7 Brilliant Blogging Resources That Rock! (NMS #002)
September 2, 2009 by Sherman Hu
Filed under Blogging, Featured, New Media Simplified Ezine
In today’s issue, a Firefox addon to help with blog seo. Evergreen strategy to promote blogs. Blog with an iPhone app. 3 tips to create better blog content. Get in tune with your readers needs. 5 ways to make your writing timeless. Finally, 3 ways to figure out how frequent you should publish on your blog.
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7 Brilliant Blogging Resources That Rock!
1. Blog Post Optimization with SEO Blogger
The folks at Wordtracker (keyword research company) have cooked up a Firefox add-on called ‘SEO Blogger’ in their labs, to supply you with keywords and related phrases (along with recent search volume) in your sidebar, so you can optimize your blog posts while writing it. I’ve tried it and it rocks!
http://shermanlive.com/go/seoblogger
2. An Evergreen Strategy To Promoting Your Blog
Most bloggers have the mindset that blogging is 97% writing and 3% promotion. While writing is important, brilliantly crafted blog posts with effective promotion that gets it spread around the web is way more effective. Discover one evergreen strategy to promoting your blog that will pay super dividends for your efforts.
http://shermanlive.com/go/promovsproduction
3. iPhone Users Blog Easily With PicPosterous App
The popular minimalist blogging service, Posterous, launched its own iPhone app called PicPosterous. Until now, you’d have to email pics to upload your content to your Posterous account. With the new app, you can take photos or video directly from within the app, or choose from your iPhone library. You can easily add your media to an album without starting a new blog post.
http://shermanlive.com/go/picposterous
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4. 3 Tips To Creating Better Blog Content
Do you want a wider audience, more subscribers, better conversion to paying customers, fanatically loyal readers, and enviable word of mouth? Apply these 3 tips to make your reader’s life better, entice them to eat up your blog posts right away, and give them a pleasurable experience from reading your blog.
http://shermanlive.com/go/3tipscookiecontent
5. How To Get In Tune With Your Readers Needs And Produce Compelling Content
These 6 ways to stay in tune with your readers’ needs will help you create compelling content, over and over again. In addition, the 3 tips and exercise offered will help you easily produce compelling blog content for years to come.
http://shermanlive.com/go/6waysreadersneeds
6. 5 Ways To Make Your Writing Timeless
When you write articles for your blog, is it your intention to make them timeless or “here today, gone tomorrow”? The pain of irrelevant content is losing readers, traffic and credibility as a writer. To create timeless posts, simply follow these 5 guidelines when writing.
http://shermanlive.com/go/5timelesswritingtips
7. 3 Ways To Determine How often To Post To Your Blog
Ever wonder how frequent you should post to your blog? This is a common struggle for most bloggers, and this article shares 3 ways to determine the answer to this question. Once you decide how frequent you are going to blog, you can schedule your routine to fit your plan.
http://shermanlive.com/go/3postfrequencytips
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Until the next issue, here’s wishing you much health, wealth, prosperity – and productivity,
Sherman Hu
Wendy Y Bailey Interviews Sherman Hu on Wordpress Blogging for Business
January 15, 2009 by Sherman Hu
Filed under Blogging, Interviews, Video
Wendy Y Bailey of DIY Tech Talk is a colleague and social media buddy on Twitter. She interviewed me about the use of Wordpress for business, and expanded on topics ranging from purpose of a blog for business use, plugins – along with my favorite plugins, themes – along with which 3 I recommend, integration with social media, and how to rank well and be visible on Google with blogs.
In this conversation, I shared edu-taining strategies using video to be visible, outrank your competition, and build your brand and expertise – tune in to this part of the conversation!
As always, I appreciate your feedback and comments on your takeaways, and your thoughts on this video’s content. Cheers!
Show Notes
01:22 AngelaBaden : Great, great show!
01:22 shermanlive-1 : Thanks peeps!
01:22 shermanlive-1 : thanks Angela!
01:24 AngelaBaden : That really helped, I was feeling rather stymied by what wasn’t going on
01:24 shermanlive : good! rock and roll now! 
01:26 AngelaBaden : Will do! Will tweet you and andy
01:55 shermanlive : let me un-password my show peeps – sorry
01:56 shermanlive : ok, go ahead and refresh the page – there shouldn’t be a password requirement now
01:56 shermanlive : !moderateon
01:56 shermanlive : !topic DIY Tech Talk: WordPress with Sherman Hu – Interview Host: Wendy Y Bailey
03:00 lisamariemary : Hi Sherman! 
03:02 shermanlive : HEY HEY LISA MARIE!!!
03:02 shermanlive : let your peeps know we’re gonna party about … now
03:03 lisamariemary : Will do!
03:03 lisamariemary : Yes
03:03 DaveMarshall : good here
03:03 lisamariemary : Volume just right to me
03:09 shermanlive : wazzup peeps!
03:10 lisamariemary : Hey Tony! Man, I need to visit your forum!
03:11 WendyYBailey : snipurl.com/diy-wp-wendyy
03:11 WendyYBailey : that’s to join the webinar!!
03:12 TonyBlake : Yes you do Lisa… LOL!
03:13 TonyBlake : SHOUT!
03:14 lisamariemary : Eeks – I know, I’ve neglected you 
03:15 lisamariemary : eeks, sound gone
03:15 lisamariemary : what happened to the audio? is it just me?
03:16 LifeCoachMary : I love the pictures of food!! Yummo.
03:16 shermanlive : do u hear us now?
03:16 AndreaC : I hear fine
03:16 shermanlive : HEY LIFECOACHMARY!!!
03:16 lisamariemary : No, maybe I need to log in and out…hmm…
03:16 LifeCoachMary : sound isn’t synced to the phone…
03:16 shermanlive : refresh?
03:17 lisamariemary : All better! Ahh!
03:17 LifeCoachMary : do you know what the link is for Wendyy’s snip.url?
03:17 shermanlive : yes there’s a delay
03:17 shermanlive : snipurl.com/diy-wp-wendyy
03:17 AndreaC : No better to make a choice with the audio, either or
03:18 lisamariemary : Audio’s all fixed for me
03:18 AndreaC : lol
03:18 AndreaC : whats “for” dinner?
03:21 LifeCoachMary : Thanks…all this technology is very cool.
03:22 WendyYBailey : I love SEO, especially the All In One SEO Plugin for WordPress!
03:23 WendyYBailey : What questions do you have about SEO and WordPress?
03:24 AndreaC : Besides using the SEO plugin what else do you recommend doing?
03:26 WendyYBailey : What’s a trackback?
03:26 LisaVanAllen : Thanks for asking that WendyY
03:27 lisamariemary : LOL!!!
03:27 LisaVanAllen : I was getting scared
03:27 WendyYBailey : LOL
03:29 AndreaC : would you only do one or the other – comment or trackback?
03:34 LisaVanAllen : When my prospects google “LisaVanAllen” these days, they find pg 1 filled with info on a woman involved in a notorious lawsuit (NOT ME). Any way to knock her off and regain page 1??
03:36 LisaVanAllen : Is that QAlias?
03:36 shermanlive : www.qalias.com/
03:37 WendyYBailey : qalias.com/af/wb01
03:37 LisaVanAllen : Got any contacts for me??
03:37 shermanlive : i’ll send U “TONY”
03:37 lisamariemary : LOL!
03:37 LisaVanAllen : heehee
03:38 lisamariemary : lol
03:38 LisaVanAllen : It was NASTY!
03:38 lisamariemary : Squidoo!
03:39 LisaVanAllen : Not yet… will now!!
03:39 LisaVanAllen : Just getting started with video
03:39 lisamariemary : And use blogspot and youtube, too – they seem to get in the SERPS fairly quickly
03:39 LisaVanAllen : How FUN!!!!
03:39 AndreaC : brilliant!!
03:40 lisamariemary : Oooh, yeah!!! That’d be cool!
03:40 WendyYBailey : You got the right one, baby!!
03:40 lisamariemary : Awesome!
03:40 shermanlive : TubeMogul.com
03:40 LisaVanAllen : That is a fabulous idea!!
03:40 lisamariemary : I love it! And it’d make a cute Squidoo lens!
03:41 LisaVanAllen : THANK YOU!!!
03:41 LisaVanAllen : Yup with R Kelly
03:41 LisaVanAllen : NOT ME!
03:41 LisaVanAllen : Yes… very white!
03:41 lisamariemary : lol
03:41 lisamariemary : lmao!!!
03:42 AndreaC : So when I search Lisa Van Allen next month, hope to see this video
03:42 lisamariemary : No problems with new version? I’m scared to upgrade
03:43 TonyBlake : No probs so far Lisa… upgrade was easy and no probs
03:44 lisamariemary : Groovy!
03:44 TonyBlake : I’ve upgraded all my blogs to 2.7 and have yet to have a prob — and I have like 35 blogs
03:44 lisamariemary : OMG, Tony – wow!
03:44 LisaVanAllen : 35?!?!?!? Where do you find the time?
03:44 WendyYBailey : WOOHOO!
03:45 lisamariemary : Tony is super groovy!
03:45 LisaVanAllen : Tony – can we be friends?
03:45 AndreaC : www.ablakeforum.com
03:45 TonyBlake :
03:45 TonyBlake : @tonyblakelive
03:46 WendyYBailey : What plug-ins do you suggest?
03:47 TonyBlake : I love sharethis… makes life so easy
03:47 WendyYBailey : plug-ins: sharethis
03:47 WendyYBailey : plug-ins: twittertools
03:49 WendyYBailey : post a digest of your tweets on your blog
03:49 WendyYBailey : kewlio!
03:49 LisaVanAllen : Loving this!
03:49 WendyYBailey : Me too, Lisa!
03:49 SelfMadeCelo : Another great plugin is “Lifestream” reads RSS feeds from a ton of different social sites (Digg, FaceBook, Twitter, Flickr, etc) and posts it on one page
03:49 LifeCoachMary : Where do we find that twitter to blog tool? Very cool!
03:49 shermanlive : “Share This”
03:49 WendyYBailey : plug-ins: podpress
03:50 shermanlive : “Twitter Tools
03:50 TonyBlake : lifestream is another cool plugin — it posts your twitter or a twitter digest directly to your blog as a post
03:50 shermanlive : “Podpress” MightySeek.com
03:50 SelfMadeCelo : @Tony, great minds think alike eh? lol
03:51 TonyBlake : LOL!… didn’t see your comment
03:51 shermanlive : WishlistPlugin.com
03:51 SelfMadeCelo : I’m actually setting up Lifestream right now =)
03:55 WendyYBailey : snipurl.com/diy-wp-wendyy
03:55 LifeCoachMary : Are plugins easy to install, or is it best to delegate to VA?
03:56 LisaVanAllen : Give me a call Wendy!
03:57 LisaVanAllen : Answer Mary’s question about whether we should hire a VA for our plugins??
03:57 WendyYBailey : Plug-ins are easy but do delegate to a VA so you can focus on doing what you truly love — coaching!
03:58 LifeCoachMary : Thank you!! Now I know how my peeps feel not understanding all this language. Thanks for doing this!
03:58 WendyYBailey : You’re quite welcome!
04:02 WendyYBailey : tutorialu.com
04:03 WendyYBailey : wordpresstutorials.com
04:03 WendyYBailey : diytechtalk.com
04:03 WendyYBailey : GENIUS!!
04:04 WendyYBailey : You might also have a web dev/project manager to handle that stuff too.
04:04 LifeCoachMary : You make it sound not so scary…but I’ll probably still delegate.
04:05 shermanlive : lol – good for you!
04:05 LifeCoachMary : If we’re a newbie with plugins, what’s the one or two we should add first?
04:05 WendyYBailey : elance.com
04:05 shermanlive : odesk.com
04:05 WendyYBailey : guru.com
04:05 WendyYBailey : odefk.com
04:05 WendyYBailey : lol odesk.com
04:06 WendyYBailey : Do you know joselin mane?
04:06 LisaVanAllen : Joselin Mane is awesome!
04:06 LisaVanAllen : So, so helpful!
04:07 WendyYBailey : groupcoachingmastery.com is a Semiologic pro/WP blog.
04:09 WendyYBailey : That’s way kewl!
