All Entries in the "Blogging" Category
Biz Blog Resources
Whether you have an online business, or a business and also a blog, I’ve got a couple of great resources that I want to share with you. One of them I found on Facebook, and it’s called Build a Little Biz. They have a blog site and a great Facebook page. They offer lots of [...]
Blogging for Business in Creative Times
The new issue of Creative Times is now available, and as always, our featured business column is in that eZine. This month’s article is on blogging for business, and the features you should have on your blog if you do blog for business. To download the latest edition of Creative Times, just click on the [...]
Comment Luv
There’s a neat plugin for all you self-hosted WordPress users out there that is great to use for your blog comments. It’s called Comment Luv. It lets your blog commenters link back not just to their main blog URL, but to their latest blog post or article. Their blog feed is fetched from their site [...]
Interactive Website Calendars
Are you looking for an interactive calendar to use on your business website or blog? If so I’ve found a couple of sites that may have what you need. Interactive calendars can be a great marketing tool, and a great way to keep your customers informed and up-to-date about your business and/or website. Here are [...]
Fun Clock Widgets
Let’s face it, cluttering up your business blog or website with too many widgets isn’t really a good thing. But if you happen to be looking for a clock widget, you might as well have a fun and creative one. And I found a site that offers just that. ClockWidgets.net I’ve never seen so many [...]
Google Friend Connect
If you blog for business (or otherwise), there is a great way to connect with your blog’s readers by adding the Google Friend Connect gadget to your blog. It’s a tool that enables your followers to keep up with your blog, and to connect with the blogs and websites of all your other followers. You [...]
Selling From Your Blog
There are a lot of people selling from their blogs these days, either as an additional way to generate sales, or as a means to replace web hosting that they may no longer be able to afford in our struggling economy. If you are interested in selling from your blog, please check out my article [...]
Add Meta Tags to Your Blogger Blog
A lot of people are blogging these days for business. They might be using their blog as a means of establishing a web presence, and it’s a great free way to do that. Or they may be using their blog as a marketing tool, advertising sales, specials, new products and services and the like. Many [...]
Etsy Tools and Favicons
I’ve just posted two new pages to Online Business Junction. One page has resources for a variety of Etsy Tools. The other is a page about Favicons, providing resources for online favicon generators, along with instructions on how to add a favicon to your website, and to your Blogger blog. Check them out when you [...]
Use Your Blog as Your Newsletter
Many people with an online business also maintain mailing lists to send out newsletters. Frequently, people also pay to have a mailing list service each month, such as Constant Contact, Mail Chimp, etc. But did you know that if you also have a blog at a host like Blogger or WordPress, you can use your [...]
Two Great Sites to Share
I have been surfing for sites that would be useful to Blogger users, as well as other sites related to imaging and such. I have found two today that I thought were very worth sharing. Blogger Buster is a great site for getting tools, themes, widgets and much more for your Blogger blog. Reflection Maker [...]
Want Widgets?
Looking for some cool widgets for your business or personal blog? Thought I’d share a couple of great links with you for where to find the coolest widgets! Widgepedia Widget Box On a business blog, I think there IS such a thing as too many widgets; they can become distracting and too many are just [...]
Who’s Linking to You?
Want to know who’s linking to your website or blog? Just go to this site, enter your URL, and submit. You can add their code to your site if you’d like too. See Who’s Linking to You There are other sites like that one out there on the Web. If you find some others you [...]
Reader Question on SEO and Blogger Vs. WordPress
Cathy of Cathy’s Creations wrote to ask me two questions. She wanted to know how a person who is not a “techie” goes about doing SEO on their site. She also wanted to know if Blogger or WordPress is the better blog host, and if one gets crawled by the SE’s better? Here are my [...]
Widgets, Widgets, Widgets!
You’ve probably heard of widgets, but for anyone that may not have, widgets are something (involving a piece of code) you can add to blogs and websites that have controls that can be manipulated by the viewer/user. I have a widget on my blog that tracks my daily and weekly visitors, so I can click [...]
