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The Basics of Business Blogging and why every business should
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A reader recently posed this question.
John,
Do you think a blog will create more website traffic than simply
adding the same information to the website itself?
Thanks,
Take care,
Arnold
So, here was my answer, but I’m betting you bloggers who read my
post will have some great advice. . . care to comment?
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There are a lot of variables [...]

You’ve got to love a good underdog story. Well, they don’t get much
bigger than Godzilla vs Mozilla (Firefox) I’ve been seeing a lot of folks
hitting my site with the Firefox Browser and I’ve been having fun playing
with it myself.
The coolest feature (although I’m sure power users will laugh) is the
tabbed pages feature. You can open [...]

Blog directories let you tell them to come on down and feed on your
newest entries by way of something called a ping or pinging. It’s like
this little eletronic alarm that goes off when you make a new entry.
That way they know to visit your site, only when you have updated.
Maybe you know that, maybe you [...]

Conference Calls Unlimited just sent me a very powerful
referral marketing promotion. CCU provides audio and web
conference services and finds that to beat through the clutter
of the Internet and PPC price shopping they can do much
better by way of referral – (lesson for anyone in that nugget)
CCU sent me a plastic phone card looking thing and [...]

Seth Godin’s latest project Change This is offering a free download
titled the Beginner’s Guide to Business Blogging. Debbie Weil put the
guide together and I contributed an article on blogs and traffic.
Debbie did a nice job pulling together a very practical guide for new
and old bloggers alike. Go get one and pass it on!

Everyone talks about Google and Yahoo as though they are the only
search engines out there. And that’s because in terms of traffic for
your web site they really have mattered most.
MSN has long played third wheel but all of a sudden they are starting
to make some real noise and, as far as traffic goes on my [...]

Many times when someone sees what he or she believe
Is advertising, the radar screen goes up. Immediately,
a bit of mistrust comes into play.
When they read an article that speaks about the very
same subject, often times, they begin to develop a bond
of trust with the expert who authored the piece.
In some cases there is very little [...]