How to Improve Your Alexa Ranking

At BlogPaws this spring, one pet blogger asked me about improving your Alexa ranking. It’s a subject that there’s still quite a bit of mystery about in the blogosphere.
Alexa, a subsidiary of Amazon, is an important ranking because it provides an easy to access ranking of traffic. Basically it ranks websites, from 1 to multi-millions; [...]

BlogPaws Session on Business Blogging

My mind was still buzzing with ideas generated by Dr. Larry McDaniel’s luncheon address as I headed for the afternoon panel on Better Business Blogging. The man is a veritable quote machine!
Anyway, I settled in to hear a couple of veteran bloggers share the secrets of their success. Actually, there were three: Moderator Tom Collins, [...]

BlogPaws Panel Report: Contests, Sweepstakes & Promotions

During the afternoon session of BlogPaws, John headed to “Better Business Blogging” while I sat in on “The Nuts and Bolts of Contests, Sweepstakes, and Promotions.” We run weekly giveaways here on DogTipper plus larger contests as well so I was really interested in learning more about the topic.
The panel was given by:

Jenny Cisney, Kodak [...]

Our Business Cards

Several readers have asked us about our business cards after our pre-BlogPaws post that included a shot of our  cards.
We designed the cards ourselves using Photoshop and a template from VistaPrint. We opted for premium business cards with color printing on both sides (so we could add a photo of our dogs on the back, [...]

BlogPaws Report: Writing Pet Product Reviews

At BlogPaws, I attended the “Fair, Focused & Fun Product Reviews” panel while John headed to the panel on search engine optimization. We’re doing an increasing number of product reviews here on DogTipper, and I was interested in learning more on this topic including how to best comply with the new FTC guidelines for bloggers [...]

5 Ways Pet Bloggers Are Like Mommy Bloggers

At the recent BlogPaws conference for pet bloggers, the advertising and monetization panel that Paris presented on also included Jane Cuoto from MomGenerations.com. Jane brought up a great point: pet bloggers are part of the large and very successful “mommy blog” phenomenon. These blogs, aimed at mothers (often with young children), have become an important [...]

Report: BlogPaws Panel on SEO

While Paris was attending the morning BlogPaws session on product reviews, I decided to check out the panel on Search Engine Optimization (SEO). I’m glad I did as I scooped up loads of valuable information presented by some very SEO-savvy speakers. Over the years as Paris and I have developed our website and blogs, we’ve [...]

Monetizing Your Blog Through Advertising and Sponsorships

At BlogPaws 2010, I had the chance to participate on a panel about monetizing your blog! The panel also included:

Anita Campbell, Small Business Trends
Christina Kwan and Nicole Daute, DogTime Media
Jane Couto, MomGenerations.com

Anita served as the moderator for the panel and brought her expertise on the topic of small business trends to the panel. She’s a [...]

Monetizing Your Blog: Our Presentation

As part of the “Monetizing Your Blog Through Sponsorships and Advertising” panel at BlogPaws 2010, I gave a presentation about our experiences at DogTipper as a member of the DogTime Media’s blog network. Nicole at DogTime made a super Powerpoint presentation that she and Christina, our ad representative, used for their part of the presentation, [...]

BlogPaws 2010 Photos

We had a great time at this weekend’s BlogPaws conference, the first annual conference for pet bloggers. We’re working on detailed posts about each of the panels we attended (and the panel Paris was on about blog monetization) and keynote speeches but wanted to share some various photos from the event.
Registration took place in the [...]

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