233 Social Networking Sites for Marketing Your Blog
Published September 30th, 2007 in Social Media - 240 Comments
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about using niche 2nd-tier social media sites to create a domino effect of traffic with larger social media sites . Since then I have received a number of requests to compile a list of social media sites. Here is a categorized list of what I have found. [...]
Weekly Links
Published September 29th, 2007 in Links - 19 Comments
Ten Timeless Persuasive Writing Techniques from Copyblogger 7 Usability Mistakes that Bug Me from Bruce Clay 46 Tax Deductions that Bloggers Often Overlook from ProBlogger How to Set Up Google Custom Search for Your Website and Make Money from DoshDosh What’s Your Point? How to Write Like You Have One from Blogging Tips 29 Reasons [...]
An Interview with Chris Garrett
Published September 28th, 2007 in Blogging - 6 Comments
Many of you are probably familiar with Chris Garrett. His blog ChrisG.com currently has almost 5,000 subscribers, and he also provides consulting and a variety of other services through omiq. He writes on blogging and new media, as well as other various topics for other blogs. Hopefully you can learn something from him through this [...]
3 Powerful Results from Internal Linking
Published September 27th, 2007 in Traffic Generation - 24 Comments
We all know that internal linking to your own pages and blog posts is important, but recently I experience some proof of this fact. Many of you have seen the post from about 2 weeks ago, 77 Resources to Simplify Your Life as a Web Designer. In addition to all of the external links included [...]
12 Ways to Avoid Blogging Burnout
Published September 26th, 2007 in Blogging - 19 Comments
I think everyone who has consistently maintained a blog for any length of time has faced the issue of burnout. Sometimes it’s difficult to keep moving forward, and these situations lead many bloggers to quit. With the tips listed below you will be able to prevent a major burnout in your blogging efforts. 1 – [...]
Using Social Media to Find Quality Information
Published September 25th, 2007 in Social Media - 13 Comments
There are plenty of articles, including some of my own, that focus on techniques for drawing traffic from social media websites like Digg, StumbleUpon and del.icio.us, but there is very little written about using these social media sites to find quality information. The point may seem illogical since social media sites supposedly show the best, [...]
What Types of Posts Draw the Most Comments and Links?
Published September 24th, 2007 in Blogging - 27 Comments
Like most bloggers, I’m always interested in increasing the quality and quantity of comments and inbound links to my posts. I decided to do some analysis to see if I could find any patterns or trends by looking at some of my existing posts. I started by breaking them down into 3 classifications: List posts [...]
Putting Your Network Into Action
Published September 20th, 2007 in Uncategorized - 10 Comments
Yesterday I wrote about the value of a network for bloggers. Today I’d like to list some ideas for working together with your network for mutual benefit. 1 – Interviews Do you have someone in your network that could share a lot of valuable information with your readers? Ask for an interview. It will give [...]
Weekly Links
Published in Links - 19 Comments
I’ll be away for a few days and unable to respond to comments and emails. If you contact me I’ll get back to you early next week. Here are the weekly links (a little earlier than usual). Thanks for reading. 30 Fonts You Want to Have from Devlounge. 7 Practical Tips to Increase Your Feed [...]
The Value of a Network
Published September 19th, 2007 in Blogging - 21 Comments
Every successful blogger is part of a network of other bloggers. The community aspect is extremely important for a number of reasons that we’ll look at below. Building a strong network is not difficult, but it does require you to be proactive. What can a network do for me? First of all I should clarify [...]
