Nov 30, 2009
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Guest Blogger
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This is a guest post by Matt “Matticus” Low, who runs one of the most successful blogs about massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft, World of Matticus. Matt also runs several other websites around the same subject, including forum and other blogs.
As Matt also writes for WoW.com (a top 500 blog in the world, the new WoW Insider), he’s the right man to explain how to build a warcraft blog by telling his story, how he started blogging and how he built a super popular World of Warcraft blog from scratch. Don’t let the gaming topic fool you even if you’re not even remotely interested in games or WoW, as there’s a whole lot to learn for all of us from Matt’s advice.
This amazing post emerged when Matt announced his limited Want a Free Guest Post? -offer and I jumped on the opportunity. As my own blogging more and less started by blogging about World of Warcraft, I was intrigued on how he built a successful WoW blog, so I asked if he could share how he ended up building a blog around WoW and how it all has turned out for him…
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Nov 26, 2009
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Guest Blogger
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This is a guest post by Nicholas Cardot. If you are interested in writing a guest post to Zemalf.com, go ahead and contact me.
So you want to start a blog? That’s great. You should. They’re fun. They’re rewarding. They can be profitable and they’re a great way to express your passions to the world. So there you go. You’re off to start a blog.
Not so fast. Before you jump in and start publishing article after amazing article on a brand new blog, let me give you some sagely advice to help you really get started on the right foot. If you want more than just your mom to read your articles then you want to take these tips and put them into practice before you start your blog.
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Oct 23, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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As I wrote in the previous post, blog commenting is very effective tactic to build your personal brand, get some back links and drive traffic back to your blog while at it.
Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2009 study showed, bloggers use approximately 3 hours a week commenting on blogs, which is quite substantial. As you are blog commenting “anyway”, it is worth it to make the most out of those 3 hours, right? Or if you like, use the strategies to spend less time on commenting and achieve the same or better results.
With this article, you’ll be able to take your blog commenting to the next level and make the most out of your blog comments. I’ll show you a blog commenting strategy, techniques you can use and a couple of services you can utilize to leverage your blog comments even further.
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Sep 03, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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The greatest Jedi Master of all time Yoda is, thus a kick-ass blogger Yoda would be.
Worry you not, the whole post in Yodish is not. But the Jedi Master Guide to Blogging, it still is.
Read this, and learn to blog like Yoda, you will.
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Aug 11, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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Getting indexed by Google doesn’t guarantee anything for your website, but if you’ve done your homework and found great keywords the search engine traffic will come eventually, and here’s a guide to get your site indexed by Google fast – really fast.
This is the process I have used whenever I have started a new WordPress blog. My blogs have been indexed in less than 6 hours using this process, sometimes as fast as 2 hours.
And we’re talking a brand new blog here, that’s get indexed by Google in 2-6 hours from the moment I’ve registered the new domain!
There are no magic tricks, no “black hat” tactics – just utilizing free services anyone can use, setting up the website in a way that both the readers and search engines find what they need and the power of WordPress as a platform for perfectly search engine optimized website.. Click to read
Jul 16, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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No, I am not talking about the design.. Nor am I talking about the content that people are posting.
I’m talking about all the crap people keep adding to their blogs sidebars, headers and footers. Just take a look at this blog right now, horrible!
Are you struggling with the fact that your blogs readers are not finding what they are looking for? Or do the have hard time navigating through the web site you are visiting. Is it hard for you to see what’s on the page because of the flashing banners that are all over the place?
Or are you constantly bugged by pop-ups on a web page? Is it because of design? No. OK, sometimes the designer forgot to take her medicine and put everything that she knew into one website. And adding everything is not good. The power is in limiting the options user has to take.
But most of the time the designer does a great job in creating perfect, clean design and everything is good for a day or a week. Then those who control what actually goes to the blog mess it up. The sidebar gets the 11th widget or 5th animated banner is added to the header. Soon, even the admins can’t look at the front page, but they still keep adding more things to it, and they never get around cleaning it up..
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Advanced Blog Commenting Tricks
As I wrote in the previous post, blog commenting is very effective tactic to build your personal brand, get some back links and drive traffic back to your blog while at it.
Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2009 study showed, bloggers use approximately 3 hours a week commenting on blogs, which is quite substantial. As you are blog commenting “anyway”, it is worth it to make the most out of those 3 hours, right? Or if you like, use the strategies to spend less time on commenting and achieve the same or better results.
With this article, you’ll be able to take your blog commenting to the next level and make the most out of your blog comments. I’ll show you a blog commenting strategy, techniques you can use and a couple of services you can utilize to leverage your blog comments even further.
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