Monthly Archives: August 2009

Developing a Web Presence: What else is out there besides Google

Google is still the best website as a traffic sender. But the new social media websites are gaining ground and more people are owning accounts. Chris Brogan talks about the “people referred web” and the power that social networks have to deliver traffic. I think that besides Google you should also try to dominate YouTube,…

About the concept of Free Content

Business relations are based on trust – especially on the Internet. There are many ways to build trust on the web and one of those things is to give away free knowledge. As many as you can and as valuable as you can. Now, I’m sure many will ask: if I give it all for…

My message to Twitter broadcasters

Definition: a broadcaster on Twitter is a person that is not interested in engaging with others or build relations or communicate The odd thing is that many times the tweets contain useful tips and suggestions or useful links. So, why this can be a problem? Because it lacks interaction. You see, there are many broadcasters…

How do you become part of the conversation (on social networks)?

Listen. Always pay attention to what people are talking about your niche market. You can set up alerts for that. Interact. You are on social networks to build trust around you. So, after you listen to people’s problems interact with them and try to offer them a solution Listen some more. See if your actions…

So you have 10k followers on Twitter: now what?

The idea for this article came to me when I launched my new blog. I thought that if I would ask some of my friends from Twitter to tweet something about my blog I would get some really good traffic. I don’t have to say it, because you probably guess: nothing extraordinary happen. Why? I…

Some of the SEO basics when planning a new blog

The success of any website depends on how well you plan things before the website becomes online. In this article I’ll present some of the SEO basics of how to plan a blog in order to have a good start. There are several things that you’ll have to consider and each element has to be…