Last month I wrote an opinion piece on Entrecard as a whole. I am assuming most of you that are reading this know what Entrecard is, if not, look them up. When Entrecard switched to third party advertisers I was very critical and I voiced my opinion on how I thought it was a wrong [...]
Archive | May, 2009
10 ways to get visitors to spend more time on your blog
If you are like me, you probably check your Google Analytics daily. I always check the traffic and where it is coming from. The one stat that I always pay attention to is the time on site stat. I get so happy when I see some visitors spending 20-30 minutes on my blog. To me, [...]
Blog Contest at MyBlog2Day.com
My top commenter (Lee from MyBlog2Day.com) is having a blog contest to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of his blog. I am hoping that all my readers will pay his blog a visit and join the contest. There are cash and prizes totaling over $345. It is real simple to enter, you just need to [...]
Tweepme.com is a scam
Beware of Tweepme.com. I am sure you have seen their ads, they are all over the place as they must be spending thousands of dollars per month on Adwords. The basic pitch of the service is that you sign up for $10.95 and you will receive 4,000 new followers. The way they explain the service [...]
Premium wordpress themes- best value
When you first start a blog, one of the first decisions you will have to make is choosing a theme. This can be overwhelming, as there are literally thousands of free themes to choose from. When I first started this blog, I was using the Moneymaker theme from Unique Blog Designs. This is a great [...]
10 easy blog post ideas
I am sure you have experienced some days where you are stuck for ideas on what to blog about. On the other hand, you may have a whole notebook of ideas, but may not have the time or mental capacity to write an in-depth piece. No worries, here is a list of 10 very easy [...]
Make Money with URL Shortener
What is your favorite url shortener? I used to use tinyurl and then switched to bit.ly because it offered better tracking capabilities. Over the last couple of months there have literally been hundreds of new url shorteners that have been launched. I wanted to share with you a url shortening service that you can actually [...]
Get more retweets using these 5 tips
Last week I wrote a guest post on BloggingAgenda.com about how to retweet on Twitter and why you should retweet. Today, I want to focus on 5 basic strategies you can employ to get more of your tweets retweeted. Here are some tips: Write tweets that are 120 characters instead of 140, that way [...]
Promote your blog with blogging award sites
Yesterday my blog was nominated for best blog about blogging in the Blogger’s Choice Awards. I am writing this short post not so you will vote for me (I am hoping that you will ) but rather to let you know that this is a great way to promote your blog. A couple of days [...]
Track blog comments using backtype
by Dan Keller on 18. May, 2009 in Marketing and Promotion
Have you heard of backtype? I was searching Google for “tycoon blogger” yesterday and this was the fourth site that pulled up. Of course, I had to take a closer look. I discovered a pretty cool and useful tool that is intended to help bloggers track their blog comments on other blogs. Backtype works like [...]