Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

Funny story Content by Kyle Lowe My husband told me a funny story the other day. He said that a few weeks after we got married, we were both asleep in the middle of the night when he thought he heard someone in our house. He did not want to wake me up because he [...]

Building a brand? Even if all you do is maintain a blog, it pays to have the future in mind. When I started out blogging, it was just a hobby. I wrote about our family vacations and travels throughout New York State. The blog rapidly got attention from travel fans and advertisers, and my hobby [...]

You know what we webmasters and bloggers are being told, constantly? Content, content, content. That we must have good content– consistently– and the masses will come. But I do not think this is true (and Perez Hilton’s blog knocks the “only content” theory out of the water, anyway). You may have the BEST website, the [...]

Internet media marketing is HOT, ladies and gentlemen. Finally. I tentatively entered the world of media marketing thanks to my New York Traveler.net travel blog, which got the attention of advertisers and marketers in the travel arena. I quickly realized the vast potential before businesses (very small and very large and everyone in between), where [...]

If you are a blogger, you want amazing backlinks! Backlinks are links that people place on their websites that link back to your websites. Quantities of good backlinks are good for your blog– your blog gets more attention, your content gets read, and maybe advertisers want to give you money. Here’s a good, basic article [...]

It’s not easy, building an online career. I have been slowing working at it for three years now. I’m very, very happy with my work, but it was a bumpy ride with a lot of trial and error. Making money online is a very attractive venture. No commuting, no cranky co-workers, no ogre of a [...]