Further to my extended post on sitemaps, I just thought I’d let you know that Google indexed my site 6 days after coming on-line. Another website of mine that I put up in August took 2 weeks to get indexed, and nearly 2 months before all of the URL’s were indexed (before I’d learnt of [...]

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TemplateIt’s the first impression for the visitors; therefore, it is critical to have a nice & simple template which matches the theme of your blog. The main colors should be selected very carefully as well. Word Verification Not many people like this because it wastes the readers’ time. But it is personal preference. And it [...]

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You are probably familiar with blog directories, and I will shortly write a longer post on the major players and their pros & cons. But, as this blog is for smaller bloggers, here’s a small blog directory: What The Blog? Run by Jen in Omaha, this is a small friendly network, where you can have [...]

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My blog’s viewership has grown amazingly fast in the short amount of time it’s been up. Although having promotional things in place is always good, I’ve found the best key to be networking, networking, networking! Get out and meet people just like you would in a job. Visit their blogs, leave comments. When someone leaves [...]

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If you’re not yet tracking the visitors to your blog, this might be of interest: IceRocket Blog Tracker. Register for a free account, install the provided piece of code into your blog, and it will begin tracking the number of hits your blog receives, along with referring URL, readers PC specs and more. You will [...]

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You can have the best blog in the world, but if you can’t spell, you’ll lose readers like there’s no tomorrow – and there probably won’t be for your blog. The solution is easy: Install Firefox2, because it includes a built-in spell checker for entering data into web forms. In other words, it will spell [...]

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It is an unfortunate fact that for every good thing on the internet, there’s a hundred people trying to cover it in spam. Your blog is one of the good things, and no matter how small, someone’s trying to spam it. As most of the spamming is being done by automated programs (bots) these days, [...]

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Use short URL for your blog instead of a long one. You’ll do better in search engines. As you know, yesterday I changed the settings on my permanent links from /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ to a custom structure url + /%postname%/ . The reason I did it was simple. I want my web site to do better in [...]

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This is Part 2 of an article entitled Viral Marketing. Part 1 can be found here. The term meme is a shortened version of the Greek “mimeme”, meaning something imitated. Memes pre-date the internet as a marketing strategy. Hell, they pre-date almost everything as a marketing strategy. Chain letters were around long before I was [...]

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Text Link Ads (TLA) is a new site I’ve come across offering bloggers the opportunity to place fixed text ads on their site. Unlike Google adsense, YOU get to approve the ads that will be shown, which is an excellent way of avoiding unsuitable ads popping up & annoying your readers. Basically, TLA gives you [...]

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