Having spent so much time building my blog and a good following and then take the extra steps to make sure that my readers and especially those who take a moment to comment benefit, the last thing I want is to see my efforts and hard work taken advantage of.

Comment spamming is an old age problem we bloggers face and as if that was not enough, along come some smart Alic wana be, inconsiderate and outright sneaky individuals adding to the problem.  Read more... (216 words, estimated 52 secs reading time)

There has been a number of readers asking questions using the comments form. I would like to remind all that although comments and feedback a very much welcome and I do my best to approve the ones that a relevant and of value, I can not respond to “Questions” raised with in the comments form – in fact the vast majority of these have ended up in the spam folder and subsequently deleted.

So here’s how you can get all your blogging questions answered by me personally or by any member of the readership community of Blog Installation Service.  Read more... (626 words, estimated 2:30 mins reading time)

I’ve decided to do various experiments to see the true affect of certain actions on a live blog. Having read a number of guides, reports and pro-blogger’s advice I felt it was time to put it all into practice and see the outcome first hand.

Point I

One of the main advice given in many a guides/reports is to blog consistently on a regular basis – as this is what drives traffic to a website/blog. So for this month (January) I decided to experiment on this by posting very little in way of blog posts.  Read more... (579 words, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

With Google Adsense or Yahoo Publisher, having people click onto more pages helps your revenue immensely, but how do you get them to read more than one page when they visit your website? Here are a few tips.

1. Create pages within the blog that contain reference material you refer to often in your posts. These static pages will also get crawled and indexed by the search engines and as you write posts about your topics you can refer people to these static pages as references to what you are posting about.  Read more... (783 words, estimated 3:08 mins reading time)

It is now widely accepted that the way forward in doing business, or more correctly making a business site successful is to setup and use a blog. The reason being, blogs are more dynamic, constantly updated which in turn draws in the search engines to crawl and index the new content. This then drives masses of traffic to your blog and if set up and done correctly this traffic can be channeled to your main site, giving your business a boost as most of the new visitors will turn in to customers.  Read more... (1011 words, estimated 4:03 mins reading time)

Changes Affect Testimonial Advertisements, Bloggers, Celebrity Endorsements.

This post should have preceded my previous post – but here goes anyways!

On Monday 5th Oct 2009 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its approval on the guidance to advertisers on keeping their endorsements and testimonials in line with the FTC Act.

In the guidelines the FTC states that: (*This is an extract from the FTC website.*)

The notice incorporates several changes to the FTC’s Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, which address endorsements by consumers, experts, organizations, and celebrities, as well as the disclosure of important connections between advertisers and endorsers. The Guides were last updated in 1980.  Read more... (683 words, estimated 2:44 mins reading time)

This is one of those questions that has a true “two faces to the coin” so to speak. And I ask the question with a good reason with full awareness that both sides will and do have valid arguments. I’ll just present my opinion and would love to hear yours in return.

Have I used blogs to pitch sales? Yes I must admit I have and I must also admit that I now believe I was wrong. In my opinion, a blog is and should be used to deliver highly valuable free content to the readers. Reason being the vast majority of people who frequently visit blogs are looking for nothing more than a good article full of valuable information.  Read more... (392 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Writing for your blog can be difficult in many ways, mind numbing at times too. Your readers want the information quickly, and they want it, by and large, in bite-sized morsels rather than long, buffet type spreads. This can make the art of being clear even more difficult than it might be in other mediums.

If you have struggled with clarity when writing for your blog, here are five tips to keep you on the right track, and make sure you don’t lose your audience in between the lines.  Read more... (598 words, estimated 2:24 mins reading time)

On the 17th April I did a post on building backlink by commenting on blogs which I have revisited as well as take a look at what others are saying about the topic.

What I have noticed around the blogosphere is that every one is talking about the importance of using anchor keywords/text for the link. Unfortunately with a standard wordpress installation, comments are anchored on the commenter’s name – Which doesn’t really give much in the way of benefit other than just being a backlink.  Read more... (269 words, estimated 1:05 mins reading time)

1.) – Niche oriented domain name – supper keyword – one word.  Read more... (1097 words, estimated 4:23 mins reading time)

• This one is a toughie as you will find that most of the good domain names have been taken. But don’t let that stop you, chose a similar word or opt for a different tld like .net or .info if .com is taken. Avoid geographical tlds like .co.uk, .co.in, .asia, .ca or the likes unless your niche is specifically targeting those marketplaces. And if a one word domain is not available then use  2 to 3 words joined together, i.e mykillerblog.com – avoid my-killer-blog.com if you can.