Hot Links - Episode 10!
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This week I am looking at how easy it is to find good and informative articles through Blog Carnivals. Are they good places to find blogs to read and comment to, and to find fellow bloggers?
Here are three articles that I found on blog carnivals:
The Blog Me Cash carnival had this article about blog commenting strategy.
The Carnival of the Struggling Bumbling Newbie had an article about managing multiple Wordpress Blogs.
And the All Women Blogging Carnival has this article about the importance of being optimistic.
These carnivals were easy to find through blogcarnival.com, and I feel these posts are helpful and informative to me. So on that point I feel this experiment was successful. All in all I find blog carnivals good places to meet bloggers and find interesting blogs to read. But I do look around to find my favourite carnival and pick the blogs carefully. Some people only use them for marketing and don’t always use their best work, so I only pick my favourites.
Just look at the articles above!
And last but not least a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone!
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This week in Hot Links:
Here is a fun way to see what level your blog is aiming for with readers, or in other words what is the reading level of your blog: The Blog Readability Test
This is a great post from Blogging Tips, and especially good if you are just starting a blog like I am. 75 websites you can submit your blog to! Although it may take me a while to get through!
Caroline Middlebrook is a blogger that I have followed since she started her blog. It’s a really good read and full of great information and strategies. But it’s her writing style that really stands out, conversational, honest and to the point. Like me she gave up her 9 - 5 to make her own path, and I respect how she has done it. It’s definitely one to follow as I have found myself doing.
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This week in hot links:
Decision time is upon us. It’s the final chance to join Blog Mastermind, it’s doors close today! Here are the free resources that Yaro has given out again, don’t miss out!
Video Case study - How to get more traffic to your blog
Sample Lesson - Marketing through conversations
I’ve been having a few problems with the Adsesne Deluxe plugin and getting it to work, so just in case anybody else is having the same problem, here is an alternative I have found: Adsense Manager.
And here’s a good article for finding out the latest and up to date news on Wordpress, which is always good to find out. Saying that I must remember to upgrade to 2.3.1 asap, I never knew they had a shop though! Find out more at Wordpress Wednesday News!
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This week in Hot Links:
I have been looking at the top commentator plugin this week. It displays the top commentators on the blog and links to them in the list. Which in turn encourages the bloggers to comment on your blog in the hope they will get a link. I only hope is that they comment because they like the blog or have something of value to add, rather than chasing a link!
Here’s a good article from Writing Career Coach called reaching more people with your blog.
This is a good article for a link post! I found it over at Your Website Profit: 5 reasons to share the link love.
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This week in Hot Links:
Skelliewag is a fairly new blog that has achieved a lot of growth in a small space of time, and has a really interesting article explaining how she did it: How to get 1,050 subscribers in 3 months.
I looked at plugins in my last post, 10 Essential Wordpress Plugins. If you would like to find alternatives or to see what else is available, then you may like to take a look at the Wordpress plugin database.
There is a lot of information around at the moment about selling and buying blogs. I have recently started reading a blog called Blogtrepreneur, which has just announced that he is selling the blog. I have never followed the process of selling/buying a blog live before, and I think it will be interesting to see how it goes. Take a look at: Blogtrepreneur is for sale!
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This week in hot links:
I have heard about the Blog Herald a lot over the last couple of months but I have never got around to visiting until now. I wish I had done it sooner because it is a really good news site for blogging, and has a group of contributors which gives it a nice mix of views and writing styles. It’s full of really useful articles from some very good bloggers, and definitely a site I will be visiting again.
I think forums are excellent places to ask for help and get to know bloggers in your niche or related ones. They also help you get yourself and your blog known, and a great place for interacting with other like minded people. I have joined the Authority Blogger forum recently and it’s been a great experience with a really nice bunch of people, who are friendly and always willing to help you out. Try this one out!
Last but not least a new blog I have come across - Sandy Naidu who blogs about internet marketing basics and more… a great educational blog.
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This week has been a bit challenging, my broadband connection has been down and getting it back up and running again was a little stressful. It’s amazing how lost we are without it, it was like my right arm had been cut off, I must come up with a back up plan in case it happens again!
I’ve still managed to come across some great articles though, here they are:
Problogger’s weekly video post is about using images in your blog post, I love images and it gave me some great ideas for my case study blog: Using images to take your post to a new level.
Daily Blog Tips has done a readers tips post full of great articles that I am slowly working through, but my favourite (because I have been looking for some) is 51, yes I have typed it right, 51 RSS buttons for your blog. Now if I can’t find one I like there then I just won’t find one anywhere. Next I’ll be moaning about too much choice!
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Time again for this weeks hot links. This week I thought I would share some of the blogs and information I have come across while doing market research, particularly for keyword research for the photography case study blog.
There is a lot of software available to help with keyword research, as well as subscription sites (that can be expensive) that you can search for results on, two of the most well known are Wordtracker and Keyword Discovery. The good news is that both also run free trials that you can use as often as you like, they give 30 and 10 results’ respectively, and are a good way of seeing how the tools work without having to spend any money.
I keep coming across dosh dosh while looking for information, a blog to help you make money online and it’s full of useful blogging information including this article that caught my eye: How to Find and Target Long Tail Keywords for More Search Engine Traffic that includes five ways to find and target your long tail keywords. Which is good follow up information that looks in more depth into long tail keywords, that I talked about in my last post.
With all this talk about keywords and working them into blog titles and posts, I started to think about brushing up on my copy writing skills. Because there is a lot of different elements to be thinking about while trying to write a blog post. My writing is constantly growing and evolving, as my experience increases with the constant blog posts I am writing. But it’s an ongoing process and there is always room for improvement. So the best blog I know of to brush up on copy writing and to learn more about writing is Copyblogger by Brian Clark.
I hope some of this information has been useful!
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Time for this weeks hot links. This week I have been working hard on the research for my photography blog. It’s amazing how I can have a specific question I want an answer to, and I am able to find a blog post that deals with it. I have been thinking about blog design and then I heard that Yaro Starak had done a podcast with Darren Rowse about blog design that was very interesting, take a look:
Podcast: Darren Rowse and Yaro Starak talk Blog design.
I found this post on the Blog To Earn blog carnival. This is a very useful post that is full of some great advice. I wish I had read this post when I started blogging, because I would have definitely followed the advice it gives. Here it is:
How to successfully begin blogging.
And last but not least, here is a great post that I came across on the All Women blogging carnival, as usual it’s full of great posts, but this one caught my eye! See what you think…
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New Feature
I am starting a new feature called Hot Links for Build a Blog. It will be posted on a weekly basis and include the best information I have found for the week. I am doing this so that the useful links and information that I share will be easier to find because they will all be in the same category. I will also post any news and updates in this section. I find lots of useful articles detailing good resources, information, help and points of view as I read other blogs. It will be useful for me and hopefully you, if I put all these in the one place so they are easy to reference back to in the future.
This week’s Blog Me Cash carnival had a great post by Caroline Middlebrook called 5 Overlooked Benefits of Untargeted Traffic.
Brian Clarke from Copyblogger has released his Teaching Sells Free report! that can be downloaded from the link. It’s a great report from a well respected blogger, I always listen when Brian has something to say…
And finally Chris from Chrisg.com is writing a very interesting series of articles called Making Real Money, and here’s the first one: Making Real Money Online - What Type Of Earner Are You?
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