Blog Tips by BLOGBloke

How‘s your Social Media ROI? Are your strategies working for you?
Watch this video and see how businesses are using Social Media to grow their business exponentially with effective Social Media Strategies that work.

The BIG NEWS for 2010 is Google is dumbing-down it’s algorithms to accomodate the idle chit-chat of Social Media. Google is ringing in the New Year with a PageRank shakeup that will be earth-shaking. A new trend is unfolding that will give Social Network accounts like Twitter and Facebook a better pagerank […]

The little app that could has finally grown up. No matter what you may think of Twitter there‘s no denying it is a phenomena. Twitter is on Letterman, celebrities are using it and even Microsoft got into a bidding war with Google over it. Everybody wants a piece of Twitter (except of course Miley Cyrus, […]

Yes possibly, blogging could end as we now know it so long as the trend continues and influential bloggers irresponsibly push social networking sites like Facebook. They‘re acting more like opportunists exploiting the latest trend instead of being an example and warning of its limitations and dangers […]

I think I may have found the Holy Grail for setting up Blogger comments. I know it‘s not exactly inline comments but in my opinion this setup offers the best compromise for Blogger users.
Background:

Not long ago I complained about how much Blogger comments suck and that it was the last straw for me deciding to […]

It’s days like today that you gotta love Google. They gave us another bonus after their acquisition of Feedburner. Now you can automatically redirect all your subscribers from your old blogspot newsfeed to your Feedburner account. Here’s how to do it:
Just visit your blog “Settings” in your Blogger dashboard, click on the “Site Feed” menu […]

You must have noticed by now that this blog has had a major makeover. The changes are a result of conversations that I’ve been having with my friend Mike over at Twenty Steps.
He brought to my attention there was some confusion over my blog’s brand that needed my immediate attention. As a result I have made […]

Take a look at this video I discovered today showing how you can market your blog videos on YouTube:

Here is an excellent video discussing the necessary hardware and software you need to make great podcasts. It‘s presented by an audio engineer like myself but just beware he‘s also trying to sell you something.

Reader Q & A
Reader Kathy Frederick asks:
“Pictures I‘ve uploaded prior to my move to WordPress are still hosted on Blogger. Is that bad?”
Great question Kathy!
This issue will be of interest to former Blogger users who have moved over to Wordpress, or users who are considering the move.
Although Wordpress successfully imports Blogger hosted images over to your Wordpress blog, there is […]

Anatomy of a Successful Blog:
Most new bloggers don’t understand the difference between a professional blog and an amateur. So I’ve outlined below 10 of the most common blog design tips you can easily make that will help you to improve your blog and join the ranks of professional bloggers: […]

Sorry Blokesters but I‘ve been having some computer troubles and not able to publish for a few days. Anyhow that‘s my excuse and I‘m sticking to it.
Windows XP decided to have a hissy fit and stopped working (again) for no apparent reason. No cryptic error messages to decipher, and I hadn‘t installed anything recently that […]

This is the first part of a series of posts where I will explain in detail how I was able to improve my traffic more than 300% in just one week without even writing a post. I accomplished this amazing feat with a combination of SEO tweaks, tagging, and amalgamating my blogging related posts […]

I‘m really blown away by how many Blogger users are still using their Blogspot address instead of getting their own Custom Domain that Blogger has so generously offered.

The reasons for wanting your own Custom Domain Name aren‘t only just for Blogspot users. It goes for ALL bloggers as well, so let me explain the benefits of getting your own […]