I spend several hours in the hair salon. It’s just one of those things. I have thick hair and so I have to sit under the dryer for at least 90 minutes – ugh! So while I am sitting, I like to catch up on my reading and so do millions of other people.
Wouldn’t it be great if they were catching up by reading your articles? That’s why I created a mobile phone version of my blog so that people can read phone friendly versions of my articles on the go!
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Were you the last person to know on the planet that I LOVE my Kindle? I mean I’m always talking about it!
Well now I’ve taken my love for Kindle to the next level by offering all my daily article marketing tips as a subscription for anyone who owns a Kindle. If you didn’t know, you can read your favorite newspapers, blogs, books, magazines, and PDF’s on your Kindle. In fact, I read all of my infoproducts on my Kindle as well as my vampire fiction! That’s just how versatile it is.
Everyday my article marketing articles will be delivered to your Kindle automatically via Kindle’s Whispernet™ technology. That means you can be on the subway, work, the hair salon, and read my articles as soon as they are published. No need to find a Wi-Fi hot spot. That’s what’s so cool about Kindles. I can get a book, a blog, a PDF anywhere — anytime.
If you prefer to read my daily article marketing info on your Kindle when your snuggled in bed with a glass of wine and some popcorn (or is that me:-), then go over to Amazon and subscribe to my article marketing articles today!
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Q: Can I submit an article from my blog to another site without penalty? Like an article directory or a friend’s blog?
A: Yes you can, but I highly recommend that you re-write the title and submit an older article. One that is at least 3 months old. That way it’s probably past it’s initial publishing traffic surge at the first site and can be submitted again.
Also if you want to maximize the article’s search engine potential, I highly recommend re-writing the entire article using the unique article wizard. (It’s easier than you think!) That way you will get maximum benefit as the search engines will look at the article as an entirely new article.
Remember that I strongly encourage you to reuse, repurpose and regenerate all existing articles. There is always “something else” that can be done with your old articles. Re-working and then resubmitting old articles is a great way to achieve this.
I had been online for quite a while before I heard of submitting articles to blog carnivals. Honestly, the name of them (“blog carnivals”) tends to make you not take them too seriously:) Of course I will always try something once, and so when a trusted marketing expert suggested years ago in a coaching session that I use blog carnivals to jump start my traffic and list building — I said what they hey! I’ll do it.
Now if you visit a blog carnival site, they can look a little cluttered and be a bit confusing to navigate. They truly are designed for people who know what they are and how they work. But once you learn, they truly can bring you a surge of new traffic and fresh eyes to your articles.
What Is A Blog Carnival?
A Blog Carnival works much like a magazine. It has a title, a topic, editors, contributors, and an audience. They work by collecting a series of links pointing to blog articles on the same topic. Editions or issues of the carnival come out on a weekly or monthly basis and usually consist of links to those articles with additional comments added about those articles from the editor.
The reason why people would subscribe to a blog carnival is simple, they are trying to follow a particular niche or topic and want to cut out all the other clutter on the web. This is great for writers like us who want to reach a targeted market that have asked permission to be sent information.
How Do I Find Where To Submit My Articles?
When you visit a blog carnival site, simply cruise the site looking for carnivals that cover your topic. There will be more than one. So I like to make my decisions based on how often the blog carnival is published, the description of the carnival by the editor, and of course subscriber count.
At most carnivals, you will be able to view past issues, read the editor’s submission guidelines and instructions on how to submit to their carnival. Of course if you don’t think that anyone has created a blog carnival that covers your niche well — you can create one of your own. Remember that this is all free and piggybacking off of the traffic of an established blog carnival site is a great idea as long as you can commit to the responsibilities of being a good blog carnival editor.
Ready to start submitting articles? Here’s my Favorite Blog Carnival: http://blogcarnival.com/
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If you are a solopreneur looking to build your first website or update your old website, many business owners are using blogs as their only website for their businesses — especially because of the versatility of wordpress.
One of the problems with using only a blog interface is that some templates were not versatile enough to blog, and sell products, etc. Another is that some were just not pretty at all! OR they were very cluttered or basic blog layouts.
Well – a while ago I was looking for a new wordpress theme for another site I own and ran across developer Brian Gardner over at iThemes.
There are a lot of themes to choose from that will work really great for a solopreneur looking to establish a professional yet versatile web presence. Template themes include: essence series, icompany theme, business card series, revolution series, deep order series, ecommerce theme, corporate series, web 2.0 series, industrial series, and the brochure series. My favorite is revolution:)
Now while these themes do cost a few bucks – I think they are actually worth the investment. Because let’s be honest – not everyone is going to buy them! So you’ll have a unique presence in your market. Which definitely matters in this ever-crowding web world we live in.
There’s a cool new site in Beta called Quassia where you can get a lot of backlinks to your site – which you probably already know are like pagerank gold! The more one-way backlinks you get to your site – the higher rank and more importance the search engines place on your website and it’s content.
Over at this site, you provide content or what they call “intelligence” on any topic you choose – preferably not related to your site – and you will get a backlink to your site for adding that content.
Best of all it’s totally free. And it’s probably a good idea to sign up now while it’s in Beta and get the benefit of getting in on it early. Learn more about it here.