Category: Blogging
  • Ninja Jen Van Iderstyne

    • Serving Up Canned Blog SPAM

    • December 29, 2011 - Posted by Ninja Jen Van Iderstyne to Blogging, Fun Stuff
    • Working on the blog for only a little while, I’m still surprised at times that there are close to 500 pieces of SPAM to delete on any given morning.  I know I shouldn’t be.  But I can’t help but wonder why such a wasteful, useless, destructive process still continues.  Then the logical half reminds me that, oh yeah, it’s cheap, easy and extremely difficult to hold people accountable. Blog Comments as Link Building? Let’s deal with this....
  • QualityGal

    • The Simple Guide to Finding Free Images for Your Blog Posts

    • January 19, 2009 - Posted by QualityGal to Blogging
    • Last week, I lamented the fact that I’d been beaten to the punch in posting about finding images for blog posts. I sent our bloggers a link to the Smackdown post, but I think that post does a little too much “throat clearing” before it gets to the good stuff. (I say this because I’ve still had a lot of questions about image rights, and I’ve had to remove some images that we didn’t have...
  • Lisa Barone

    • Six Kickass Writing Resources for Bloggers

    • December 22, 2008 - Posted by Lisa Barone to Blogging
    • Jim believes in the power of blogs.  He started JimBoykin.com back in 2005, he hired me in October to create the We Build Pages blog (holla!) and, after taking a look at some of the recent contracts, I know he especially loves recommending blogs to clients. If you’ve spent any time in the corporate blogging world, you’ll see that most corporate blogs kind of suck. Two weeks ago we heard that only 16 percent of people...
  • Lisa Barone

    • A Rant On Grammar, Spelling and SEO

    • December 4, 2008 - Posted by Lisa Barone to Blogging, Web Content
    • Every so often on Twitter (and in life) I find myself in a debate with familiar faces who like to argue with me that grammar and spelling and punctuation are highly-overrated.  They think that they can write how they write and that it is your job to decipher where a new sentence starts, what word they meant to type, and what parts of a phrase they inexplicably left out. I tend to disagree, but before...
  • Lisa Barone

    • Forget Everything You Ever Learned in High School

    • November 26, 2008 - Posted by Lisa Barone to Blogging
    • I stumbled across an interesting read while going through my feed reader this afternoon. Over at Copyblogger, Jim Lodico says Everything I Need To Know About Blogging I Learned In High School. Funny, because I think for me it was the complete opposite. I’ve come to find that in order to be a (mildly) successful blogger I’ve needed to forget all those “really important lessons” that were drilled into me in high school. I didn’t learn...
  • Lisa Barone

    • InLinks Launches. Here We Go Again.

    • November 20, 2008 - Posted by Lisa Barone to Blogging
    • Yesterday the blogosphere began buzzing with the news that Text Link Ads had launched a new product called InLinks. It’s the latest in “undetectable, non-fingerprint-able” link buying networks and so far it’s been mentioned on TechCrunch, SEOmoz, SEOBook, Shoemoney, Search Engine Roundtable and at Michael Gray’s house of mayhem. Which means Google totally hasn’t heard about it and isn’t watching it like a hawk. There definitely aren’t flocks of Spam team members dissecting the thing...