http://www.onlima.net/blog Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:21:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One popular web service that can bring in heaps of traffic is Stumble Upon. Lets have a look at how this service works: The usage of stumble upon is very easy, this is probably the reason why it got so popular. After signing up for an account, you install the stumble ... http://www.onlima.net/blog/2007/11/03/are-you-stumbling-yet/ Technorati Profile You’ve probably had this happen to you before: you are visiting a website and there is a link that reads “download the manual”, after clicking the link you notice that it’s a link to a .pdf file. The file takes forever to open, scrolling is really slow and the ... http://www.onlima.net/blog/2007/10/08/add-joy-to-your-e-books/ While tracking my press release through Google, I found 4 sites who re-published it. It seems that both the press release sites, that have published my news story, are used by other websites as a source of content. One of the sites that has picked up the story is none ... http://www.onlima.net/blog/2007/10/06/the-presses-are-rolling/ Like any other blog, you want to get readers on yours. But how exactly can we get the people to come over and visit our blog? Of course we’ll need good content, original content that is. Once we have a few posts on the blog we can start looking around ... http://www.onlima.net/blog/2007/10/05/i-have-a-blog-where-are-the-readers/ I got the first press release approval back. 1888 Press Release has accepted the submitted news story and has featured it on their website. The time between submitting and approval has been about 17 hours. Scrolling through the stories on the site I see that it isn’t on the front ... http://www.onlima.net/blog/2007/10/05/we-are-in-the-news/ One way to let the world know about your great new product or service is by sending out a press release. Of course you will need to have something worthy of a press release. I don’t think sending one out for every new blog post or article on your site ... http://www.onlima.net/blog/2007/10/04/extra-extra-read-all-about-it/ Darren is running some contests this week to celebrate the birthday of ProBlogger. He has found a huge number of sponsors who have donated a total of over $54,000 in prizes! Running competitions is a great way to promote your business or blog and with sponsors involved it doesn’t even have ... http://www.onlima.net/blog/2007/10/03/problogger-contests-with-54000-in-prizes/ Sad was the day when the Overture Keyword Selector Tool  stopped working. Happy times are back because the tool seems to be working again! It does however use old data, old as in: data from 9 months ago. Some say they have talked to people at Yahoo who claim that ... http://www.onlima.net/blog/2007/10/01/overture-keyword-selctor-tool-is-back/ The marketing strategies that can be applied online are endless and new marketing opportunities arise with every new website created. Thousands of new websites are created daily and at the end of the day, most of them are trying to pull in some profit. To make profit, you need traffic; ... http://www.onlima.net/blog/2007/10/01/online-marketing-not-only-for-online-businesses/