http://bloggingonblogging.com Blogging,SEO and how I scratch a living on the internet. Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:26:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you want to join the podcasting wave but either don't like recording your own voice, or simply don't have the time, Odiogo now has a Wordpress plugin that generates a podcast from your RSS feed. The voice quality is still a bit robotic but better than I was expecting. ... http://bloggingonblogging.com/2008/01/20/odiogo/ I'm currently experimenting with a couple of SEO plugins for Wordpress. The first is All in One SEO Pack from Uberdose. Click for full size image. This nifty addition adds meta tags to each post. I know all the SEO experts will tell you that meta tags are long ... http://bloggingonblogging.com/2008/01/16/seo-plugins-for-wordpress/ According to this report in the Wall Street Journal it's pretty easy for a blogger to pull in the big bucks. It does show that just about any niche can earn you a decent living. No need to build those mesitholemiamathoma (or however you spell it) blogs after ... http://bloggingonblogging.com/2008/01/16/are-you-making-18k-a-month-from-your-blog/ Maybe, according to these posts. I'm not convinced Google is making us dumber, but it's certainly making us less patient. Remember going to the library to look up something? Not anymore. Just Google it. If their spam algorithms are working this month, the information is right there. ... http://bloggingonblogging.com/2008/01/15/are-you-getting-dumber/ The social marketing directory is a master resource list with three categories of social (web 2.0) sites that you can use to create your very own streams of highly targeted traffic/subscribers/sales for your websites in 2008 and beyond! This resource guide contains: Over 100 Social Networking Sites (i.e. MySpace, Squidoo, etc..) Over 150 ... http://bloggingonblogging.com/2008/01/15/the-social-marketing-directory/ As you know, I'm fairly scathing about all the over-hyped IM eBooks out there. Most of them are very basic newbie guides telling you how to set up an Adwords account and send the traffic to Clickbank. In practice, this is a good way to get-poor quick rather than get-rich ... http://bloggingonblogging.com/2007/02/07/guilty-as-charged/ I'm on the point of giving up with MyBlogLog. Their site is slow and often unreachable. There are many times during the day that their widget causes this blog to load slowly. The spammers have arrived in bulk, I guess they were frightened away from MySpace marketing� by the recent lawsuits. ... http://bloggingonblogging.com/2007/02/02/mybloglog-woes/ If you decide to ignore my advice and submit your articles to multiple directories, there's a nice list of directories ranked by Alexa traffic at SEO Researcher. The last article I posted at EzineArticles received about 20 visitors directly from their site within 24 hours, so it may be worth submitting ... http://bloggingonblogging.com/2007/02/02/article-directories/ It was frustrating dealing with all the downtime in Overture Inventory while I was doing keyword research for the case study blogs. More often than not it timed out and I had to start over. Hence I was pleased to see that Wordtracker, which I'm too tight to buy for ... http://bloggingonblogging.com/2007/02/01/free-wordtracker/ I was looking through the usual 100+ posts on the blogs I read this morning with Google Reader when I suddenly realized what I was doing.   I was skimming.   Jumping from paragraph to paragraph.   Reading the first line (or just the first few words) and jumping down to the next paragraph.   I know you ... http://bloggingonblogging.com/2007/02/01/skimming-and-reading/