A friend of mine, who is a scuba diver, once explained to me that ‘lurking’ is when a diver will lie near the ocean bed and watch the marine life swim around above him. The same can be said of ‘lurking’ on the internet. Lurking is the act of following a blog, forum or website without commenting or posting your own opinions
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The Beauty Of Lurking
With mobile phones becoming more and more popular as a tool to access the internet, here are some killer tips to make sure your blog is mobile friendly. Make signing up easy I can’t count the number of times I have found a blog that really interests me and then have spent ages trying to find the RSS feed button – or in some cases haven’t found one at all. When you are setting up your blog, make sure the RSS feed button is right at the top of the page – or as near to the top as you can place it.
In today’s internet-led world, a blog can increase interest in your business on a daily basis. Forget about advertising or marketing (well, not entirely!), a well-presented and well-written blog can be your ultimate advertising department, without costing the earth. Reducing the costs of advertising Whichever way you look at it, creating and maintaining a blog is cheaper than splashing out on a costly advertising campaign.
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The Top Five Reasons Why Blogging Increases Your Business
As a blogger, I know it’s important for me to keep abreast of technologies which can support me in making my blog more effective. A number of people have been getting in touch with me recently asking how to best use Digg to promote their blog, so I thought I’d take a few moments to give you an overview of Digg, and how to best use it to make the most of your blog. This is a follow-up to my previous post of Do Your Digg It?
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Using Digg To Enhance Your Online Success
I’ve been thinking a lot about blog analytics and measuring progress and success. There are lots of measures and measurers (not a real word) out there and it can be consuming what stats to believe
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How Do You Measure Success?
Recent years have seen an explosion in blogging. Platforms such as WordPress and others have ensured that everyone is able to have a site, and know enough to post up regular articles about everything from green living right through to SQL programming. As bloggers, we should celebrate the rise of the humble blog, as it turns from an exclusive media for business owners to a form of online diarizing about day-to-day life.
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Are People Getting Sick Of Blogs?
Habits are formed by association, when you repeat something often enough the brain recognizes it as a pattern and that pattern becomes associated with something either pleasurable or negative. As we get older this becomes harder for the brain to accept, so we need to help it along! Keeping your blog as a positive thing on your task list Try associating writing your blog with a pleasurable part of your day, maybe you have a cup of your favorite coffee and a couple of biscuits while you write
As I’m sure a lot of you know by now, Andrew and I run a blogging course called Income Blogging Guide . You can read some previous feedback on this site and on We Build Your Blog , but here are some further reviews.
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More Income Blogging Guide Feedback
If you’ve just set up your blog, or have been running it for a while and it’s becoming established, you may be sitting back and looking at it thinking; “Was this a great idea”? We know that blogging can work, in terms of generating revenue and working hard to promote your business and services. We also know that blogging is not an overnight money-maker, and we’re probably not going to change the world with our blog, no matter how fantastic it is
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The Highs And Lows Of Blogging
It can be a bit confusing to know what social networking sites to target to improve your blog readership. One of the most popular sites to use to generate hits on your own site is Digg . Digg has been going since around 2005, and has grown steadily in popularity so that its website traffic was ranked 100th by Alexa.com in April 2010.
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Do you Digg it?
