http://nigelbooker.com Learn how to create your social media buzz Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:19:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What would Seth Godin Do? is a recommended Wordpress plugin that uses cookies to establish if a visitor to your blog is a returning visitor or a new visitor. If they are a new visitor they will get a message displayed on posts suggesting they might like to subscribe to your ... http://nigelbooker.com/?p=47 OK, now I've set the ping list up & got tagging sorted out. What's needed now is to syndicate the blog. This takes quite a lot of effort but the results should be well worth it. There are some automated submitter software programs around that will automatically submit your rss feeds ... http://nigelbooker.com/?p=35 Over on the right hand side of these pages you'll see a Tag Cloud. A [tag-tec]Tag Cloud[/tag-tec] is a collection of tags that have been assigned to pages and posts on your blog. The bigger the word the more times it's been tagged in your blog. Why are Tags important? 1) They ... http://nigelbooker.com/?p=28 Technorati is a blog search engine. If you've got the WordPress ping list set up correctly then it gets notified, via a ping, every time you create or edit your WordPress pages or posts. In their own words "Technorati helps bloggers succeed by collecting, highlighting, and distributing the global online ... http://nigelbooker.com/?p=21 It's absolutly essential that you can easily track what's happening on your site - how many visitors you're getting, where they're coming from, how long they spend on your site. Without that information you're driving blind, unsure of where you're going or even if you've got there. Fortunately those nice people ... http://nigelbooker.com/?p=13 We're still on day one but one of the very first things you must do after starting your blog is to update the ping list. The ping list is a list of blog directories and search engines that get notified when you make a blog. The bigger the list the better ... http://nigelbooker.com/?p=11 So here we are, day 1 of an exercise to see how well Social Media & Social Marketing works. More accurately I suppose that should be how well I can make it work... I started by installing the latest version of WordPress - that's version 2.7 & available free from http://www.wordpress.org. ... http://nigelbooker.com/?p=8