Archive for the ‘Commanding Influence’ Category
It Doesn’t Matter Who’s Ignoring You
Posted on April 15, 2010 - by Fit Jerk24 Vibrant Responses
We humans suffer from a really big fault… we want what we can’t have. And it could be anything; the stunning hottie at the bar who won’t give you an ounce of chance, the attention of the mega successful celebrity who walks by you, not even acknowledging your existence as…
How to be the “Emily Post” of Blog Hosts!
Posted on April 10, 2010 - by Jennifer Brown Banks25 Vibrant Responses
Good writing is subjective.
Good blog hosting isn’t.
In fact, there are few grey areas concerning the latter.
If you want guest bloggers to gather at your “virtual doorstep,” it’s important that you follow a certain “netiquette.”
Basically, as a good blog host, you’ll want their experience to be quick,…
An Untraditional Look at Blog Commenting
Posted on April 8, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot158 Vibrant Responses
Why do you leave comments on a blog post? Why should you leave comments?
Do you leave them simply because you owe the author a debt of gratitude for putting together their content and sharing it with you? Some would promote this reason…but not I. In…
7 Ways to Nurture Your Blog’s Community
Posted on April 7, 2010 - by Kiesha Easley49 Vibrant Responses
If I feel welcomed when I visit a blog, it’s almost certain that I’m going to return. If I feel as if I’m in the midst of a real person, then I find myself wanting to hang around and getting to know the blogger and the community. A blog’s community…
The Most Influential Female Voices Online
Posted on March 31, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot39 Vibrant Responses
Influence is the measure of a person’s ability to impact other people. When I’m looking for the people with the most influence, I want to know who is impacting the most people. Someone with 100 people following them is not impacting as many people as someone with 100,000.…
40 Ways to Build An Army of Inbound Links
Posted on March 29, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot45 Vibrant Responses
Imagine yourself having an entire army of inbound links marching into battle every day fighting to pump up your PageRank and to drive new visitors to your site. Visualize notable bloggers and webmasters citing your work…
Build A Powerful Web of Internal Links
Posted on March 27, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot38 Vibrant Responses
As bloggers, we want to attract as many visitors to our website as possible and search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing are a great way to do that. Search engines can be a powerful tool in the hands of a wise blogger.
For the past several days, we’ve been…
Nofollow: Is it Really the Spawn of Satan?
Posted on March 26, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot30 Vibrant Responses
Nofollow vs. Dofollow: The Verdict is In
Posted on March 25, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot34 Vibrant Responses
Both today and tomorrow I’m going to be challenging you to look at the dofollow/nofollow debate from a new, fresh perspective. We’ve been programmed to believe that providing our readers with dofollow links is both rewarding to them and that it’s a great way to stick it to…
Are You Crying About Others’ Success?
Posted on March 23, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot43 Vibrant Responses
I recently read an article that really got me thinking about how often I hear people grumbling and murmuring about the success or the luck of others who are making it big.
This article is a public response to Keith Bloemendaal’s article entitled Are You Being A Cry Baby?…
