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We produce blogs and we are an active member of the blogosphere. Topics include industry news and trends, advice and tips and general blogging strategy for businesses and individuals wanting to attract a larger audience and market themselves with a blog or weblog.
Social Media Marketing: When the water is low…
Link Bait: Blogging for two audiences
Here is the paradox: you must reach your market with a message that will generate leads to feed your business.
You must also reach the geeks and journalists who may republish and link to your articles, creating traffic and search…
Plugin Free Wordpress Profile Gravatars - Enable them in your blog comments NOW!
As a web designer, I’ve long held the stance that it was better to have the visitors of your website upload the photo / picture of themselves to use for profiles and comments directly on your site ( local avatars).…
Should you use Wordpress to build your next website? Beginning Wordpress Basics
photo credit: Sicos
Wordpress is web software for online publishing. Notice that I didn’t use the word blog, even though wordpress is blogging software. It has been expanded to be A LOT more then that and shouldn’t considered in the same…
What do New York, Las Vegas, Alabama, WashingtonDC, Maryland have in common?
They are now not available! The roll-out continues: Exit Realty is sponsoring the state of New York, Nevada…looks like perhaps half the nation for the local news area of Real Estate Magazine website (RISMedia.com): anybody non-competitive can submit news to…
Why does Internet Advertising not work for everyone?
We hear this often: these guys had results immediately, while I have been doing everything and got no results. It is true: the same people continue to succeed, while others continue to fail: our beta testers in Denver who got immediate results,…
Blogging Errors & PureText
Many of our readers use Wordpress, and frequently run into the common mistake of copying text from Word or some other program, pasting it into Wordpress and finding it has numerous formatting errors and rich text code errors they didn’t…
Video Blogging in Real Time from a Phone!
This is really great: I learned how to operate this Nokia n93i (which i had to buy overseas, it is not here yet) in only a couple of hours, and this is the first video I recorded: it is already…
Business Blogging Tips for Non-Writers
I run into a lot individuals and companies afraid to jump into blogging, because they aren’t natural writers. Here is a video with some tips on how you can use blogs to increase your business even if you’re not a…
Why Your Business Blog Should Absolutely Not Be On Blogger!!
Here are just a few reasons why your main business blog should absolutely not be on blogger.com or really any of the free blog sites.
• Blogger is notorious for spam blogs and blogger has a (next blog) by default…
High Quality, User Generated, Easy Streaming Video on your pages: the technology arrived!
Did you ever dream of sitting at your computer, and recording streaming video for viewing by visitors to your website?
Click the big arrow, then wait 1 second for streaming video:
DREAM NO MORE! You can shoot video like this, at…
MSM vs. Online Publishing - Freedom of Expression is a Valuable Commodity
It annoys me to no end that people in popular MSM publications who know almost nothing about the internet feel they are qualified to comment on some aspect of it.
For example, I recently happened upon an article in the…
A Trek Through Wordpress Mailing List Plugins | Email Mailing List Manager
I recently had a client who needed an easy way to manage e-mail lists from within their wordpress blog. The requirements included the ability to support multiple lists with additional properties and an easy import / export feature. I thought…
Is the New York Times on the way out due to user-generated, user-filtered content?
The NY Times is changing hands..
With the New York Times likely to change hands for the first time in over fifty years, and the AP reporting the fastest newspaper circulation decline in over 15 years:
Mainstream Media vs New Media | Blogging to Build a Community.
This week I had the joy of looking for a blogger to write a weekly column for a social media site centered around movies, filmmaking and pop culture that I’ll be launching next month. In my ad I explained my…
Blogroll Requests - online marketing invite
The SocialMediaSystems team has been actively debating who should be on our blogroll. As we actively bounce back and forth about qualifications, I realized one of the best ways to get some serious information regarding good community members is to…
Optimize For Google Blog Search | Insight From Their Patent
Looking at the results in Google Blog Search, which I believe is still in beta (like all their other app’s besides their core search product), you can glean some insight into how sites are ranked. Some of the criteria are…
102 ways to make your blog not suck | Blogging Tips
- Make sure a new visitor can discern the who, what, where and why of your blog within three seconds
- Write original content
- Make your posts scan-able
- Use pictures and other visual content
- Use a custom theme
- Have easy and multiple subscribe options
- Include blog author information
- Don’t…
10 Rarely Used, Quick and Easy Tips to Supercharge Your Blog
1. Always make sure the top post on your blog has unique content that is attractive to a first time visitor. Bloggers write a lot of different things, including personal rants, news, link lists and lots of content that directs…
SEO strategy | Setting up Separate Blogs to Appeal to Niche Audiences
Need more traffic for very specific niche keywords. One way to appeal to a very niche audience is to set up a separate blog apart from your main company site or blog. If you go super niche and update the blog (or…
Creating a Blog that Attracts the Right Links | Blog SEO Strategy
I setup A LOT of blogs (5 so far this week) and many times it’s difficult for customers to get or understand is that one of the key components in a successful blog search marketing campaign is shaping a blog…
