There’s got to be an easier way, right?  Well this is it.  2 WordPress plugins, a new graphic, and you can encourage your readers to do more social sharing, and you can stop worrying about getting people to comment the old way!  Here’s how I completely wiped out the comment form on this site and [...]

…who truly believes that anything good can come from trying to do real business “in your underwear,” I have the following message for you… However, if you’re ready to get off the “Big Red Button” train and really get down to business with your online marketing, download this first.

We bloggers have collected more traffic-driving tips and tricks than we ever use.  We read something and go “Oh!  I have to add that to my list of things to try sometime.”  And sometime often never comes for many things we’d like to do. Well today is “sometime” and here are 5 things you can [...]

A website is no longer a trust signal.  Everyone in the world who has ever surfed the web is painfully aware of how easy it is for shady people to put up a site and use it for evil. Remember those old trust ranking services?  We’d pay them money to put a little graphic on [...]

We have a problem. The web is getting messier. One big reason why: tons of new tools to turn non-geeks into publishers and sharers of information. Now everyone is a publisher. Now there’s too much on any moderately rich topic to keep track of. The need for curators is at an all-time high. And it [...]

I’m still chortling (google it) about this one.  And so are thousands of others.  If you want to know what makes a personal blog worth visiting, at least for me, check below.  It might say more about me that I loved this, laughed my ass off in fact. To properly knock a blog post into [...]

Sometimes I think people focus too much on search engine optimization.  Actually, some people focus way too much on it. Search engine marketing is important.  You cannot ignore such a rich source of traffic.  What most don’t seem to understand is that a lot of what you can get out of search engines is a [...]

Have you noticed how even some of the most popular blogs on the web are getting fewer and fewer “on site” comments? You know, comments on the built-in commenting system, rather than Facebook comments and especially the “Like” button.  People clearly have more to do online these days than they used to and it is [...]

Starting a new, clean blog recently has given me a fresh experience of what it’s like to be lean and mean in my marketing. It is very difficult over time to resist the temptation of “feature creep” and loading your blog down with distractions. Too many ads.  Too many choices for visitors to make.  “Do [...]

It’s the name of the blog run by Trish Loye Elliott, Elena Aitken, and Ironic Mom.  And it’s a very cool blog to follow, whether to commiserate with fellow writers or to learn through the lens of other bloggers who’ve overcome writer’s block or other issues we all encounter from time to time. (I found [...]