photo credit: freezelight We’ve all been there at least once. You open your blog to check for comments and find a handful fo spam sitting staring back at you. Or maybe you’ve checked your spam folder in case any real comments were misfiled and become shocked at the jumble of links and keywords staring back at you. And then there’s what I call grey-spam. It’s kind of like spam, but not exactly. A friend of mine has a small personal blog where she mostly writes about family life. It’s tiny, but...

photo credit: victoriapeckham The next article in this series will look at how to drive traffic to your blog or mini site – the element of online marketing that most people get stuck at. If you haven’t already, go back and read Part 1 and Part 2 Here we’ll look at the primary ways of driving quality traffic to your niche site. Keep in mind that the phrase QUALITY traffic is important – we only the want the visitors who might buy our products and make us money – we don’t want freebie seekers...

photo credit: mugley You can have a great blog on the internet, a wonderful blog, one that shares within its posts the secrets to infinite happiness and joy. And none of that will mean a thing if no one knows it is there. That, my friends, is where Search Engine Optimization (SEO) comes in. If you want people to be able to find your blog, it is important is that you have good SEO. Whenever you put one or more words into a search bar to look for something, the SEO of a website is what helps bring up those websites. And the...