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New Wordpress Plugin, Get Free Stock Photographs for your Blog

Anna — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:02:53 +0000

Pictures and images give more life to your blog posts, are more professional, and draw more attention from readers and browsers. But have you ever been frustrated, wanting to use more images to illustrate your posts, but not wanting to spend the money on buying stock photos?

This post was written by Anna Williams, on Building from Nothing. To read the full original post, please visit New Wordpress Plugin, Get Free Stock Photographs for your Blog.

FTC’s New Rules for Marketers – Do You Know What to Do?

Anna — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:00:27 +0000

If you sell products through your blog or website, whether as an affiliate or whether these are your own products, it’s important that you understand the FTC's new rules so that you can be in compliance with them - or as much in compliance as is humanly possible.

This post was written by Anna Williams, on Building from Nothing. To read the full original post, please visit FTC’s New Rules for Marketers – Do You Know What to Do?.

How to Handle RSS Scrapers Who Copy or Steal Your Content

Anna — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:28:00 +0000

Have you ever wondered what to do when people use your RSS feed to scrape (automatically copy) your blog content directly onto their site? How do you ensure that they don’t rank higher in the search engines for that article than you do?

This post was written by Anna Williams, on Building from Nothing. To read the full original post, please visit How to Handle RSS Scrapers Who Copy or Steal Your Content.

The Social Media Revolution

Anna — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:10:15 +0000

The introduction of online social media might be one of the most revolutionary changes to hit the planet since the invention of bread. This video shows why.

This post was written by Anna Williams, on Building from Nothing. To read the full original post, please visit The Social Media Revolution.

Have You Tried Chitika?

Anna — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:30:25 +0000

Chitika is a great way to add monetization to an existing blog, even if it is already monetized with another program. You can add Chitika ads to your site without worrying crowding too many adds around your content (keep reading to see why I say this).

This post was written by Anna Williams, on Building from Nothing. To read the full original post, please visit Have You Tried Chitika?.

Do Your RSS Feeds Link to Your Site or do they Link Somewhere Else?

Anna — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:44:01 +0000

It doesn’t hurt to get credit where credit is due. You could be losing some valid backlinks, if you use a service such as Feedburner to manage your RSS feeds. But that’s easy to fix.

This post was written by Anna Williams, on Building from Nothing. To read the full original post, please visit Do Your RSS Feeds Link to Your Site or do they Link Somewhere Else?.

Do You Know Who You’re Linking to?

Anna — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:20:30 +0000

You might not be fully and 100% aware of everyone you are linking to. You could even be linking to a bad-neighborhood site without realizing it. There are a few ways this can happen.

This post was written by Anna Williams, on Building from Nothing. To read the full original post, please visit Do You Know Who You’re Linking to?.

Getting Feedback from your Website Visitors through Google Analytics

Anna — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:42:31 +0000

Even if you're not able to survey every one of your website visitors to ask them what they think of your site and how they reacted to the different pages, there is still a substantial amount of feedback you can obtain indirectly, through Google Analytics.

This post was written by Anna Williams, on Building from Nothing. To read the full original post, please visit Getting Feedback from your Website Visitors through Google Analytics.

Feedburner Allowing Custom Subject Lines for Email Subscriptions

Anna — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:40:35 +0000

If you use Feedburner to manage your RSS Feeds, and to allow people to receive email updates whenever you post on your blog, you might have noticed that the subject line of subscription emails doesn’t tell your readers much about the content of your latest post.

This post was written by Anna Williams, on Building from Nothing. To read the full original post, please visit Feedburner Allowing Custom Subject Lines for Email Subscriptions.

Get Thee Hence, Comment Spam Robot!

Anna — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:19:21 +0000

Have you ever logged onto your email to find 20 Wordpress comment moderation emails with comments that say exactly the same thing across all of your blogs? A common denominator of these comments is that they are generic and could be left on any post, regardless of the content of the post. These comments are obviously not made by real people visiting your blog, they are made by spam robots.

This post was written by Anna Williams, on Building from Nothing. To read the full original post, please visit Get Thee Hence, Comment Spam Robot!.