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Life in Eternal Flux

September 11, 2007 by Tricia

Some time ago I used to use a feature at Bl0gexplosion called Rent my site. This was something that allowed you to rent a small space in your sidebar for a week, for bl0gexplosion points, to a fellow blogger. I always did a write up for my new renter. Basically this was just a way to expose new blogs to my readers. I stopped doing that close to a year ago, but I still wrote about new blogs that I came across every now and then up until I got too busy with all my blogs.

I think it’s time that I start to give some new blogs that I’ve come across a little bit of exposure again. So without further delay I introduce you to:

Eternal Flux

Leigh has other blogs, but I believe this is her youngest blog. She started it back in June. Our lives are always changing and this blog, Eternal Flux, discusses the changes going on in her life. She’s been busy writing about her life, parenting, her work as a beauty consultant and many other things. Actually, she writes beautiful Wednesday Heroes posts that you must read.

She and her husband just bought a new house. I see that she has a whole list of things that she’s got to do to spruce up her new house. Join the club Leigh, we’re still fixing up our house six years later!

Looking through her site I’ve discovered that she’s an avid reader of Steven King’s books, loves movies, cats and that she’s probably pretty good at managing her time what with raising kids, working, managing her blogs and hopefully squeezing in some “me” time.

Go on over and say hello to Leigh. I’m sure she’ll be happy to see you!





Filed Under: Blogging, Linky Love Tagged With: blog, blogger, changes, Eternal Flux, house, husband, introduce, kids, life, Linky Love, posts, write, Writing

Hiring a SEO company to market and promote your web site

September 8, 2007 by Tricia

As a former small business owner, and now a webmaster for more than 15 websites, I’ve learned quite a bit about marketing and promoting over the years.

Back when I had my jewelry trade business few companies had websites on the internet. Now, it’s almost unheard of to not have one.

The trouble is that not all business owners – big or small – are webmasters. Even if a business owner knows enough to create website for their company or hires a web designer to create their company page they must concentrate on the day to day aspects of their business, and as a result they don’t have time to learn all the ins and outs of promoting the online aspect of their company.

As I said, over the years I’ve learned quite a bit about promoting and marketing my websites online. I think I’m fairly good at it too, but now that I have so many sites to manage it’s getting harder and harder for me continue to promote my sites. Building the sites and creating content takes up the majority of my time.

I know several website owners, bloggers and even small business owners who are in the same position as I am. There just isn’t enough time in the day to do it all, and to do it well.

I’ve seriously considered hiring a SEO company to help market and promote my sites and get them the best rankings on the search engines for their keyword phrases. A company that knows how to set up a good promotional campaign can help an online business or website gain links, increase page rank and most importantly increase the amount of traffic to the site.

Over the last couple of months I’ve been looking at SEO companies services as I’ve tried to decide whether to hire a professional service to promote my sites or to continue to do this on my own.

One of the companies that I’ve been looking at recently is HTP Company. HTP is an Internet Advertising Company that specializes in web site marketing, internet advertising and marketing online.

I believe that HTP (High Technology Professionals) has been in business since 1996. They certainly offer quite a number of services and have some very informative articles on their website including a free Internet marketing, search engine optimization and Internet advertising tutorial for those that want to learn more about SEO.

Services offered by HTP include publishing, business consulting, search engine positioning, web development, web site design, marketing strategy, sales implementation and internet advertising. In other words they do it all.

One form of internet advertising that they specialize in is helping their clients buy text links, banner ads, text ads and in the creation of pay per click campaigns. All of which are of course aimed at increasing a websites SERP (search engine results page ranking), promoting the site or business and increasing traffic and sales. HTP Company can also place ads for your site on over 121,000 different websites.

As I look through their site I’ve become more and more impressed by the amount of services offered and the wealth of information on each and every page. Some SEO company websites just list their services and don’t really explain what each service really is or why these types of services or techniques are important to anyone who owns a website. You can actually learn quite a bit just by reading through the site if you are so inclined.

I’m also impressed by the partial client list on their About page. They have quite a few Fortune 500 corporations listed as clients. HTP Company has to be good at what they do to have secured such high profile companies as clients.

Can you see why I’ve been considering hiring HTP Company to help me promote my sites? Visit the HTP Company website yourself and see if they can help you promote your business or web site.

Before I stop gushing about this SEO company I should tell you that they also have a business directory where they list professional web sites and businesses. You can write to them to request that they view your site and add your link to their directory.

Filed Under: Sales and Marketing, SEO, Services, Web and Technology, Web Design, Website Promotion Tagged With: add your link, Advertising company, article, articles, banner ads, blogger, business consulting, buy, buy text links, campaigns, clients, company, consult, corporation, directory, ecommerce, High Technology Professionals, hire, HTP company, information, Internet, Internet advertising, keywords, links, market, marketing, marketing strategy, my sites, online, online business, online promotion, page rank, pay per click, promote, promoting, promotion, promotional campaign, publishing, ranking, sales, sales implementation, search engine, search engine positioning, search engine ranking, search engines, SEO, SEO company, seo techniques, seo training tutorial, SERP, service, small business, text ads, traffic, tutorial, Web Design, web development, Web Hosting, web site design, website, websites

I’m thinking of holding a contest

September 8, 2007 by Tricia

I’m thinking of holding a contest, but I haven’t figured out just what I want to do or how I want to do it yet.

I’ve done some contests in the past, but I haven’t held one for a long time! Contests I’ve held in the past have been caption contests for amusing photos. I think I want to do something different this time round since caption contests are fairly subjective. What I think is a great caption others might not agree with – those kind of contests are probably best done with a few judges.

Whatever I do, there will be a prize involved. I’m thinking of giving away $50. The winner will have to have a paypal account.

What would you do to win $50? Write a post about my site? Or maybe I could come up with a few phrases to fit into a post – however you want and the best post would win? I could have site visitors vote on the posts? What do you think? Is $50 a good prize?

Give me some ideas and suggestions please.

Actually, if this works out well maybe I’ll do a contest on EACH of our blogs. Hmmm that would give readers of my husband and I’s blogs NINE chances to win some money. I’d be a chunk out of my pocket change, but if it increased readership or RSS subscribers it would be worth it.

Filed Under: Blogging, Contest, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Web and Technology Tagged With: 50 dollars, blog, blog post contest, blogs, caption contest, Contest, contest suggestion, fun contest, husband, idea, ideas, paypal, photo caption contest, suggestions, visitors, vote, voting, win, win 50 dollars, write

Update on my use of Kontera

September 7, 2007 by Tricia

Do you use Kontera to monetize your site? I’ve been using it since sometime in July on the majority of my sites and over all I’m quite happy with the results.

I have been in contact with my representative at Kontera though, because my impression stats (and resulting income) for all the blogs on my Feverishthoughts.com domain are a lot lower than I expected. I’m comparing my results to the amount of impressions I’m getting on my main website (not a blog) which probably has a few hundred less page views per day than all the sites on the feverishthoughts.com domain combined. You’d think that the Kontera link impression numbers would be about the same, but their not. I’m getting four to five times more impressions on my website than on my feverishthoughts blogs.

I’m using Lucias KonteraControl wordpress plugin to control when the Kontera links are allowed to appear on my blog posts. Naturally I don’t want them in the posts that I do for my advertisers – at least not for whatever amount of time is required by each companies TOS. I don’t think the plugin should be interfering in the amount of impressions that I get in the posts that I allow Kontera in, but something is causing there to be less impressions.

We’re trying to figure it out.

If you are using the KonteraControl plugin are you getting the amount of impressions that you think you should be? Say at least 3 to 5 links per post?

Filed Under: Affiliates, Make Money, Money, Sales and Marketing, Web and Technology, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins Tagged With: blog, blogger, blogs, domain, feverishthoughts.com, happy, July, kontera, link, links, Money, my sites, plugin, post, posts, website, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugin

Please don’t stumble my posts

September 6, 2007 by Tricia

Darn!

Someone stumbled one of my recent posts.

I’m going to end up getting too much traffic on my hosting account! Remember last Thursday all my feverishthoughts.com sites were down for 9 hour? I found out it was a traffic surge that caused the cpu resources to go to high on my account.

I’ve got to switch my account or at least some of my sites over to VPS hosting, but until I do please don’t stumble or digg my posts as the resultant traffic might overload my account.

I guess I should be happy that traffic is so high that I need to think about upgrading my hosting. However, I guess if I’m going to have a traffic surge that overloads my account I’d rather it be real hits and not empty traffic that might not really be interested in the post.

Also, if you get too many hits from a site like stumble and you use Google Adsense on your site you could end up having your Google account canceled due to inflated impressions.

I suspect it was an advertiser that stumbled my post in the hopes of advertising their product to more people. Unfortunately, if my sites go down as a result that post won’t be seen by many.

How do I un-stumble a post???

Filed Under: Blog traffic exchanges, Blogging, Internet, The Blogisphere, Web and Technology, Website Promotion Tagged With: account, canceled, CPU resources, feverishthoughts.com, google, hosting, hosting account, my sites, post, posts, Product, recent, Stumble, stumbled, too much, traffic

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