… at least among professional bloggers, as evidenced by Darren Rowse‘s latest Poll on Blog Platforms.
You’ll see the results after voting- and, while I wasn’t too surprised to see WordPress (.org – referring to the script you self-host) leading the pack, I was a little surprised at how far behind all the others were. The poll is still ongoing, so there will no doubt be changes to the results, but as I write this: Read more
Black Belt Web Marketing E-Book – FREE from Weblog Labs
Learn by doing- that’s the uniqueness of “Black Belt Web Marketing”. After completing the exercises in each lesson, you will have a thorough understanding of how to dramatically increase web traffic and a comprehensive, well organized Web Marketing Plan for doing so.
At Weblog Labs, we only give away quality e-books. This is one of them. The techniques described here include:
Registering at search engines
Posting announcements
Placing classified ads
Adding your link to other sites
Building a resource database
Participating in discussion groups
Email marketing
Publicizing your site to the media
On-line advertising
Building for long-term growth
… and more!
It’s a great resource for beginning web marketers- but also very useful for the more experienced who want to brush up on web marketing skills. Enjoy, and good luck in your web endeavors!
We are much too lowly in the PageRanking world to have been hit by this, but in case you missed it, Google has updated their PageRank and dropped many major blogs and sites in the process- some went from a 7 to a 4 (ouch), others from a 6 to a 3, and so on. Read more
WordPress 2.3 has just been released, and I’m downloading it as we speak (well… as I type!) to upgrade Weblog Labs. This new version features, among other things, updates straight from the WordPress wishlist, which is just lovely of them.
No need to adjust your monitor- you’re looking at the brand new design of Weblog Labs! Yes, this is what we’ve been up to all this time. We’re about to roll out some gorgeous (and free!) WordPress themes, so do check back in a couple of days for that.
In the meantime, we’re still ironing out the kinks on this new design. Let me know what you think.
I’m a woman blogger, but being halfway across the world, didn’t get to attend the BlogHer Conference, which was held this year from July 27th – 29th in Chicago. Nevertheless, I’ve been enjoying reading all about the goings-on at the conference by those who were there: Read more
Online marketers are rejoicing over at Pronet Advertising, where they’ve announced that our online audience is growing, and tv audience shrinking. As someone who prefers to be online than in front of the boob tube, this comes as no surprise to me.
Also, so many of us bloggers suffer from blank screen syndrome. SEOBook has some tips on coming up with unique content for your blog.
“Dot Com Mogul” John Chow features the RSS Feed Footer WordPress Plugin- which, if you’re a blogger on WordPress, you should really be using. I’ll be installing it here in a few minutes as well.
Hope you’re having a great Sunday!