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.
By Gordon
– December 19, 2009
Bloggers obviously enjoy blogging but – there comes a time when everyone can use a brake even if they absolutely love what they do. Today I am going to talk about setting your Wordpress blog into a kind of “autopilot mode” where you can set it up so that it automatically publishes scheduled and pre written posts. This will help you get a few weeks of vacation from your blog and will recharge your batteries with new ideas which you can after the holidays. You also get more time to spend with your family, that’s what the holidays are for right?
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Posted in Blogging.
Tagged with Blogging, holidays, scheduling, Wordpress.
By Gordon
– December 13, 2009
How many times did you just buy something because it was from a certain manufacturer and didn’t really care to check if it really had quality or not? You know the manufacturer has good history, a huge amount of people use and like it, it has never let you down before and even if it did, you would probably still buy from the manufacturer. This explains the power of brands and branding. When talking about online businesses or just non-profitable websites or blogs looking for readers, it is just as important. I am going to be concentrating on online branding in this blog post because it will have more benefit to you (my reader).
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Posted in Blogging, Online Marketing, Web Design.
Tagged with blogs, branding, marketing, websites.