Articles for October 2008

bbPress: The Lean Green Killer Forum Software

Recently I’ve added a trekking forum on top of my existing trekking blog, to let the readers of my blog interact and communicate and interact with each other better…and you might have guessed, being such a WordPress fanatic, the platform I chose for my forum was bbPress, from the same Automattic team. I really related to [...]

CSS Styles that Work with Email

I’ve been working on my email templates for the past few days, and even after a few hours of trial and error, I wasn’t able to get my newsletter to look the same in all major email clients - Ms Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Live Mail. Frustrated, but remembering the principle of “Ready, Fire, Aim”, [...]

Who should be doing SEO?

Having been around the online marketing industry for 2 years now, I realized that the people who came and attended the SEO courses, Web Design courses or Internet marketing courses are really a very broad spectrum of people. They range from one-man-show business owners, to web designers within their own company, to marketing executives. But really, who [...]

Blog Marketing 101 - Start a Blog!

Of late, I’ve been paying particular attention, and digging out my old emails from all the “guru” marketers - and analysing their recommendations with regard to marketing a business online. Apart from slight the very slight variations to the four-step Internet marketing process, I have noticed one very common recommendation. .. and that is… START A BLOG! Heh! [...]

Pre-scheduling Posts for Busy Bloggers

If you are like me, holding a full time job and spending most of my waking hours out and away from a home computer, you might find that it might not be easy for you to maintain a blog - or rather, at least one that has consistent updates. Then pre-scheduling your posts might be the [...]

5 surefire ways to market your blog… and its all free!

I’d like to return to basics again, and today I’ll focus on the 5 simple ways you can use to market your blog. Write and submit articles Article marketing is one sure way you can get traffic to your blog. All you have to do is to write, and submit your article to article directories like [...]