Month of July , 2007

Lately, I've been using social networking sites to help with my SEO. I sign up on Myspace, Friendster, Facebook, Squidoo, Digg, Technorati, Mybloglog, flickr, Linkedin, Twitter, Stubmle Upon, etc. Build a profile, link to my sites. And then network like crazy. You'd be surprised how much traffic you can get this way.

Does anyone else do this? 

I am proud to announce that Go Blog Yourself now has a blog job board. You can view up to the minute blogging related jobs on our job board. This information is taken from several sources, ProBlogger, Indeed, Freelance Switch, to name just a few. I hope this can be a great resource to find Blogging and Telecommute jobs.

If you know of any other resources we need to add to our job board, please let us know. Also, if you would like to post jobs to our job board, please contact us. The fee is $20 for two months.

I've been suffering a bit from writers block lately. Every blogger will tell you that it's very hard to stay focused on one topic for years. Things get old and boring kinda quick. That's why most blogs crash and burn.

I've been surfing around and compiling a list of my favorite and inspiring blogs and posts. I stumbled on this one called Essential Posts that Every Blogger Should Know. Great stuff in there. Lots of other helpful information on the North East blog. Good stuff.  

I stumbled onto a site called Website Grader which is a site that grades your blog or website using SEO guidelines. It gives you pointers on things you can do to improve the search engine rankings of your site. I was surprised to see what it said about some of my sites.

It all ends up with you entering in an email address and you get a pitch for professional SEO services. But the tool is cool enough, to make me overlook their pitch. Check out Website Grader, you may get some useful information regarding your site.

I have a music blog that's been up for quite some time. I'm not getting much for traffic, I'm wondering what everyone thinks? What can I do to make this blog better? Please take a look and let me know: http://rawk-talk.com

KeywordSpy is a keyword search engine tool that generates keywords for ad campaigns in the most popular search engine sites in the Internet. KeywordSpy generates information by using keywords in identifying key competitors that may be advertising in the same search engine.

Some of the advanced features of KeywordSpy are instant access to over a billion keywords, as it has the most comprehensive keyword database today which is updated on a daily basis. KeywordSpy has 100 percent search results accuracy on keywords and instant downloading capabilities plus enhanced user interface for ease of use. With keywordSpy one can create effective ad campaigns to increase business exposure and revenue by 100x over with just a few clicks in our site.

Sometimes finding images for your site or masthead can be a real challenge. Images are a great way to add impact to your site. Sure, there are plenty of places that you can buy images and sometimes you may need to. But there are also places that offer free images. Or even images you can use, but you must give attribution back to the owner. Most of these images will have some sort of stipulations. Read carefully.

Here's some great places to get images on the web:

• http://www.sxc.hu/
• http://www.morguefile.com/
• http://www.imageafter.com/
• http://www.dreamstime.com/
• http://flickr.com/creativecommons/
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images
• http://www.picfindr.com/
• http://yotophoto.com/

Those resources should help you find almost any image. Check there first, if you can't find it on one of these links...then buy it. Remember to check to see what the restrictions are for your image.