Making money from blogs in an inexact science. What works one blogs fails on another. I’ve launched over 200 websites since 1998 (mostly ecommerce) and about 30 blogs (mostly technical). If your blog has a technical slant, for example, it’s target audience is technical writers, analysts, architects, or others micro niche areas, then use some of these techniques to increase your traffic.
Entries Tagged as 'google docs'
29 Ways to Increase Traffic to a Micro Niche Blog
March 29th, 2010 · View Comments · Google
Tags:Aweber·Backlinks·Clickbank·eJunkie·Expert·Google Analytics·google docs·Journalists·Money·Newsletter·Niche·PageRank·Review·seo·Sitemap·Tags·Target Audience·Video·Workflow·YouTube
10 Reasons to Love Microsoft Word 2010 & Ditch Snagit’s Screen Capture Tool
October 26th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing
Image by Ivan Walsh What do you want to see in Microsoft Office 2010? Arpan Shan, who has access to the beta versions at Microsoft, shares his favorite 10 Office 2010 features. Some of these you may already know, but he highlights some nice ideas that seem to be coming through. In Word 2010, for [...]
Tags:Copy/Paste·google docs·Microsoft Office·Microsoft PowerPoint·Microsoft Word 2010·Outlook User Experience·PowerPoint 2010·PowerPoint Broadcasting·PPTX·Screen Capture·Screen clippings·SharePoint·Snagit·Sparklines·Video·Web Applications·Windows Live
3 Ways to Turn Outsourcing to Your Advantage & Travel the World
October 26th, 2009 · Comments Off · Career, How To
Image Chris Pirillo Outsourcing is not going to go away. Our recent Technical Writers survey showed that US companies are now outsourcing technical documentation projects big-time to India, Poland and Portugal. This is not going to change. It’s just a business decision. Feeling bad/sad/mad about it won’t change it. But what you can do is [...]
Tags:Business Proposals·File Conversion·google docs·India·Mentoring·Outsourcing·PageMaker·Skype·Technical Writers·Training
Turn Google Docs into a Distraction Free Writing Tool
October 11th, 2009 · Comments Off · Google, How To, Technical Writing
Looking for a simple writing tool that automatically hides your desktop so you can concentrate on your writing? Anil Atluri on Digital Inspiration has this great tutorial on how to make Google Docs your perfect free writing tool.
Tags:google docs·Microsoft Word·Technical Documents·Templates·writing
How to Get Your Email Answered
October 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To, Productivity
Chris Brogan (read and bookmark!) just hit a new milestone. He’s now getting over 600 emails a day on average. 50% were people asking me his time, 25% were “really nice people,” 20% were business opportunities, and 5% were friends. A quick bit of math: if he answered 1 email a minute, 600 emails would [...]
Tags:Chris Brogan·email·Facebook·google·google docs·Google Spreadsheets·Productivity·social media·Social network·Time-wasting·Twitter
Write and Maintain your MS Office documents online with Zoho plugin
May 30th, 2009 · View Comments · How To
The Zoho Plug-in for Microsoft Office lets you work offline on your documents and spreadsheets with Microsoft Word/Excel and then have these changes reflected directly in your Zoho account when back online online. The plugin bridges the gap between online and offline office productivity.
Tags:google·google docs·ms office·plugin·zoho
Write and Maintain your MS Office documents online with Zoho plugin
May 18th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
The Zoho Plug-in for Microsoft Office lets you work offline on your documents and spreadsheets with Microsoft Word/Excel and then have these changes reflected directly in your Zoho account when back online online. The plugin bridges the gap between online and offline office productivity.
Tags:google·google docs·ms office·plugin·zoho
Speech Recognition Software for Google Docs
May 16th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
Speech Recognition Software for Google Docs
Interest-based advertising: How it works – Google Ads Preferences
May 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
Did you ever stop to think just how does Google Ads work? Well, the good folk over at Google have put up a simple tutorial on how Google Ads works. It’s very high level but leads to other pages where things get more technical. Google’s AdSense program tries to show ads as relevant as possible [...]
Tags:Chrome·google·google docs
Prism Converts Websites into Applications
May 9th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
Thomas Claburn writes in Information Week,“Prism is a Firefox plug-in, and a stand-alone application, that allows users to generate desktop versions of Web applications. With the plug-in, Firefox users can select the "Convert Website to Application" command from the Tools menu and immediately convert a Web app like Google Docs into a stand-alone application.
Tags:Chrome·google·google docs
Are links in Gmail Used in Google Algorithm?
May 9th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
Are links in Google docs (either published or not) can be crawled and taken into account. SEO Journal discuss this, reporting that “people report seeing Gmail links to be used for discovery. The supporting arguments are as follows:
Tags:google·google docs·seo
Why Zoho Will Overtake MS Office
May 8th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
Zoho has a million users, which is quite remarkable for a new company that hasn’t spent a dollar on advertising or getting a ton of PR. How did they do it? By releasing a suite of services for new workers. We’ll hear all about that, and more when Zoho’s evangelist Raju Vegesna visits us
