Archive for April, 2007

Business blogging tips: Find inspiration. (1 of 10)

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Ah yes. Inspiration, all very well to say ‘find it’ but where exactly does one find inspiration? It’s the question all writers dread ‘where do you get your inspiration?’.
A couple of tips - it’s a good idea to have an RSS reader and subscribe to other sites and blogs in your niche as well as [...]

10 business blogging tips for better blogging.

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Starting today I am going to post 10 simple tips for better blogging - I’ll post one a day, Monday to Thursday.
These tips are aimed at people who are about to embark on maintaining a business blog, but they may be of interest to more seasoned bloggers too - I know while compiling these tips [...]

Is the ‘DoFollow’ movement dangerous?

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

If you join the dofollow movement do you run the risk of poorer search engine positioning and will Google respond to nullify dofollow comment links?
In my previous post on nofollow/dofollow I outlined some reasons why I believe using nofollow in comments is perfectly valid, and quite possibly best practice.
In brief, I said:
If you remove [...]

Nofollowing comments has it’s uses.

Friday, April 20th, 2007

Nofollow may not have succeeded in stopping the spam comments, but does that mean it’s useless? Nofollow may still have it’s place…
If a link on your site includes the nofollow attribute, you are telling the search engines not to count the link as a favourable vote from you.
Nofollow was introduced in an attempt to [...]

Use Technorati to maintain information advantage.

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

How to constantly keep your ear to the ground & keep yourelf up to date on what people are saying online about you, your competitors and your industry in general.