Posts Tagged "Blogging"

Creating fresh blog content

Posted by on Feb 1, 2009 in Search Engine Optimization, Websites | 2 comments

Creating fresh blog content

Image via Wikipedia How do you come up with fresh content for your blog? We asked, here’s what you told us – I would suggest having guest bloggers and interviewing people for you blog. Doing so will give you exposure to their following and they benefit from the exposure to yours. Paul Castain Consolidated Graphics Keep looking at related websites and news for ideas. Do not write long posts or don’t try to write everything under one heading. You can make more than one post out of one big post by dividing the content in parts/headings. Babar Hussain B2B Trade International Constantly think about how you can add value to someone, something,...

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Social Networking – Marketing Magic or Time Sink?

Posted by on Jan 18, 2009 in Social Networking | 0 comments

Social Networking – Marketing Magic or Time Sink?

Image by .Andy Chang. via Flickr A long, long time ago – at least in Internet years – the way to drive traffic to your site was write a blog. Check. Then we sent you a newsletter – opt in of course. You read it once or twice and you stopped reading. Don’t you love us? We linked to our business contacts on LinkedIn. Seems you already knew us. Then we were supposed to join MySpace. Check – met lot of twenty somethings, but not a lot of marketing bang for the buck. Then it was Facebook. Check – now we spend unthinkable amount of time trying to make what we are doing now sound interesting – do you really care that I am staring at my computer? Now, the...

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Using Twitter

Posted by on Jan 14, 2009 in Social Networking | 0 comments

Using Twitter

Image via CrunchBase We do it so you don’t have to . . . OK, actually we do it so that we can pass along our experience to you - We tweet, there we said it. First step is acknowledgment, right? I like Twitter. It allows us to post links and messages when we update the blogs. New to Twitter – these Ten Top Twitter Tips should help you get started. It seems to be the “gadget” of the moment – MySpace is so 2007! Passing fad? Internet Revolution? We wanted to know what you thought and here is what you told us - I used twitter for a few months, but I ended up deleting my account. I don’t mind a bit of social networking, but...

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The Zen of Blogging

Posted by on Jan 8, 2009 in Business Tips, Search Engine Optimization | 0 comments

The Zen of Blogging

Image by hongxing128 via Flickr One of our SEO strategies is too migrate all of our blogs over to the WordPress Platform to enable SEO features and tagging. I was working on one of our sites which had about 350+ entries, when in the process – the screen went blank. So, I fiddled with this, mess with that and still blank. You know that queasy feeling in the bottom of your stomach? 3 years of entries down the drain? Ugh! I went online and begged one of my Facebook buddies for help. He didn’t have an immediate solution, but he offered some sane advice – take a break. Walk away, come back fresh. A cool and calm approach – I’ve just lost 3 years of profound...

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Feeling the Love, NOT!

Posted by on Dec 16, 2008 in SF Business Services | 0 comments

Feeling the Love, NOT!

Image via Wikipedia Part of my morning ritual is sipping coffee and glancing through the blogs, as I try to jolt myself to consciousness. It’s a good way for me to keep up with what my competitors are up to. So, imagine my surprise when I realized I was the main topic of a competitor’s blog and that he hated me. Seriously, he wrote that he “hated” me and went to go on to say he hated all SF bloggers. And get ready for this, he says that the only reason we blog is self-promotion. Well, duh! Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy blogging. But, let’s be honest it is about self promotion. I blog with the hopes that you find my insights so profound that you...

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