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Tip without a Number or good old mobiles

Well, I left my blog “untouched” for a while just because I am pretty busy with new Projects. At the same time my phone line was “accidentally cut” during some roadwork, which left me both without broadband and modem altogether! Not nice!

Typing in with any type of a mobile device, even 3G, and trying to use WordPress is something really daunting.

I dug out my old mobile and made an easy GPRS connection just because it’s cable is a simple mini USB which you could find virtually everywhere. Tip: don’t throw away your old mobiles, they might be useful one day … Continue Reading

Ranking-shmanking or bye-bye Alexa

Today I’ve received a junk mail from a Web promotion company regarding one of my websites. You know, one of these rouge SEO people that cant find clients and try to spam and get at least some business. This time a sentence from their letter attracted my attention. Here we go: “We have checked your Alexa ranking (well done, I never thought about doing it myself) and found that it has dropped (really, so I use to have some ranking there) and you visitor’s base dropped by 50% in last three month (should I now be after AWStats makers, such … Continue Reading

Tip No.7 Make a small change in your article and avoid being rejected by Ezine

I have published quite a few articles on Ezine. Sometimes I was puzzled why an article which has nothing to do with any marketing or promotions is being rejected as “overpromotional”. Until I have found a very simple reason:

Tip No.7 – When sending articles to Ezine avoid using “I” or “my”, instead of it put words like “some”, “usually”, etc. In this editor is not under impression that you are promoting yourself or your service. And don’t forget that even with this tip the main point is: your articles should still be useful and informative.