Chris McElroy AKA NameCritic's articles
Six Quick Ways Your Website Benefits From Blogging
In this article I’m going to give you six ways that having a blog helps your website. There are a lot more reasons to start a blog, but this article has to do with the benefits to your website.
1. A blog on the same domain name, (as part of your website like yourdomainname.com/blog) can help you add fresh content to your website without having to know html. Fresh daily or even weekly content can keep the search spiders coming back more often. Writing your blog posts on the...Posted: 2006-06-07
Category: Blogging
Getting Blog Links
A lot of time is spent by bloggers trying to get other blogs to link to them. A lot of traffic can be gained by doing this with blogs that are both related to your topic and blogs that have a lot of readers.
This can sometimes be very difficult for new bloggers because they do not yet have enough readers or page rank to interest the bigger blogs.
Talk to other bloggers who are in the same position as you right now and develop a lasting relationship. You link to them, th...Posted: 2006-06-05
Category: Blogging
ICANN Violating Free Enterprise?
Message to ICANN: Let those who want to create a TLD, simply register it with ICANN.
If the TLD is not already taken, if they have the technical capability to mange the TLD, and they have the desire to market domain names on that TLD, then let them do so.
It should be similar to the registering of a domain name, except on a higher level, with the added technical requirements. ICANN should be sort of an upper-registry for TLDs.
It would be ludicrous for a domain name ...Posted: 2006-06-01
Category: Internet Business
What Does A Blogging Consultant Look Like?
You know, normally you can find a definition of a word or phrase by typing “define: your phrase here” into google and come up with a lot of results. Currently there are millions of blogs and there are hundreds of people who call themselves “Blog or Blogging Consultants”, yet when you type “define: Blogging Consultant or Blogging Consultant” into google you get no definition.
That is probably a good thing for most blogging consultants because without a definition, there is ...Posted: 2006-06-01
Category: Blogging
Questioning Parked Domains And Google Adnonsense
Is contextual advertising helping or hurting the web? It basically started with Google Adsense even though the concept wasn’t new. It had never been done on the scale that Google did it. Now we have Yahoo Publisher. MSN is building their version. We have Konterra and a whole lot of other companies scrambling to cash in on the contextual ad craze.
Initially contextual advertising seems like a good idea. Ads based on the content of your website that might benefit your reader...Posted: 2006-06-01
Category: Internet Business
