Image by BenSpark via Flickr Monday was Day 1 of Darren Rowse's 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. He mentioned the importance of having an elevator pitch. (Read the first post of the series click here.) An elevator pitch is a small concise mission statement about what your blog is about. If you aren't sure what you're blogging about then
There's a Blog in my Soup - has now opened it's Registration so that ANYONE can sign up as an author! All I ask is that you only write 1 post about your blog, and that you make an effort to post at least 2 blog posts on social media topics for the honor of plugging your blog. I will be adding a link to all authors who abide by these rules to
I wrote the first part of this series about a month ago, and it's taken me awhile to get back on topic. November has been a busy month for some of my other business ventures. The rest of the series can be found here: Set Goals or Die! Part 1: Posting Frequency Goals... Set Goals or Die! Part 2: Traffic Building Goals.. Set Goals or Die!
6 Techniques to get more RSS Subscribers to your Blog! 1. Comment on someone's blog who has as many or nearly as many subscribers as you do - Tell them you've subscribed to their blog. They may reciprocate - a lot will. 2. Ask your Readers to subscribe. Make it easy and blatant. If people see links asking to subscribe all over the place then
The past few months I've been doing some big experimenting with bringing in new people to this blog. I've been focused big on writing for google trends, over writing real deep informative articles on social media, marketing, and making money. I'm planning on making some changes to that in the upcoming weeks. I still plan on having at
The top 3 laws of blogging. Law #1 is write. Law #2 is write some more. Law #3 is never stop writing! I know this sounds quite redundant. Writing is the untold key to successful blogging. The more you write, the more traffic you get, the more money you make. Yeah, I know sometimes it's not easy to 'just write'. Sometimes we
This new resource for Wordpress Theme Developers is simply put: Awesome. It lists pretty much every template tag possible, template tags are the little parts that look like: <?php the_template_tag(); ?> Each Template tag is layed out with a description to the left, and the actual code on the right, and when you click on a
Is Google trends the new linkbait? There are sites popping up that create random text posts using keywords from google trends, and other sites of such, but when you view the listing in google it's apparent that it's a scam-site even before visiting. I must say, blogging about Google trends topics is very smart. It's obviously what
Google Trends update: Yesterday I mentioned delving into google trends as a way to bring new traffic. Yesterday I wrote a post about Mackenzie Phillips, Del Martin Dieing, and Hurricane Gustav track. Each of these topics were at that point in the top 5 google trends. I know I planned to write 25 posts on google trends topics, however I
It appears that our funding isn't coming through for our roadtrip as planned. The problem: I need $$ to buy equipment to make videos for roadtrip, and the company giving money needs / wants a video to show to the team. How can I make the video if I don't have the equipment? Obviously I Can't.... But it's ok... I have other plans...I'll
