23rd January 2007
Human beings are creatures of habit and the more things remain the same the more we trust them. Part of convincing your customers to trust you is about making your blog look the same every day. The type size and font should be the same, links should be h...
23rd January 2007
It can be difficult to generate unique content each and every day that you sit down to write your blog. This is where RSS feeds and news stories can provide a valuable source of inspiration. Many blogs simply are commentaries on what is going on in the ne...
23rd January 2007
“Objects” are a term derived from web design talk for code that is added to your site to create a unique function. A good example is a web counter, which tells you how many people have visited your site.
A more sophisticated site object would be an...
23rd January 2007
The great thing about most blogging sites is that they provide you with templates that you can quickly use to design your site. This leaves you hours of time available for concentrating on the search engine optimization aspects of it.
The layout of you...
21st January 2007
Part of having a cohesive blog design is to choose one or two fonts and two to four colors and stick with them on your site. The best looking sites are minimalist in design. A site that has too many different types of fonts and colors on it just looks unp...
20th January 2007
Keep in mind that as long as form follows function on your blogging site it will be considered to be well search engine optimized. This also applies to the visual components of your blog.
There are several ways that visual elements are going to play a ...
20th January 2007
Sometimes it is difficult to keep up with a blog especially if your blog is part of a field in which there are many changes or developments such as celebrity news or technology developments.
There are several blogs on the net where several contributors...
20th January 2007
Although connecting emotionally with your readers is recommended, it is not recommended that you “lose it” or be too opinionated in a blog. This is because this makes it less business like. Also ranting emotionally about a topic makes you look like an...
20th January 2007
If you have absolutely no idea what the theme of your blog should be one suggestion is to look at several indexes of large portals on the Internet and see how they categorize themes and topics. Clickbank at www.clickbank.com provides a good example of wha...
18th January 2007
Blogging is only successful if you can see it as a dual marketing tool. The third part of the blogging business triad is a dual product. There is the product you are selling on your website (or from others) and then there is your opinion. You can’t sell...
18th January 2007
There are very few people on earth who can get away with writing a blog that is based solely on their personality. Usually the individuals who can get away with this have some sort of reputation that precedes them such as a famous lobbyist, actor, column...
18th January 2007
The most essential component of a blog is not only its keywords, but also the timeliness of its content. It is timely content that is going to attract the search engine and also readers. This means that you must have content that is unique, expert or orig...
18th January 2007
A blog is not just a press release. It now appears in all kinds of contemporary written permutations. They can be served up to the search engines for indexing or you can attach a password so that only a few chosen individuals can read it. In terms of bus...
18th January 2007
Perhaps the simplest definition of a blog is that of a journal or serial newsletter that provides fresh content for the reading on a timely basis. However what most people don’t realize is that a blog is not just a virtual space where you put your tho...
18th January 2007
A blog is basically just another persuasive marketing tool, just like a newsletter or a press release. However unlike web pages, that can require a lot of fooling around html or graphics, you can upload your message quickly to a blog and have it able to b...