Archive for blogging
Sunday, March 29th, 2009
cathy
I love Seth Godin - do you? He has a stellar post today over at Seth's Blog.
It's called Ignore Your Critics. When I saw the title I thought - 'How timely! I'm teaching a class this Tuesday on Your Commenting Strategy.' My advice is always to ignore your critics so I decided I must be [...]
Friday, September 26th, 2008
cathy
Jeff Herring over at The Great Article Marketing Blog has an excellent post on extending the reach of your articles. Let's examine this strategy and apply it to your WordPress blog posts.
1. Article Strategy: Ezine Articles + Twitter = More Exposure
Blog Strategy: TwitterTools + Twitter = More Exposure for your blog.
TwitterTools is a great WordPress [...]
Friday, August 29th, 2008
cathy
WordPress Blogging Academy is now open! This is your chance to learn how to build your blog from the ground up step-by-step. You will start at the beginning - well, actually before the beginning. You learn how to plan your blog for success!
If you have some experience, your WordPress blog can be up from nothing [...]
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
cathy
Dan Frommer over at Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that with Google's acquisition of FeedBurner, they are shutting the door on new publishers in the FeedBurner ad network. Not surprisingly, Google is instead directing publishers to its AdSense/Adwords system. Not surprising because they started talking about it in May but maybe it's happening sooner than [...]
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
cathy
Last Friday Google (Blogger) marked a whole bunch of its Blogger blogs as spam. The blog owners had no access to their blogs and couldn't do anything and didn't know why.
You all know that I preach about owning your own data and this is just another example of why. The folks at Blogger actually apologized [...]
Monday, June 16th, 2008
cathy
The blogosphere is all abuzz about the Associated Press and its arcane policy decision about controlling what bloggers can and cannot publish on their sites. TechCrunch had an excellent take on the 'controversy'. The AP is BANNED from TechCrunch. No ifs, ands, or buts. No legaleeze mumbo-jumbo on what is and [...]
Friday, May 30th, 2008
cathy
POP QUIZ: What do Donald Trump, Mark Victor Hansen, Julie Andrews, Stephen
Covey, Jack Canfield and David Bach all have in common?
ANSWER: They've done Virtual Book Tours with my friend and colleague,
Alex Mandossian. Alex charges up to $5K for doing a Virtual Book Tour with an
author these days, but you can get access to his [...]
Monday, April 14th, 2008
cathy
Don't we love Top 10 Lists? How about this Top 21 List?
Just read this over on pietervangils.com. It made me laugh out loud! Hope it does the same for you!
Pieter says:
I admit that I laughed about some of them, but come on… pronouncing Krasilovsky is almost impossible. Test it yourself! As an SEO expert [...]
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
cathy
My good friend and mentor, Jeff Herring, is on vacation this week. So - you ask? What does this have to do with blogging - you ask?
It has everything to do with this picture which I shamelessly scraped from his blog.
To find out what it has to do with blogging, you'll just have [...]
Thursday, December 20th, 2007
cathy
I'm evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they're letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.
It covers:
The best blogging techniques.
How to get traffic to your blog.
How to turn your blog into money.
Saturday, August 11th, 2007
cathy
Did you look at the SEO Book? There is a site to go with it called Seo Book. Look around this information packed site and then click on Tools. Scroll down until you see this link - SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool and click on it. You will be taken to [...]
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
cathy
If you're not an online marketer, this message is not for you. So please just stop reading now.
But if you are an online marketer this message is exactly for you . . .
Because the sales copy you write to market your products and services is the backbone of everything you do as a marketer.
Mediocre or [...]
Monday, April 23rd, 2007
cathy
Have you ever considered turning them into articles? There is a goldmine in articles - multiple streams of income. A simple blog post can become an article, a short report, an e-book, an e-mail course, a teleseminar and on and on.Want to find out everything you need to know about articles? My [...]
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
cathy
What are blog posts? They are also called 'articles' and do I have great news for you.
You are invited to join a very special Article Writing & Marketing Secrets 90+ minute Tele-Event for those interested in writing and marketing articles. Best of all - it's free.
Date - Monday April 23, 2007
Time [...]
Saturday, April 14th, 2007
cathy
WordPress Guru is branching out into design, installation and consulting for your WordPress blog. There are so many people who don't want to do all the techy things required to install and customize their blogs that I've decided to do it. Watch for the launch of this new part of WordPress Guru over [...]
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
cathy
Tessa over at Sales Conversation is doing a survey on instant play audio on sites.
She wrote:
I recently did a survey on whether people like audio playing automatically on web pages or not.
Of the 81 people who responded:
80.2% (65) said they did not like automatic audio 13.6% (11) said they did like automatic audio [...]
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
cathy
Before we get back to WordPress business, here is a great blogging tool - Blog Desk. In fact, I am composing this post in Blog Desk.
Here is what Johannes Oppermann, the brilliant creator of Blog Desk says about it:
As an offline weblog client, BlogDesk lets you comfortably write and effortlessly publish new entries [...]
Friday, December 1st, 2006
cathy
I've had a mixed bag of comments regarding the speed of this site - that is posting frequency. Some of you like it the way it is, some think it is too slow and some think it is too fast. I'm going to experiment with video so those of you who miss something will be [...]
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
cathy
There are two ways to get a WordPress blog. Today we'll talk about the easiest but perhaps not the best way. Simply go to WordPress and sign up. It is totally free for now and it's quite easy. Click on the blue box that says, 'Get a WordPress Blog Now'. [...]
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
cathy
What you see here, with minor exceptions, is what you will see when you install WordPress. This is the default theme. There will be a post called 'Hello World' which you will want to delete and replace with your first post. Look at the bottom here and you will see my first [...]
