By Gordon
– February 1, 2010
It seems that 2010. has started busy not just for me personally but for my e-mail inbox as well. All across January, I have been getting e-mail messages from regular readers and people that decided to stop by and read a post or two. The messages have all been very encouraging and that is why I decided to dedicate one blog post to all the people that took the time to write.
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Posted in Updates.
Tagged with Updates.
By Gordon
– January 23, 2010
Being a blog owner, you have probably spent countless hours searching for social networking websites that will give your blog posts good exposure. You try to register on as many as you can, it can’t hurt right? Of course it can’t – there is no limit to how many social networks you can use to advertise your content. The only problem is, as always, getting noticed in the crowd. If the time you spend on social networks is limited, which ones do you choose?
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Posted in Blogging, Social Bookmarking.
Tagged with bloggerden, Blogging, Social Bookmarking.
By Gordon
– January 16, 2010
You know that moment when you find out about some online service or piece of software and you go “Wow! Where have you been all this time!”? I had a moment like that recently after speaking with a professor at my College. The experience of almost loosing an essay I did in Word for my College has motivated me to seek out new and alternative methods of backing up at least some of my data. Data like blogging notes, website source files, images and most important of all – College files. So I finally found a free online service that changed the way I handle my files!
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Posted in Useful Apps.
Tagged with backup, dropbox.
By Gordon
– January 10, 2010
When you first started blogging or running your own website, you probably read a lot of advice on how to get traffic. You read about SEO techniques, you tried some of them but where not going anywhere fast enough. Then everyone was talking about social networks and if you spam as much as them as often as (now that’s a lot of as-es) you can with your articles, you’re bound to get some good traffic – sooner or later, right? WRONG!
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Posted in Blogging, Web Traffic.
Tagged with social networks, stumbleupon, traffic.
By Gordon
– December 31, 2009
Ever since I started blogging, I have been spending some time researching and reading about Internet copy-writing techniques. Like every other person should want to, I also wanted to stand out from the crowd – and what a big crowd the Internet is. So what’s all the fuss about headlines? It is because they are the first thing anyone sees or readers before they decide whether to read the entire article or not. The decision of interest in a certain article is made in a split second, in our brain and this is why it is so important to do it the right way. You want to write headlines that attract attention but not mislead the reader – at least not too much.
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Posted in Blogging, Copywriting.
Tagged with copywriting, headlines.