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December 10th, 2010

How’s everyone doing? Had some hilarious threads going with Scott Brandon Hoffman on Facebook this evening. I can’t spell real well because my eyes are watering from laughing! Scott is a philosopher, inspirational speaker, host, comic, writer/producer, spiritual outlaw, and life long seeker of truth. It’s like Oprah & Letterman had a kid. Scott’s mission is to, and I will quote him:

“To Inspire, Wake Up, Elevate, Empower, and Entertain a Worldwide Audience into Living their full potential AND truth, all while having outrageous fun, seeing the humor AND the absurdity of it all, and to NOT take any of this Human Stuff too seriously.”

Definitely look him up. He is all about being genuine. He also attracts a full cast of characters.

Well I used to blog on a site for over 7+ years. At one time it was extremely popular though the genre was politics, I did meet a huge vast of people from all over the country and had a few run in’s with politicians and reporters alike, some even from the New Yuck Times, (no name dropping here). In the end, I have to say it also made me realize that I wasn’t pigeon-holed into an established political party as I had been when it first started. How’s that for confession?

But one of the things that made that blog successful, was

Getting the seal of approval

September 8th, 2010

To get the seal of approval from your visitors, there are many ways you can improve your trust ranking with them, and make your blog more user friendly. The first thing to do is publish a picture of yourself, even with your family, on your blog. This allows people to put a face to words, and should be a golden rule. All too often, you will see a website that is clinical and not in the least bit persona; to the author. If you are willing to go out on a limb and show the world your face, then that speaks volumes. Another golden rule is video. You should use multimedia on your site if you can, and learning how to use simple software like Camtasia, or even software like Cam Studio (which is open source), is not too difficult.

Once you have put your face and your voice out there, you may as well go the whole hog and give people your telephone number. This is one of those situations when you may wish you had thought it through a bit better – but adding a telephone number to your site can really make people feel at ease. Whilst they may email you with any questions, or use Skype, they will rarely call you anyway. But giving people that option is awesome, and will reap rewards in the long term. You do not have to be a salesman, just a person.

Besides the above methods, one amazing concept that some bloggers forget about, is a newsletter system. Newsletters enable you to contact the people that are putting money in your pocket, so it is always worthwhile having. You can give people anything for free so that they decide to sign up to your newsletter, just make sure they sign up! One of the oldest sayings in the IM industry is “the money is in the list!”. It is a saying for a reason…

Backlinks on the front page of a blog?

September 1st, 2010

It may seem impossible that a blogger would ever give you the front page of their blog to display your wares, but it is very possible indeed. There are literally thousands of people who realized the power of this method of backlinking benefiting from page one backlinks on sites with Pagerank of 6, 7 etc. It truly is quite easy too. As long as you like writing (you do not have to be the best writer in the world, and typos are allowed!) or have a great outsourcer who is worth their salt.

For a while now, many top bloggers have used a plugin called Top Commentators, which is a widget that sits in the sidebar of a site. It sits on every page, however, so this is immediately powerful for the links that are in that Top Commentators widget. The prerequisite to get into that box is you must be making valid and worthwhile comments on the blog, and you should also be in the post count of the top 10 or 15 people. So if the number 10 spot has 5 posts, you need to write 5 posts that week/month – depending on how the blog operates.

You can use different anchor texts for different blogs. You can put your name, or your website name – the blogs do not care, as long as you are adding valuable and fresh content to their blogs. This is not spam – you are collaborating with the owner of the site – and they welcome you with open arms – and even throw in an awesome backlink to boot.

To find these cool blogs that allow you to advertise on their home page, you simply need to go to Google, and type in the following:

allintext: “Top Commentators” “Powered by WordPress “

This will throw up enough blogs for you to go through, and remember – actually pick blogs you want to comment on!

Are You Going Mobile ?

May 4th, 2010

There is one thing I’m sure most Bloggers are not doing yet and that is making their Blogs readable to mobile phones, including the I-Phone. More and more people are using their phones to Twitter and read Facebook, why not make your available in a format that makes it easy to navigate? If you get out their early and the average Blog, no matter how old and established it may be doesn’t, you have the advantage.

While most phones allow you to read existing Blogs remember they now have grown larger and larger in their footprint and it will require much more bandwidth to even open them. This is because most Blogs have a slew of plugins. So what is the answer?

New WordPress Plugin – TribeWare.info

October 30th, 2009

Well, I’ve had people bugging me all week about the new plugin that I am NOW unveiling for use by everyone. On the right hand sidebar I have a widget I named “Tribe Ware – Single RSS”. The word Tribe Ware is for a blog I threw up to host the plugin and others I have on the way. It’s located at TribeWare.info At that site I have the instructions to install and configure it as well as a video.

It specifically will do the following:
1. Retrieve one of the last three posts from one of your syndication partners and display it.
2. Create back-links to those blogs.
3. Provide syndication of your partners blogs inside of your blog.
4. Promote relationships with other bloggers.
5. Open the avenues to your partners within your site.
6. Demonstrate to your readers that you are a part of a larger community promoting the same ideas and are open to showing your readers that there are other places they can receive value.

I hope you enjoy!

http://tribeware.info/plugin-tribeware-singlerss/