Posts Tagged ‘Resources’
17 Cool Tools and Resources for Bloggers
In the never ending search to find awesome things that bloggers can use, I found 17 more tools and resources that can make the bloggers life easier. Everything from grammar to monitoring to usability.
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Tags: fonts, graphics, Resources, Tools, typography
9 Essential Guides on How to Create Wordpress Plugins
Wordpress plugins are a necessity to any Wordpress blog. Just about every site has written some post on which plugins you need for your blog. Whether its the best SEO plugins or the must need plugins to speed up your blog, you will find many different lists of plugins. But sometimes there just isn’t a plugin that fits what you need. Sometimes you need to install three or four of them to get everything.
Why not create your own plugin? Why not create that plugin and then use it to build traffic for your site? It’s basically a win-win situation for you. You can create a plugin that will not only do everything you need and speed up your site, but also drive more traffic to it. Here are nine guides to help in the development of your very own Wordpress plugin.
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Tags: plugins, Resources, wordpress
Interested in Creating an eBook? 9 Outstanding Resources
Ebooks are a great way to market your site. If your ebook is full of some great content and you give it away for free, generally people will talk about it and link to it. Basically giving you a ton of great back links.
If the purpose of your ebook is to make some money, than you can make it a little longer and sell it online. At a lot of publisher sites, you can set up affiliate programs which will allow others to make money by promoting your book. Whats better than that?! I have compiled a list of resources from how to write your ebook, places to publish, and how to market it.
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Tags: ebook, Marketing, Resources
40 Awesome Task Managers and Simple To-Do List Services
In todays world it can be tough to get anything done. Not only are there distractions every where, but it seems like there just isn’t enough time in the day to get everything done. Or if you are like me and forget what you needed to do. I get motivated and start thinking about the things I need to do in the beginning of the day, something distracts me, and then I forget and start doing other unproductive things. So if you are like me and need some help remembering the things you need to do or just somewhere to keep a list that’s easily accessible, try these to-do list services.
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Tags: gtd, Resources, task manager, to-do list, Tools
4 Must Read Articles About Starting a Business
This economy is affecting everyone and people are looking to change their luck. With the US unemployment rate rising to 8.1%, there are a lot of people either looking for jobs or ways to earn more money. Starting your own business is a great way to earn some extra money on the side and work for yourself. I have four articles and two sites for you to read that will give you some resources, tips, and ideas on starting your own business.
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Tags: Business, entreprenuer, Resources
4 Essential Articles About Marketing
This week I’m going to focus on marketing and today I have four articles for you. There are many different aspects of marketing and I’m not going to fixate on any particular angle but provide you with a bunch of articles which you can choose which direction you would like to go.
Social Network Marketing: Getting From Zero to Critical Mass
This is a great article from Andrew Chen. In it he talks about building a social network and how difficult it can be. If you are looking to start a social network or a forum or even a newsletter, than this is a must read article.
The Economics of Giving it Away
This article is from the Wall Street Journal and basically talks about why people give things away and why it’s important. Back in the day (which the author describes as anything before September of last year) someone would come up with a great idea, raise money to start it, let as many people use it for free, and then sell it to a bigger company. MySpace fits that model to a T. Read this article if you planning on starting a business online.
Top 10 Social Media Myths Busted
If you are looking to market through social media than read this article about social media myths. Who knew that naked avatar pictures and mass replying on Twitter was a bad thing?
Marketing: Social Media’s Hidden Bubble
Assuming that you have been around social media sites and have been reading blogs, you most likely have heard about social media consultants and experts. Are there really experts in something so new? Anyone can be a consultant for anything and then charge astronomical amounts of their opinions but it’s hard to tell who actually knows what they are talking about. Check out this article and be skeptical before you start forking out the cash to a social media expert.
Tags: Marketing, Resources, Social Media
Using Social Media to Find a Job
Many of us spend a lot of time online whether it’s on Facebook, Twitter, or on our blog. Why not put that time to even a better use. I have a couple of links here that you can use to either find a job using different social media sites or strengthen your resume.
7 Secrets to Getting Your Next Job Using Social Media
This first article is from Mashable. Mashable usually have great articles and these “secrets” that the author gives are more like tips. Regardless, they are helpful and if you aren’t taking advantage of them than you are missing out.
HOW TO: Build the Ultimate Social Media Resume
Another article from Mashable from the same author as the one above. The best tips in the article are the last two: integrate your social network profiles and make your resume shareable. There are quite a few social network aggregator s (which I will post a list of tomorrow) which let you easily integrate them. The author also gives a few examples of social media resumes so you can get a good idea on how to do it.
Using Social Media to Find a Job in a Down Economy
Obviously this isn’t the best economy to find a job but using social media can make it a lot easier. Basically the old adage of “it’s not what you know, but who you know” applies here. So get out there and network!
Tags: job search, Resources, Social Media
SEO: Important or Not?
What is SEO? SEO or search engine optimization, is the technique of setting up a website or blog so that search engines (mainly Google) can crawl the site and index the pages easily. But as Rae from Sugarrae explains…
Good core marketing and the occasional yet regular viral success (it doesn’t need to be large scale, especially if your industry isn’t) – both of which amount to driving traffic at the end of the day – can get you good rankings with or without SEO.
Regular marketing and some viral success will get readers to your site but if other people don’t start linking to your site and the search engines don’t crawl your site, than you are basically off the map. Once your site has gotten some traffic it will start showing up in the search engines and you will start ranking higher and higher for certain keywords.
There are so many sites and blogs dedicated to SEO that it’s tough to sit back and say, “okay well I guess it doesn’t work.” One of the biggest things that these SEO blogs stress is ranking high for keywords. The keyword aspect of SEO is so large that there are multiple keyword research tools. Here are a few links to some keyword research tools…
Google AdWords: Keyword Tool
Google’s Search-Based Keyword Tool
Keyword Suggestion Tool
Another big aspect of SEO is building links. If there are a lot of sites that link to pages on your site, the more people will find your site and the better you will rank through the search engines. In fact the last couple of posts (Link Building and Keywords: Two Important Aspects of SEO and 3 Must Read Articles About SEO) deal with almost exclusively link building.
Whether or not you “believe” in search engine optimization or not, taking a little bit of time to use some of the techniques will ultimately help your site in the long run.
Next week, I will be posting links about social media and writing an article on how to build a community on your site.
Link Building and Keywords: Two Important Aspects of SEO
Today I have a couple of articles that help with link building and keywords. Both of which are extremely important to getting your content found. These articles claim to be “comprehensive” and “definitive” in their information and after reading their information, I can understand why. You will definitely want to bookmark both of these articles.
Comprehensive Guide to Keyword Research, Selection & Organization, Part I
This is a great article that goes into an extreme amount of depth in to keywords. It’s rather long-winded and has over 10 other pages in the series. But if you are serious about your website or blog than this article is something you will want to save and check back with multiple times.
The Definitive List (75+) of Link Building Techniques in 2008
There are so many different ways to build links and this article has a ton of them. A lot of these techniques can be found on other lists that help you attract more visitors but this article focuses on building links which helps your site or blog rank higher in search engine results. Not only does this article have a lot of of techniques, but the comments add even more.
Tags: keywords, link building, Resources, SEO, Tools
3 Must Read Articles About SEO
This week’s topic is SEO or Search Engine Optimization. If you do a search through Google for SEO, you will find over 250 million results. Searching through those results for relevant information would take an enormous amount of time. So for the next couple of days I will be posting different articles with lots of good information about SEO.
The Blogger’s Guide to SEO
This article is so popular that it has been translated into over 25 different languages. If you run a blog and wish to gain more readers than this article from the infamous Aaron Wall (and Giovanna Wall) will be one of the first ones you should read.
How to Build the Best Natural Links – Revealed by 6 SEO Experts
From Gyutae Park and Winning The Web, is an article about building natural links. SEO experts tell you how to build natural links so Google doesn’t think that you are doing some illegal (to them).
10 Essential SEO Tools
This article has some tools that will help with SEO. There are obviously a lot more than this but these will get you started.