Google News for Competitive Content Research

Want to keep up-to-date in your niche area? Want to post about something new and trendy? An excellent tool for spotting and following trends is Google News. It will help you write about topics ahead of your competitors. Google News allows you to set up a news feed for topics relevant to your blog. Do you write about celebrity gossip? Post about technological gadgets? Blog about cats? Whatever your niche,...

Glow Theme from Elegant Themes Is a Fit for àlaBuzz

After experimenting with four different themes from Elegant Themes, I find the newly-released Glow theme is the best fit for àlaBuzz. Beautiful, bright Glow presents content well, and it is suitable for expanding àlaBuzz with more pages and categories. Let me share the main benefits (and one possible pitfall) for anyone interested in trying Glow. The information also applies to other designs by Elegant...

Buiding Niche Blog Networks

When you get rolling with niche blog marketing, you may want to employ a technique that Adam Black describes in his YouTube video: Niche Market Stacking Blog Networks. It will help you avoid a serious SEO pitfall. It will help you drive traffic to your niche blogs. It will help you save money in hosting fees. The video is 5 minutes long, clear and concise. There is no product promotion, just pure...

Testing ePhoto Theme from Elegant Themes at àlaBuzz

I’m currently testing ePhoto Theme from Elegant Themes here at àlaBuzz. The automatic resizing of images is remarkable. You can use an image of any size, and the resulting thumbnails are beautifully cropped without distortion. The challenge for me will be creating a logo. I may have to forgo the àlaBuzz bee logo. (This would hurt deeply.) This theme also houses videos in the slider, so I will be...

Testing Cion WordPress Theme from Elegant Themes at àlaBuzz

It’s time for àlaBuzz to graduate to a new theme. The following WordPress themes are ones I’ve recently used or tested. Right now Cion from Elegant Themes is installed on the site for a test run. ElegantThemes – You get unlimited access to all premium ElegantThemes WordPress themes, plus support, for the extremely reasonable annual fee of $19.99. I recently became a member and am now...

Niche Blogging for Beginners

One of the best ways for your blog to get a high PageRank, and therefore more traffic, is to target a niche audience. The Web contains a huge marketplace. If you can cater to a tiny part of that market, a niche, you’re in position to build site traffic! People search for a zillion things on the Internet, so the little guys and new bloggers shouldn’t bother competing in the most popular markets....

5 Smart Practices for Blogging Longevity and Success

You launched a blog. If you’re like me, you’re amazed at how riveting it is. We bloggers are fueled by creative euphoria, the urge to communicate, and visions of success. Would former teachers and employers even recognize us now? We are ambitious. We are Master of our universe. We are in the Blog Zone…. The trick is to stay there. There are 5 smart practices bloggers can follow to remain...