I held a meeting for the Silicon Valley Moms Group bloggers this spring here at CBS, moms who blog about parenting, politics, and everything else. The video is here on my channel. Well, a bunch of those bloggers are heading to San Francisco for the annual blogher conference. Five of them are getting there by [...]
Are you constantly blogging but the numbers you see in your traffic logs are embarrassingly low? It can be maddening to check your stats and realize that no one is actually stopping by. Don’t give up yet, because there are four great ways you can get traffic fast. Traffic Tip #1: Do Your Keyword Research [...]
THE TEXT: mysocalledsite: hey babe what happnen? nutlover54: juss got home from work, munchin on walnuts mysocalledsite: yum nutlover54: Harlen scrounged up all our change to buy a few groceries. mysocalledsite: good omega 3 fats in walnuts nutlover54: yeah mysocalled Site: im readin my crazy moms blog nutlover54: yesterday I ate some for breakfast didn’t [...]
Optimizing your blog for the search engines is crucial and very important! There are so many different blogs out there on the net that you’ll quickly sink to the bottom if you don’t optimize. Follow these seven tips below and you’ll be well on your way to high rankings. #1 – Create the Right Permalink [...]
Plugins for the WordPress platform are tons of fun and incredibly useful. You’ll find everything you need to turn your blog into something amazing that is every bit as great as you would have imagined. While there are many plugins out there that are worth your while, the five that follow are the cream of [...]
One of the main differences between a blog and a static website is the way people are able to interact with your content. With a static site it’s just people reading words on a page. When you have a blog they can explore and even comment back! You want to get that sort of [...]
Principles of Successful Social Media Campaigns: 1. Use a girl’s name to signup 2. Customize your profile so that it looks real 3. Add as many friends as possible 4. Bookmark real interesting sites to build your rep 5. Send your links to friends 6. Bookmark your own sites 7. Vote down the competition 8. [...]
You can join Twitter by visiting its home page and clicking the Get Started — Join button, shown below. Complete the online form to create a free Twitter account and then you can start “tweeting!” Microblogging, a relatively new tool of the social Web, allows users to publish short blog posts or messages, typically fewer [...]
StumbleUpon is another popular social bookmarking site where users submit (or “stumble”) and share links to content they like. The site uses a voting system that’s fairly similar to the one at Digg. Users stumble content, and other users vote on the content, giving it a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down. Content that receives a lot [...]
Digg is one of the most popular social bookmarking sites. In fact, it’s viewed more as a social news site because its primary purpose is to share links to content more so than to bookmark content for personal use. Users submit content (or “digg” content) by entering the URL, description, and title for the specific [...]
LinkedIn has a reputation of being the go-to place for business and careerrelated social networking. It has a stripped-down interface that’s intended to be free of spam and irrelevant content. Rather than add “friends,” LinkedIn users make connections. Similar to Facebook, you cannot view another member’s profile unless you have been introduced to that person [...]
When you’re looking at sites specifically designed for social networking, remember that Facebook is one of the most popular options. Facebook is different from MySpace in that you can view complete profiles of only the people who are in your network, which means that Facebook is better for targeted networking and protected from spam. Although [...]
In terms of organized social networking, MySpace can be considered a viable option. If the truth is told, however, MySpace is more than a social networking tool because it provides far more options than social networking functionality, such as the ability to create individual blogs. It also allows anyone to create a MySpace page for [...]
