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8 Important Admin Tasks to Do When Launching a New Blog

ProBlogger

And a lot of established blogs still have the “meta” widget in the sidebar, despite it offering no value to readers whatsoever. 3: Remove the “Meta” Widget from Your Sidebar. By default, WordPress places certain widgets in your sidebar. Don’t think you need to keep these.

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Blog Formatting: How to Make Your Readers Love Your Blog

Writtent Blog

Most free blog hosting sites have some form of advertisement as part of the deal, but try to go for the lesser distracting ones if you’re opting for the free hosting. It’s tempting, when you see what widgets are available for your blog, to add tons of them to your sidebar. There’s also the matter of RSS Feed Readers.

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Micro Persuasion: Become a Knowledge Management Ninja with Google Reader

Buzz Marketing for Technology

(Some of these may work with RSS readers from Newsgator, Bloglines and others but they are written with Google in mind.). The Core Philosophy: Google Reader is a database and a feed reader. Continually add tons of feeds in organized, methodical way. Annotate your data by connecting Reader to Gmail or Blogger.

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28 Resources from My Internet Marketing Toolbox

Viper Chill

You can see how many people are subscribing to your RSS feed and from which sources, and if you use the new Google Analytics integration, you can see how many clicks each individual post is getting from feed readers. If you market via PPC it gives you a decent estimate of the advertiser competition as well.

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Pausing my Facebook Series: A Personal Update

Viper Chill

If you’re reading this in a feed reader or in your inbox, you can subscribe via this page (I know it has nothing to do with the list, but I don’t have a dedicated page yet). From the strategies and advertising tactics I’ve learned, I’m able to reach millions of people week after week.

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5,867 Words on Becoming a Conversion Machine: A Guide for Bloggers

Viper Chill

However, thanks to the ViperChill forums, I recently learned of ‘ Widget Context ‘, a plugin that lets you specify which sidebar widgets show on which types of pages on your blog. SEOeBook] to show opt-in forms and more. Change Your Ending Paragraph. Display Social Proof.

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45 Marketing Tools to Consider for 2017

Razor Social

The tool then sends you alerts to your email or RSS feed reader each time it finds relevant mentions. You do need a Google AdWords account but that doesn’t force you to advertise. Setup is quite simple – just copy a simple line of Javascript into the HTML of your website and the chat widget will immediately start working.

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