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New SEJ Design : Goals, Speed & Feedback
Greetings SEJ readers! It’s a new year and time for a new design at Search Engine Journal. I know what many of you are thinking...
Be “Real” With Your Customers
A lot of today’s top copywriters got their start in direct mail, broadcasting and catalog pieces. Back then, the medium was strictly rooted in the...
Effective Blog Design Part 1
Blogs have almost become as ubiquitous as the internet itsself. With powerful CMS tools like WordPress and Blogger it’s never been easier to start a...
3 Ways to Blog from Your Email
If you travel much and still need to keep your blog active, you will definitely find these tips useful: they will show you how to...
Short Sentences Sell: How to Make a Big Bang with Little Words
When was the last time you read your own copy and set about cutting out any words larger than three syllables? It sounds like a...
DIY Blog Post Graphics For The Non-Designer
Adding pictures and graphics to your blog posts is an easy way to enhance your message. Using a Creative Commons picture or stock photo is...
Why I Think Guest Posting Is the Least Vulnerable (Marketing) Tactic
Last week or so I was approached by Danny Wong asking me to publish his post on why he thinks link building via guest posting...
Social Pop iPhone App: Social News and Sharing Simplified
One of the great treasures that comes along with the internet and having the ability to be constantly connected is also the ability to save...
Getting Personal with Your Copy
It’s a well known fact that people buy based on emotion. But more often than not, the kind of copy you read on web pages...
Create a Blog that Promises Success
Awhile back I wrote a post titled: 7 ways to boost your SEO career profile. One of my suggestions was to get SEO certified. Many...
The Detailed Review of Arkayne, Related Posts Plugin
Arkayne is the related posts plugin with some additional features allowing to network and build link (support provided for: WordPress, Movable Type, Joomla, Django, TypePad,...
Interviewed on Russian Search Blog Shakin.ru
I really don’t interview that often, especially since things have been busy with the expansion of Search & Social, but wanted to share this really...
How to Find Your Writing Niche – Even in a Saturated Market
When I first started blogging, I made a huge list of topics I knew quite a bit about and could help others with. Unfortunately, my...
Yahoo to Shut Down MyBlogLog
Still remember MyBlogLog? Sometime in 2006, it was one of the hottest social networking tool for bloggers because of one simple reason – it allows...
Technorati is Alive, Rolling and Kicking
Just when we thought that Technorati is going nowhere lately, here comes some big news going its way. First, the Technorati site just got a...
Real-Time RSS Feeds Coming Soon to Your Favorite Feed Reader
So while Twitter, Facebook and the major search engines battle it out in providing real-time information services to web users, here’s something that we might...
StumbleUpon Starting Up Again, Goodbye eBay
The StumbleUpon blog has officially announced that the social bookmarking site is no longer a part of eBay. SU was acquired by eBay sometime in...
Twitter Enhances Homepage with Search and Trends
When Twitter launched it’s own search engine that crawls through all user postings which were set for public viewing, many wondered why it was hosted...
Blog Carnivals and Group Writing Projects for Link Building and Networking
A blog is an awesome networking tool. Beside multiple obvious benefits (interacting with your audience, content link building, etc), there are a few more creative...
How to Build Links and Awareness by Pitching Bloggers
There have been several posts recently describing the art of getting linked by bloggers: Problogger outlined some great tips while Peter over at SEObook did...
Bloglines Has Stopped Updating Feeds – Make a Backup
Update: Bloglines seems to active again, the plumber must have been busy. Still, making a backup won’t hurt. My favorite RSS Reader Bloglines has stopped...
Competitive Blogging : Networking with the Competition
Blogging, for many is a business, and just like any other business you will have to show some level of appreciation among your peers. Do...
Instant WordPress Theme Generator
File this in the coolness category! Yvo Schaap has created a real time instant WordPress Theme Generator for those of us who do not have...
Stop wasting time; dump 90% of the feeds you read
Continuing from our earlier discussion on testing your own blog’s success, let’s look at the different reasons you should be unsubscribing from the feeds in...
Would you read your own blog?
A fair bit of blogging advice centers on attracting readers and keeping them. There is a lot of good advice out there as well. However,...
Technorati vs. Google Blog Search: Which is Better?
Robert Scoble recently raised an interesting question on his blog: Which blog search is the best of them all? According to Scoble, Technorati seems to...
Google’s New PPA Program Opens Up New Opportunities for Bloggers
Last week, Google announced the beta test of their new pay-per-action (PPA) advertising program. In addition, Google mentioned a new ad format, the text link...
Most A-List Blogs Run Advertising
Steven Hodson has written a roundup of the top tech blogs within the Technorati Top 100 and whether or not the blogs run advertising. Steven’s...
Why won’t Matt Cutts link to me?
Do you suffer from no-links angst too? Aaron Pratt of SEO Buzz Box writes about “circular linking patterns” and how A-list bloggers form their own...
New Search Tab at Bloglines
New Search Tab at Bloglines From Bloglines News; there’s a new search tab within the Bloglines interface that’s the “first big mashup with Ask.com.” More...