Posted by Mert Erkal on Mar 24, 2009 in Blogging | 0 comments
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Since very long time I was dreaming of having a page that is covering most of the popular blogging terms. Finally I have managed to launch Blog Terms page. Each blogging term on the page is linked to one of my previous posts related to that term.
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Posted by Mert Erkal on Mar 19, 2009 in Microblogging | 6 comments

Twitter has become very popular nowadays. After reading Twitter Has A Big Month, Grows To Over 8 Million U.S. Users I am convinced that it will become even more popular by the end of this year. A few days ago Josh Spaulding has written a great article titled Using Twitter Search to find Buyers in the ACT! and stressed the importance of Twitter Search when trying to find potential buyers.
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Posted by Mert Erkal on Mar 17, 2009 in Problogger | 17 comments

If you want to become a problogger or make money with your blog, you need to spend some money to special blogging and Internet marketing tools. You can not merely rely on your blog’s own performance. It is more or less like investing generated money to grow your business. I call these tools as “problogger’s emergency kit”. Without them, you have little chance to grow your online income. Here are the tools:
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Posted by Mert Erkal on Mar 15, 2009 in Blogging | 4 comments

Blogging and Pinging is a technique through which you can post a bit of information from your website to a blog to raise your SEO. When you post pieces of your website info on the blog, search engines like Google and Yahoo will find it less complicated. Blogging and Pinging is one of the finest strategies to make a website or blog more famous in the search engines. You may use them and also alter their configuration according to your needs.
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Posted by Mert Erkal on Mar 13, 2009 in Blogging | 5 comments
While checking a Google patent filing, I noticed some interesting text telling Google would start examining the length of a domain’s registration in determining search engine rankings. The idea, I guess, is that if a domain is registered for only one year, the owner of the domain is considered as not committed to long-term maintenance of the content on the domain.
Conversely, if someone registers a domain for five years, it appears more likely that this person has long-term plans or commitment for the domain.
So when you buy a new domain, you better try to register it for at least two years, and preferably 5 years. If you already have a domain, you may enter your registrar’s control panel and renew the domain before it expires.
The domain prices are between $6-18 depending on the registrar. You should extend your domain for 5 years at least. It is worth spending your money.
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