21st Century Marketing Tools News

I just noticed that it has been a year since I last posted to this news blog.

I won’t bore you with the details, but it doesn’t mean the site isn’t active and important to me. I will be adding new marketing tools to the directory over time, but I do my best to add only the best tools I can find and take some time to test most of them.

That said, most of my writing about affiliate marketing, marketing tools, and similar topics are at John Dilbeck And Friends.

I’ll update this news site when I add items to the directory or make significant changes to the 21st Century Marketing Tools home page.

Today, for example, I added a link to Site Build It! on the home page that has a large graphic link to more information about what SBI is all about and why I think it is the best marketing tool I can recommend.

This new graphic link will automatically be updated whenever Sitesell is offering any special promotions or discounts, like this smaller one:

I added it today because SBI will be available on a 2-for-1 special holiday promotion between December 12, 2007 and midnight on December 25, 2007.

When that graphic shows any kind of special promotion, you’ll know that you can save money on buying SBI.

Why buy two instead of one? Keep both and build two sites of your own. Keep one and sell the other. Get a friend or relative to go in with you so you’ll each save money and get a site of your own. Buy one for yourself and give the other as a gift, or even give a gift to two people.

There are many ways current Site Build It! webmasters have saved money by taking advantage of Sitesell special promotions.

This 2-for-1 special is the very lowest price/best value of the entire year. If you are interested, don’t miss this special.

Act on your dream!

JD

Right after WordPress came out with version 2 of their outstanding blogging software, I learned that they offer free hosting for blogs at WordPress.com. So, to test out version 2 without having to install it myself and go through the inevitable rounds of upgrading and security patching, I signed up for a free account and started my test blog at Random Neurons Firing.

One of the great things about WordPress.com is that all the upgrades are handled by skilled technicians who understand the software. If you want to create a blog with multiple categories and more features than what you can get with Blogger.com, WordPress.com may be just what you are looking for.

I highly recommend WordPress.com.

(Added to our directory in the Weblog Hosting category.)

I don’t have time right now to redo the entire theme for this blog, but I did take the time to modify the graphic in the header and I changed the organization of the sidebar around so that the archives and categories list would be right below the search box.

Hopefully, that will make it a bit easier to navigate the blog and find the information you’re looking for.

Navigation could stand a bit of improvement, but I’ll have to work on that later.

Even though I’m in the middle of several projects that are probably more important, I’ve decided I don’t like the look of this blog, so I’m going to change it.

Why am I talking about it here rather than just changing it behind the scenes?

I’m new to WordPress and I’m having to learn my way around it one step at a time. I’m building two sites around this script, so it is a worthwhile investment of my time and energy learning how to grok it as much as possible so I can get it to do as close to what I want as I can.

With the introduction of WordPress 1.5, they have introduced themes.

Documentation: Using Themes

Emily Robbins has compiled a list of over 200 Themes for WordPress 1.5 and has even been nice enough to indicate which are 3-column themes.

Right now, changing the appearance of this blog is a lower priority than the behind-the-scenes work of adding to my blog and website network infrastructure.

However, if you come back here one day and everything looks different, don’t be surprised.

All the best,

JD
I succeed by helping you succeed.

Earlier today, I wrote an article about using blogging to help bring more visitors to your website — for free. I’m sure that’s something that everyone with a website would like.

Follow the steps in the article:

How to get more visitors to your website for free

If you are technically inclined, it will take less than an hour to do this and you should see more visitors to your site in the next couple of weeks or less.

If you are not particularly technically inclined, follow the steps just as they’re shown and you can do this in less than two hours. I think you’ll be happy with the results of such a small amount of time and effort.

If you’ve been having a hard time getting your site listed in the major search engines — Google, Yahoo, and MSN — this technique has been known to be effective in getting your site spidered and indexed in under a week.

Of course, you have to do your part and create quality content for both your website and your blog on a regular basis, but this will help you get into the search engines or get higher placements in the results.

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Se0-Blog.org has been added to the Blogs section of the 21st Century Marketing Tools Directory.

This is an easy to use free blog hosting service.

Blogster.com has been added to the Blogs section of the 21st Century Marketing Tools Directory.

eNewsBlog has been added to the Blogs section of the 21st Century Marketing Tools Directory.

They offer free blogs with easy setup.

I’ve created a test blog there to evaluate the service.

RapidFeeds has been added to the Blogs section of the 21st Century Marketing Tools Directory.

RapidFeeds is not really a blog service, but I’m listing it there because of what it does — build RSS feeds quickly and easily.

Sure, you have a blog and don’t need this, since your RSS feed is created automatically, but if you have a website, you may want to look into RapidFeeds.

Why?

How do you document any changes you make to the site? How do you syndicate it?

RapidFeeds may be just what you’re looking for.