Entries Tagged 'Blogging' ↓
October 3rd, 2007 — Blogging
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Since the hype surrounding Blogrush, Dealdotcom and now Widgetbucks, I have been wondering why some bloggers have been so quick to sing the praises of these untried blogging services. I don’t think that bloggers should risk harming their reputation on these new programs.
I was not sure that I wanted to write about this subject for fear of being accused of being a hypocrite some time in the future. But Ben’s article on the same topic was the impetus for me sticking my neck out.
The reasons that bloggers are quick to promote a new service are two fold. First, bloggers like to write about new things happening in the blogosphere. This is what a lot of us bloggers are interested in and we are fascinated with new ways to generate traffic and make money online. This is a completely appropriate reason to write about these topics. Unfortunately, too ofter the second reason presents a precarious tightrope that bloggers need to be careful when writing about these new services.
The second reason that bloggers write about these topics is that these services typically involve a multi-level marketing scheme whereby bloggers will get extra money for signing up new participants. Bloggers need to avoid pimping these services. Our reputation is too important to risk tarnishing it.
The next time that I think about promoting one of these services I hope that this article makes me think twice. No short-term gain is worth hurting my reputation. However, I will write about these new services as news events, just not ask my readers to sign up through me.
October 3rd, 2007 — Blogging
The Topic Factory is hosting the 3rd edition of Carnival of Bloggers Helping Bloggers. I have submitted my article on 10 Forums to Make You a Better Blogger. Please go check out the other great articles.
October 2nd, 2007 — Blogging
Yesterday, I posted a request for people to put me over the 50 subscriber mark. I am happy to tell you that I am now sitting at 52 subscribers. Thank you for helping me break the 50 subscriber barrier. My goal for October is to have 100 subscribers.
TDavid left a comment that I needed to convince people why they should subscribe. That’s is great idea. Thank you TDavid for giving me a challenge this morning.
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1. You love learning about new websites and new online services. I promise to keep you up to date with the coolest new things hitting the Internet.
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September 24th, 2007 — Blogging, Newest On The Net
While Sketchcast is not being promoted as a blogging tool, I think that it could be very useful for us bloggers. Sketchcast allows you to quickly sketch a drawing and embed it into your posts. How many times have you wanted to draw a quick picture and post in on your blog. Well, now you can.
September 24th, 2007 — Blogging, Increase Traffic, Social Networking
I just found an awesome new tool called SocialMarker. Social Marker allows you to quickly submit your articles to over 30 social bookmarking and social news sites. I have tried others in the past like SocialPoster.com, but I am finding SocialMarker to be even better. SocialMarker greatly speeds up the submission process. I can now submit an article to all of these sites in about 10 minutes.
Why would you want to submit your posts to over 30 social bookmarking sites?
- Google Indexing - I find that when I submit my articles to a lot of social bookmarking sites, my articles get listed with google very quickly. Additionally, the social bookmarked pages also rank very high in google.
- Traffic - I get some nice traffic from each social bookmarking site.
- Backlinks - Many of the social bookmarking sites that you submit your articles to will give you backlinks. This is an often underutilized strategy among bloggers and internet marketers.
How does SocialMarker work?
- Place SocialMarker Bookmarklet onto your Firefox toolbar
- Go to the article you would like to submit and click the SocialMarker Bookmarket
- Edit the Bookmark Details Box to include a description of the article, tags, title and url. The title and tags should already be filled in by SocialMarker.
- Sign in to the first social bookmarking site and submit your article.
- Then hit the “Next” button to move onto the next social bookmarking site.
Here is a list of all of the social bookmarking sites currently available through SocialMarker.
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