· May 31, 2007 at 7:55 am · Personal, Web Development
Tags: advertising, marketing, networks, plugs, promotion, SEO, tips, visitors
If you have several mildly successful Web sites, how can you gain even more attention and readers without doing much work? Well, one technique I have been doing since day one is self promotion. Think of it as loving yourself when nobody else wants to do so.
Learn to Love Yourself
Now we all put links back to our own Web sites and projects. There is nothing new or different about that advice. If you have several dynamic Web sites though, you can plug links in that will lead to real content and not just give you another link or two. Let me explain.
Thanks to a few WordPress plugins here and there, I have at the bottom of my three major Web sites links where you can find “other work” I have done. So if somebody was reading this for an example and thought, “Damn that Mitch is pretty cool, where can I find more of his work?” they have it right there for them.
Thanks to that and to me linking to my other projects - I bring more links into myself than anybody else on the Web. In a way, I guess you could think of me as my own little “network” of Web sites with each one promoting the next one in the circle.
No Super Tool To Help You Here
There is no special extension or super plugin that will help you make this happen. You just have to use a little imagination and the tools that are available to you. Remember you are giving your visitors just a little more content - not an advertisement.
· November 23, 2006 at 7:39 am · Personal
Tags: Christmas, list, plugs, readers, thankful, thanks, Thanksgiving
It is the one big pain in the butt that we all complain about around the holiday season. It seems like the Christmas stuff comes out in the stores just a little too early for everybody.
Now I am no scrooge, but I think in a few more years Thanksgiving will probably be nothing more than a start of the Christmas holiday season. Is there a war on Christmas? Heck no! There is a war on Thanksgiving. Every year it seems to die down in importance.
Ok, I feel better now that I got that out of my system. 
Personally, due to the wacky working schedules of my family - we will not be doing our Thanksgiving here till Saturday, so I have a little extra time to be thankful for a few other things right now.
As always I am thankful for still being at Lockergnome, it is a place that never seems to get dull because there is always something new to read or something new being done behind the scenes. I am also thankful that Lunarpages brought me on to help the Web hosting public, one confused newbie at a time.
I am thankful I have had more than 20,000 download of my eBook Firefox Facts. Also, I am thankful that you have allowed me onto your mp3 players for almost two years now via the Web Hosting Show.
Last but not least, I am thankful for all my readers (even the ones here) that follow my ramblings at all the different places that I share my views on the world.
