Archive | July, 2009

Entrecard seems to be listening

One of the major frustrations that bloggers have had with Entrecard is the poor management and lack of customer support for bloggers.  It has been a little over a week since the new ownership has taken over and I am personally impressed with the changes and direction they are moving in.  In case you are [...]

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7 ways to reward your blog commentators

Most bloggers strive to make their blog a community where people can learn, interact and exchange ideas.  This is often achieved through the comment section.  It has been said that comments are the lifeblood of a blog and I definitely agree with that statement.  Many blogger, both new and experienced, have a difficult time attracting [...]

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Monetize Your Blogroll – Do you?

I was recently thinking about the importance of a blogroll.  When I first started blogging 2 years ago, bloggrolls were a big deal.  It seems that some bloggers are not really utilizing their blogroll.  I am about 6 months into this blog and I have really neglected my blogroll section.  I have a total of [...]

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Promote your blog to new readers

I am thrilled with the daily readers I have here on Tycoon Blogger.  The regular readers are the lifeblood on any thriving blog community.  I have been thinking of how I can crack the 300 visitors per day mark that seems to be the pattern of my blog lately.  The conclusion that I came to [...]

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“Blogger Spotlight” – Karen from Blazing Minds

It is Saturday and time for another installment of “Blogger Spotlight.”  This is a weekly series where I interview a famous or up and coming blogger and ask some questions to learn more about them and their blog.  This week I interviewed Karen from Blazing Minds.  If you have not been to her blog, I [...]

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How to add a favicon to your blog

I finally added a favicon to my blog yesterday.  It only took me 5 months to get around to it.  I was making my rounds today and already visited a couple of hundred blogs.  I made an interesting observation, only about 25% of the blogs had a favicon installed.  I am wondering if they are [...]

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DOES SEO MEANS OPTIMIZATION ONLY FOR GOOGLE?

The most common way by which people find your site is through search engines such as Google, Yahoo or MSN. All search Engines use different algorithms to determine the relevancy of the website to provide the user with best relevant results for search. Google has carved a niche for itself in the field of search [...]

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Why I stopped using Digg to promote my blog

We all know that Digg is one of the biggest and most popular social bookmarking sites around.  Why on earth would I not want to use that to help promote my blog.  Well, I have come to the conclusion that tring to get traffic from Digg is a waste of my time.  Like yours, my [...]

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Is Social Spark ripping off bloggers?

Did I grab your attention with that heading? A month ago I signed up with Social Spark as a way to gain an additional source of revenue for this blog.  I am going to post my evaluation after spending 30 days with the company.  For those of you that are unfamiliar with social spark, they [...]

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“Blogger Spotlight” – George Serradinho

I am very excited about the start of a new series here on Tycoon Blogger.  Every Saturday I will be featuring an outstanding blogger from the blog-o-sphere in a series called “Blogger Spotlight.”  For the first installment I am delighted to interview an up and coming blogger name George Serradinho.  I visit George’s blog daily as [...]

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