Posted by Tuto9 on September 3rd, 2010
This morning, I was trying to help someone with a 
guest post they were writing for a company’s blog. I urged the person to send copy that included hyperlinks to their own website. This is what they told me:
“I’m sorry if it isn’t in a format that works for you. You’re welcome to cut & paste my photo into its own .jpg file, and you may insert whatever links you feel are appropriate. I’m responding to a “Help a Reporter Out” query, not a “Do a Reporter’s Job.” This is as far as I’m willing to go.”
When you write a blog post, it is your time to shine! Believe it or not, adding a little wax after the wash makes your ride that much more shiny.
Posted by Tuto9 on September 3rd, 2010
Veronica Davis is a freelance writer and internet business columnist for Examiner. She works with and writes for businesses online, and recommends every business create an avatar to call their own.
Unless you have been hiding under your bed for the last few years, you know social media is the new norm. It’s how you meet people, communicate ideas, express your thoughts, interview for a job, grow business and just have fun. The days of a big smile and a firm handshake are no longer by any means a form of introducing one’s self. Your avatar is your first impression as you meet and interact with others on blogs, social networks, and in other online communities.
Posted by Tuto9 on August 31st, 2010
Following every competitor’s move is part and parcel of any business. With today’s technology and social media networking it has become much easier to stay up-to-date on any steps that your competitor makes. Here is the list of less known but effective ways (including social monitoring, media planning and niche analysis tools) to help research your competition:
Before anything else you should grab all of your competitor’s backlinks. Use this data to outline your link building campaign strategies. Niche Analysis Tool by EasySeoTracking will help you here. This web-based tool generates the list of top 10 competitors:
Posted by Tuto9 on August 29th, 2010
Lior Levin is a blogging and SEO expert consulting to couple of Internet start-ups such as Producteev, a task management start-up from new-york and a nursing wear company called Milk Nursingwear.
Being fairly new to SEO but learning quickly, I wanted to find some tools that would be good in helping me become better at it, but also easy to use yet had some value. I came across 5 great ones that I am finding really helpful in my daily work.
Posted by Tuto9 on August 29th, 2010
Did you know that sites which load quickly get higher search engine keyword rankings thereby getting more search traffic to their sites than slow-loading sites? It’s true for your blog, too. Even Google has admitted that fast load times equate to higher search rankings. However, most bloggers haven’t taken the time to evaluate their blogs’ load times.
The more “stuff” you put on any given page on your blog, such as flash effects, ads, images, videos, and all the other stuff that clutters bloggers’ sidebars, the slower your blog posts and pages will load on a visitor’s web browser. Fortunately, there are ways to both analyze your blog’s load time on an ongoing basis and there are ways to speed up page load time across your blog.
Posted by Tuto9 on August 29th, 2010
If you want to grow your blog’s audience and you use WordPress.org as your blogging application, then you need to try the five WordPress plugins listed below. They’re easy to use, free, and can have a significant impact on the number of visitors to your blog.
The more great content people are exposed to on your blog, the higher the chances are that they’ll find something they like causing them to return to your blog again, share your content with their own online connections, and ultimately, drive additional traffic to your blog. YAARP is a great plugin for automatically including a list of related posts at the end of each of your blog posts. The Link Within widget is another alternative.
