Wednesday, May 30, 2012

4 Health Tips for Professional Bloggers

While bloggers enjoy self-made schedules and creative freedom, they sometimes sacrifice personal health to maintain professional demands.

Sitting at home or at an office all day generates about as much motivation to hit the gym as a tipped-over Ben and Jerry’s truck.

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Monday, May 28, 2012

CommentLuv WordPress Premium Plugin, always just better

What can I say about WordPress plugins? I love them and I'm a sucker for a plugin which can really help in any form. In addition, I totally free plugins and the folder WordPress is full of them. Of course, there are good and well, not so good ones. While I'm a strong advocate for "useful and reliable" free stuff, I must admit that for every rule, there is an exception and CommentLuv is one of those who fit into that category.

Andy Bailey, the mastermind behind CommentLuv Premium (aff link) is set to get his plugin better each day. Since its inception, the number of updates that are made is enormous and do you think, most of these updates were not bug fixes (although it had its share), but instead add more features. I won't even go the way of support, are simply a

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Saturday, May 26, 2012

SEO Myths, Yahoo Axis, Microsoft Socl, Facebook IPO, Speedlink 21:2012

Hello everyone. Hope you all had a great week. This week, there has been some interesting stuff going on in the search industry and on the social web. Yahoo has launched Yahoo Axis, their new search engine/browser, which as they say is aimed to redefine what it means to search and browse the web. Pretty bold statement but at first glance, they just might be up to something. I installed the “desktop” addon on my FireFox browser and started to play a bit with the interface. Let’s see how it goes. Have you tried Axis yet? How about DuckDuckGo? Looks like they are attracting more users…

Another interesting stuff that happened this week is the launch of Microsoft’s new social network Socl, pronounced “social”. As with Axis, I also jumped in to see what it has to offer, and first impressions reminds me of certain features (named differently), available on another network. At first, it may look complicated, but once you get the hand of using Socl’s interface, it is actually not that difficult to use. Danny Sullivan wrote a great coverage about Socl, so if you are interested, read what he has to say. Will Microsoft be a major player in the social arena? Remains to be seen. Too early to make any judgements.

On another forefront, I really wanted to skip the whole hulabahlooh related to FaceBook’s IPO. Share price has dropped roughly 17.5% from its original IPO offer price. Scary, if you ask me, and still not sure where all this will end. We’ll see.

Finally, this week’s WhiteBoard Friday of Rand from SEOMoz, is really worth watching. In case you missed it, he explains in detail, why you should not worry about certain “SEO advices” popping up here and there, due to the latest updates from Google. All in all, just apply the most ethical search engine optimization practices, and you should be fine.

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Friday, May 25, 2012

How Social Video is Revolutionizing Publishing: Evan White of Viddy Interview

The only way you used to be able to get a video onto social media was to upload it from your computer, usually your desktop. This slowed the dissemination of information in video form, especially news videos, since it could take a few hours for people to see them after they were shot. In this Future of Publishing episode, Murray Newlands talks with Evan White of Viddy about the future of video publishing.

What is Viddy?

The folks over at Viddy explains the description of their services as follows (excerpt):

Viddy provides a social mobile application that makes it easy to quickly capture, produce, and share bite-size videos with the world (collectively, such services, including any new features and applications, and the Site, the

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

How to track your marketing campaigns using Pinterest Pinerly

If you've used as part of your marketing strategy Pinterest, you should know that sharing your content on which social platform a good amount of traffic, when done properly can drive. Pinterest indeed is an exciting tool, and can be used by virtually any type of business. Amazing as it is, there is one thing that I think is lacking, and that is the ability to Pinterest

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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Chris Brogan Interview-creating Video for Business, the future of publishing

Making video content that your audience can accept is not easy for someone who doesn't understand social marketing. Consequently, many companies eventually

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Saturday, May 19, 2012

Facebook IPO, Google do not, SEO consulting startup Penguin Tips, SPEEDLink 20: 2012

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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Picking the Right WordPress Theme for Your Blog

When it comes to having a blog of your own, there are plenty of things you will need to think about. The purpose of your site is most important of course, then comes the domain name and all of the actual content and writing you will be doing for the site. Once you have all of that laid out, then you need to start thinking about how you want to have your blog to look. Fortunately, through the use of WordPress, it’s actually quite easy for you to pick and choose a design that is right for you, but with so many options out there, this can also be quite the task.

In this post we are going to break down a few of the many different ways you can play around with your blog design, and eventually come up with the perfect wordpress theme for you and your site.

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For those of you who are just getting into blogging or simply creating a blog for a hobby or just to get something going, a free wordpress theme is a great way to start. There are plenty of web sites and directories out there that list the best free wordpress themes that you can instantly download and setup with your blog. While free wordpress themes are great, there are some disadvantages, such as being in low quality and coding, footer links and theme ownership disclaimers and little to no support if you run into any problems with a theme. As mentioned though, if you are simply blogging for fun, a free wordpress theme is the way to go. If you would like to start looking for themes for your site, the WordPress Free Themes Directory is a great place to start.

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Important Tips To Select Domain Name For New Bloggers

It is a great task to select a new domain name for your business niche. The importance of a domain name is realized by entrepreneurs because of its significance in SEO, among other things. To achieve success in business you should utilize all the possible means. And it all starts with an address – the domain name.

Having realized the importance of keywords in SEO listings, you cannot be ignorant of the selection of the most appropriate domain name for your niche. With that said, here are a few tips which will be definitely useful for those who would like to pick up a new domain name.

To select a unique name

The domain name is the starting point where your web journey begins. Domain name is the foundation for the very existence of your online presence.

The domain name selected should be as catchy as possible. It should be closer to your business niche. The domain name should set expectations for visitors about the type of content that will be presented on your site. In this way, people can fittingly recollect your site and refer to others as well.

The time you spend in the selection of an artistic domain name will fetch you many times by returning benefits in the years to come. Hence, you should pick a domain name which qualifies the following characteristics:

Easy to rememberEasy to typeRelated to your business nicheSearch engine friendlyKISS (Keep It Short and Simple)Relative to the content on your site

You should avoid names with the following characteristics:

Names similar to existing popular sites (although I totally understand the urge to do so)Domain names with hyphenMisspelled domain namesFor branding

If you are very serious about branding and want to establish your business on a long-term perspective and would like to cover customers catered throughout the world, .com is a viable option.

Even though top level domains such as .net, .info, .org, etc. can be leveraged to imbibe all kinds of SEO benefits, .com gives a professional appearance. Most of the people try .Com as it was very popular since the advent of the internet. It is useful to get global image.

Growing businesses will also buy domain names with .net, .org, .info so that even if customers try to visit your site by typing other top level domain names, they will be redirected to your .com site.

For instance, if my blog is myname.com, I could also purchase myname.net, myname.org and other TLDs and redirect them to myname.com. This way I won’t miss those visitors who type the TLDs as well.

Keyword popularity

You can check the popularity of a keyword. There are various online tools to check the value of a keyword in various aspects. The free and the most convenient tool is the Google Keyword Tool.

But if you want to go the extra mile, you’d want to use a tool like Market Samurai.

You will be able to find the worth of keyword in SEO aspect, the competition for the keyword, unique keyword, etc. Market Samurai is a great tool that will definitely help you in this aspect.

You can include keyword in your domain name that will have less competition. In this way, you will be able to promote your site very well in the coming days.

Check the availability

After having clarity about the domain that you would like to choose, you should check the availability of the same on sites that offer domain registration facility. You can try sites like hostgator.com or godaddy.com to register your domain names.

If the desired domain name is not available you should be flexible enough to choose the one closer to your expectations. As you type a domain name of your choice, if it is not available, you will be provided with a list of available alternative site names.

Used domain names

Domain names that are already used by others and set for sale are not as attractive as used cars. In case of used cars, you will be able to check the performance of the car. The same will not hold good for purchasing used domain names.

You may need to pay a hefty price for good and popular niche sites if they are available for sale. You can take advantage of back links and Google PR in such cases.

On the other hand, if domains were involved in spamming activities and completely banned by Google and other search engines, you cannot invite furthermore trouble by purchasing such kind of domain names.

Hence, you should be very cautious in the purchase of used domain names. And, it is advisable to go for brand new domain names rather than for a used name unless you have specific justifying reasons of business interest (unless you are a savvy to drill deep and analyze the history of the old domain name; especially, given the recent Google changes).

Name registration plus hosting

There are very many sites which will help you register your domain name as well as help you with web hosting. As you opt for both of these services from the same service provider, it will be easy for you to renew the registration and to get extended help from them.

It is always advisable to select services from a reputed service provider which has presence in the market for a considerable period of time. You should be able to reach them through various means including chat, email and voice channels.

Takeaway

Even though selection of a domain name is not the ultimate factor that decides the success of your business, you should be cautious and can take advantage of the name by following the above mentioned tips. You are invited to share your views.

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Monday, May 14, 2012

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Sunday, May 13, 2012

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