Blog Blog October Archive

How to Keep Customers

10/30/08 15:32

Small businesses may have been panicking due to the challenging times for the economy, which are probably reducing their sales and customers.

If you are one of these small business owners, you can still manage to keep some of your customers and maintain business relationships with them, and among them is by investing in technology and going online. More of those tips here in this blog post.

Link: Small Business Tips for a Challenging Economy | www.northfloridanewsdaily.com | North Florida NewsDaily

Writing a Novel - A Daunting yet Fulfilling Task

Novels are one form of art and expression which have entertained so many people in different walks of life through the years. Time, effort and creativity is what fuels writers to create such works of art worthy being herald. For modern writers though, novel writing can be a daunting task to be achieved if not properly managed and planned about. One challenge to novel writers for the National Novel Writing Month is to write a novel for 30 days. How can a writer be able to finish such tasks, one can learn in achieving such milestone here.

Link: Macworld | Write a novel in 30 days

Blog sells for $15M

Many people are crazy about search engine optimization (SEO). They love to make love with search engines, sometimes to the point of forgetting that the original purpose of a blog is to bring valuable content to readers.

Case in point: this banking blog that was just sold by a whopping $15M! Yes, you read it right. But when you inspect it, you'll find out that it does not give much focus on SEO. What made it sell for that high? Content, people. Content!

Link: $15m blog sale shows importance of content

War of the Blog Search Engines

Blogs deserve their own search engines, and when it comes to this, Technorati is the king of the hill.

Today, new blog search engines are coming up, promising to make features that will make blog searching easier. One of them is Iterend. Will it be able to topple off Technorati? Before that happens, Iterend should be able to match up against Google's own blog search engine, Google Blog Search.

Link: Iterend vs. Technorati vs. Google Blog Search (Blog Search Fight) - Mashable

Blog Strategies to Gain Subscribers

Link building offers many opportunities to bloggers and website owners alike but how can one build his empire through links? One strategy of link building is through subscribers. Subscribers, in terms of blogging and website building are fellow individuals who take special interests in the content of one's writing and blogging, thus subscribing under one's blog for latest updates and posts. The importance and strategies on how to gain more subscribers to one's blog or website can be read here.

Link: PromotionWorld : Try These List Building Strategies For Gaining Subscribers For Your Blog