Entries Tagged 'Blogging' ↓

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Every week I try to gather a post of the best blog articles that I have come across in my journeys that week. Here is the best of the net for this week.

Explosive Blog Growth - Streven Snell from Vandelay Website Design has written an unbelievable article about why some blog take off in popularity so fast. Steven explains that you need to be able to write great content, network and use social media. However, Steven goes further to describe how you have to use these three things in concert with one another. Additionally, Steven explains how to use these three concepts no matter what stage your blog is at.

Paying Attention to Keywords is One of the Best Blogging Tips You’ll Get - BloggingNotes describe how important it is to use keywords in your articles in order to help gain search engine traffic.

Interview with Skellie -  If you aren’t reading skelliewag.org, then you’re really missing out on a great blog.  Ritu from WorkNPlay has done a great interview of Skellie.  You don’t want to miss this.

Ten Questions With Leo Babauta of Zen Habits - Mark for My Tropical Escape has interviewed Leo Babauta of Zen Habits.  Zen Habits is a great blog and you can learn a lot by reading this interview.

The Fastest Way to A Profitable Niche -  If you are still trying to find that niche that will start to make you money, Derek’s post should help you a lot.

Matt Cutts, Googles head of webspam, has created a great video describing how to use ALT text to describe your images. While nothing in this video is earth shattering, it is one of the best beginner descriptions of ALT text.

If you put images into your blog articles, make sure that you are complete the ALT text field. Matt suggests that you should keep the text to around seven words.

Matt’s description is great because it clearly describes how you can help Google find your images. This is an excellent way to bring in more search engine traffic.

Enjoy the video.

It seems that lots of people are interested in creating favicons for their Wordpress blogs.  The response to my guide on how to create favicons was great.  Recently, Terrence provided another greating resource for creating a favicon.

1favicon is this other great favicon resource.  1favicon has many great resources for favicons.

I encourage you to check out these guides:

• What is a Favicon?
• How to create a favicon?
• How to install a favicon?

I encourage you to create your own favicon.  www.1favicon.com seems like a great tool to create a favicon.

Thomas Sinfield from Make Money Blogging With Thomas Sinfield is selling a new ebook. Thomas’s ebook is titled A Beginner’s Guide to Making Money From Blogging: From a Beginner Who Did!!

This is a great guide for the person who wants to begin blogging, but does not know where to start. If you have been thinking about starting a blog and want a quick start guide, I recommend that you purchase this ebook.

What topics are covered by A Beginner’s Guide to Making Money From Blogging?

• What is blogging?
• Which blogging platform is right for you?
• How to purchase a domain?
• Where should you host your blog? By the way, I highly recommend Bluehost!!
• How do you install WordPress?
• How do you install a theme?
• How do you start getting visitors?
• How do you start producing valuable content?
• How do you use social media to attract visitors?
• How do you start making money with your new blog?

Who is this guide targeted to?

This guide is great for beginner bloggers. It is written with the goal of helping those who need a hand in getting started in blogging.

How much does this guide cost?

Thomas is selling this ebook for only $10. I think that this is the perfect price point for this ebook.

If you are on the fence about whether this ebook is right for you, take a look at Thomas’ excellent blog. This is also some more great information about this ebook here.

In tip number 32 of my article on how to increase RSS subcribers stated that you should submit your RSS feed to RSS directories. There is a new RSS directory that is promising to bring blog publishers and readers together - RSS Hugger.

I am excited about RSS Hugger because it promises to:

rssHugger aims to provide blog owners with a unique easy-to-use way to promote their blogs by sending them traffic, building backlinks for search engine optimization, as well as attracting new rss subscribers if the content is interesting to the reader.

I am interested in how much traffic I will get from rssHugger and how backlinks will be created.

Prior to this weekend, rssHugger cost $20 to submit your RSS feed to. Now you can get a free submission by writing a review of rssHugger. This is my review. However, I will write a more detailed review once I have been using it for a little longer.

Here is the rssHugger page for Newest on the Net. Check it out!!