Random rants and miscellaneous mewsings on nothing, the internet, culture, food, cats and life in a foreign country … in three languages; English, Spanish and Rubbish.
New here? If you’d like to be notified of new content, simply subscribe to my RSS feed or sign up for email alerts. Thanks for visiting!“Web logs, or blogs, which started out as a labor of love, are becoming a moneymaker for writers who are selling advertising on their sites. “
“The Web is awash in little orange buttons. Those buttons take readers to pages filled with XML code for RSS or Atom syndication services. People who don’t know about XML or RSS or Atom get a screen full of ugly computer code. But those clued into the secret handshake — or more accurately, the […]
Two fundamental points stand out from this post:
1. Selling is the “art” (much like Martial Arts) of guiding the customer in the direction they were already going. (I’ve mentioned this before in articles.) That is … as opposed to dragging them screaming to where you want them to be, which will inevitably cause resistance. This […]
Blogs are good for business, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has said.
Interesting commentary in the Newbieclub Newsletter:
Infonesia is the inability to remember where you saw or heard an item of information. The condition is usually temporary but can recur frequently, and is more common in “information societies.”
Possibly the most pernicious form of infonesia is Webinternesia, which is the inability to remember which Web site you […]
More TRAFFIC, as observed in this post at High Rankings Search Engine Optimization Forum, from which I quote: “… an hour per week writing a blog entry, that brings say, 10 extra clicks a month, is going to add up over a year. That is 120 extra clicks per year per page. Pretty handy stuff, […]
As well as being a [formerly] free wire service where you can submit your own releases, PRWeb also have these feeds you can publish on your site. There’s a long list of categories, covering a wide range of consumer subjects, as well as industry, technology, business and general news. Feeds come in XML as […]
And yet another way of producing equally search engine and human-friendly content, is the Optimized Press Release. The most important point to understand, here and in marketing online generally, is stated in this post, “… the beauty of search marketing - visitors pull themselves to your message rather than the message being pushed out to […]
In no way am I suggesting you abandon “traditional” websites, email newsletters and other, more familiar online marketing tools to “jump on the next big thing”, but I do believe that the hour is approaching — FAST — when if you don’t produce an RSS feed for your niche or industry’s offerings, then your competitors […]
In this post at Blog Business World, you can read about a real-life example of a niche-market blog that has become an award-winning success amongst industry peers.
BBW editor, Wayne Hurlbert, makes the point “When we look at business blogging, we are usually thinking in terms of marketing.” And I couldn’t agree more that it certainly […]