Finally. After 3 days of hassles with my previous hosting company to get a simple nameserver change it looks like it’s done. Instigator Blog is now hosted at a new company. I’m testing things out as quickly as possible. If you see something wrong or something that looks broken please let me know via email […]
Give Out Some Link Love and Remove NoFollow
When people leave a comment on your blog (or generate a trackback by linking to a blog post), your blogging software is most likely adding the “nofollow” microformat extension. The result is that search engines like Google don’t follow those links off your site, and therefore the sites linking to you don’t gain any Google […]
Your FeedBurner Email Subscriptions May Be Unreadable
Most people subscribe to blogs via RSS feeds. But there are a number that also subscribe via email. I always recommend that you offer both — RSS feed and email. With FeedBurner it’s a snap. But recently one of my email readers, Carole Lane from The San Diego Beat, informed me that the font size […]
How Much Time Does It Take To Blog?
I get asked that question a lot. Friends and other bloggers ask because they’re curious about how much time I spend blogging. Clients and prospects ask because they’re nervous about the time commitment. I usually reply with a question of my own, “Are you talking about the time I’m thinking about blogging and the content […]
Win A Couple of Business Books at Startup Spark
For those of you interested in business and entrepreneurship I’ve recently launched a contest at Startup Spark. It’s simple: Find a blog post (on someone else’s blog) about entrepreneurship that you really like. Write about it on your blog, adding your own thoughts to the mix. Make sure you link the original post. Link back […]
Take Your Blog To The Next Level
I’m very pleased to announce the launch of SOBCon 07 — A Relationship Bloggers’ Conference and Networking Event. It’s on May 11-12th in Chicago, hosted by Liz Strauss, Phil Gerbyshak and Mike Sansone. Many others helped as well. In actual fact, the idea for a blogger conference in Chicago was being bounced around by a […]
Get More RSS Subscribers With New WordPress Plugin
RSS subscribers are the golden ticket for bloggers. People who subscribe via RSS are making a commitment. It doesn’t mean they’ll read your blog everyday, buy lots of things from you, and make you rich and famous, but they’re still engaging and giving you a piece of their precious attention. And, they are customers. You […]
PodPress Has Buggered My Feed Formatting
Looks like PodPress 7.3 (and 7.2) has buggered my feed formatting so that all HTML/links/images are stripped out. This is very disappointing because I know a lot of you read Instigator Blog via feeds, and it’s hard to when you can’t even see a simple paragraph break. I’m working to fix the issue. If there’s […]
The Power of Interviews to Create Buzz
Heading into my final week of the 3-Week Buzz Marketing Challenge and I’m doing OK, but not good enough. There’s more buzz to generate! One of the most underrated ways of generating buzz is through doing interviews. And they’re easy to do! Everyone wants to be interviewed – from A-listers to small business owners to […]
A Search Bug With WordPress 2.1 and Ultimate Tag Warrior
SimpleTags is still the easiest way to get Technorati tags on your blog, to help Technorati users find you. But on Andy Beard’s suggestion I decided to give Ultimate Tag Warrior another try. The latest version of Ultimate Tag Warrior is 3.1415926. I installed it and after mucking with the settings a bit, I was […]
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