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Clearing Up the Confusion E-Zine Vol 01 Issue 15
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Vol 1, Issue 15
Over the Labor Day weekend, Lisa and I went down to Atlanta, GA
to attend a science fiction convention. We had a lot of fun,
surrounded by fans and celebrities alike. I even met one of my
childhood heroes, Buck Rogers, or at least the actor who played
him, Gil Gerard. Being around such folks made me think a lot
about the nature of fame and celebrity. Would you like to be
famous? If not that, then would you at least like to be on the
first page when someone "Googles" your name? This issue, we'll
continue our survey of the various ways to improve and increase
your web presence. Start following some of these techniques and
you might get there sooner than you think!
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In This Issue...
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1. Article: Web Presence Techniques, Pros and Cons, Part 2
2. Blog Posts
3. Shameless Self-Promotion
4. The Fine Print
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1. Article: Web Presence Techniques, Pros and Cons, Part 2
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Last issue, we talked about the various benefits and
disadvantages of having a website, writing a blog, and publishing
an e-zine (or at least those that I have found). This week,
we'll continue with a few others that I've sampled. Oh, and just
for reference, I've now made it to #8 (a Technorati page showing
a variety of links about "greg peters") and #10 (my EzineArticles
expert page -- more below) on the first page of search results
for "Greg Peters".
Yessiree, I'm moving up in the world!
4. Write Articles for EzineArticles.com. This site allows you to
publish articles about anything you want to write (within
certain limitations). After they have vetted the article, it
is available for anyone to use in any way with proper
attribution.
Pros: You can write about anything you like. You can write
whenever you have time. Other people publish your work and
conceivably you become recognized as an expert on one or more
topics. With basic membership, you are allowed to publish up
to ten articles. After that you must be approved for Platinum
membership. Once at that level you are unrestricted in the
number of articles you can upload. Any articles you write
can, of course, be used in other channels such as your
website, blog, or e-zine.
Cons: The articles must pass an editorial review. This means
that there is a delay of six to eight days before your article
becomes public. Supposedly this period becomes shorter at
Platinum level. I've also had a few articles published
by other people *without* attribution.
5. Write Articles for Helium.com. This is a site similar to
EzineArticles.com with a few differences. The most noticeable
are that most article submissions appear immediately on the
site and that the articles are rated in relation to each other
by other members of the Helium community.
Pros: Articles appear immediately online. Writing articles in a
particular subject area will make you into an expert in that
area. The rating feature helps you see how you stack up
against other authors. Article can be used in other areas.
There also appears to be some sort of payment mechanism for
writing articles, but I haven't looked into that as of yet.
Cons: Limited editing facilities -- basically text only, no
other styling (bold, italic, etc). They "encourage" you to
write articles which fit within their existing topics
(thousands of them). This allows the raters to compare
articles within each topic. It costs money for someone to
publish your article -- so it's less likely that you will have
numerous publishers for your piece.
6. Comment on Other People's Blogs. Most blogs have some sort of
commenting facility. If they don't have comments, they often
have a facility called "trackbacks" which allow you to
comment on someone else's blog using your own and that comment
will show up on the original blog. Kind of complicated
sounding, I know, but check out Seth Godin's blog
(http://sethgodin.typepad.com/) and click on the "trackback"
link at the bottom of the posting to understand what I'm
talking about here.
Pros: If you comment on blogs with specific topics, then by
presenting intelligent commentary you will appear as an
expert in that topic. Trackbacks bring traffic to your blog
and may help to increase your regular readership. If you
manage to befriend the blog author, he or she might be
willing to give reciprocal links between your blog sites (you
create a link to her blog in your sidebar and she does the
same right back at you).
Cons: Not many other than it takes time to read and formulate
good commentary on someone else's blog -- time which you could
be spending on writing your own posts and articles.
I've still got a few more techniques that I've tried which I'll
talk about next time. For now, give these a try and let me know
how things go for you!
Copyright 2007, Greg Peters, all rights reserved.
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2. Blog Posts
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Links to posts on the "Clearing Up the Confusion" Blog from the last year:
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 -- Helium - Another Writing Venue
http://clearing-confusion.blogspot.com/2007/08/helium-another-writing-venue.html
Thursday, August 02, 2007 -- What You Do: Once More, With Feeling!
http://clearing-confusion.blogspot.com/2007/08/what-you-do-once-more-with-feeling.html
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3. Shameless Self-Promotion
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The "Clearing Up the Confusion" E-Zine is a production of Greg Peters,
owner, chief cook, and bottlewasher of Cyber Data Solutions. CDS has
been helping website designers develop better web presence for their
clients for more than a decade. Visit us on the Web at
www.cyberdatasolns.com to see how we can help your webmaster.
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4. The Fine Print
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