The best long term blog plan is to treat every single thing you do like you are planting a seed for the future. The most important activity for long-term success is creating killer blog content. The second most important activity for long-term success is to grow your network by providing value to others with no…
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Overheard in the Blogosphere 13
When you look at how much Yahoo has put into their Panama system but yet they have dumb shits running the affiliate program can this really be a surprise? Jeremy Schoemaker Google has one goal, ruling the internet in an unchallenged top-down dictatorial manner. If you stand up for yourself and challenge them, they will…
How to Create a Feed Signature with Secret Content for Subscribers Only
A lot of people ask me how I created the feed signature that allows only subscribers to download my free ebook How to Start a Business Blog. The answer is simple and… unglamorous: I use a WordPress plugin called Sig2feed and some HTML/CSS coding. Anybody can use the plugin. If you don’t know HTML or…
So You Think You Know SEO? I have a Contest for You
Well, to tell you the truth, it’s my friend Mani Karthik who has the contest. It’s a real contest with a real prize: $250 (hey, that’s a big chunk of iPod, know what I mean?). Mani and I both write for Blogging Tips, and he’s a super-nice guy. He’s launching a personal blog and thought…
DON’T Use Social Media as a Tool to Promote Your Blog!
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Watch on YouTube. I believe that if you’re going to participate in social networks, you have to truly join in and be a part of them or you will not get much benefit for your blog at all. Major points: People don’t care about your blog. But… given half a chance, they might care about…
Launch a Profitable Freelance Business for Under $50
My friend and rockstar freelancer Christine O’Kelly is one of the brightest and most passionate people I know. Her blog, Self-Made Chick is on my must read, must comment list. We’ve each helped the other with ideas that solve problems and find a way to success. Well, now she’s done and gone put out her…
Tips to Rock Out Your Band or Musician Blog
What should a band or musician blog include, irrespective of the kind of music the band is about? I’ve made a short list of items you want to be sure to have on your band or musician blog: Performance Schedule Your band’s blog is information central for your fans, so make sure you keep it…
You Just Subscribed to Remarkablogger and Got Your Free Ebook – Okay, What Now?
Wow. When I look at my subscriber count, now, I have to rub my eyes and make sure I’m not seeing things. I have a ton of new readers who are going to decide very quickly whether or not they should remain subscribed after getting their little prize (oh yeah, people, I know how it…
Sometimes Scrapers are Funny
I never thought I’d see the day when I’d be quoting a scraper ripping off my content and using a program to rearrange and substitute words (quite badly), but damn, this is funny stuff: hit a accusal to make: I don’t hit goals. Wait, what? How crapper I not hit goals and ease be doing…
New Collaborative Project is Now Live: Please Join Us
As I mentioned at the beginning of January, 2008 is gonna rock for many reasons. One of those is something I want to announce today: Gateway Blogging – A New Way to Do Business Blogging Gateway Blogging is a new and better way to create and run a business blog. Experienced entrepreneur, author, and business…
Who Says Thank You More, You or Your Commentors?
I was responding to a comment from my friend Phil Gerbyshak, telling him “you’re welcome”, when I realized that I really haven’t been saying those two words very much, lately. I’ve been thanking people myself, left and right. But I haven’t been saying “you’re welcome” as much. Why does this matter? Who are you really…
Attention Video Bloggers: CuePrompter is Your Online Teleprompter
Mashable reports there is a new “teleprompter” application online, called CuePrompter. And just in case you didn’t know, a teleprompter is a machine (computers, nowadays) that scrolls the text a person reads when giving a speech. They’re used by everyone from politicians to talk show hosts to news anchor people. I’m big on video, and…
Guess Who Ranks #1 for Blog Consulting?
Well, that would depend on what search engine you’re using! Obviously, on the one that matters the most, I’m not even on the front page of the results. Update: I just checked again, and I am indeed on the first page of Google results! W00t! But, interestingly enough, I am either on the first page…
Getting Blog Readers to Convert –
Say Hello to PAT
Welcome to My First SlideCast This post contains a SlideCast. If you are viewing this in a feed reader and don’t see the SlideShare player immediately below, please visit the original post or SlideShare to view it. All you have to do is click on the play button, just like a video… except you can…
How I Increased My RSS Subscribers to Nearly 900 in Less than 2 Weeks
In less than 2 weeks, I’ve managed to increase my blog’s subscriber count by nearly 200% to about 900 subscribers (198% to be exact, at the time of this writing). Many of you already know how, but I’ll say it anyway. Two words: Free Ebook. I did this according to a plan, and I’m going…
FeedBurner for WordPress: The Basics Nobody Told You About
There’s a lot of new stuff to learn and figure out when you’re new to blogging, and there’s some basic stuff out there that other people are taking for granted, but maybe you didn’t know about. Setting up FeedBurner for your blog might be one of those things. And it’s not that there’s no good…
How to Get Away with Blogging for a Low-Tech Audience
Blogs have come a long way since the late nineties, but most people still don’t really know much about them. The terminology confuses them. They have absolutely no desire to leave comments, and don’t know why anyone would. All the widgets in the blog sidebar are incomprehensible. There are millions of people online who barely…
Do You Need a .mobi Domain for Your Blog?
I’ve said that mobile blogging will be big in 2008. That means that more folks will be both creating and consuming blog content via mobile devices. So the question has come up: Do you need a .mobi domain for your blog? There is a lot of .mobi FUD and madness out there, and the combination…
The Starter Blog: How to Really Get Started Blogging
I Wish I’d Never Started on Blogger I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read comments from bloggers who say that if knew then what they know now, they would never have started a blog on Blogger. It’s a common sentiment, but it’s also wrong. Before you get all righteous about how Blogger is…
Blogs will Rule 2008
Reader Question: What Blogs Allow AdSense?
My recent post on the Success of my client’s blog Nursing School Programs must have got some people thinkin’. And thinkin’ is dangerous, because it leads to self-improvement. Anyhoo, I got a question from someone via my contact form: There are a couple of WordPress blogs that you offer – are they ones that allow…
A Big Thank You
This is a quick post to shout out a huge THANK YOU to everyone who subscribed for my free 82-page ebook How to Start a Business Blog. Some of you haven’t had the chance to download it yet because I haven’t posted since you subscribed. So I wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone…
Busting into 2008 with a New Design and Free Ebook
Buh-bye, 2007. Helloooooo 2008! New Remarkablogger Design & Logo There’s some new stuff to say howdy to here on Remarkablogger. First of all, if you’re seeing this in a reader, come check out the new design. I’m now rockin’ the logo Mohsin designed for me. I like it so much that I think I may…
