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Check Out, Link Out, and Reach Out - A Simple 3-step Strategy for More Traffic and Better RelationshipsNovember 19

There is a simple, three-step strategy that, if followed correctly, will get you blog traffic. More importantly, it will help you develop better relationships with other bloggers and grow your personal network. This easy three-step strategy will bring you opportunities like you never knew could happen. It may sound like I’m exaggerating, but I’m not. These kinds of opportunities are not special… they just don’t happen to people who don’t follow these 3 steps.

Check Out

Check out other bloggers who are writing for the same audience as you. Do a blog search on Google or just type the niche you’re in followed by the word “blog” (I know, ridiculously simple, right?). Another search you can do is “top [insert niche name here] blogs”. Focus on bloggers with more traffic and subscribers than you.

Choose bloggers who aren’t too far ahead of you. You can go straight for the top blogs, but they’re used to people trying to ride their coattails and get their notice. You can still bust through if your blogging is top-notch, but I think you’ll get better results if you set your sights a little closer to home.

Link Out

Now link to these bloggers. When you find other bloggers in your niche who are a bit ahead of you in traffic and subscribers, begin linking to them in your own posts. Don’t do it in a blitz from outta nowhere. Don’t do it in every single post–that comes across as a little crazy. But you can find natura

Remarkablogger in Top 100 Internet Marketing Blogs ListNovember 18

Internet Marketing Top Blogs

Cool. Remarkablogger is in the top 100 internet marketing blogs. Yay for you! Why do I say “yay for you” and not “yay for me”? Because this is just one more little piece of proof you get the good stuff, here.

So… like I said: yay for you!

Did you know there are cool links and insider information sent to people every week by email?

Yup. It's true. I have an email list. It's called Remarkanotes. It's a different kind of email list. Most bloggers try to create bigger, meatier newsletter-ish type content for their email list content.

I'm going in the opposite direction: shorter, value-packed cool links and thought-provoking content.

How often? Once or twice a week (remember, they're short).

Learn more and sign up here.

Blogging Leads to New SkillsNovember 17

Blogging leads to new and valuable skills needed for online business success. When you first begin blogging, you think “it’s just writing,” but you are quickly dispelled of that illusion when you have to fiddle with your blog’s template code or get a plugin. The moment you realize nobody is hardly reading your blog makes you understand there is much more to blogging than… just blogging.

Most of us need to learn new skills in order to truly succeed online. I already had a background in web design, which gave me a head start, but even I have been surprised at the constant barrage of new things I’ve had to learn in order to succeed with my blogs, past and present. If you’re a new blogger, you may be experiencing that sinking feeling of dread at all the stuff you have to learn.

Since I’ve already been there, let me give you a roadmap of new skills you should pick up that will best help you.

Writing

Many of us think we’re much better writers than we really are. Suddenly writing for a blog when you haven’t done much writing recently will make that painfully obvious. Writing coherently, consicely, and skillfully takes practice. See my recent Blog Writing Series of posts for more help on this.

Despite all the fun I like to have with techniques,

Top Ten Things to Not Do on an Internet Marketing BlogNovember 8

I’ve seen my share of internet marketing blogs, and many of my clients are internet marketers. After I help them, they no longer make these mistakes, of course.

So, here’s how not to do an internet marketing blog:

Have no internet marketing experience.
Have no cornerstone product of your own.
Put up tons of skeezy-looking ads for selling text links.
Have no clue about how to write copy that sells.
Demonstrate you don’t understand social proof by showing a FeedBurner chicklet that displays less than a thousand subscribers.
Have no point to your content other than “me-too” posts about blogging and making money online that clearly show your lack of experience and results.
Have a lot of “your ad here” graphics.
Have a badly implemented blog design that looks like it doesn’t fit together right.
Look like a blog inst

The Beginner’s Guide to TwitterNovember 5

This is a guest post by Deanna de Bara from Sugarrae.com.

As a relative “newbie” to the social networking scene (I sporadically use facebook and myspace, but thats about it), I was interested to try Twitter, a social networking and micro blogging site that has recently become popular with internet enthusiasts.

The program began as a research and development project inside a small San Fransisco start up, and was initially used as an inter-office communication tool (think instant messenger). It was officially launched online as Twitter in July of 2006.

The best way I can think to describe Twitter is that it is basically a public chat room, only instead of reading what everyone has to say, you can pick and choose who you listen to as well as who listens to you.

Creating and Customizing your Twitter Profile

So, when you sign up for Twitter, you are given the choice of a username, and your URL becomes www.twitter.com/yourusername. Pretty self explanatory. Y