Optimize Your Blog: Part 1

So you’ve got a blog. Now what? In this series of posts I’ll be covering several strategies to maximize your blogs potential with proper optimization. How can you be both search engine and user friendly at the same time? It’s a tough balancing act at times, but if you really ...

Blogging In An Economic Downturn

It doesn’t take very long to be reminded about the challenges our economy faces. We’ve all heard the stories, and we’re all most likely feeling the realties of this current recession in one way or another. As I was thinking this week about the state of our economy, my mind immediately ...

Entertain or Educate – What Is Best?

I’ve been doing some thinking lately (I know it’s dangerous). Looking back at all of our businesses over the last 5 years, plus the 100′s of websites I’ve consulted with or studied, it seems like most sites fall into one of two categories. The first is where the website’s purpose is ...

Your Customers Are Busy Too

What is the most valuable part of your life? It’s the only thing in the world that is limited… TIME This is something most marketers and internet business owners forget about. Of course we know OUR time is valuable, but we tend to forget that our customers and readers have ...

Wrong Market = Empty Bank Account

Sometimes knowing what not to do is as good as or better than knowing what you should do. This post will hopefully be one of those cases for you… Do you know one of the top reasons why people don’t make money online? I’ll tell you. They pick the WRONG ...

5 Linkbait Ideas Any Blog Can Use

In Max’s recent poll about your favorite topics, the subject of driving more traffic to your blog came in a very close second. In the spirit of giving the people what they want, I want to discuss what I consider to be the single best method of driving traffic… Linkbait. ...

It’s Surprising How Much We Don’t Know

Happy April’s Fools Day to you. Don’t worry, I don’t have any annoying pranks to play on you (or do I)? Well, last night I sent “GreenLantern” $25 via paypal for winning the “What’s Your Favorite Topic” comment contest (here it is if you missed it). I’ll post a video ...

Stop Playing Follow The Leader

This is just the second post I’ve made since taking over BloggingExperiment.com, and apparently I’ve already started confusing people with my first post. How’s that for a first impression? When I stated in yesterday’s post that I was going to change a few of the “copied techniques”on this site, this ...

Lessons on Blogging Meme

Throughout the Lessons on Blogging series, I’ve discussed concepts and principles that popular TV shows teach about blogging. The series has been very well received, with several posts becoming popular on several social media sites and attracting several new incoming links. At the end of each post I mention that ...