Category Archives: Blog Watching

Give them the keys, then take them away when they learn to drive?

By Lucindigo | March 10, 2008

“The individual user has been king on the Internet, but the pendulum seems to be swinging back toward edited information vetted by professionals.” Read Newsweek: “Revenge of the Experts” Here

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SEO, Stats & Stuff that will make you and your site smarter

By Lucindigo | February 24, 2008

SEO & WEBSITE TOOLS
How to develop “money making niche sites” with Wordpress (Caroline Middlebrook) - Download Here
“Search Engine Optimisation” for Bloggers. - Download Here
SEO… Some of my notes from Webstock 2008
Use Key words in: - Anchor text (own internal links help ranking)
- Clickable images alt attributes
- Headlines (in or out of H tags)
- Body [...]

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PDF Report vs A Series of Blog posts - Which gets more Exposure or Traffic?

By Lucindigo | February 20, 2008

Read an interesting report from Caroline Middlebrook Here
For those that are pushed for time - at least read the summary here:
“Overall, I would suggest that if you have a new blog and want to create some exposure for it, use a series of strong blog posts to do it. However, releasing an ebook also works [...]

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Top Ten Writing Blogs - 2007

By Lucindigo | December 12, 2007

Copyblogger, by Brian Clark: Holding the number-one spot for the second year running, this site excels at teaching the art of writing.
Freelance Writing Jobs, by Deborah Ng: For writers seeking new work, this site is your sole destination and maintains a top spot in our contest from last year.
The Renegade Writer, by Linda Formichelli and [...]

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Online Media $uccess - Beyond a Blog

By Lucindigo | November 27, 2007

Broader Reach: 3 X Comms (not just a linkfarm…)

Commentary on news (and links for more info)
Communication on other events, multimedia, ideas and opinion
Community and platform for others to voice

Targeting a demographic/interest group
I think all online media sites should have and need both a point of difference and a very clear value proposition so visitors know [...]

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