Sometimes I want to make a picture of my computer screen and share it in my blog or in my social networks. I really like jing.com for that purpose. Once you download it, it sits on top of your screen as a half circle that activates when you put the mouse over it. You can select which part of the screen you want to capture. Then, you can then make a picture or a video from your selection (in the pro version, you can also record from a webcam). The next step is to name your recording. After that, you can decide if you just want to save the screenshot, want to share it via screencast.com, copy it or edit it in Snagit. Snagit does not come with Jing, you would have to purchase that separately. The best thing about Jing is that it is for free as long as you use the basic version (without the webcam option). Here is an example of my post:
You decided to start your blog and did your research. You have a great topic and a new angle on it. The blog is looking good and there is some content in it. SEO is done. Keywords are in place and tags added. How do you get people to find your blog now?
You can just wait until the search engines crawl your blog and appear in the search results. It might take a while, but it is a possibility. Or you can speed up the process with these 3 easy to follow suggestions:
First, submit your blog to blog directories. Just Google “blog directories” and you will find a lot of them. Make sure that it is a good blog directory by looking if they have the blogs categorized, the ability to subscribe to your RSS feed and how strong the page rank of the directory is. Some good ones are: http://www.technorati.com, http://www.blogarama.com and http://blogcatalog.com. By adding your blog to a blog directory, you add to your blog’s SEO because most of the directories are well indexed by the search engines.
Second, use social bookmarking sites like http://www.delicious.com or http://www.digg.com.
Finally, integrate your blog with your social networks. Connect your blog in your LinkedIn profile, add it to your Facebook page and feed it to Twitter.
Now your blog is all over the web. People will find it. Make sure you keep the content great and fresh. Have fun!
