Archive for the ‘Commanding Influence’ Category
Your Guide to Comments That Get Noticed
Posted on January 20, 2010 - by Henri Junttila46 Vibrant Responses
When your blog is new, no one wants to hang out with you, but this can be turned around. You too can become the popular kid by knowing how to leave awesome comments that get noticed. If you have your own blog, and you get comments, you know what you like to see and what…
7 Tips to Sharing Highly Effective Comments
Posted on January 15, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot45 Vibrant Responses
Comments are the life blood of a successful blog. They are the evidence of a thriving, robust online community.
Comments are great for you and your website, but there are a lot of principles that many bloggers fail to understand when sharing comments on other sites. If you forget about these concepts then…
Maximizing the SEO Quality of Your Links
Posted on January 11, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot55 Vibrant Responses
Links make the internet go around. They’re the roadways that guide us to new sites, to new resources, and to new opportunities to engage, interact and learn.
But we’re not the only ones who draw guidance from the many links scattered around the net. Search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing rely…
Comments with Real Names Build Credibility
Posted on January 7, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot85 Vibrant Responses
One of my personal blogging pet peeves is the act of people leaving comments but refusing to put any semblance of a real name in the name field.
By replacing your name with a phrase like how to make money online, it tells blog authors that you are a spammer even if you’re not. Your…
Time Management #1: Traffic vs. Influence
Posted on January 4, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot45 Vibrant Responses
I’m convinced that the number one issue bloggers seem to be facing today is the simple challenge of driving traffic to their websites.
We’re driven to believe that more traffic equals more comments. More traffic equates to more money. More traffic translates to more everything. This philosophy is driven into our heads and…
How to Promote Your Site on StumbleUpon
Posted on December 30, 2009 - by Robert Benjamin26 Vibrant Responses
Stumbleupon: You’ve heard of it before, right? It’s that social network that allows users to quickly find websites that they’ll like. But is that all it is? Most certainly not. To us bloggers, StumbleUpon is one of the best promotion techniques available. Here’s why:
It’s continuous. Unlike Digg or Delicious, StumbleUpon can send a steady…
Group Discussion: Is PageRank Important?
Posted on December 24, 2009 - by Nicholas Cardot34 Vibrant Responses
In yesterday’s post, What Do We Really Know About PageRank, I presented you with the basic concepts of Google PageRank. I then sat back as I always do and watched as the comments came in. After all, the conversation under the posts often contains as much information as the material in the post.
Yet…
What Do We Really Know About PageRank?
Posted on December 23, 2009 - by Nicholas Cardot30 Vibrant Responses
Today’s post is written in response to a recent email that I received from a reader asking how they might improve their Google PageRank.
In this question, it’s apparent to me that they are wondering some of the same things that I wondered when I was starting out and it’s probably some of…
The Human Side of the Internet
Posted on December 22, 2009 - by Nicholas Cardot15 Vibrant Responses
Today’s modern internet is rapidly evolving. A few short years into it’s history when it was just sprouting the internet was commonly known as the information superhighway. And although that phrase still applies, we now tend hear that term increasingly less often. But it’s not just that term that’s disappearing. It’s the powerful concept that…
4 Indispensable Elements of Link Exchanges
Posted on December 14, 2009 - by Nicholas Cardot37 Vibrant Responses
As we continue our efforts in creating exciting, dynamic sites, we as webmasters and bloggers find ourselves looking for ways to enhance our sites and grow our visitor base. In other words, we want to make our sites better and get more people to view our websites.
The problem with not having many readers or…
