Category: Blogging

  • How to build links to your website

    It’s tempting to think that simply submitting your link to every directory you can find and exchanging links with anyone willing will help your site ranking. In truth, it does take some finesse and a little work. Some sites can even hurt your ranking. Of course because Google’s algorithm is kept more secure than Fort…

  • Let me write your articles for you

    Chances are you are good at something that is not writing. You are a marketer, a sales person, a business owner, a corporate something or other. Writing is a necessary element to what you ultimately want to accomplish, but it zaps your time and pulls you away from your other money making activities. Or maybe…

  • Five essential steps to more site traffic

    Probably the most common question of all questions on the Internet is “How do I get more traffic to my site?” Hands down. There is no higher question. And theories abound, some of them work and some, well frankly, are a waste of time. Some of them are free and some will cost you. If…

  • How to track your website visitors

    Traffic is essential to any retail site. But do you know where your traffic is coming from? Do you know who is visiting your site? Knowing your website visitor is knowing your customer. So find out a little about your website visitors. The easiest way to go about this is Google Analytics. Visit Google Analytics…

  • Congrats to the winners

    Congratulations to the recent winners of John Chow’s BlogWorld ticket giveaway. None of them were me. Boo hoo. But I’m sure they are some good bloggers. Check them out. Adria Richards of But You’re a Girl won the grand prize full-access pass by offering to hug 500 people while at Blog World. Other winners included…

  • I want tickets to Blog World Expo

    OK John Chow is giving away six passes to Blog World Expo in Las Vegas. If you don’t know about it, it is the conference to attend to find out about trends in blogging and social media. If you have a blog or head up social media at your company it’s worth checking out. John…

  • What do you read?

    The following was supposed to be a very inspired post. Full of information that would turn your business around, give you new perspective on social media, add fire to your blah public relations campaign and generally make you a better person. But in the end it turned out not to be any of that. Probably…

  • Can Twitter help your business?

    So what’s the deal with Twitter? Every company seems to be jumping into the Twitterverse, but can it really help your business? Absolutely yes! That is, if you use it right. The first thing to remember is don’t be afraid to establish your Twitter account and just jump in. You can use your name and…

  • How to Write Amazing Copy

    I’ve heard it so many times as a reporter and freelance writer that now I find it hard to suppress my gag reflex when I hear someone say, “I can write that myself I’ve done a little writing.” Sometimes the person is smart enough to delegate to someone else who has “done a little writing.”…

  • Headway Theme, Permalinks and GoDaddy

    Yes, I’m still enamored with the Headway Theme and its easibility (Is that a word? Nah, I didn’t think so either) But one day as I was trying to change the permalinks on my pages to reflect my post titles, I checked on my site and—gasp!–my site that was slowly coming along, now looked totally…