Archive for the ‘Online’ Category

The Power of Networking

I know I’ve been talking a lot about networking and you probably think I just like this word, though it’s much more than that. Networking is what make people successful and what make successful people even more successful. Networking is nowadays probably the easiest way to kick-start a new website, because you can always ask your friends to help you promote it. And thanks to Twitter and Facebook, you can have thousands of virtual friends. Of course, only some of them are close to your and you can ask them [...]

3 Disadvantages of Using Your Own Name in The Domain

I’ve written a little early 4 advantages of using your own name in the domain and now it’s the time to let you know what are the disadvantages of doing this. Unfortunately, there are a lot of disadvantages too, so you will have to read these two posts and decide what’s best for you. Unfortunately new bloggers don’t know about these advantages or disadvantages and take the wrong decision they later regret. You Can’t Turn it Into a Collective Blog It would be really awkward for more bloggers to write [...]

Sunday Must Read – Weekly Roundup 41, 2010

Let’s see the post I enjoyed the most this week. 1. How To Stop Your Blog Sinking Just Like The Titanic Daniel Lew wrote a post about how to keep your blog from going down. 2. Advanced Link Building Strategies for Affiliate Sites Presentation Patrick Altoft, one of the best SEOs made an excellent presentation on link building for affiliate sites. You definitely need to read this ! 3. Top 3 Reasons to Guest Blog A great post by Benin about guest posts. 4. How to Blog Part 2: The [...]

5 Reasons You’re not a Successful Blogger

The majority of the bloggers are complaining that they have been blogged for a long while, even years, and they still aren’t able to increase their traffic and earnings from the blog. And the sad thing is that most of them believe they are working a lot and doing the right thing, but it simply doesn’t work for them. And they are wrong. Big time ! This is a guest post I’ve written for WeBlogBetter. Read more

Sunday Must Read – Weekly Roundup 40, 2010

So here you have this weeks’ must read posts. 1. Color Psychology – How To Use It In Your Blog? An excellent guest post by Kate Kutny on Jonathan Volk’s blog about what colors you should use. 2. 8 Things I Wish I Knew When I Became an Entrepreneur Neil Patel wrote an excellent post for entrepreneur or wanna-be entrepreneurs. 3. 7 Lessons Learned from Monetizing Quick Sprout One more post from Neil Patel about monetizing his blog. The numbers he’s talking about are crazy. 4. 27 Things That Are [...]

3 Things People Hate Reading

People read blogs because they want to discover new interesting things, to stay informed or to motivate themselves. They always love reading motivational posts and success stories, because everyones loves to follow successful people. There are a lot of unsuccessful bloggers, that either don’t work enough, don’t write quality posts or don’t know how to market themselves. Among all these, they make one more big mistake. They complain about their lack of success and this is what makes his readers stop following him, because nobody likes people who fail. Of [...]

Sunday Must Read – Weekly Roundup 39, 2010

Here you have the posts I enjoyed the most this week 1. How to Blog with Power Marjorie Clayman wrote an excellent post on how to become a better blogger. 2. How To Get Your Guest Post Pitch Noticed An excellent post by Stanford on guest posts. 3. How Halo Helped Me Build A Six Figure Online Income Chris Guthrie wrote a great success story on how he made money online just by playing Halo.

Sunday Must Read – Weekly Roundup 38, 2010

Today I’m starting a new series of posts I will make each Sunday with the most interesting articles I’ve found during the week. Oh, and you may wonder why it’s the Weekly Roundup 38 if it’s my first post. I will use the week’s number and year in the title, so this is week #38 in 2010. Also, I am not going to link to posts written this week only, but to everything I find interesting. 1. Little Tricks to Get More Customers Smiling Neil Patel has 12 really good [...]

Why Commenting on Blogs That Approve Comments Manually is Better

Most of the blogs approve comments automatically and this is because bloggers are lazy to verify each comment or they hope the anti-spam plugin will do its job. Currently I’m using Akismet and rarely a spam comments gets approvedy, so I let comments get approved automatically, though I check them all afterwards. Unfortunately, not all bloggers are like me and a lot of them don’t check the comments on their posts, which means the commentators only get exposure to that blog’s visitors. Usually when a blogger choses to approve comments [...]

Goodbye Web 2.0, Hello Usability

The Web 2.0 stuff has been a trend for a few years now and everybody wants a web 2.0 website. It doesn’t matter it loads in 5 minutes and 90% of the visitors don’t figure out how to navigate the menu, post a comment or contact the webmaster. Well, I think this really need to end, because people really don’t understand what web 2.0 is about. We will always get more and more new and better technologies, intended to bring the internet more features, make websites easier to use and [...]