Blogging

Why I’m avoiding FriendFeed and promoting LifeStream.fm instead. A little bit about liveblogging from a marketing perspective and why you can’t afford to ignore the development of this newest form of social media.

It should be no surprise that blogs came to dominate internet activity and search results. In the originally popularized blog form, they were a source of link and personal networking with no rivals – and a method of interaction that was information and easy.

Sitepoint thinks there is a problem with the blogging link economy – and they publish this on a blog that doesn’t allow pings, trackbacks, or comment links.

Want to build a website but you think it might be too hard, confusing, or just time consuming? Blogs are the quickest and easiest way to build a new website from scratch. Don’t worry about the technical issues too much – just be sure you have some fresh and unique content to offer.

Why build a blog for your website? Or why should you build a blog as your main website like I’ve done here? Learn more about blogging by reading the benefits here.

Here are three quick and simple steps you can take to promote a new blog. Combined with some unique and interesting content, you could see some buzz almost immediately.

WebsiteBuildingBiz has gotten rid of the nofollow attributes, so here’s another webmaster oriented blog for you to get some backlinks from. Just make sure to add useful comments! Everything that doesn’t really contribute will be marked as spam and moderation is always enabled.

Mashable goes no-follow and the conversation gets strangely quiet, very quickly

Write about your interests if you want to write well. The internet isn’t a good get rich quick plan, but if you work for subjects you care about, you might not realize its work at all.

Using trackbacks to keep track of conversations that you’ve started or entered. How the Link command in search engines can be used to make sure you don’t miss out on a discussion that you’ve already been a part of. Hey, I’ll take all the ways I can to keep track of this stuff!