2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,400 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

Tips and tricks to promote your blog or website

There are so many ways to promote your blog it can be mind boggling. And still in the end you only come up with a few answers. Promote your blog on facebook, twitter, Google – SEO.. LSI and SERP, what does it all mean? How do SEO Wheels work and how do you set up one?
Especially if you are new to blogging it can leave you in the dark when it comes to actually promoting it. Sure you wrote great articles or have a great product or service, but now comes the tricky part of actually promoting the blog. How do you go about doing it? There are plenty of websites out there that provide you with such information, but most of them are difficult to understand since they use terminologies that only a professional website marketer would understand. Are there any websites out there that explain it from the start? And promoting your website evolves so much. Not all blog websites are created equal and it really depends what niche you are trying to promote. If differs from subject to subject what exactly the best way is to promote your blog.
I’m currently setting up a blog called The Blog Tipper. The blog is about tips and tricks for bloggers to get more exposure for their blogs. No matter what blog you have, no matter what hosting company is hosting your blog, The Blog Tipper provides you with free information on the best way to promote your blog and get found in the search engines. Not only that but it will also tell you what the best layouts should be and advertising placements. Not to mention how to interact with your visitors. This is great if you have a product or service to promote and want feedback from your clients or customers in order to provide everyone with even better service! Promoting a blog is truly an art. There are people out there, so called internet marketeers, that have this as a full-time job. These guys are expensive to hire, with a little research you could do most of it yourself. All it takes is a little effort and know-how to promote your blog online.
Since I have been blogging and doing internet business since 1996 it made perfect sense to me to start a blog about it. The blog is still in its beginning stages so bear with me. The cool thing is that this will give you an opportunity to ride the information wave from the beginning. But hurry up and follow The Blog Tipper either on Twitter, Facebook or subscribe to the RSS Feed and stay up to date with the latest and greatest in Blog marketing, tips and tricks that will help your blog stand out above the rest! Visit The Blog Tipper at http://www.theblogtipper.com for all these free cool features. I will even talk about how to make money with your blog. Check it out now before I decide to take the whole thing off and put it all together in an expensive e-book about blog marketing!

Trouble writing your own SEO articles? Hire a writer!

Writing high quality SEO articles is extremely popular. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, something that you probably have come across while researching article writing. A big reason for this is that it boosts business and makes your website stand out from the crowd if it’s done well. If you have a business that needs more clients or customers (like pretty much all businesses do) consider creating a blog for your main business website (or have a blog section on your business website – but a separate ’mini blog’ is better in my opinion since blog optimized websites such as blogger, wordpress etc already have their roots intertwined in the search engines. If you have a stand-alone blog, make sure you optimize the source code to be 100% compatible, like META tags and KEY words in order to get the highest possible ranking in search engines).

Writing SEO articles isn’t easy though. Think about anything you can think of regarding to your business and try to write a great unique high quality article about it no more than 600 words. Have like five or six of these articles on your blog and soon you will receive back links to your own website. The trick is to write those articles. Now if you don’t have the time or the skills to write such articles you can always hire a writer! It’s not expensive at all, for less than $10 an article you can have great content on your site that will drive traffic to your main page.

A site you should check out that has great feedback from various clients is Rhiannon’s Writing. Rhiannon is a published author that now offers her writing skills to the public to write incredibly high value SEO articles.

Check out her website at www.rhiannonswriting.com

For less than $10 she will write a great article for you.

A few updates regarding websites.

A few notes regarding to a few of my blog sites…

 

The trading website was moved to http://www.vdmtrading.net 

NEXIS Gamer is can now be visited at  http://www.nexisgamer.com

and The Blog Tipper is @ http://www.theblogtipper.com

 

 

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This blog is about my personal experiences in the world of trading, investing, business and finance. Along with colorful commentary on todays events that move the markets!

Check out my other blog: http://vdmtrading.blogspot.com