Category: Blogging

Your Lesson Today is on Blog Tags

Today’s blog lesson is on understanding the basics of how to use tags with blogs. So my question is do you use tags on your blog, and if so...

How Search Engines Rank the Blogs

“Traditional search is broken. It simply does not work for blogs”: Traditional search engines only spider sites every one day to a few weeks, so they don’t reflect...

Should Your Business be Blogging?

With all the benefits of why business should be blogging I was flabbergasted when I came across a post over at the Lorelle on WordPress blog. Doug Carr says:...

12 Tips for Identifying Web 2.0 Scams

Walking the Online Minefield (Safely) to the Other Side Although the names, dates and technology may change, some things just never do. Seasoned surfers know the internet is abound with online hustlers, and unfortunately the new media is no...

10 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Your Blog

I get a lot of questions about how to make a blog better, so I thought I would look at it from a different angle and tell you...

The Right Way and Wrong Way to Curate Content

Back in the good ole days things were a lot simpler then. You never heard of the term Content Curation and it was just splogs and cheating a-listers that we...

8 Killer Ways To Get Free Traffic To Your Blog

I am by no means an expert on the topic of blogging. But I’m going to share with you some 8 effective ways that I’ve discovered to get...

Blogs vs. Social Networks: 15 Good Reasons Why Blogs Still Matter

The Truth About Social Media I‘m an apologist/advocate for blogs. Always have been and always will be. I guess you can also say that I‘m hardcore (and unapologetic .. no pun intended). Lately I‘ve been reading a lot of posts who‘s advice can apply as much to social networks as it does to blogging. In fact most of the social media “tips” that I‘ve been reading are taken directly from their blog predecessor. So much so that the blurring of the lines between Social Networking and Blogging are making them synonymous. Taking that thought even further I suppose you could argue social networks are the natural evolution of blogs. (I define Social Media as including blogs and social networks). But that is not what this post is about. I‘ll save that for another rant. What I am talking about is what separates real blogs from the Twitters and Facebooks et al, and why Blogs still matter and deserve our attention. Let me explain. Blogs allow us to: Speak our mind .. without limitations we can say what we want and as much as we want because it is our site. We are not limited to a specific number of characters like Twitter does or forced to fall in line with a draconian TOS (like Facebook’s Terms of Service for example). SEO .. with our own blog and domain name we keep all of the Google cred for ourselves instead of handing over pagerank to the social network. This is especially important now that Google has declared war on the blogs. Control .. with a blog of our own we can control our data and destiny. Unlike Facebook for example we own our content. Privacy .. we can tell the search engines to only index certain content or to not index it at all. We can allow only certain members to access our content or keep it completely private. Richer content … blogs allow us to use multiple file formats such as MP3, Video, Images and much more. Blogs are for writers .. social networks are for commenters. who rarely...

Spring Cleaning Your Blog – Let’s Do It

I don’t know about you but when springtime arrives I tend to get restless, and while spring is hitting a bit late in Edmonton I am eager to...

Look Before You Link: Relationship Blogging or Conducting the Perfect Interview? You Choose

Hot off the heels of yesterday’s post I came across another blogger who happened to be discussing linking strategies. It struck me as funny that she calls it relationship blogging and yet she seems to support...