Mar | 30 | 2010

Kindle for Blogs

Posted by Jimmy as Blogging Tools, Monetization, Syndication Kindle, the popular e-book reader from Amazon.com, can now be used to read blogs as well. Amazon has announced that the Kindle Publishing for blogs, which means that we now have an additional platform for our blogs. According to Amazon.com Kindle blogs have the following features: Kindle Blogs are auto-delivered wirelessly to the Kindle and updated throughout the day. They are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so they can be read even when you're not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle contain full text content and most images. Bloggers who wish to publish their ...
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Nov | 24 | 2009

Guest Blog Your Way to More Readers and Links

Posted by Jimmy as Community Building, Syndication, Tips I have done a few posts on guest blogging. Other bloggers here in blog-tutorials like Jaren and Guru have also posted about the same topic. However, the usual focus is on the benefits of having a guest blogger, with the most obvious being helping you out when you’re in a rut or need to take a vacation from your blog for some other reason. What I haven’t expounded on though is the benefits of blogging on other blogs. The most obvious advantage is of course added exposure. You get the benefit of being read by the other blogs’ regular readers without ...
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Sep | 29 | 2009

Microblogging or Good Old Traditional Blogs

Posted by Jimmy as Blogging Tools, Syndication The rise of Twitter, the most popular microblogging site nowadays, has of course helped microblogging itself come a long way - from mere short posts to get in touch businesses and organizations has found ways and is continuing to find ways to make use of and benefit from microblogging. But what is microblogging and how does it differ from good old traditional blogging? Wikipedia defines microblogging as “a form of multimedia blogging that allows users to send BRIEF text updates or micromedia such as photos or audio clips and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a ...
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Sep | 21 | 2009

Shifting from Full to Partial Feeds: A Huge Mistake

Posted by Jimmy as Syndication, Tips I have nothing against partial feeds. In fact, I personally recommend partial feeds in some cases such as blogs that post very frequently (more than once a day every single day). Partial feeds are useful in cases like these since subscribers will likely not really be interested in reading every single post and will find it easier to scan partial feeds and just click on the posts they are interested in actually reading. When it comes to transitioning from full to partial feeds though I have to say that in most cases this would be a huge mistake, unless your ...
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May | 13 | 2008

Tags for Traffic

Posted by Guru as Promotion, Syndication, Tips Want to increase traffic to your blog? I suggest you start tagging your entries. So what are tags exactly? In the blogging sense tags are simply word(s) you use to help classify/categorize your blog entry. For example since this post is about blogs promotion I can tag this as "blog promotion." Since I'll also mention a Technorati tags later I can also tag this as "Technorati." Since in the end this is all a blogging tip I can also include the tag "blog tips." So how can tags increase traffic to your blog? Tags can help increase your blog traffic by ...
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Mar | 17 | 2008

The Wonders of Multiply

Posted by BloggurlNeedzRehab as Blog Tutorial, Syndication, Writing I have made quite a few discoveries since my last appearance on the blogosphere, and one of them is the beauty of blogging on Multiply.com. To the uninitiated, Multiply.com is a social networking blog community that offers much more than an avenue for bloggers to converge and converse, while also offering file hosting services, all for free!
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