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Blogging & Bandwidth Theft
Let’s say you find a great image on the internet and want to use it in your blog. Which is the correct technique: Use hotlink so your blog grabs the image from another site Download the image to your own computer or server If you said #1, go sit in the corner and wear the [...]
Read moreBuzz Boost
In our previous post, we told you about using Feedburner to syndicate your blog. In this entry, we’ll tell you how to use BuzzBoost.
Read moreFeedburner
Once, we were blog dinosaurs. Blogosaurs. Then we found out about Feedburner. Feedburner syndicates your blog. In essence, it richochets your content all over the web to places people gather in blog-reading frenzy. Places like Technorati, Bloglines, Yahoo and AOL. Want people to see you blog? At least potentially? Get yourself a Feedburner account and [...]
Read moreBlogging Boosts Sales
An article in today’s DMNews talks about the success of Steve Spangler, a science teacher from Englewood, CO, creator of the Mentos-Diet Coke geyser experiment that last year became a viral video phenomenon. Mr. Spangler sells cool science experiments on the internet. Turns out blog posts lead to sales spikes. This is excerpted from the [...]
Read moreDon’t click here – avoid verbs? (Part 2)
This is a follow-up to our earlier post about using verbs for links on websites. Thanks to everyone for their comments. The consensus seems to be that
Read moreBlog Reading for Boomers
Reading blogs and subscribing to blogs is simple, free and happens on your browser. No special software, no special skills. Just gotta be able to click.
Read moreCorporate Blogging: Womble Carlyle
Mid-cap regional businesses would do well to look at law firm Womble Carlyle as a positive example of effective 21st century marketing. WCSR has an elegant, content-rich Web 2.0 portal. They create awareness through intelligent use of media including radio. They even supports 9 (!) separate blogs, each tailored toward a particular niche. We came [...]
Read moreWhy Blogs Matter II
Turns out Espen Skoland was thinking the same thing we were last week. His feed, Blogcampaigning, is a fascinating and thorough study of how blogs influence politics. Once again, though, we’re struck by how narrow a bandwidth blogging really has with the public. It’s all early-adopters and specialists. “Real” people still need the mainstream media [...]
Read moreWhy blogs are useful to ordinary people
Friends ask: “aren’t blogs just the domain of geeks, nerds and people with a need to rant publicly?” Hell no! Well, maybe yes just a little bit, but blogs are truly a great source of grass roots info about anything and everything. Here’s an example: I’m going to Paris with my wife & kids next [...]
Read moreGetting your blog indexed by Yahoo
Here’s a great tip from All About Google Adsense that tells you how to quickly and easily get your blog indexed by Yahoo. No code, no programming – here at Online Copywriter, we love that! Basically, you just need a My Yahoo account. Then you configure your homepage content to include your own feed. Presto! [...]
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