Articles for January 2007
Bookmark Explosion for 21 January 2007
Some links to share for the week:
When you start to develop your products or services, consider these 7 As of Marketing by Walter
WebproNews is saying that search marketing is getting tougher. Top 10 is not enough. You need to be Top 5!
Why use blogs instead of websites? Lee Odden shares some SEO [...]
The big fuss about comment moderation
One of the sins brought up in the recent SiteProNews article on Top 10 Sins of Blog Usability By Linda Bustos, is not moderating comments.
Linda says:
Allowing anyone and everyone to post whatever they want in your comments section is asking for spam. Not only is this annoying to your readers, but it really takes down [...]
The 5 ‘H’s of a good blogger
Over the past few days, I was really wondering - is blogging really for EVERYBODY? I mean, that is what most books would put it - “Instant Publishing for Everybody“. Is it really true? I don’t think so. Think… Would you pull anyone from the street and tell them “Hey, would [...]
If you had 10 minutes of Internet access left
Last Friday, I didn’t leave a message before I left for Malaysia to facilitate the seminar, because I was expecting that I would have time and Internet access over the weekend to continue to update my blog. However what happened was that the Wi-Fi access was not very good, and I had little time.
In [...]
The SEO practitioner’s key to optimizing Blogger templates
Yesterday, I spent some time out and I met up with my friend, coach and mentor - Patrick, so we could discuss on the things that I have done up for his blog. I’m currently working with him to help him optimize his blog about Designing Your Life and Making Good Decisions.
Here was his [...]
Bookmarks Explosion for 15 January 2007
I was out of town for the past two days, and the Internet access was not too good. Although I could log in and reply to comments, and I had this post composed over the weekend (this was supposed to be up on Saturday), I was unable to post it!
Anyway, here are [...]
Make an Impact in Your Presentations
I realise that bloggers are do very well in establishing credibility and authority in the field that you blog in. When your blog starts to move up in the popularity scale, you will realise that not only will you get offers from people for interviews, invited as guest bloggers, but also asked to share [...]
3 reasons why 30 blog visitors are better than 300 website visitors
It has been going around that “blog visitors don’t click on ads”; blog visitors come for information, so they read your post (sometimes they just subscribe to your feeds!) and then off they go. I personally think this is true… to an extent. It all depends on what area you are blogging about. [...]
10 Practical Ways to Use a Blog
I’ve made a couple of posts earlier in this blog, emphasising that the term “blogging” is perceived in very different ways by different people. The blogging platform is just a tool. How you use a tool depends on how creative you can be! Today I share 10 very practical ways in which [...]
Spam 3.0: Are you using Digg to game me?
Just moments ago, I received a comment on my previous post. Wanting to upkeep my “SOB-ness” and hoping to make another friend from this blog, I hurried to see what the comment was about.
I was elated because it was from someone whom I’ve never seen commenting on my blog before. I thought my [...]
Tan Kian Ann is blog marketing coach based in Singapore. He is passionate in helping individuals and small businesses reach out to the world using blogs. 

