Big Foot Web Marketing

Rudd Hein, of Search Engine People posts excellent and well written article of the need for bloggers to participate in the “community”. In his article, It’s The Participation Stupid He notes that if you’re not participating, you willingly give up mindshare and fail to influence. That blogging in world by yourself won’t get you very far. You need to “talk” about others in your field, link to them, comment on them.

You have to participate.

Absolutely dead on. Relationships are key to successful blogging. Not just with your readers- but other in your niche. Write about what others are doing in your field; what they are saying in their blogs? Comment on it on both your blog and theirs. Ask them questions- stir things up a bit.

Join various social medias to create contacts and meet other like minded people and BLOG about it.

Tags: Blogs and Blogging, Social Media by Lisa Stewart
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Argus will not be available to all its users until at least January.

PayperPost aka IZEA is allowing a select group of users access to their new metrics calculator, presently called “ARGUS” .
Currently most users have to wait until January to have access to the platform. If you were at PostieCon or on beta testing board you can have access. Currently PPP opportunities are available based on Google page rank and Alexa traffic rank.

Many “Posties” saw their page rank take a huge drop over the last month and severely limit their ability to earn money through PayPerPost. The drop has been attributed to selling paid links . Google has openly said that it views bloggers taking PPP opportunities as selling page rank and devalued sites.

Add Your Name To Petition for Early Access to PayperPost Access

Petition will be submitted to PayPerPost.

Please provide your PayPerPost BLOGGER username and if you like your blogs and/or your current page rank /page rank before penalties.

Use comments section. I will also create page with user names and nofollow links.

Tags: Blogs and Blogging by Lisa Stewart
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After experiencing heavy drops in PR many sites and blogs are adding nofollow tags to their paid links. You are only required by Google to add nofollow tags to PAID links, not links in your blogroll or links in your posts that have not been paid for. If you do something like nofollow tags to your whole site then that causes other problems- limit yourslef to adding nofollow tag sto just your paid outbound links..

Add NOFOLLOW Tags: How Do You Make A Link nofollow ?

This is how a link looks in straightforwards HTML or if you are use link function with Wordpress when writing an new post or page:

Visit This Guys Site

You add “rel=nofollow” WITHIN the anchor tag…. doesn’t matter where you put it.

After adding nofollow attribute to your link looks like this:

Visit This Guys Site

is same as this:

Visit This Guys Site

Tags: Blogs and Blogging, Google by Lisa Stewart
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*sigh* There is no avoiding the large elephant in the room. How can I give advice and claim to be “an expert” when I have a four year old site, no page rank and next to no backlinks?
Well the short story is …. it is the cobbler’s children that go without shoes!

This is the Long Version.. [Read more →]

Tags: Blog Start Up, Blogs and Blogging by Lisa Stewart
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