Short links are all the rage on sites like Twitter. Are you curious why people use short links? Or wondering how to create them yourself? Short links take this: http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=291674&u=468400&m=31479&urllink=&afftrack= And turn it into this: http://michelleshaeffer.com/go/premise Isn’t that better? Why Use a “Short” Link? Short links make URLs easier to share and remember. They [...]
Want more traffic to your blog? Try these three simple tips — two of them you can implement today, with just a few minutes of your time. Let your visitors share your blog posts. Don’t try to do all your blog promotion by yourself! Enlist the help of your readers by installing a social sharing [...]
Are you consider building your own website but overwhelmed by all the options? Should you use WordPress? Joomla? Weebly? Google Pages? Blogger? WordPress.com? Drupal? Mambo? SiteFrame? SohoLaunch Pro? Templates Express? RV Site Builder? It’s enough to make your head spin! But what’s more important that which technology you use, is that your choice supports 5 [...]
The answer is simple. Add social networking sharing buttons — specifically the Tweet button! BrightEdge released a report this month with all sorts of great data about social sharing statistics gathered from the top 10,000 websites. You can find the basics plus a link to download the whole thing here: http://seo-blog.brightedge.com/general/september-brightedge-socialshare-report-the-marketing-benefits-of-social-buttons/ A quote from the [...]
Have you seen those cool audio/video seminars offered on websites? Where you sign up and get a new audio or video for X days or X weeks? I’ve been working on a couple for my websites and, of course, researching tips and tricks so I can get it right. Here’s a great article to help [...]
Last weekend I took my kids to the most amazing playground for a few hours. During our time there I saw the same scene played out over and over again: Adult: It’s time to go, let’s get our things together. Child: Nooooooooo!!! Please let’s stay a little longer! The details and amount of [...]
How do you create an awesome blog? Great content is the cornerstone, of course. But once you’ve got great content, then it’s all the little things here and there that add up to explode into awesomeness! Here’s my list of 51 ways to make your blog more awesome. I’ve linked some of them to previous [...]
Last week I promised I’d share some of the “beyond the basics” plugins I’m running on my blog. One of those is PostRank and I use it to show off the “hot” posts on my website. Why might you want to show off your popular posts? You want readers to find your best content fast [...]
In the past year, I’ve blogged an average of 26 times per month, or 6 days a week. This blog has been around for a couple of years. And I get all excited about blog challenges, plugins, WordPress updates, and bloggy things. So you can safely assume a couple of things: * I like to [...]
5 Ways You Might Be Driving Your Readers Crazy (Without Realizing It!)
You may be guilty of driving your readers crazy without even realizing it. And unless you’ve got thousands of “spare readers” just waiting to fill in the spots by the ones you’re driving away, (I sure don’t! I want every reader who lands here to stick around.) you might want to run down this quick [...]