/05/07/blogging-income-how-to-double-your-adsense-income/ For many businesses, having a blog is an integral part of their marketing strategies. Blog SEO is similar to website SEO where the aim is to get to the top of the search engine results pages. To achieve this, a company that specializes in blog SEO can provide services that will ... http://blogmarketingjournal.com/2008/05/06/what-are-the-benefits-of-blog-seo/ Have you updated to WordPress 2.5.1 yet. Are you a little nervous about going through the update process. Worry no more. Keith Dsouza has written a post on a blog plugin called WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin. As the name implies, this blog plugin will upgrade your WordPress installation to latest ... http://blogmarketingjournal.com/2008/05/05/auto-update-blog-plugin/ Why do we go to great lengths to undertake blog SEO programs? That sounds like a silly question. We all know that the only way to get a decent placement in the search engine results is by telling the search engine all about us. So what exactly are you telling ... http://blogmarketingjournal.com/2008/05/04/blog-seo-why/