April 10, 2008 – 10:02 am
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Journalism sudents need the right tools — and skills — for the kinds of careers and opportunities they’re really going to be making for themselves.
Picking up on my post yesterday, Univ. of Florida journalism professor Mindy McAdams challenged me (and her other readers) to translate my quick list of what j-schools [...]
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There are lots of different ways to brand yourself.
Yesterday my colleague Jim Kukral wrote about why he’s decided to focus on centralizing his personal brand. He wrote:
“My biggest mistake from the past 7-years or so was not building my personal brand on my own blog hard enough, earlier enough. Some may wonder why someone like [...]
March 25, 2008 – 11:04 am
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Despite what MSN’s search engine thinks, I am NOT hawking drugs on this site…
(UPDATE: Since initially posting this, I’ve learned a bit more. The plot thickens…)
My friend the SEO maven Brett Borders just alerted me to some disturbing news. Apparently, Microsoft’s search engine thinks this blog, which I’ve run since 1998, is drug spam.
Brett got [...]
JoniMitchell.com
A bloggier home page definitely doesn’t have to be ugly.
Right now, several of my clients are working on site redesigns and also are looking for ways to increase site traffic. One of the most basic strategies for attracting more traffic to your site is making your site more appealing to search engines. That’s why I’m [...]
November 30, 2007 – 2:27 pm
Firefox users: To disable Adblock Plus on Lijit.com (or any site), you’ll need to add this handy red icon to your toolbar.
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I was trying out the search widget Lijit on this site — not just for site search, but as a “me collector” (to aggregate all my [...]
November 11, 2007 – 2:01 pm
Lijit as a “me collector” — see it in action in my sidebar.
Yesterday I finally got around to implementing the Lijit search widget on this blog. I didn’t realize until I started playing around with the widget settings that this cool little tool actually goes a long way toward being the kind of “me collector” [...]
September 3, 2007 – 2:42 pm
freelanceswitch.com
Freelance Switch offered great search visibility advice — for about five years ago.
The blog Freelance Switch just published an intriguing post, Getting Exposure On Search Engines, which addresses one of the most common questions freelance writers or other content producers have. Namely, how can I make myself easy to find online?” For freelancers especially this [...]