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Choosing the Best Link Generator for Your Carnival

May 10, 2010 By Melanie Nelson 1 Comment

Blog carnivals can be a great way to promote community and increase traffic not only to your site, but to your participants’ sites. But how do you do that? With a linky tool. A linky tool allows carnival participants to submit a title for their link and a link to their site. The linky tool [...]

Filed Under: Linking, Traffic Tagged With: blog carnival, blog community, blog etiquette, carnival etiquette, inlinkz, Linky Tools, MckLinky, Mr. Linky 1 Comment

Helpful Blogging Links: May 29, 2009

May 29, 2009 By Melanie Nelson Leave a Comment

Expert blogger Melanie Nelson finds and presents the most helpful blogging tutorials, new, and information links. Find out about custom styling, WordPress TV, legal guidelines for bloggers, monetizing your blog, and building community.

Filed Under: Helpful Blogging Links Tagged With: blog community, blog monetization, build community, custom blog, custom styling, legal guidelines for bloggers, Making money, OMSH, wordpress tv Leave a Comment

Everyday Blogging Tips

May 6, 2009 By Melanie Nelson 2 Comments

Everywhere you turn you can find tips about how to build your blog, build your audience, build your social media presence, etc. What I want to talk about are the every day blog tips you can use to keep things humming along: Choose your link words carefully. Every time you include a link in your [...]

Filed Under: Buttons/Banners/Graphics, FAQ, Getting Started, Linking, Social Media & Networking Tagged With: blog community, blog pictures, blogging tips, chooosing link words, Linking, pictures as content, Social Media & Networking 2 Comments

Which directories should I use to promote/list my blog?

May 4, 2009 By Melanie Nelson 11 Comments

Unless you’ve decided to blog in a vacuum and don’t care if anyone reads what you have to say, at some point you’ve probably looked for ways to encourage new readers to find your blog. When I started blogging in 2004, it wasn’t uncommon for a blog to be part of several blogrings. A blogring [...]

Filed Under: FAQ, Getting Started, Linking, Marketing/Branding, Traffic Tagged With: blog catalog, blog community, blogrings, google pagerank, google webmaster tools, online influence, page rank, Technorati 11 Comments

How Do You Know If Your Blog Is Successful?

April 22, 2009 By Melanie Nelson 9 Comments

When I discuss blogging with others we invariably end up talking about how to make a blog successful. It may not be the thrust of our conversation, but it does come up. We all want to know how to do what we do better. Today’s article discusses Google PageRank and demographics and which is more [...]

Filed Under: Content/Writing, FAQ, Making money, Marketing/Branding, Social Media & Networking, Traffic Tagged With: blog community, blog rank, blog success, demographics, google page rank, making money with a blog, successful blogging 9 Comments

What Are Blog Metrics?

April 20, 2009 By Melanie Nelson 5 Comments

Blog metrics are a way to measure the success (or at least the popularity) of a blog. In this article I will introduce you to several of the sites that are most popular for determining a blog’s success: Google PageRank, Technorati, Digg, and Alexa. Whether you put any stock into them is your call. (wink) [...]