Business School for Bloggers: How to Make Money With Your Blog

April 7, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Marketing and Monetization, Blog Monetization, Blog News, Blog Relationships, Bloggers, Blogging, Events, Features, News, Problogger, Professional Blogging, Public Relations, SEO | Leave a Comment

I am frequently asked about how to make money on the web, especially how to make money with your blog. I find a wide variety of answers around the web, some of them get rich quick schemes, PageRank games, and SEO illusions, but there is only one answer that I want to shout to the […]

Blogging is About Writing - and Not

March 25, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Marketing and Monetization, Blog Monetization, Blogging, Comments, Content Scraping, Editorial, Ethics, Featured, Features, Guides and Tutorials, Legal, Marketing, Professional Blogging, Public Relations, SEO, copyright, plagiarism | 7 Comments

Blogging is about writing. That is a fact. You can video blog, podcast, and do all kinds of fun things with your blog, but it is the writing that makes or breaks a blog. What you say in the blog posts, descriptions of visual and audio elements, and what words you offer search engines for […]

How to Talk to a Blogger

March 24, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Relationships, Bloggers, Blogging, Conference, Editorial, Featured, Features, Public Relations | 3 Comments

I’ve arrived in the southern part of the Mid-Western United States for WordCamp Dallas and have already started meeting fans and friends. While I love to talk blogging anywhere and any how, I’m finding it interesting how some people are having trouble talking to a blogger. This goes beyond “what is blogging?” This is when […]

What Do You Bring to a Blog Conference?

March 21, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Relationships, Blogging, Editorial, Events, Features, Marketing, Public Relations | 7 Comments

I’m getting ready to speak at three conferences in a row about blogging and WordPress, and something Rachelle Chase said at a conference we spoke at recently keeps popping up in my head. She spoke about techniques for making yourself memorable that she uses when she meets people who can help her with her business […]

Blogs Are Public Documents - Bloggers and Commenters Beware

March 17, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Relationships, Blogging, Comments, Editorial, Featured, Features, Guides and Tutorials, Public Relations, Publishing | 12 Comments

Amber of Lamb and Frog is covering Monday Mayhem, specifically the mayhem that erupts when a commenter cross the lines.
I’m not sure how many of these commenters have ever written anything for public consumption other than their inane comments. A blog? A magazine article? Anything that you actually got paid for? Do you know anything […]

Fighting Bloggers Take the Heat

February 8, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Marketing and Monetization, Blog Relationships, Blogging, Comments, Conviction, Ethics, Featured, Features, Legal, Public Relations, SEO | Leave a Comment

In Do You Avoid a Fight by Chris Garrett here on the Blog Herald, he talks about bloggers picking fights or avoiding them, explaining how you can learn from those who disagree with you:
Those people, once calmed down, are extremely valuable to you. They are a chance to see another side, to improve what you […]

Improving Your Blog: Why Blog?

December 13, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Marketing and Monetization, Blogging, Features, Guides and Tutorials, Passion, Public Relations | 2 Comments

I’m often contacted by companies who tell me they need a blog. “So how do I get a blog?”
“Why do you think you need a blog?”
“Everyone’s got a blog. I need a blog.”
No, you don’t. Not everyone nor every business needs a blog. Should they? Maybe? But do they need one? Absolutely not.
If a static […]

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Do You Tag Yourself?
May 16, 2008 | By Lorelle VanFossen | 2 Comments

Do you tag yourself? Honestly? No, this is not a game.
With everyone back on the tag versus categories versus tags bandwagon, have you checked to make sure you are tagging yourself?
Inside of Lorelle on WordPress is the tag attribute that turns “Lorelle on WordPress” into a tag.
<a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle on WordPress" rel="tag">Lorelle on WordPress</a>
When […]

A BIG Reason to Read a Pet’s Blog
May 16, 2008 | By Andrew G.R. | Leave a Comment

I’ve often taken a snarky approach when it comes to people who set up blogs for their pets. I barely want to read about humans’ mundane lives, let alone issues with litter and pooper scoopers. However, there might be a new reason to subscribe to Lucky, Fido or Buddy’s blog.
Animals’ ability to prognosticate […]

Yahoo Nabs Safari Plugin Inquisitor
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Inquisitor is a cool plugin for Safari, and now Yahoo owns it. The developer, David Watanabe, won’t be joining Yahoo, but will continue the development.
I look forward to assisting Yahoo! in refining and extending the Inquisitor user experience beyond where it is today. I truly believe that Inquisitor and its users can only benefit, both […]

YouTube Gives You Insight
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

Now you can get some more statistics for your YouTube videos, with the recently launched Insight tool, available in your YouTube account (under Manage my Videos, which is probably temporary). The new stats feature is described like this by Tracy Chan, YouTube product manager:
For example, uploaders can see how often their videos are viewed in […]

Google the New Number 1 in the US
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

I thought they were already, but obviously not so. Google has been the leading search engine, but overall Yahoo is the most popular web site according to ComScore’s rankings. No more though, according to an AP report:
According to comScore, Google’s unique U.S. audience in April was 141.1 million, an 18 percent increase from the same […]

Blogging from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Stephanie Stockman is a NASA contractor working at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which is cool by itself. What’s even cooler is that she’s blogging it, talking about rocketships in voice and text, as well as posting photos, something every space nerd should follow for sure. Her blog is Geosteph, which incidentally is her Twitter […]

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