Being as “Local” as you can with your blogging will yield big dividends. By local, I mean incorporating as much geo-specific content as possible. First of all, you can see that the local game is hot right now. Sites like Yelp are cashing in on these opportunities. Even Google has continued to drive their local search [...]
Continue reading...26. March 2010
Video. Are you tired of hearing about it yet? Well that is unfortunate because it is not going away in our lifetime. As the cost of video production continues to head towards zero, more and more videos are being uploaded to the web. Why is this important for you? If you’re business (or blog) plans to compete in [...]
Continue reading...24. March 2010
A client of mine called today in an absolute panic today because he realized his Wordpress blog was not very mobile friendly. I was able to talk him off the ledge quickly because there are a lot of quick plugins to handle making a mobile version of your site. More on those in a minute. But [...]
Continue reading...17. March 2010
We all know that Wordpress is the best CMS and blogging platform on the market today. No argument there. However, it can sometimes be tricky to embed videos into your posts with the stock version of Wordpress. So what’s the best video plugin to handle all of your video embed needs? Viper’s Video Quicktags is the [...]
Continue reading...16. March 2010
Twitter integrations into Wordpress blogs are all the rage these days. It is the most commonly asked for feature among our clients. With that, here are the Top 5 Twitter Plugins for Wordpress. 1) Twitter Widget Pro: This plugin creates a sidebar widget with tons of configurable controls to adjust the Twitter feed’s display. You can also control [...]
Continue reading...14. March 2010
How big is the email list for your blog? Wait…what do you mean you don’t have a list? You have no idea how much traffic, loyalty, and revenue you have already missed. If you have a fairly new blog, you’re off the hook. I will just assume you did not know any better. However, if your site has been [...]
Continue reading...12. March 2010
Most of the advice published here on BlogCraving comes from the perspective of taking your hobby blog and turning it into a small business. Do we mean “quit your day job” type business? That would be awesome, but no. By business we mean a site that can easily pay for itself (hosting cost and what not) [...]
Continue reading...11. March 2010
If one ad unit is good, two ad units must be twice as good. Right? Not exactly. One common mistake made by noob bloggers looking to start monetizing their sites is getting over excited by how easy it is to put up ads.
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29. March 2010
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