Category: Blogs

Check out our new blog template for Web-World Watch. I was testing to see just how difficult it was to create a seamless blog template and came up with this new look for our blog. I’ve tried to include all the great features from our old blog, but without the smack you in the face monetising links.

I have tried monetizing my blog and now have decided that it is simply just not worth featuring the real estate and so have relegated any money links to totally subordinate positions. I think that our new look is cleaner and doesn’t distract from the content.

Let me know what you think?

I’ve sure noticed that in the last month we’ve had a significant increase in interest in our ghost blogging services and added many new clients at several different blogging levels. It is suddenly as if the light bulb went off that blogging will really help your site visibility and give customers something of value on your website.

I’ve been blogging for over three years and my blogging started out as just light weight posts like a diary. Now blogging is serious business for us and other as well as just one of the techniques that main stream search engine optimizers are using to help push website up in the organic rankings.

The other key interest that I have seen from site owners is the desire to offer something tangible to their viewers that differentiates them from their competition, the ability to connect with customers and readers in a very easy way, and a new way to push their products and services without an “in-your-face” marketing program.

If you have ever blogged for any period of time, you know that after the “blush is off the rose”, consistent blogging is hard work. You have to make a real commitment to your blog readers to post three or more days a week. It is easy to push the schedule aside and say that you’ll post another time.

This is where our value lies, when you want the tangible benefits of blogging without the grueling schedule, new ideas when you’ve been tapped out, or simply a fresh approach written by professional writers, our ghost blogging services may be a good match for you.

Have you searched for your own business on the Web lately? If you are an online entrepreneur in the tech industry, it is important to monitor what appears about you and your business online.

I did a search yesterday and found it highly interesting that posts to blogs and forums that I had made this past year actually ranked on queries for my name and business. That being said, it is important to stay on top in your industry and keep your name in front.

What I do is follow some of the top blogs and forums in my industry and when I see a topic that I like, I do take time to create an interesting and thoughtful response. Make sure if you are using this strategy that you only post and take time on the sites that will really help you, like Matt Cutts blog, The MSN Search Blog, Search Engine Watch, or even SearchEngine Land blogs. But remember what you write lasts forever.

Even if I disagree with an author, my policy has always been to not flame someone but to honor their point of view and then to layout my own. You can read my comments to the privacy issue on Google on this Matt Cutts post or our comments at Search Engine Land here as well.

Once you start to monitor your own business and name placement on Google, you will see the real value for taking time to comment on high profile posts and always point back to your own site as this is the perk for leaving your comment on top sites. Not only will you learn something and stay abreast of what is happening in your industry, but you will create quality inbound links to your website from authoritative and popular websites.

Blogger had originally released a download for this in 2005, but just couldn’t get it to work. Now Office 2007 is supposed to let you be able to do that. I do not have Office 2007, but will soon and will let you know after I take it for a whirl.

I don’t typically use Word to compose my blogs, but some do. I prefer the Blogger control panel, but I do know of clients and our own ghost blogger who would really prefer to blog in Word.

Currently if you write your blog in Word and then try to paste it into the Blogger interface, you get funny characters, spacing problems, and headaches that you have to correct in the HTML of the post.

It will be interesting to see if this new Office 2007 add on will solve those problems.