There’s no question that blogging can present you as an expert. Blogging can raise your profile significantly. And it’s not hard to do. The common belief is that blogging makes people far more accessible than they were before; bloggers are out there, promoting themselves and their ideas, and hopefully giving their audience plenty of opportunity […]
Bluehost Provides Good Quality, Inexpensive Web Hosting
I’ve been using Bluehost for over 6 months. They provide high quality web site hosting. It’s also inexpensive web hosting. Bluehost is not the cheapest web hosting, but aside from one hiccup where my post on 5 Things You Shouldn’t Spend Money On When Starting a Business hit the front page of Digg, the service […]
Fortune 500 Blog Project – How Do Their Business Blogs Measure Up?
The big boys are blogging. Fortune 500 companies are slowly but surely getting onboard with the business blogging wave…but like the rest of us, they’re just trying to figure it out. In fact, I’d venture to say that Fortune 500 companies are behind the times, and behind what many smaller businesses are doing with blogging. […]
November Blogtipping – Entrepreneurship, Business Ideas and Some Fun
It’s that time of the month again (the first of the monthy!) … blogtipping day where people make note of 3 blogs they enjoy; give 3 compliments and 1 helpful tip. It’s a fun way to reach out, and potentially introduce people to some resources they hadn’t heard of before. Blogtipping was the invention of […]
How to Write Great Web Copy from Jordan at Tell Ten Friends
Over at Tell Ten Friends, Jordan is writing a 7-part series on great copywriting for the web. He’s written 3 parts to the series so far, including: Great Web Copy is All About You Great Web Copy Part 2: Call to Action Great Web Copy Part 3: Skip the Jargon If you write any web […]
Resource Page for Blog About 5 Things Week Launched
Blog About 5 Things Week was a huge success. Including my own posts, there were 32 submissions. Not too shabby at all! I’ve put up a page listing all the submissions, so people can go back and read them all with ease. I hope you’ll take a look at the Blog About 5 Things Week […]
Put Ads Into Your RSS Feeds Easily With Feedvertising
Text Link Ads just came out with a new service called Feedvertising, which they dub as, “really simple RSS advertising.” That’s true, it is very simple. It only works for WordPress 2.0+ blogs though. Instigator Blog runs on WordPress 2.0+ so I thought I’d give it a try. It was extremely easy to setup through […]
Crazy Egg – Quick Way to Track Website/Blog Clicks
Ever wonder what people are clicking on when they visit your website or blog? You can get the answer from any number of stat packages available (I use Google Analytics) but they’re often a bit clumsy, and they’re usually loaded with a ton of stuff you don’t need. Crazy Egg is a very new service […]
No Word From Technorati
Technorati continues to ignore me. Last week I aired my frustration with Technorati — Instigator Blog is still not showing any updates on their site. That’s not quite true. It’s recording most of the links coming to Instigator Blog, but the blog’s ranking isn’t changing. I’ve emailed Technorati three times but I haven’t received any […]
Abandoned by Technorati
I know Technorati indexes millions of blogs. I know they’re very busy and I’ve even heard that they’re having major technical problems … which no doubt leads to many sleepless nights for them. Fair enough, but that doesn’t help me. When I moved over my business-related content from IGotNewsForYou I claimed this new blog immediately. […]
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