Is blog marketing enough?

One of the very common questions that I get when I tell people that I do training in blog marketing, is that - “You mean you don’t need a website? Just a blog will do?” Well, unfortunately, blogging and blog marketing is more often than not only part of a marketing strategy. Any business [...]

Social Media Abuse

Muhammad Saleem shared his views on Two Ways to Market Yourself on MyBlogLog today at Pronet Advertising. In his post, he shared: Look at the average blog community member’s avatar and more often than not you will just see the person in the photograph. If you are going to use your photograph as your avatar, keep one [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]