Posts Tagged ‘Weblogs’
Why Should I Blog
February 7th, 2009 | 
Author: An excellent question asked by Stephen when he signed up over at IMMembership.com.
I blog as it is a bit like a diary. I love wordpress and want to share my experiences and what I have learnt with others. I have other blogs on other things I am interested in and I write on them when I have something interesting to say on that topic.
I found a blog post that covers the basics of why EVERYONE should be blogging, which you can read about here.
What are you interested in? Are you blogging about it? If not, why not? Do you monetise your site? If not, why not?
As always, please leave your comments below 
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I Want To Learn About Link Building
John signed up at IMMembership.com yesterday and said he wanted to know more about link building, so I decided to answer him as fully as I can today.
Firstly before any sort of link building is done you need to have a website with content. This can also be an affiliate link redirect, but I would always use some form of content.
Now this man John used an e-mail that was from a domain he owned, so I went along to have a look. I wanted to see if I could get some background on him, but the site is just a fresh wordpress installation. I had a look using the way back machine as the domain is well over 4 years old, but there is nothing but a holding page to see.
There is something holding this man back from building a site and in most cases this is either that the person is chasing the next ‘greatest thing’ or they are worrying over building the best site in the world.
START TODAY. Get something up on the site, even if it a ‘I don’t know where to start, but I will’ kind of thing
Now once you have something on your site you can start building links. Below is a list of how to do build links, in no particular order. You will no doubt have seen this list before, but if you don’t do them you will not get backlinks. People always seem to think there is something missing and 99.9% of the tilme there is … they do not take action.
1) Social bookmarking - use a keyword rich title, description and as many tags/keywords as you can. Varying your title and description will help too.
2) Article Marketing - Completely unique articles will do the best, but If you are no good at writing you can just write one unique article and spin/re-write it to be about 40% unique (although the more unique the better) and submit it to the article directories. You can check the uniqueness for free at Dupecop.
3) Submit your RSS feed to the RSS Directories - if you have a html or php or asp site and are not using a blogging platform like wordpress that gives you a feed automatically visit Dapper.net and get an rss feed.
4) Trackback - this is only relevant to wordpress users, but if you link to another wordpress users blog post and they have trackbacks enabled they will see the post you made the next time they log into their dashboard and can approve or not approve it like a comment. Most people approve these trackbacks giving you a relevant backlink.
Now this list of 4 ways is not in any way exhaustive. You can also comment on other people’s blogs and post in forums with a link in your signature to your site. Like I have said more than once the most important thing is to start and once you have a few links in forums and on other people’s blogs and in the social sites other people will start to link to you too, if your content is worth linking to of course
A great example is at the end of this post there is a link with the title ‘Related articles by Zemanta’. Zemanta is a firefox add on that integrates with your wordpress dashboard. It might integrate with blogger too, I’m not sure. Anyway the link below was a suggestion from them on related content to what I am writing about in this post. Now the guy who wrote the article on the link missed out any links to his website in his article which completely defeats the object of article writing, but it still proves my point. People CAN and WILL find your website and use your content if you put it out there.
So get to it. Create 10 links to your site every day in the hope to get 4 and after a month you could have as many as 300 backlinks meaning you would beat most of your competition out of the water.
Let me know what you do to get backlinks or if you have had success doing the above. I love to hear from you.
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Wordpress 2.7 Will Have A New Theme
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It is official, the release of Wordpress 2.7 will see a new theme added as standard.
It is clean and beautiful and you can read all about it, as usual, on the wordpress blog. (it is not the one in the photo)
It is about tile they had a new theme, although I do like the current ones. There are so many to choose from, I don’t know how they did it. If it had been me I would never have been able to choose … lol.
On a separate note, do you facebook? Wordpress do and you can become a fan and chat with other wordpressaholics. I just became a fan and will look into it ore tomorrow. If you do facebook, please feel free to add me as a friend, I like to put faces to names … Kelly Ifrah’s Facebook Profile.
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