Real Reach

Let’s Get Real About Your Blog’s Reach Many ag bloggers start a blog to tell the world about how food is grown. They imagine if they just post enough and are forthright enough that their blog will be read by anyone looking for their information. I am going to be honest with you. It ain’t gonna happen. You might get a few people to stumble across your site and read a few passages. But these numbers...

Lots of Link Love

I had a great question asked to me this week. It was about links. What are the differences with all these links? Inbound links, Back links, Outbound links, nofollow links, external/internal links ect. Lets start with the basics. Link: short for hyperlink which is code that can be embedded into anchor text (or image) that when clicked will take you to another page, site or information. Internal links lead to pages within your...

Video Tutorial: Adding an Image to Sidebar

How to Add an Image to WordPress Sidebar Sometime you might want to display a photo or image in your wordpress sidebar. You could use code from an image hosting site such as photobucket or picasa. But I don’t like relying on a third party site to display my images. I have had them stop displaying for no reason. To easily get around this problem, is to hold the images right on your own blog. Follow these easy steps that...

11 Ways to Speed Blog

No Time To Blog Almost every blogger’s biggest obstacle to keeping up their website is the lack of time. But honestly what takes the most amount of time in blogging is setting it up. Once you have it started, maintaining and updating your blog doesn’t have to take that long. Yet reading the featured farmer guest posts, time is listed as the most common obstruction to blogging. So this post is for everyone that is...

Mobile Blogging

Blogging on the Road After you get your blog going, you have a number of posts published. You kinda get into a nice groove of putting your content out there, posting pictures of the cows, writing about hauling grain. Then it eventually happens. You go on vacation, to a conference, or just something comes up unexpectedly where you have to be gone for a number of days. Unless you have a couple of blog posts in the hole that can...

Facebook Fan Drive

Word on the street is Facebook is going to be big. Yeah I know it’s a long shot but it’s a risk I’m willing to take. Did you know A Facebook Page: provides another way to connect with your readers is another platform for your brand’s message allows your community to pass around your content becomes a funnel of information establishing your authority Amazing right? Who knew? To get in while it’s...

5 Ways to Make Twitter Work For You

Tweeting Your Blog Posts After you put the time and effort into your blog posts, you want people to see it.  One way to get it in front of more readers is to tweet it out. Let’s look into a few simple steps to get the biggest bang for your blog post. 1. When & How Often Research shows that tweets die after the first hour. Depending on who is watching their twitter feed in the hour you tweet, that tweet could end up...

Get Out There

You know I love my twitter. Chatting back and forth with other #agnerds and sharing information or funny pictures makes my day. It’s important to make connections with like-minded people. It keeps you informed and on your game. You never know how an acquaintance can help you out or you help them out. A friendship is just around the corner. Social media in general can be a real boost to your blog. “Speaking”...

Google Alerts and You

If you are not using Google Alerts, I strongly suggest you do. (google account needed) What are Google Alerts? Google Alerts are emails sent to you when Google finds new results — such as web pages, newspaper articles, or blogs — that match your search term. You can use Google Alerts to monitor anything on the Web. For example, people use Google Alerts to: find out what is being said about their company or...

How To Track Your Visitors

Every blogger wants to know whom their blog is reaching. If you don’t have any sort of stat counter added to your site then you are simply relying on comments to see who is reading your blog. Let me tell you. A miniscule amount of your visitors are leaving comments. So how do you know who has visited your site. There are a number of widgets/gadgets that can be added to your sidebar that show you the recent visitors. But...