Blogging experts reveal their blogging tips
October 1, 2008 by Sherry Tingley
Filed under Blogging Tips
Learning To Blog Class Sessions
One of the fun things about going to BlogWorld Expo 2008 was listening to expert bloggers reveal their personal blogging tips and tell us how they make money with blogging. Jim Kukral lead a question answer session with four very successful bloggers, Brian Clark, Zac Johnson , Darren Rowse and for a brief time Jeremy Shoemaker.
Each guest was asked questions about what made their blog successful and what they recommended to others who are starting out a new blog. They discussed issues such as which programs were making them the most money, whether Google Adsense was really Webmaster Welfare, and what topics are the best to blog about. They talked about how long it takes to establish a good blog and what to expect from your blog at the beginning. All of them agreed that you need to have a passion for the topic you are going to be blogging about to avoid the dreaded “abandoned blog.”
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Blogging News From BlogWorld Expo 2008
September 27, 2008 by Sherry Tingley
Filed under Blogging Tips
Blog World Expo 2008
BlogWorld Expo 2008 was held last weekend, Sept. 19-21, 2008, in Las Vegas, U.S.A. More than 200 expert presenters in the field of blogging and internet businesses spoke at the 2nd annual Blogging Convention.
With so many great presentations, the hardest thing about attending the conference was being able to decide which speakers to listen to.
The conference started off with Richard Jalichandra of Technorati presenting the State of the Blogosphere. Technorati.com allows users to submit their blogs and provides people with a system of tracking their blog popularity. Technorati has a list of the top 100 blogs according to user voting and community interaction. You can read the best blogs on a variety of topics.
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Keyword Strategies for WordPress
September 7, 2008 by Sherry Tingley
Filed under Blogging Tips, Featured, Key Words, WordPress
Keyword strategies are becoming easier to create with new tools available to WordPress bloggers and to individual web site owners. Ranking on the first page of Google results is not as difficult as you might think. With a little research and some good strategies in place, you can do quite well.
A keyword tool that is popular among many website developers is the Word Tracker Free Keyword Tool. You will find that it does the brainstorming for you by giving you alternate suggestions for other keyword phrases.
A tool you can easily use to help you determine which keywords to focus on is listed below:
Search engine optimization using good keyword strategies will help your site gain top positions on Google, MSN and Yahoo search engines. Just this weekend I tested some keywords for my site. I logged in to my Google Webmaster Tools account and found out that I was getting traffic from a variety of key words that I wasn’t aware of.
The keyword results are listed below:
| Key Word | Date | Position | Number of Page Results |
| loved by many | 9/7/2008 | 7 | 135,000,000 |
| word mortgage | 9/7/2008 | 18 | 26,200,000 |
| 20 blog | 9/7/2008 | 4 | 22,200,000 |
| submit your blog | 9/7/2008 | 15 | 21,000,000 |
| top blog wordpress | 9/7/2008 | 7 | 17,300,000 |
| wordpress top blog | 9/7/2008 | 1 | 13,000,000 |
| personal finance stories | 9/7/2008 | 10 | 6,750,000 |
| wordpress blogging tips | 9/7/2008 | 6 | 2,380,000 |
| blogging tips | 9/7/2008 | 20 | 1,680,000 |
| blog submission directories | 9/7/2008 | 8 | 532,000 |
| blogging tips plugin | 9/7/2008 | 1 | 518,000 |
| blogging tips plugin for wordpress | 9/7/2008 | 1 | 513,000 |
| places to advertise a wordpress blog | 9/7/2008 | 1 | 356,000 |
| blog submission plugin | 9/7/2008 | 1 | 194,000 |
WordPress is extremely search engine friendly and with a Google Webmaster Tools account you can look up your results quickly and easily.
A very good key word strategy to use is to add a little hittail code to your site. www.hittail.com has a service that will track every keyword people use to get to your site with and it will create a long tail key word list for you, listing up to 300 key words. All of this is done with one line of code.
Another very useful site for overall search engine optimization is at: http://www.webconfs.com/
They host 20 powerful key word tools free for anyone to use, so be sure to take advantage of them.
With all the good key word tools available for WordPress bloggers and web site owners, there are numerous opportunities for you to rank high in the search engines.
If you have a tool you like to use, please suggest one.
keyword strategies
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/my-personal-opinion-90-of-the-rankings-equation-lies-in-these-4-factors where you can read about some other good keyword strategies.
Wordtracker Presentation
Max Holloway sent me this video that will help you learn why people would be willing to link back to your site. Good information for all website owners to learn.
By Ken McGaffin, developer of Wordtracker’s Link Building Tool
Blogging Expert John Chow to Speak At BlogWorld Expo 2008
August 25, 2008 by Sherry Tingley
Filed under Blogging Tips, Money Making Ideas
One person I’d like to meet at the next BlogWorld Exp (Sept. 19-21, 2008) in Las Vegas is John Chow. Well known for his crazy videos, explosive income growth and personality, he has one of the most successful blogs on the internet and he shares his secrets to success. He actually keeps a log of his monthly income growth and what programs he used to generate that income.
John is best known for showing the power of blogging when he used his blog as an income case study. He took thejohnchow.com from $350 per month to a over $27,000 per month in just one year.
This is what is posted on his blog:
Total Blog Income for May 2008: 227,705.80 RMB
Despite the difficulties of doing business in China, the blog posted a record high income of 227,705.80 RMB, or 228 times greater than the average monthly income of a Chinese factory worker. The income converts to $32,529.40 USD. Here is the breakdown.
- Private Ad Sales: $16,380.00
- Affiliate Commissions: $9,757.04
- ReviewMe: $3,000.00
- Text Link Ads: $2,036.22
- Kontera: $1,000.00
- TTZ Media: $329.50
- Subscription: $20.00
- FeedBurner: $6.64
- Grand Total: $32,529.40
Sign up now for BlogWorldExpo 2008
Don’t forget to take your video camera and take videos.
20 Top Blog Submission Directories in a WordPress Plugin
August 25, 2008 by Sherry Tingley
Filed under Blogging Tips, WordPress
A new WordPress plugin has been created that will have direct links to 20 different places to submit your blog. These twenty blog submission directories are popular places to advertise your new WordPress blog. They appear as links inside the back office of your WordPress blog.
These links are great places to submit your blog to get traffic back to your URL. Some of the links go to blog tracking web sites like www.technorati.com where you can see tracking statistics and find out the popularity of your blog.
Some of the links, like the blog analyzer go to places that analyze your blog posts so you can see which of your posts are pulling the most traffic.
Other links are popular blog submission directories that have been recommended.
This is just a sample of how it will look in the back office of WordPress. You can see it in on the right side of the page when you use the write screen to write a post.If you want to suggest a blog submission diretory to be added to this list, please suggest one!
What does it cost?
I am releasing this 20 Top Blog Summission Directories WordPress plugin into the blogging community as donation-ware.
However, these plugins do take time to write, update, and provide support – so if you find it useful then please consider making a donation. You just click the button below and it will direct you to PayPal. You can donate any amount you wish.
Blogging Tips Plugin for WordPress
August 7, 2008 by Sherry Tingley
Filed under Blogging Tips, WordPress
Blogging has become a popular way of building a website and many times that website can become a lucrative business. Getting ideas to write about becomes difficult for some people and after they have written their first ten posts, they don’t know what to write about. They need blogging tips.
One of the first plugins to be written for Word Press was a plugin called, “Hello, Dolly.” Similar to the Hello Dolly format, which puts a line of lyrics in the upper right hand space in the Word Press Administration screen, the blogging tips plugin displays random blogging tips and suggestions. The tips are just some ideas of what you can do to improve the popularity of your blog and improve the content. All of the tips are designed to inspire you to be a better blogger.
It is easy to install plugins to your blog. You just download the zipped file and then open the folder on your computer. You read the installation instructions and then just upload one file to your blog. You will put it in the folder called plugins which is under the folder called wp-content. Then you look for the file in your plugins directory within your Word Press back office and find the plugin called “Blogging Tips.” You click on activate. Be sure you deactivate the Hello Dolly plugin if you are currently using that. Enjoy the plugin.
Add a little fun to your Word Press blog and download this plugin for blogging tips.
What does it cost?
I am releasing this WordPress Plugin with Blogging Tips into the blogging community as donation-ware.
However, these plugins do take time to write, update, and provide support … so if you find it useful then please consider making a donation. You just click the button below and it will direct you to PayPal. You can donate any amount you wish.
