PLOG: A blog that is monetized via pay per post and paid site reviews.
(I’m sure there are other acronyms, but I’m coining this one for this post…. )
The argument has raged on for a couple of years now whether or not it’s kosher to do paid reviews and offer paid links on your [...]

So you’ve optimized until you can’t optimize anymore. Doing everything the guru’s tell you to get your blog to the front page of Google, but for some reason you just don’t quite seem to get there.
Maybe, just maybe, it’s your blog design template that’s holding you back.
Whether you have a free template [...]

Lately I’ve been scoping out some other forms of marketing. Mostly checking out the competition in the PPC game via Spyfu. One of the cool things about SpyFu is that you can actually see what the top bids for certain keywords are within Google Adwords.
Which is pretty amazing. If you take a [...]

Just a few days ago, I posted an article about creating a blog content team within your organization. Which started me on a line of thought in regard to using your team in other areas.
One reader made a comment suggesting that this might be a bit Utopian of me, and he may be right. [...]

What exactly is an Alexa ranking and what do these numbers mean to you and your business blog?
The answer sort of depends on who you ask. Of course if you ask Alexa, you get this generic overview:
“Alexa computes traffic rankings by analyzing the Web usage of millions of Alexa Toolbar users and data obtained [...]

If you are the one that maintains the company blog, you know that your comments get jammed with cheap spam. Which is not a big deal if you use Akismet. But still, it is a little irritating to see all the auto generated comments in your spam filters when you log in.
What’s worse [...]

Everyone wants to know what the magic behind a blog for business is.
Really what it comes down to is the long tail search phrase traffic. By blogging naturally every day and writing about whatever it is you do and your business, you almost automatically start catching search traffic that your site would not have [...]

I was making my rounds this morning and came across a nice piece on Blog Marketing Journal about business blog comments and how some companies handle them.
Some bloggers are quite precise in the way they handle their blogs. They perform very tight blog SEO strategies to ensure their blogs rank as highly as possible in [...]

I received an email this morning asking me about other services Business Blogs provides. Since we still haven’t added all of the service pages to the front end, I thought I’d cover a few of them here.
1. Blog installation and setup.
We install and optimize your preferred blog script on your server or hosting [...]