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Blogging

How To Set Up Feedburner

by Martin on 9 September, 2009

in Blogging

Why would you want to use Feedburner?
Because it makes your blog’s RSS feed as widely readable as possible, provides you with some great statistics and incorporates RSS updates by email
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It allows information to be syndicated – made available to RSS readers, blogs, websites or anyone who’s interested.
All blogs have [...]

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What’s Your Blogging Voice?

by Martin on 17 August, 2009

in Blogging

Just lately the term ‘blogging voice’ seems to be popping up everywhere. What on earth does it mean?
A new technology? Audio blogging?
Actually no. It’s much simpler than that in concept, but quite tough to get in practice.
But you do need to get it, because it forms part of your branding.

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What Am I Going To Do in 2009?

by Martin on 28 December, 2008

in Blogging

Thanks to my Google Friend Connect widget I stumbled across a great blog today:

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Can a Blog Replace a Resume? It Can and Should

by Martin on 27 November, 2008

in Blogging

Job hunting in a recession…
I saw an interesting question today: can a blog replace a resume?
My answer was ‘Yes’.  If not a blog then a managed web presence not only can, but should replace a resume (especially if you’re environmentally conscious).
There’s a truly spectacular array of sites where anyone can set up a profile and [...]

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Do Follow, Don’t Follow, What The Heck

by Martin on 1 October, 2008

in Blogging

I’ve written a couple of times before (here and here) on whether or not to pay attention to the ‘no follow’ attribute when making comments on blogs. And both of those posts link to excellent posts by Jack Humphrey on the subject.
But I thought I’d scout around the web and bring you some differing [...]

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How To Lose Website Traffic

by Martin on 24 September, 2008

in Blogging

I saw another excellent rant by Jack Humphrey today on the question of No Follow.
Do you still look for No Follow blogs to comment on or link to?  If you do you’re wasting time and losing traffic.
I’ve written many times now, here and here for starters, on why it’s important to write for people, not [...]

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To Follow or Not To Follow

by Martin on 29 August, 2008

in Blogging

In all my posts about SEO I’ve written about the importance of writing for people, not the search engines.  My point being that what you actually want is for people to read your site, or blog, and to like what they read, because people will buy from you – the search engines won’t.
I saw a [...]

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Some Views on Traffic Exchanges

by Martin on 14 August, 2008

in Blogging

Last week my free traffic post focused on Traffic Exchanges, so in my usual style I’ve gone out trolling around the net to see what others are saying.
Here are 3 different articles. Be aware that one of them is a review of a specific product – so there will be affiliate links there (not [...]

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How To Get The Most From a Blog

by Martin on 10 August, 2008

in Blogging

Do you ever land on a blog post from somewhere – could be a search or a link someone has given you – read the post and think ‘Hey – that was great information…’?  You may even book mark it so you can go back later or pass the link on to a friend.
But do [...]

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Just For You

by Martin on 9 August, 2008

in Blogging

MyBlogLog is a community of bloggers. It’s a great source of targetted visitor traffic, because not only can you add your keywords to your profile (the keywords you want people to find you with), but you can tell your profile viewers what your blog is about in your introduction and use RSS to pull [...]

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How To Get Traffic To Your Blog

by Martin on 11 June, 2008

in Blogging

I saw a question in the Warrior Forum yesterday that asked whether it would be better to promote a product via a blog or via affiliate marketing.
The answer, of course, is why not do both?
As far as promoting a product through a blog goes there are some things to keep in mind:

Blogs, by their nature, [...]

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Why You Should Host Your Own Blog

by Martin on 26 February, 2008

in Blogging

Q: With all the big, easy-to-use, function-rich, free blogging services that are available why should you go to the trouble of hosting your own blog..?
A: Better SEO, total control, more traffic and more sales – although those reasons won’t apply if you’re not blogging for business!
When I started out blogging I opened a blogger.com account. [...]

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