Blossary

SEO Book for Bloggers

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Daehn) — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:22:00 +0000

Aaron Wall has done it again with his SEO book for Bloggers.

Great New Blogger Features in Draft Version

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Daehn) — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:48:00 +0000

Check out the new version of Blogger. Once you are signed in, go to draft.blogger.com and you will see new features and widgets you can add to your blog not available on the regular site. You know you are there when the top banner changes to a blueprint style.

Web 2.0 Tools Site

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Daehn) — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:28:00 +0000

Lots of cool and free web 2.0 tools at Webware.com.

Free Vector Art

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Daehn) — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:53:00 +0000

Vecteezy has some cool free vector art and buttons for your blog or website so check 'em out.

4 Cool Blog Tools from BlogFlux

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Daehn) — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:38:00 +0000

Button Maker

You see those 80x15 buttons everywhere. Our Button Maker lets you make some yourself.

Email Scramble

Shoo away those pesky spam email harvesters. Using JavaScript we let any normal user find your email address while keeping it hidden from spam harvesters.

Quick RSS links

No need to clutter up your blog with 20 different quick links for blog readers. Just use our tool to give them one page to quickly subscribe from.

Inline Blog Comments from LineBuzz

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Daehn) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:02:00 +0000

Cool tool for your blog. Mouse over any text on this blog and you can add a comment to it specifically. Items with comments have a dotted line under them. To see all comments on the page, check out the comments box on the bottom of the right navigation on this page. Pretty cool!

Gooruze Helps Internet Marketers Stay on Top

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Daehn) — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:02:00 +0000

Check out this site dedicated to Internet marketing news. My profile is here: Michael-Daehn.gooruze.com

Blossary Wiki

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Daehn) — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:39:00 +0000

The Blossary Wiki is up and running. I'm not as familiar with using wiki's so you are on your own. You can pretty much change anything you want.

http://blossary.pbwiki.com/
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Cornerstone Content Google Loves

noreply@blogger.com (Demian Farnworth) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:54:00 +0000

Copyblogger Brian Clark gives a comprehensive plan of what it means to deliver content that not only Google loves, but more importantly, brings readers back again and again to your blog.

A cornerstone is something that is basic, essential, indispensable, and the chief foundation upon which something is constructed or developed. It’s what people need to know to make use of your website and do business with you.

And when approached in a strategic fashion, this content can rank very well in the search engines. The key is creating compelling content that’s worth linking to, and then finding a way to get the word out.

Here’s a 5-step strategy that I’ve found useful when developing cornerstone content and getting it to rank well.

This is 50,000 feet, high-level stuff that will help you to plan and build better blogs instead of sitting down and slinging mud at the wall.

Read the rest of the article.

Practice Makes Perfect When it Comes to Blogging

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Daehn) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:16:00 +0000

Good advice from Problogger

Your first 10,000 Blog Posts are Always the Worst

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”

Henri Cartier-Bresson - Photographer

I came across this great quote today and as a photography nut it rang true.

However I quickly realized that the quote could easily be applied to the medium of blogging.

“Your first 10,000 blog posts are your worst”

Like anything - blogging is something that the majority of us are not brilliant at in our early days. I look back at some of the posts I wrote in my first year of blogging and shudder with embarrassment. The mistakes were spectacular and frequent.

However with each mistake and failure comes a lesson, with every post comes comes a new skill and with each experiment comes a discovery of a technique that works (or doesn’t work).

If you’re a new blogger - don’t be discouraged if it doesn’t ‘click’ for you straight away.

Practice, Practice and Practice some more.

How to Write Your “About Me” Page

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Daehn) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:35:00 +0000

From Problogger

How to Write Your “About Me” Page

How do you write an About Me page?

There are four main questions that readers want answered on your About Me page:

1. who you are…
2. your expertise and how it addresses…
3. their problem or goal, and how they can…
4. contact you

Here is a sample “About Me” page that answers these questions:

Hi, I’m Jane Smith and I write TransitionMomBlog (who Jane is) to help women make the transition from full-time mom to successful entrepreneur (the reader’s problem or goal). I started TransitionMomBlog in 2004 (Jane’s expertise – shows she has been blogging for two years) to help other women deal with the sometimes overwhelming prospect of starting a new business while still running a household (how Jane helps them overcome their problem or achieve their goal). Prior to raising my family, I spent over ten years as a teacher, corporate trainer and workshop leader (Jane’s expertise, both as a mom and a business person). To contact me, please email XXX (how to contact Jane).

Other posts on About Me Pages include:

* Adding an About Page to your Site
* The problem of Default About Pages

This reader quick tip was submitted by Barbra Sundquist from Home Business Wiz.

Get Free Video and News Content, and Get Paid for Sharing It

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Daehn) — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:15:00 +0000

Here's a neat little tool called Voxant that let's you syndicate content, legally, and get paid a share of the embedded ads.

How Big are Blogs?

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Daehn) — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:10:00 +0000

What is Blossary?

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Daehn) — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:02:00 +0000

Blog
Short for "Web log," a specialized site that allows an individual or group of individuals to share a running log of events and personal insights with online audiences

PLUS

Glossary
list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms

EQUALS
An information resource for bloggers