May 31, 2007

Fast Blogging - Steps to Pump up Money out of Blogging

Filed under: Blog Basics, Blog Marketing, Writing Articles, Key Words, Linking Strategy — Dr. John W. Horn PhD @ 3:58 pm

If you probably enjoyed maintaining a diary when you were just growing up, blogging would be more appealing to you. For some it could just be hobby. But a very large of the population who are now blogging are after the profit or sales these blogs can give them.

How could these blogs help you draw money? Here are the steps that would surely pump up your sales as well as your earnings. (more…)

May 30, 2007

Podcast, Vidcast, Voicecast? Podcast Jargon for Beginners

Filed under: Blog Basics, Podcasting, Audio Blog — Dr. John W. Horn PhD @ 3:54 pm

“Podcast” was 2005’s word of the year, but in 2006 you likely heard a variety of podcast related words – vidcasts, vodcast, voicecasts, phonecasts, punchcasts, mobilecasts, learncasts…new types of podcasts are continually emerging.

If you are a podcasting late bloomer, here’s a little heads up on podcasting lingo.

First of all, what is a podcast? (more…)

May 25, 2007

Podcasting into Profits

Filed under: Blog Basics, Blog Layout, Podcasting, Audio Blog — Dr. John W. Horn PhD @ 6:29 pm

As podcasting continues to grow, the competition for subscribers/listeners will become increasingly intense. Charging listeners for your podcast will not be the true way to podcasting profits. Those who have it in mind to turn podcasting from a hobby into a career must make every effort to stand out clearly above the crowd. The most successful podcasters will be those who set the benchmarks for professionalism, quality, and credibility. (more…)

May 21, 2007

Search Engine Optimization Strategies - Backlink Building

Filed under: Blog Basics, Linking Strategy — Dr. John W. Horn PhD @ 8:40 pm

Backlink building or creating inbound links has become a great preoccupation for web masters and search engine optimization professionals.  Backlinks or inbound links are links found on another web site that would lead anyone clicking it to your web site.  Backlinks have grown so important that software for auto linking have become just one of the many link building tools in the search engine optimization arsenal. (more…)

May 20, 2007

Productive Podcasting - The Reality In Podcasting

Filed under: Podcasting, Audio Blog — Dr. John W. Horn PhD @ 9:12 pm

Are you hooked in listening to your audio files on your MP3 or on your Nano fifth generation pod?  Are you a collector of these wav files that are mostly downloadable from the internet?  Well then if you are not, most likely you are not aware about the latest craze in podcasting.  A podcast is an audio file that is created under mp3 format that is then uploaded  on a supported RSS or Really Simple Syndication file to the server for the market to download for listening leisure. (more…)

May 19, 2007

Publishing a Successful Blog

Filed under: Blog Basics, Corporate Blogging, Writing Articles, Linking Strategy — Dr. John W. Horn PhD @ 3:16 pm

It’s useless to define the term: everyone knows what a blog is.  And if they don’t, there are plenty of definitions online, from the simple “online journal” to more philosophical, thought provoking, puzzling definitions.

From a corporate perspective a blog is a marketing tool.  From the perspective of a citizen journalist… the blog is a dialogue tool.  A freelance writer will use the blogging platform as a self-publishing tool. (more…)

May 18, 2007

Blogging for Success – Blogging is Hot in 2007

Filed under: Blog Basics, Writing Articles — Dr. John W. Horn PhD @ 8:05 pm

Blogging has become quite famous for leading to internet riches but what exactly is it about bloggers that makes them so successful. There are countless millions of blogs today but not all of them are successful so where is the difference? Is it the number of reciprocal links, the greatness of ideas, the impeccable content, or something else? After all, anyone can blog so what is it that the successful bloggers are doing that the rest are not? (more…)

May 16, 2007

Using PLR Material For Your Blogs

Filed under: Blog Basics, Writing Articles — Dr. John W. Horn PhD @ 4:01 pm

Blogs offer one of the quickest and easiest ways for anyone to have an Internet presence. Many people have discovered that compared to building a web site a blog is so much easier and quicker to create. It can also be very profitable if you can come up with interesting and informative subject that others want to read about. You can use a blog to advertise your web site or make money directly with affiliate programs or Adsense. (more…)

May 15, 2007

Weird Blogging and the Battlestar Gallactica Blog!

Filed under: Blog Basics, Search Engine Optimization, Writing Articles — Dr. John W. Horn PhD @ 7:56 pm

Blogging has exploded in the last few years. It’s not like it’s a new phenomena, at least relatively speaking, because it’s actually been around since the very beginnings of the world wide web.  But what has changed, is that blogging is now being seen as a mainstream tool, and hence is increasingly being used by businesses to promote themselves.  In a way, this is good, because it does mean that consumers are increasingly getting more and more information about products and services that they use on a regular basis.  However, on the flip side of that, it has served to dampen some of the more weird and eccentric blogging that used to be the rule rather than the exception. (more…)

Page Ranks and SEO for Beginners

Filed under: Blog Basics, Blog Search Engine Optimization, Google, Page Rank — Dr. John W. Horn PhD @ 7:27 pm

Getting a high Google rating - a good page rank number - is a critical part of bringing in free search traffic.

What is a page rank?

A page rank is Google’s way of expressing the value and popularity of your page. Each page has a page ranking. It’s not a site ranking, per se, although your site rank is usually considered the page rank of the top page. (more…)