msgbartop
Web hosting and domain registration
msgbarbottom

05 Mar 10 Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 11

This is the last post of the series, and in this part I will talk about how you can sound all knowledgeable to your readers by being on top of the news and by writing resource posts plus one more.

Set Alert in place

Set Google Alert, Twist (for twitter), and Blogscape (for blogs) for the keywords you are targeting, and be on top of the updates in your niche. You can then capitalize on the recent happenings and tell your readers how they can profit from it. By being top of the news, you will sound knowledgeable and will be regarded as an expert in your niche.

Write a resource post

A resource post is a must-have for any blog. It gives your users a reason to bookmark your page. A well-written resource post has an ability to pull visitors again and again to your blog. It is also very much digg-friendly. You need to have as many resource posts as you can think of.

Write quality guest posts

Guest posts are new black for blogging. Write quality guest posts, and while writing them you goal should not only be to get published on the blog of your choice, but also to lure the readers to your own blog. This could only happen if you write quality guest posts.

With this our 11-post long discussion on making your blog stand out from the crowd comes to an end. And I hope, you enjoyed the series, and worked on the bite-size tips shared in this post. You may like to bookmark this post, as I am providing links to all the posts that I wrote in the series. Let me know how you feel about this series, and what changes you would like to see in future series.

Index

  1. Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 1
  2. Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 2
  3. Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 3
  4. Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 4
  5. Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 5
  6. Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 6
  7. Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 7
  8. Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 8
  9. Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 9
  10. Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 10
  11. Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 11
http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/digg_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/reddit_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/dzone_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/stumbleupon_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/delicious_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/blinklist_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/blogmarks_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/furl_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/newsvine_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/technorati_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/magnolia_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/google_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/myspace_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/facebook_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/yahoobuzz_48.png

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

17 Jan 10 How to Purchase a Good Domain Name

If you talk to any old-school domain expert, he will tell you the obvious. He will talk about the inherent value of one-word domains, and will tell you how amazing they are. They will also tell you that the next best thing in domain industry is two-word domain names.

Well, they are not wrong because they are professing the wrong theory, but they are wrong because they are giving you outdated information. In 2010 they are talking as if it is 1997 when good quality one-word information. This blabbering about the value of one or two word domain name is not of much use to most domain entrepreneur as almost all the good domain names are taken.

In our time, three-word domain names and domain names with alternate extensions are the best bet. If I am asked which one will be better: three-word domain names with .com extension or two-word domain name with .info extension? My reply will always be in favor of the former as .info is not the extension much surfed by users, if it had been .net or .org than story would have been different.

4 Steps to buying a good domain name

If you are not launching a ground-breaking product like twitter, or Flickr then you should stick to the domain names made up of the keywords searched by people in your industry. Follow the following steps:

Step 1: Search for various one, two, and three-word keywords searched mostly in your industry. Make a list of it in notepad. Also include related LSI keywords.

Step 2: In notepad make another list containing descriptive and superlative adjectives. Adjectives like top, best, etc., would go in this list. This list should only contain three to four characters adjectives. You can use “five characters” adjective as well, but do not make it longer than this.

Step 3: Use domain name analyzing and building software to do the permutation using both the list. There are couples of free software available to help you out.

Step 4: Check domain names for availability using the same software and register the ones that are available and which meets your need.

This is how we need to walk down the domaining path in 2010. Old rules, and outdated “Gyan” will not work in 2010 and beyond.

http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/digg_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/reddit_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/dzone_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/stumbleupon_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/delicious_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/blinklist_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/blogmarks_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/furl_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/newsvine_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/technorati_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/magnolia_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/google_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/myspace_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/facebook_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/yahoobuzz_48.png

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

10 Jan 10 3 WordPress Plugins That Will Help You Connect With Your Visitors

Blogging is fun not only because it gives you an opportunity to express yourself freely, but also because it helps you connect with the fellow users. In this article, I will tell you about 3 plug-ins that will not only allow you connect with like-minded people on the Internet but will also help promote your WordPress blog.

Sociable

No matter which social networking site your visitor use to broadcast the article he or she finds interesting, Sociable is going to help him. This is the best social media plugin for WordPress blogs. It has in-built support for 99 social bookmarking sites, and it is highly customizable. You can add, remove, and arrange various social networking buttons, in other words, you can control where which button will appear in the list that will typically appear at the bottom of every post once this plug-in is installed.

Tweet This

Twitter is amazing, and we all know that. We also know that no discussion on social media will be complete without talking about Twitter, and no discussion on social media plugin is complete if Tweet This is not mentioned.

Tweet This is the best twitter plugin for your WordPress that allows you to tweet your new posts. It can also be configured to tweet scheduled posts. To shorten the URL of the post, this plugin uses your favorite URL shorting service, which you can customize using your personal API for tracking. The new version of plugin also has support for Plurk, Delicious, Digg, Yahoo Buzz, Ping.fm, Reddit, Facebook, MySpace, and StumbleUpon.

The WordPress Bar

What happens when a visitor clicks on the external link on your blog? He or she breaks all the connections and goes away to another website, but an external link is important, so this is kind of inevitable, isn’t it?

Well, there is a way out, and The WordPress Bar shows you that. Have you seen a Digg bar? The WordPress Bar functions similarly like a digg bar. A visitor remains connected to your blog through The WordPress Bar, even when he or she clicks on an external link. The bar performs many more functions. You need to check this out to know exactly what all it does.

http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/digg_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/reddit_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/dzone_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/stumbleupon_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/delicious_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/blinklist_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/blogmarks_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/furl_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/newsvine_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/technorati_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/magnolia_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/google_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/myspace_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/facebook_48.png http://blog.gossimer.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/yahoobuzz_48.png

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,