'Do you want to turn your blog into a full-time business? Each stage of this blog’s growth was crafted to build a brand, cultivate a community of buyers, and deliver valuable content. Write and publish my own book. also knew that book publishers like to see a success story before they take a risk on publishing a new author’s book. Take Action: Decide on a realistic timeframe for achieving your blogging goals. also searched the top blogs in my niche looking for unanswered and frequent reader questions. Blog Strategy blog business MORE >>

This used to be a classic SEO “trick” and not best practice, but easy and fast to do because of the amazing ability of blogs. We now call them “splogs” or spam blogs. And some blog owners code their site to use the “nofollow” tag, which tells Google to ignore any links in comments.But heh, be a friend and leave a blogger a comment! Publish date of the page. One advantage to moving a lot of things to a blog would be that you have a lot more fresh content as far as Google is concerned. and very few ever make it to a 10. MORE >>

Not only that, this new blog isn’t about marketing, blogging, or making money online! Only a few months ago, I started my recent project, an electronic music blog by the name of Sophistefunk. And I did it without a single guest post about this blog! But first, let me address why  I didn’t use guest posting for this new blog… Seriously, Why No Guest Posts? What they don’t tell you in the blogging world very often is that sometimes, guest posting is not always a viable option  depending on the niche that you are in. Blogging MORE >>

We’ve talked for years about citizen journalism and self-publishing, but more important than the channels of distribution are the ways in which content and context are discoved via search engines and social recommendations, and the fact that theoretically this leads to any piece of content available online being indexable, findable and potentially popular. And the blog post it inspired was a thought about how the rise of communications technology etc seems to have sucked all the glamour and excitement from air travel. All totally normal. Except here’s the change. MORE >>

I have two ideas for how you can “blog&# (sort of) with Google+. Then, with that done, I had basically fashioned a “bundle&# of content (Hat tip, @Kosso, for the same term I was thinking). Blogging With Google+. First, I don’t think Google+ replaces blogs yet. Click publish. Voila – a bundle/blog post. Version 2 of Blogging with Google+. blogging howto publishing socialmedia softwareNot sure that it ever will. But that’s not the question. But not any combo of the three. So, here’s what I did. MORE >>