From the monthly archives:

February 2008

No Comment? Improve Visitor Participation On Your Blog

by Graham Cox on February 27, 2008

I‘ve just installed a very handy Wordpress plugin called Comment Luv after reading about it over at the Friday Traffic Report.
It encourages your blog visitors to post high quality comments by automatically putting a link back to the visitors last blog post.
Ofcourse, you’ll need to monitor the quality of comments closely to ensure they [...]

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In January 2007 I attended one of Robert Puddy’s half-day UK workshops here in my hometown of Bristol. It was a good decision because without a doubt, I learnt more about online marketing in those 4 hours than I did in the whole of the previous year.
The biggest lesson I learnt was that making [...]

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List Building Using Password Protected Posts

by Graham Cox on February 22, 2008

I‘ve just read a fascinating post by UK Internet Marketer Frank Haywood about the SEO strategies he’s used to climb the Google Search Results for an extremely competitive search term.
For anyone using Wordpress in particular, his post contains tons of valuable advice regarding which plugins to use and how to fully optimise your blog.
But what [...]

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Online Market Research Using Google Docs

by Graham Cox on February 19, 2008

I‘ve often thought about surveying my lists for feedback and product creation ideas. But the apparent hassle of setting it all up had put me off.
That was until the other day when I came across this great little video tutorial about how you can now survey your customers using Google Docs and a [...]

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A Cool Traffic Tool For Your Blog

by Graham Cox on February 8, 2008

Every month I attend a meeting of the Bristol Internet Marketing Mastermind Group.
It’s a meeting of fellow marketers from the South West of England and we get together to discuss what we’re working on, form business partnerships and learn new tricks of the trade.
Anyway, we had our last meeting a few days ago, and I [...]

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