Category: Blogging CEO Decisions

  • First Day of the Year Blogging Tasks

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    1. Change copyright on email and website footers Remember that “Copyright 2022” in your footer? Go ahead and find that part of your dashboard where you can change that and make it 2023. Surely it will impress someone that you’re on the ball. Dani Meyer suggested this option for code monkeys. . .a dynamic footer…

  • Can you start a new site outside your niche?

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    Prior to going to BlogWorldExpo I’ve maintained the position that trying to build an audience in a new, unrelated niche wasn’t the best idea. The whole point of list building and empire creation is culling together an audience of similar interests to which you can create a community. Starting a second site in a related…

  • Why are you doing that again?

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    There are so many things to do, isn’t there? Podcasts, Pinterest, Facebook, e-books, email, Flickr, Youtube, Hubpages, Google Places, backlinks, Twitter, Stumbleupon, Cinch, Slideshare, Instagram, Digg, BlogTalkRadio, Kunaki. . . the list goes on and on. Does the existence of a social network, a social utility or a marketing tool mean you have to use…

  • Don’t build a Facebook page! (Unless. . .)

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    It’s true I’m an internet marketing guy who loves and values the proximity Facebook creates – but I’m telling you now, do not “get a page”. Stay away from it like the plague, like the green fuzz on old bread, like the highway during a construction project. I know you’ve wanted to get a page…

  • Are You An Advanced Level Blogger: Part 1

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    Part 1 |Part 2 |Part 3 What level of expertise would you say you have achieved in your blogging career, and how do you measure that for yourself? If you’re not a beginner, are you an advanced level blogger? And what would you have to know to consider yourself an expert? I’ve put together this…

  • Are You An Advanced Level Blogger: Part 2

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    Part 1 |Part 2 |Part 3 There’s a huge difference between a blogging hobbyist and a professional. While some bloggers seem to have defied the odds and have stuck to WordPress.com, TypePad or Blogger, the rest of us have taken on the challenge of a self-hosted, totally controlled site. But even some beginners start that…

  • Are You An Advanced Level Blogger: Part 3

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    Part 1 |Part 2 |Part 3 Tracking Tracking is what separates the hobbyist from the professional. With Google Analytics alone you can know where your traffic comes from, which keywords consistently bring traffic, where that traffic goes and you can know which buttons on your site your traffic doesn’t care about. Imagine that! And that’s…

  • You don’t need help, you need leverage

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      Remember learning about leverage in physics class?  I think the discussion revolved around weights, pulleys, fulcrums, and anvils. Or something like that. The idea was we needed to lift something heavy and needed to find leverage to make it easier. In our blogging  world we’ve already gotten leverage in so many ways: WordPress: Isn’t…

  • Marketing Checklist

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    How do you know if your marketing makes sense. Here’s a simple checklist for you: 1. Tracking. No matter what it is, whether it is a guest blog post, a yellow page ad, a billboard or web banner make sure there is some form of tracking so we can tell at the end of the year…

  • Don’t Start That

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    Have you met my folks? They run https://front-porch-ideas-and-more.com and they’re not even Geeks. My dad didn’t have any real internet or marketing expertise before starting it. And my mom, well we call her “smartest +1”. . . Anyway, they built this great business that generates revenue from organic traffic clicking online Adsense ads. They also…