Dennis Edell | Personal Coach

Do you do reviews on your blog? Reviews of other blogs, websites, or marketing tools perhaps, both free and paid?

For the purpose of this article, we will discuss tool reviews; more to the point cost-based tool reviews, and how you may be doing more harm then good after the fact.

Normally I don’t care who I offend or tick-off as long as the truth gets put forth. I do realize however that this a tender subject, and it will be handled with as much tact as possible.

A speedy post with a bullet! There will be plenty more on the topic.

For better or worse, I’m in a rather unique position. I can absolutely tell you the title to this post is 100% right on the money.

I was recently reading Kristi’s post, What to do when you’re not in the mood (to write). She commented to another about how she gets ideas while playing tennis and driving, but then has to remember the idea until she can write it down.

OK I think we can all agree on one thing, where user navigation and Google are concerned, broken links are a bad thing for a blog, yes?

We must be ever vigilante in locating and fixing the issue. Whether it be deleting, delinking, editing, or whatever, we must fix the link.

Running the risk of my long time readers pummeling me to death, this has to be said. It is indeed going to happen. I just wish I could be more excited about it.

2010 Wasn’t Easy

Through most if not all of 2010 I was discussing a blog network I was going to create. It was to start of with 3 blogs…..

Originally posted in 2008, this will never go outdated!

UGH! Broken links everywhere. Is there anything more annoying to a site owner?!? Even worse is the user navigation issues. You can easily lose business; perhaps a LOT of business depending on the circumstances.

There are some things I’d really like to get into this year. One I’ve mentioned is guest blogging. Another is a little video blogging, or vlogging for the hip among you.

I’m taking another poll and wish all to participate. This is something that has bothered me some for a long time.

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Backlinks are a key element to ranking well in the search engines. They are in fact the backbone of Googles algorithm.

The Short Version

Think about everything you now do to gain that elusive backlink, and why.

Now I’m here to tell you, your motives are ass-backward.

The primary goal of everything you do should be to make that connection; start that relationship. The inevitable backlink you’ll receive should be a really cool, well deserved, and yes, much needed bonus.

I’m all for limited comment moderation and of course having my posts shared, as I’d bet you are also. Here today I’ll try to make sure you don’t hinder one with the other.

Comment Before Tweeting

I wrote a post last October about how you should always comment on a post before tweeting/sharing said post amongst your different social communities.

Oh How REALLY hate waking up late sometimes, I almost missed this email altogether!

Hostgator, one of the very best hosting companies online is holding a ONE DAY ONLY 40% OFF SALE, TODAY JULY 4TH ONLY!!

I had never heard such a thing, and quite frankly it is more then a little scary! I have two immediate questions for you…

1. How vigilant are you with comment moderation?

2. How up-to-date are you with the Google TOS?

This is a guest post from Carol Roberts; bio at the end…

You’ve heard it before: social media is the future of marketing. Well, it’s true, and you need to figure out how your small business can take advantage of this fact. These days, it’s not about paying millions for a great television ad campaign to promote your business.

I’ve read hundreds, probably thousands of posts since the inception of twitter, about why you’re not going to follow me. And like so many other posts of its kind, they are all the same…

Too much crap, to many links, too much silliness, too much of this or that, too little of this or that, AUTO-DM’s, blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah.

Oh what the hell, I’ve watched the bandwagon drive-by so many times, I finally decided to jump on.

Actually, I recently received a comment with a blank avatar. I have no idea why, but it really irritated me. I was rather surprised at these inner feelings; in the grand scheme of things, it’s an awfully silly thing to get one irritated, isn’t it?

Yes indeed, ya gotta love getting this kinda info early. I thank my friend Andrew who will build your blog, for once again making my life just a wee bit easier.

WordPress 3.2 Minimum Requirements

Well WordPress version 3.2 is on it’s way, but they want you to know ahead of time, this time around you will need to meet some system requirements.

This is not yet another article telling you all about the new fangled Google+1 (there’s hundreds all ready), it’s simply a quick info post for ya folks. Excellent news for all those all hyped up with the Google+1 social thing.

I know, this is a problem all around the sphere. Readers reading only the title, or maybe the first few lines; think they have it down and comment. Only to find out later, their comment was somewhere between a little off to completely irrelevant.

I thank Extreme John for the small error which inspired this blog post. It’s important info to consider.

You see, he wrote an awesome article outlining a new live help service he found, and one I consider a near perfect solution for any business, even if you’re only one person.

Comment Avatars or Gravatars are becoming more and more popular everyday, and for good reason. You pick something easily and immediately recognizable and you’re golden!

Choosing yours truly as an example (it’s my blog, get over it), if you don’t instantly recognize my red/blue DE logo-avatar, you don’t get out often enough.

Hey everyone, I’m working on a little project and the question is simple…..do you write consistent link roundup posts? If yes, then please comment below with the following info:

1. How often are they published – weekly, monthly, or somewhere in-between.

2. What day they publish – Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, etc.

FYI: There is no typo in the title. There is plenty of comment spam during any comment contest. This is a couple ways to avoid it.

Those that run comment contests might love this idea. Those that participate might hate this idea. It is what it is, and what it is should be a way to almost wipe out comment spam during comment contests.

I’m having a few feedburner issues, if you subscribe here I need a quick comment that you received this post.

Thanks!

I’m speaking of blog posts of course, and this makes 100 in the bucket! I think things are running well so far, would you agree?

Of course some might consider it a little cheesy for the 100th post to be the bragging post for publishing 100. LOL!

This is a sticky post, meant to stick until I remove it. All new posts publish as always right below.

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The very first time I signed onto twitter (2008-2009?), I was one of the many mass following fools that actually thought it was a good way to get ahead. In reality it’s a good way to get completely overwhelmed and do nothing good with it.

Link building and List building, two KEY arenas for ANY successful online business. Yes, both are an absolute MUST…and I don’t like using that word much.

Regular readers will remember fondly of me discussing almost all last year of a blog network I was going to build. Several blogs, each niched down to it’s own category. It was to be awesome.

Let me ask you two questions…

Question 1: Have you ever looked at a real garbage comment like “great post!”, “awesome blog!”, “thanks for the excellent info!” and thought two things to yourself…

A. I wonder if s/he really doesn’t know any better.

The following is not a full explanation of what RSS or Email Marketing is or how they work. That’s another post entirely.

I’ve been seeing a particular “tip” making the post rounds lately and frankly it’s scaring the crap outa me.

I recently read a very well thought out post over at the cafe, regarding the purchasing of Internet marketing education; ebooks, e-courses, and the like.

My favorite part of the article was when she meticulously went through what is NOT a SCAM. Lets face it, anything expensive is called a scam at one point or another for one inane reason or another, right?