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Sitesketch101 Vs TheInfopreneur
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Sitesketch101.com is a blog owned by Nicholas Z. Cardot. It is beautiful blog with great content on how to blog. Nicholas Z. Cardot is a full-time Infantryman in the United States Army and an avid blogger and website developer. He loves connecting with real people and helping others to develop their online skills.
Nicholas is an MB. SS101 teaches you how to blog with passion. Recently Nick launched his next big project, Nicholas Cardot – a blog dedicated to teaching leadership and developing it in bloggers. SS101 is an x month old blog and has at the time of this writing rank 23, 484 on Alexa.
Sitesketch101/com’s Alexa Ranking
Are Soldiers better bloggers?: Blogging lessons from Military Bloggers
Posted by: | CommentsThe military is an institution of great importance to any nation’s security (They are avid bloggers too). It is based on the tenets of leadership, selfless service, loyalty, discipline, order, delegation and intelligence based on facts and figures. Most citizens that pass through this institution are generally upright and law abiding and the tenets inculcated into them make them generally more effective members of the society.
>>Fast forward to the blogosphere.
In my experience as a blogger, I have come across certain bloggers that sprang from this institution. I will call them the military bloggers (MBs) for lack of a better term.
27 Bad Ways to Build Links
Posted by: | CommentsSome time ago I wrote a post on How Not To Sell Online. Today, I’d be giving you 30 bad ways to link building that will certainly destroy your brand. I not only promise but also guaranty that they will either get your blog banned/penalized or filtered from the four major search engines.
Via Directories
1. Submit your blog to 200 dime-a-dozen directories that send no traffic and sell off topic run-of-site links.
Via Forum Spam
2. List at least 15 Web blogs in your signature file.
3. Post ONLY when you can add links to your sites in the post area.
4. Sign up for profiles on forums you have decided never to comment on.
The 4 Inevitable Parts ALL Articles Must Have.
Posted by: | CommentsImmeasurable is the importance of articles in today’s blogs. Even though video and audio are now becoming a norm, articles still reign supreme. They determine a lot in the success and the drive of traffic into a blog. They are a key element in making a blog work and earn a profit. A blog owner has got to have a good sense to include articles in his or her blog that will earn them the many benefits articles can give it.
Articles have been the driving force for traffic to a blog. They are a factor in giving any blog high rankings in search results. The higher a site ranks on Google, the bigger slice of the traffic flow it gets – and with huge traffic flow comes more profits and more potential for other income generating ideas.
One Way Link Building
Posted by: | CommentsOver 100 link building strategies work and you can use any but I’d be sharing with you 7 highly effective one-way link building habits I have just learning from a pro.
The first thing I had to learn was that key is to test each of them and see the results. Usually a combination of a couple of techniques is the best option. As time goes by, you’ll find which ones give you the best SEO results.
#1: Quality Content
There isn’t any link building strategy more effective than the old, enduring formula of writing compelling contents that focus on the reader’s needs. Link-worthy contents with viral appeal incite people to comment, refer, recommend and link to. This is the science of linkbaiting.
Do You Write Articles People Want to Read?
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We love freebies – information especially. The first point of call today when people have a problem that needs a solution is the internet whether it is to know how to be more successful, how to lose weight, how to find love, how to live longer; the list is endless. A month ago, I began an article marketing campaign, began writing to promote affiliate products and I have now become an platinum author on ezinearticles. The results are beginning to manifest also. If you want to earn money online then writing engaging content is crucial.
The five simple steps below can help you to make people want to read your articles.
1. Write Easy-to-scan Articles
Free Make Money Blogging E-book
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Do you want to know how to make money with blogging? Then checkout and download a free e-book by launched a while a go by Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips called “Make Money Blogging”. This e-book is a 54 page e-book created by Daniel, a guy that has been able to make thousands of dollars every month with his blog. You will also have access to some of free Wordpress themes that you can test on your blog. This e-book is divided into 5 chapters namely Content, Design & Usability, Networking, Promotion and Monetization. Some of topics covered in the e-book are:
1. Is it really possible to make money blogging?
2. What should I blog about and the list of mistakes to avoid when choosing a niche for your blog?
3. Delivering quality content and also mentioned the websites list we can use to get ideas for our future posts.
4. Design and usability issues with a Wordpress blog
5. Valuable tips for building relationships and network with other bloggers in your niche
6. Valuable tips that will help you in promoting your blog in all major search engines like:
o Blog Commenting
o Link Exchanges
o Guest Posts
o Social Bookmarking website submissions
o Using Social Networks like Twitter, Facebook etc
o How to promote articles that you wrote on your blog
7. Resources to use for making money online with your blog like:
o Google Adsense
o CPM Ad networks
o Direct Advertising and Sponsorships
o Affiliate marketing Options
o E-mail marketing
20 Reasons Why You Should Choose WordPress –PART 2
Posted by: | Comments11. Family Support
The guys above are the members of the wordpress team.
Do you know that you can solve just about any WordPress problem Googling it? That’s because wordpress is so popular and there is hardly any new problem someone somewhere hasn’t encountered or solved and many forums discus WordPress-related challenges so a typical answer is at your finger tip.
12. Easy Migration
Migrating is in WordPress fabulous. Just tell it which blogging platform to access and import from and it will move all your posts and comments in another platform in a relatively easy form. Go to ‘Import ‘ under ‘Manage’ on your Admin Dashboard.
20 Reasons Why You Should Choose WordPress – PART 1
Posted by: | CommentsI have broken this post into two parts. Watch out for Part 2 tomorrow
Is a blog a necessity?
Not if you are not interested in blogging. A blog is born every half second which means two blogs are created every second.
In the past few months, I’ve been learning so much about wordpress blogs and I have a brother that’s so good and builds his own custom themes. I also have been contacted by a few newbie bloggers to help setup a proper blog but they wonder why I advocate wordpress.
So I want to “defend” why I prefer and recommend Wordpress with “20 Reasons Why You Should Choose WordPress” instead of other blogging platforms.
A-Z Blogging Tips I Have Learnt
Posted by: | CommentsBlogging is a journey- a very delightsome or frustrating one. Your experience is really up to you. Here are some blogging tips I Have learnt in an A-B-C format:
Ask and it shall be given unto you. This Bible verse is forever true. In my experience, the blogosphere has a lot of great people always willing to help and direct you…but only if you do your part. “Ask”
Backup your blog’s database. It is bad enough to lose your data but losing unexpectedly is hell. Use WP Database Backup to automate daily backup of your blog and live in peace.
Comment. Blog commenting is one of the greatest ways to build relationship in the blogosphere as well as a most effective way to drive traffic to your blog. Do it REGULARLY.






















