Almost every time I write about having an email newsletter associated with my blog (as I did yesterday in sharing how I drastically increased subscriber numbers) I get people asking me why I use newsletters? The questions on newsletters as a medium often include: Isnt Email old fashioned? Isnt RSS the new way forward? What about Social Networking – isnt that more effective than email newsletter...

Small businesses are growing more aware of the need to understand and implement at least the basics of search engine optimization. But if you read a variety of small businesses blogs and Web sites, youll quickly see that theres a lot of uncertainty over what makes up the basics. Without access to high-level consulting and without a lot of experience knowing what SEO resources can be trusted, ther...

Thirty useful ways to make money online with blog Looking for ways to make money with your blog can be frustrating.  Either you don’t have enough traffic or you are not sure what to do.  That is why I have put together this list of 30 Real Ways to Make Money with a Blog“. This post isn’t your average directory of money making tips either, it has summaries for what each element is, how to ...

Every blog goes through different stages. First, as a new blog (beginning stage), then a growing stage, then maturity stage (and hopefully no decline stage). It is in beginning stage that many of us make mistakes. In this post, I would like to discuss some of these mistakes that new bloggers make. I will start the list, and hopefully you will complete it by contributing in the comments section. S...

The phenomenon of blogs has caught on, in case you hadn’t noticed. In just a few years, bloggers went from the unknown, unread, poor cousins of mainstream media to a powerful force that help shape everything from political policies to better eating habits. However, keeping your blog fresh takes dedication, drive and hard work. It’s something you should do regularly and think about often as ...

MajesticSEO offers great set of SEO tools. I think they are the only one that do not require you to install a script to track the statistics of your blog. So how they get the data about your blog? They simply gather it from the internet (referring domains, backlinks, anchor texts etc). http://ghosts-it.com While the service is paid, they allow you to get complete stats for your own blog (i.e ...

http://ghosts-it.com It can often seem as if our blog’s growth is out of our control. We post regularly and try to write the best content we can, but sometimes this doesn’t seem like enough. Our growth might plateau, or even start going backwards. Thankfully, there are some things that are in your control. In this post, I want to explore ten actions you can do straight away that will grow...

Writing blog posts comes naturally to some people, but some struggle to write and convey their message effectively. Following some of the tips below, can improve your blog posts’ quality. Get to the point, will you? It’s very important that you get to the point in the first few sentences of your blog post. If you cannot do that (perhaps the topic is too broad) then at least give an abstra...

http://ghosts-it.com/ I know if you Google “10 Ways to Lose Your Blog Readers” then you might find 100’s of ways that you can lose you blog readers. Now the concern is which ones you need to follow first or how do you select your own blogging style so that you don’t loose any of you blog readers. Personally I have made a whole bunch of mistakes and I have learned from them. So, if anyone ...

Our entire life revolves around ethics. Any one with a solid work ethic is always be the winner, some might argue that but it is what is it.  I have talked a lot about SEO through my Blogging Ideas blog. To refresh your memory, search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” (”organic” or “a...

Finding a free way to make money online isn’t easy and might take a lot of time. So, I put together 10 methods of making money online in this post to help you out. I have done research on these money making methods. They were legitimate and didn’t cost you money to begin. No. 10 – Paid Survey You might already heard about paid survey if you have searched on the Internet for whi...