Domain Registration Start Building Your Brand Today When it comes to branding your website or blog, there’s no better way to get started then to get yourself setup with a fresh, easy-sounding domain name.  Having your own domain is…

The Blogging world is like an enormous marathon. It’s not a sprint, but a cross country endurance race. There are around 100 million runners in this race. Every day, new runners are joining, but they are forced to start at the beginning. Every day, all day, these people are running against each other. But because…

Let’s drastically revolutionize the way we blog in 2010. One of the most difficult challenges that bloggers are facing is how to build high quality blog traffic in 2010. Many of the tips below aren’t necessarily tips that are unique to this year. Rather this is a serious challenge for you to determine to use…

I love comments and so on Valentine’s Day I’m going to be giving away some cash to those who join in the conversation here at Site Sketch 101. I’m wanting to take the level of conversation and interaction here up to the next level. I want users interacting with me and with other readers.  I…

In this third and final post of the series, we look at relationship marketing and sum up all valid points Internet Marketing has always had very little human interaction involved – with everything prewritten, prearranged and published without really truly connecting with the end user. At last, bloggers now have an awesome opportunity to correct…

A few days ago, you all were presented with a collection of The 35 Most Beautiful Websites in 2010. But as we looked through these stunning sites, we were interested in more than just casually browsing through an art gallery. We’re interested in consistently learning and improving our own websites and blogs. The creators of those websites designed them with much different…

Starting a blog is often the most difficult part of the entire blogging process. It’s at this stage that you’re building something to work with and then striving to build momentum like traffic and engagement. This is the point in blogging where you are literally working to transform nothing into something. How to Start a…

Starting a blog is often the most difficult part of the entire blogging process. It’s at this stage that you’re building something to work with and then striving to build momentum like traffic and engagement. This is the point in blogging where you are literally working to transform nothing into something. How to Start a…

In part one of this series, FTC Regulations and Their Impact on Your Blog, we talked about the Federal Trade Commission’s  new rules and the issue of mandatory disclosure. We now continue here. The second part of the announcement is a more enormous issue, however. It covers Testimonials. Before the new regulations, people used testimonials…

In the ongoing struggle to build powerful online brands, people are becoming more creative every day. New artistic styles are emerging and web design as we know it is being transformed. The websites referenced in this post are the perfect proof for this concept. If you operate a website or a blog then pay attention.…

There has never been a more exciting or a more scary time in history than now. A lot of things have changed faster in the last two decades than in all of the 17th and 18th centuries combined. How people get and digest their information is evolving quickly. Old Media companies are having a tough…

A few days ago I published an article called The 15 Best WordPress Plugins for 2010. That article quickly became very popular. It received hundreds of retweets. It secured hundreds of delicious bookmarks.  It had over 100 comments on it by the morning after it was published and it’s still receiving new comments each day. …

I’ve seen your site. I clicked a link and came face to face with your home page. As soon as I landed there I searched frantically for something that I could at least pretend was interesting but I just couldn’t find it. My head smashed into my keyboard as my body convulsed into instantaneous sleep.…

When your blog is new, no one wants to hang out with you, but this can be turned around. You too can become the popular kid by knowing how to leave awesome comments that get noticed. If you have your own blog, and you get comments, you know what you like to see and what…

Every day we’re bombarded with blog articles. Right now as I look in Google Reader, I see that I have over 400 unread blog posts from sites that I highly respect. But many of these I’ll only skim through as I search out the ones that really hold the most value for me. I’m a…