I Help You Blog

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email feed. Thanks for visiting!Rel=”nofollow” was first introduced by the three major search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) in May 2005 as an answer to blog comment spam and other spamdexing techniques utilizing unauthorized link dropping. Since then, Google [...]

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So did you hear about DMOZ founder Rich Skrenta’s Topix.net purchasing the Topix.com domain name from a Canadian company for a cool USD 1,000,000?  I guess too many people were being lost in the type-in traffic going to the dot-com.
So, think about that when you choose a domain name.  If it’s a dot-net (or something [...]

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When I started I Help You Blog, I knew that blogging was a collaborative medium and something that would enable people from around the world to share ideas.  What I didn’t expect was to actually be able to connect with some many helpful and friendly people, all of whom are willing to help and share [...]

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Wow!  What a crazy two months I’ve had since this blog went online!  I’ve met some awesome people both online and offline and have been thrilled with the progress of this blog.  I’ve gone from zero subscribers to 100 after one month to over 470 after two months.  Thank you to everyone who read my [...]

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What is community-driven blog promotion:
Community-driven blog promotion is the term I use for describing any technique a blogger uses to promote his or her blog and that involves getting a blog’s readers to do something that will result in greater exposure for that blog. This definition includes review-for-linkback schemes, memes, contests, etc.
Community-driven blog [...]

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Collis from NorthxEast asks, “Is it more important to post really, really regularly OR to put together more on-topic posts less regularly?”
My response is the two options shouldn’t be mutually exclusive. I don’t think any blogger should post anything that is not on-topic to the blog. Doing so is a waste of everyone’s [...]

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Matthieu Buisson of Frenchmat-Galaxy asks, “The best blogs about blogging are from USA and Australia but are all these blogging tips really effective in other cultures like France, Spain, China, etc… and how?”
I’ve never really thought about blogs about blogging being categorized by country. As a communications medium, blogs are successful because they allow [...]

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I don’t think there are an unlimited number of original topics a blogger can write about. At some point, all bloggers repeat something that has, in essence, been previously said. But the really great bloggers are the ones that are able to take a topic that has been previously discussed and recycle it in such a way that the delivery is entirely original.

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From time to time I see comments on this and other blogs that indicate concern amongst bloggers that linking out too much is bad. The nature of the concern is two pronged. One, some feel that linking out too much results you sending traffic away and reducing the stickiness of one’s own blog. Two, some feel that linking out too much will have a negative effect for search engine rankings. I don’t think either should be a concern for the quality blogger.

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I don’t know if Tony Hung did it on purpose or not but he got himself some real attention by baiting Jason Calacanis to respond to Tony’s blue collar blogging post. Good for him for creating some buzz around an issue that may or may not have ever existed. Tony set up the bait and Jason bit it.

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