Update Notice: This is still a useful post, however you might also want to read a more recent one LinkedIn Connections – should you connect with people you don’t know? LinkedIn is one of my favourite social networking sites. It is full of business professionals who use the site for business purposes. No one is going […]
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If you’re wondering how your website or blog stacks up against the competition when it comes to SEO, it’s time to stop wondering. Website Grader is a free tool that gives you a very comprehensive analysis of your website. I learned about this tool from Boris Mahovac – Email Marketing Coach who left the link
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Naturally, the inauguration of U.S. president Barak Obama was on the minds of many Blogging Boomers last week. In a time of cynicism and economic uncertainty, it is refreshing to see a political leader who has words of inspiration and hope. And even more refreshing to see him taking decisive action in his first week
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Yesterday while I was talking with head of SEO for Yahoo! Canada Darryl Peddle, he stressed how important links are to the search engine ranking of your site. The more links there are coming into your site, the higher you get ranked. But how do you get those incoming links? It’s actually not that hard.
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I was on LinkedIn this morning checking the LinkedIn Answers section. On person asked how to use Twitter, saying he didn’t get it. Several answers were from people who agreed that they didn’t quite know what to do with it. This made me laugh a little, because I don’t know if I could function without
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Rhea over at The Boomer Chronicles is one of the founders of the Blogging Boomers Carnival. This makes it very appropriate that Rhea is hosting the 100th edition of this blog carnival. If you check online listings of blog carnivals you’ll notice that many carnivals get started but peter out after a while. Few make
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Facebook is such an easy way to connect and keep in touch, it’s not surprising many people use it to keep in touch with their families. You can post photos, audios, maps to the family reunion – all with the click of a button. But what if you are trying to use Facebook to promote
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Since learning the ins and outs of LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, I’ve become something of a social media evangelist. I love using social media, I’m getting amazing results and I’m not shy about telling everyone about it. And social media use is exploding. If you believe the hype, everyone is using it. I’ve learned however,
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This week’s edition of the Blogging Boomers Carnival is being hosted by The Midlife Crisis Queen, aka Laura Lee Carter. Laura Lee has seen a number of changes, dare I say dramatic changes, since turning 40. But she’s come out the other end and uses many of these life-altering changes as fodder for her blog.
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Building your list – increasing the number of people who subscribe to your offer – is one of the most important steps in building a business online. Once someone takes the step to signing up for your ezine, free report or teleseminar, they are so much closer to becoming a customer than someone who comes
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