When I first started out blogging, I was ever consumed with posting new and interesting articles on my sites. I used to check my website every other second to see if I had a visitor, or even better, a commenter! I had heard about developing relationships with others, but was naive to the significant role [...]
Recently, I heard the term “blog carnival” and wanted to find out more about it. What’s a blog carnival? Is it a big, spring get together with bloggers, playing bean bag toss, drinking root beer floats, and cashing in your tickets for bigger and better prizes? Right, I didn’t think so either… so I decided [...]
The easiest way to get your name in front of people is a business card. It amazes me how often this piece of marketing is overlooked; it’s not that people neglect to use biz cards, but more the lack of time and creativity used when developing them. If used properly, you can create an unforgettable [...]
If you’re like me and didn’t get a chance to catch a flight down to Florida for the most recent IZEAfest expo, I would highly suggest watching the recorded video of Big Money Bloggers. This is a panel of 4 top blogging moguls who have had great success personally and financially. John Chow, Jeremy Schoemaker, [...]
Everything that I’ve read about back links stresses the importance of them in search engine optimization. From what I’ve gathered, all of the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Dogpile) have a certain formula that calculates the ranking of your site in any given search. The more back links that you have created to other credible [...]
