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The Care and Feeding of Your Ventures Online

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Once again another week has come and gone without a single post made to this blog. I cannot believe it - and I’m highly disappointed in myself. I have reasons - wonderful clients and customers needing personalized attention - but not posting is having an effect on the headway we’ve made on this blog.

The obvious point is when you get traffic to anything - and in this case a blog - you must sustain that traffic or watch your Alexa ranking (some indication of the volume of traffic) rise and fall with the tides.

With Linda’s huge successes, and those of our fellow Whole Hog Bloggers, we strive to also stay on track with this whole “get traffic” thing

If you don’t post at regular intervals (and often) your traffic obviously fluctuates. The reasons for this are two-fold. (more…)

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Posted in Increase Website Traffic, Other Strategies, Search Engine Strategy, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Strategies, Writing, blogging | 5 Comments »

And Forcedgreen Gets the Gold!

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

If ever there is a Gold Medal for blogging, Linda Rembowski of Forcedgreen would win hands down!

The August 16th edition of the WebProNews includes a quick (I don’t know what to call it… article? post? tidbit?) of information from their staff writer, David A. Utter. He writes:

The popularity contest of blogging and gaining links and traffic doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time and work.

And, of course, he’s not far off the mark. However, today we’ve got the great pleasure of taking our Sunday Fun Day to tell you about the huge success of (more…)

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Posted in Increase Website Traffic, Just for Fun, Reviews, Search Engine Strategy, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Strategies, blogging | 7 Comments »

SocialSpark Test Continues With Great Results We Make More Money

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

A while back (June 16th to be exact) we did a post about SocialSpark, a program for bloggers and a way for you to make money online. In addition, of course, SocialSpark is set up to take on advertisers needing promotions.

That reiterated, at the time I opted for an “opportunity” that paid us $5.50. If you remember, it was a promo for SocialSpark itself, and something I was going to write about anyway.

How great was that

So, the other day I logged into SocialSpark again, and they had such a worthwhile cause. An opportunity to bring the Alzheimer’s Memory Walk to everyone’s attention. This organization is looking for volunteers to coordinate their Fall walks to raise awareness and money.

That opportunity was worth (more…)

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Posted in Recommendations, Reviews, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Strategies, blogging, making money | 8 Comments »

Marketing Just Got A Whole Lot Easier If You Are Careful
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

For anyone in the Entrecard system, you should have received an email sometime in the past 12 hours notifying you of their new toolbar. This new toolbar makes surfing your favorite Entrecard categories and blogs so much easier! It truly is a dream come true

However, a word of caution. Surfing faster is always great, but neglecting to use any marketing tool properly can be your downfall.

The Entrecard Firefox-only toolbar is an easy install and even easier activation. Once you’ve followed the instructions, presented here:

To download the EntreBar, visit this page:
http://entrecard.com/page/ec_toolbar

be sure to also take the time to read all about the various features of your new toolbar here:

http://entrecard.com/blog/?p=493

Yes it is wonderful, and yes we are thrilled, they’ve done an excellent job!

But here’s the “other shoe” that I’m sure you will want to read, it really will help you help yourself. (more…)

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Posted in Increase Website Traffic, Link Building, Product Reviews, Recommendations, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Strategies | 13 Comments »

How A Talented Individual Developed a Way To Send You Traffic For Free
Thursday, July 31st, 2008

This morning we’d like to bring to your attention a service website called Twitturly.

You’ll appreciate this even more when we tell you that other than having a Twitter account and posting (and twitting if you don’t blog), you do nothing, yet it still has the potential to send traffic to your website and/or blog - how great is that?!

According to our blog stats, Twitterurly has sent us (more…)

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Posted in Increase Website Traffic, Plugins and Widgets, Reviews, Social Media Strategies | 7 Comments »

Lather Up and Scour The Net
Monday, July 28th, 2008

Tonight, just about the time I’m thinking it’s time to call it a day, a friend from the Firestorm Forum recommended we take a look at Scour.

Though “new” it already has an Alexa ranking of just over 36,000 - and whether you follow Alexa or not it does show proof that other people are aware it exists

So what’s so great about Scour?

Our top priority is “what do we get out of it” (not greedy, just common business sense). Mostly we like to see our efforts reflected in increased visitors and lots of new attention from search engine spiders and bots. Building up those wonderful links online is something we are deadly serious about…

So, will Scour do that? The answer is… (more…)

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Posted in Increase Website Traffic, Search Engine Strategy, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Strategies, making money | 7 Comments »

Have You Plurked Today? (And Celebrating Our 100th Post!)
Monday, July 21st, 2008

The world is full of ingenious people, and those that bring these geniuses to our attention. Tonight is no exception when I came across first Rockfuse, and then followed that post on to The Sleepy Geek. Both blogs are talking about a new Wordpress post updater called (no surprise here), the Plurk updater.

So what in the world is Plurk?

To start you off, here’s a screenshot, (more…)

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Why More Serves You Better Than You Might Think
Saturday, July 19th, 2008

So they came! Hooray! But are they staying?

Today’s discussion is about how to encourage people to dig deeper on your website and/or blog to get at the truth, value, potential of what you have to offer.

Website owners have the ability to quickly move us around their pages with simple click on links and a bit of code (shown below).

Bloggers have at their disposal a really simple (more…)

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Resource Often Overlooked By Bloggers To Build Their Subscriber Lists
Friday, July 18th, 2008

Today’s resource is one that few bloggers think about when it comes to building their lists. The reason may be that not all co-ops except blogs, but My Wizard Ads is the exception to the rule.

When you have content worth sharing, and the ability to add new subscribers to your list yourself (even if the system kicks out that double opt-in request, that’s okay!), then you may be overlooking a resource specifically designed to get you new readers!

People flock to ezine advertising co-ops after joining programs or starting new websites. Most do not have their own list, or are looking to add to a list, or just need traffic. Sounds like all of us, right?

By providing a page on your blog where you display their classified for a set period of time determined by you, you also gain a new subscriber! How easy is that?!

Here’s our example of classified ads, because, of course, we belong to the My Wizard Ads co-op (okay more than belong ).

What we did was create an HTML page, and then use our feedburner feed to upload the information. Or you can just create a regular “PAGE” on your blog and edit and add to that. It’s really very simple.

By providing others a place on your blog - not even the main page mind you - you are doing a “community service” so to speak and increasing your mailing list.

Stop on by and read all about how to build your mailing list through the simple process of working with a great co-op!

Thanks for reading, and we hope to see you soon!

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