Biz Tips Blog: Online Marketing, Visibility and Business Blogging Tips

Articles Drive Traffic

It's all the rage now.  Using articles to drive traffic to your blog and/or website.  The fact is, Internet marketers have been doing this for years, and it's finally catching on with the mainstream online business community.

Last night I attended a teleclass with my mentor, Tom Antion, about using articles.  I wrote up some of his tips on my blog Your Project Partner.  Check out 21 Ways to Use Articles to Build Your Business.

Blog Squad Interview on Thursday

The Blog Squad Interviewed by
    Business Coach Mike Jay

Topic: Using a blog to create and publish your book

Thursday, April 27, 2006
12:00 PM EST - No charge

Join us at: 865-362-4050 Pin 1251#  and find out the
latest and greatest from these two mavens of execution.
http://www.cprforthesoul.com/interviews/blogsquad

links for 2006-04-24

• For MySpace, Making Friends Was Easy. Big Profit Is Tougher. - New York Times
  I know I'm slow off the mark here because I haven't spent the time figuring out MySpace.
  (tags: MySpace Internet social networking business)

SEO with Blogs and Press Releases

Conversations with Experts presents...

Search Engine Optimization with Blogs and Press Releases
Wednesday, April 26, 2006, 8:30 p.m. ET
Guest Expert: Lee Odden, TopRank Online Marketing

Gone are the days of optimizing web sites through a sprinkling of keywords and submissions to the search engines. Today's savvy marketer integrates a mix of tactics to gain the credibility and authority necessary for dominant search engine rankings.

Veteran Internet Marketer, Lee Odden of TopRank Online Marketing will discuss how a combination of search engine optimization, blogging and online PR can provide a distinct advantage over traditional web site marketing methods. He’ll explain the core concepts of search engine optimization as well as specific blog marketing and press release optimization tactics that any web site owner can implement.

Lee Odden is President of TopRank Online Marketing,a leading search marketing agency specializing in helping companies increase traffic, sales and brand visibility online. Lee publishes Online Marketing Blog and contributes to Business Blog Consulting, AllBusiness.com and Lockergnome in addition to speaking about SEO, blogs and PR at Search Engine Strategies, Pubcon, eComXpo and DMA conferences. He has also been quoted by U.S. News, The Economist and DM News.

Register:  www.ConversationsWithExperts.com

If you cannot attend the live event, you can pre-order the audio program for only $4.95 and save 50% on the regular fee.  Order now and save 50%.

Conversations with Experts: How to Build Your Business On and Off-line
Hosted by Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff.

Conversations with Experts is sponsored by Build a Better Blog System.

New Books on the Shelf

A few new books have landed on my shelf recently.

Of course I'm browsing through Andy Wibbels' Blogwild! and I will be looking over Blogging for Business by Shel Holtz and Ted Demopoulos soon as well.

I'm currently sitting in on a class about Growing your Business with Google with Dave Taylor (who wrote the book by the same name and which is excellent) and Steven Van Yoder so I picked up Steve's book, Get Slightly Famous.  Finally in keeping with getting famous, I also am going through Robert Bly's book Become a Recognized Authority in Your Field in 60 Days or Less.

Really, what these books all have in common is that they are guides to building your business and leveraging your expertise.  Now I just have to get through them all and apply what I learn!