Can Writers Benefit From Social Networking? It seems like the bandwagon only bangs the drum louder with each passing day. You MUST be fully immersed in the world of social networking, and/or social marketing, immediately or else your business will fail and you will have only your stone age understanding of computers, the Internet, the [...]
To get more search engine traffic there are a lot of things you can do. You can read all about search engine optimization until you go blind. You could even hire an SEO consultant if you have money to burn. You could comment on a thousand blogs a day with a link back to your [...]
Over the past couple of years I have flirted with writing for various online publishing systems. I never really go the hang of Squidoo (or I did and just didn’t like it), but I have writer accounts on several other online publishing websites. Some of those accounts have gotten a lot of attention at one [...]
Another, maybe better, way to automatically tweet everytime you post an article on your blog.
One of the things that make WordPress the dominant blogging platform on the Internet is that it is free and customizable. It is so customizable that there are thousands of themes available. A theme is a set of files and functions that produce a unique look and design for any WordPress website. There are free [...]
This blog, and all of my other “serious” websites, are built on WordPress. I’ve tried Blogger, but just can’t seem to get into it, and frankly, if you are going to build up an empire of websites, the blogging ones should pretty much be built on WordPress or Blogger. As you know, I am a [...]
Do some reading on domain names and what good ones are, as well as a little bit on search engine optimization and eventually you will come across the very sound advice to only use www.domain.com or domain.com, but not both. The idea is two-fold. First, you don’t want to lose out on your search engine [...]
The other day I got an email from another freelancer. He’s not a writer, but our respective freelancing professions have a lot in common. Recently, he started up a website with a blog. What he couldn’t quite iron out what that he has thousands of friends on Twitter but he still doesn’t get much traffic [...]
Worried about the number of page views it takes to make money with ads? It might not be as bad as you think.
While getting through my backlog of feeds today, I noticed that the folks at Google AdSense posted an explanation about more ads being served by DoubleClick.com instead of by Google.com. Basically, they say that it is all a background change and that it doesn’t matter, so don’t worry about it. The explanation comes across as [...]
Earlier, I mentioned experimenting with automatic Tweets coming from various blogs whenever new posts are made to the site. So far, it’s been a pretty decent success, though I’m starting to get the feeling that the same people that would have come here are the ones responding to the auto tweets. It’s just that they [...]
