This post is all about the importance of having a reliable blog host. I was prompted to write it, after watching some of the world’s biggest blogs totally fail to cope with the traffic from their coverage of Apple’s iPad launch.
Here’s what happened AND what we can learn from it!
Blogs, bandwidth and the iPad launch
Every technology blog knew that Wednesday was going to be a monumental day for traffic, with the Apple iPad about to be announced to the world. However, many of the world’s leading technology blogs literally ground to a halt, having not provided enough bandwidth for their iPad coverage. Many top tech sites were impacted to some degree. Worst was ZDNet, which they admit was down for several hours…
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If you are already making the income you want from your blog, this post is not for you.
However, if you are working hard and not getting the results you deserve, read on!
Here’s one of the secrets behind every successful, commercial blog I have ever studied:
You can’t do everything yourself!
Every successful business has key people, who’s [...]
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Are you interested in making money from your blog? If so, this blog idea will help you get on track and save you a lot of time and stress too!
Firstly, if you want to succeed with any business, you need to make sure you using the correct strategy for what you want to achieve. In [...]
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Here’s a quick blog idea, which will immediately improve the readability of your blog and thus make it easier for readers to focus on what you have to say. It’s all down to a simple settings, which is often set incorrectly by default on some blog themes.
Try a narrower content column
The wider a blogs content [...]
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This post is for any blogger, who wants to build a community on his or her blog.
I just wrote a post over at my marketing blog, about the CommentLuv wordpress plugin and why I have installed it.
In essence, now, whenever you leave a comment here or on the marketing blog, you will get the chance [...]
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As the years go by, some things never change; like the annual claims that “blogging is dead!”
Blogging is dead! Who says so?
In my experience, these reports tend to be written by people, who either don’t currently have a blog OR people who have a blog, which no one reads. If you check the numbers over [...]
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Here’s a quick piece of blogging advice, which I think is extremely valuable for new and established bloggers alike.
I decided to share this with you, after one of the readers of my marketing blog emailed me earlier with the following question. Here’s what she asked;
“apart from all the obvious stuff, what’s the best piece of [...]
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One of the income streams many bloggers consider, when thinking about monetizing their blog, is the sale of ebooks.
This makes a lot of sense. Ebooks are easy to produce, they can be distributed with ease and there are no issues regarding stock levels etc. Equally, if your readers value what you have to say, and [...]
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One of the great things about blogging, is that it’s super-easy to find something great and quickly share it with everyone. Well, today I discovered a great blog, which like this one, covers business blogging BUT unlike this one, has a stack of really well produced videos.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Chris Cree TV
Whilst [...]
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I was reading a blog post this week, when the blogger mentioned that it was her birthday. I recalled in an earlier post, how she mentioned tracing her family’s roots and that her mother had an unusual maiden name, which made the search easier.
In other words, as a casual reader of her blog, I was [...]
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Here’s a quick tip to help you see how many other websites or blogs are linking to your site or a competitors site. The reason these links (called inlinks) are worth checking out, is that they are one of the primary tools used by Google, in order to determine the authority and popularity of a [...]
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One of the most commonly quoted facts about blogging, is that it’s essential for you to blog every day or at least 4/5 times a week if you want to ’succeed.’ My experience assures me that this is not always the case.
Here’s why.
The primary benefits of blogging daily?
I’m no SEO expert, but I do know [...]
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One of the best pieces of advice I was given when I started blogging, was to link out from my posts to other sites, whenever it was relevant to do so.
After all, the Internet is built around links. If no sites gave external links, the Internet would not be a web, it would simply be [...]
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Here’s a quick tip for anyone buying a new Wordpress blog theme, who is not a coder.
Never buy a theme based exclusively on the promises made on the theme’s website. Always check out other blogs using that theme. If they tend to look very similar, it’s highly possible that the theme might be hard to [...]
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This post is all about blog comments – problematic blog comments to be precise and some ideas you might find useful for dealing with them.
Ok – First things first.
Blog comments are brilliant
If you have a blog, you are going to attract comments. In fact, comments are one of the best things about having [...]
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