http://www.whymarketersshouldblog.com The 'What's in it for Me' Blog about Blogging - from a Marketer's Perspective. Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:50:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 by Joel Comm Recently, I pointed out that blogging can be an excellent way for people to start earning with AdSense. It takes no effort at all to get a blog up and running on Blogger and you pretty much start with one ad well blended at the top of the ... http://www.whymarketersshouldblog.com/index.php/archives/2006/04/could-you-be-a-professional-blogger/ By Sharon Housley Blogs vaulted RSS into the limelight but are unlikely to be the force that sustains RSS as a communication medium. The biggest opportunities for RSS are not in the blogosphere but as a corporate communication channel. Even now, businesses that were initially reluctantly evaluating RSS are beginning ... http://www.whymarketersshouldblog.com/index.php/archives/2005/07/the-future-of-rss-is-not-blogs/ by Suzanne Falter-Barns www.getknownnow.com I was all set this morning to write about something totally different in this issue ... but thanks to the power of blogs, I'm here to deliver a totally different message. Namely the ascendance of blogs over ezines. First of all, you may notice that you're ... http://www.whymarketersshouldblog.com/index.php/archives/2005/06/why-blogs-are-beating-out-ezines-and-matter-so-much-to-your-platform/ © Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved http://www.IGottaTellYou.com/blog/ Blogging, the hottest trend in online publishing right now, is currently spreading like wildfire across the Internet. A cross between an online journal and a bulletin board, everyone from rock starts, politicians, business leaders and your average "Joe" or "Jane" can instantly become ... http://www.whymarketersshouldblog.com/index.php/archives/2005/03/avoid-bad-manners-while-blogging/ People send me articles every day to publish. Unfortunately, most of them are simplified rehashes of Internet Marketing 101 for beginners. There's hardly a fresh thought or idea to be found. So I don't publish very many of them. I'm not sure why so many marketers who should know better are under ... http://www.whymarketersshouldblog.com/index.php/archives/2005/02/getting-top-google-rankings/ One of the questions I am frequently asked by new bloggers is how to get links to your blog. The beauty of a blog is that it is much easier to get links than it is to a regular site. Once you've started a new blog, the first thing you should ... http://www.whymarketersshouldblog.com/index.php/archives/2005/02/getting-links-to-your-blog/ By now, most bloggers have heard the announcement that the Big 3 search engines - Google, Yahoo, and MSN - have united in support of a new tag that will supposedly combat comment spam. The new tag is a nofollow attribute that can be added to links. When added to ... http://www.whymarketersshouldblog.com/index.php/archives/2005/01/should-bloggers-be-helping-google-fix-their-pagerank-system/ Building niche sites is all the rage these days. The basic strategy is very simple. Find a niche market that isn't oversaturated. Develop a list of related keywords people are searching on. Then write an article optimized for each one of your keywords. Once you have your articles, upload them to ... http://www.whymarketersshouldblog.com/index.php/archives/2005/01/how-to-build-a-niche-site-with-a-blog/ The more I use Wordpress, the more I love it. It has 2 very important features that Blogger doesn't yet support. Number 1, you can set up Wordpress to automatically ping all the RSS and blog feed directories every time you make a post. This is a very powerful feature if ... http://www.whymarketersshouldblog.com/index.php/archives/2005/01/why-wordpress-is-now-my-blog-of-choice/ I put off starting a blog for a long time because I thought it would be hard. I thought it would be technical. I thought I'd have to install scripts and tear my hair out getting them to work. At that point, most of what I'd read about blogs and ... http://www.whymarketersshouldblog.com/index.php/archives/2005/01/how-to-get-started-blogging-in-5-minutes-or-less/