I was looking through my list of domain names and have come to the conclusion that I will never develop thewebhostingforum.com into a website. I currently have the domain parked over at Namedrive, and while it has brought in the odd click I think I would rather give it to a new owner, someone that… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Marketing
Word of Mouth Marketing Still Relevant?
There was a post over on Pronet Advertising earlier in September that has stuck in my head for a little while now. The post was titled Social Media is the New Word-of-Mouth. Perhaps what caught my attention about the post was how narrow minded the post was about word of mouth advertising. Fact of the… Continue Reading
How To Lower Your Alexa Rank
I have been doing a lot of reading about Alexa rank lately, and I was curious how I might be able to lower my Alexa ranking. While most webmasters would probably agree that the Alexa ranking is not very accurate, it does play a role in how some websites are valued. A good example is… Continue Reading
Increase Your Comments and Links by Holding a Contest
I, like most people, love contests for free stuff. They sucker draw me in every time. If you are running a tech website or blog it can be very easy to come up with ideas for prizes to give away, simply look for the latest computer gadget or addon that grabs your attention. If you… Continue Reading
Blog Rush – Consider This
Every blog I visited last night and today, including Shoemoney, Dosh Dosh, Andy Beal at Marketing Pilgrim and John Chow, had something written about Blog Rush. What is it? Blog Rush is a new javascript widget that you can place on your blog to display the latest headlines from other blogs that are in the… Continue Reading
What I Learned from McDonald’s about Getting More Links
Webmasters and bloggers are always after more links. The more links the better your ranking should be in the search engines and hopefully the more people will visit your website or blog and take what ever action you want then to take. Whether you want them to buy something, read your wonderfully witty posts on… Continue Reading
Social Bookmarking in Plain English
A great video on how to use del.icio.us. del.icio.us is one of my favourite social bookmarking sites. A common problem with del.icio.us and other sites that rely on tags is the lack of any kind of controlled vocabulary for tags. I don’t have a degree in library science but I have that problem just on… Continue Reading
Reviews for Backlinks – Valuable or Worthless?
A popular thing for blogs to do these days is to run a review for backlinks program. Usually the programs run something like this: review the blog running the program and get a backlink from that blog to your review. The selling point for these reviews is that the blog doing the review will get… Continue Reading
Webmaster Quickie – Using Blog Search Engines to Build Links
Building links is part of every webmaster’s daily work. Thanks to Jennifer over at Search Engine Guide for a great how to on how to use blog search engines to build links. She walks you through how to use Technorati to find blogs that are talking about topics relevant to your blog. Continue Reading
Webmaster Quickie – The Enormous List of Linkbuilding Tips, Articles and Resources
The list does not get any bigger than this one. The Enormous list of Linkbuilding tips, articles and resources Some fantastic resources on the list, some that I might avoid, but overall a great list. There is hours of reading for you to do on link building. I know I will have to work my… Continue Reading