Weekly Links
Published August 9th, 2007 in Links - 2 Comments
How to Get into the Google TrustBox from Blog Storm How to Display the Number of Del.icio.us Saves from Paul Stamatiou Bulletproof Web Design (Second Edition) is a book written by Dan Cederholm. The Second Edition, just released, is obviously an update to the first edition, which I highly recommend. Google Hack: Finding Supplemental Results [...]
Getting the Most Out of Your FAQ Page
Published August 8th, 2007 in Design - 6 Comments
Frequently Asked Question pages are usually an after-thought when designing a website. They’re sometimes thrown together just to provide some basic information for visitors so they won’t have to email or call for answers. If this is the case, there’s a huge amount of potential that’s being wasting. FAQ pages can be one of the [...]
10 Ways to Design for Impatient Visitors
Published August 7th, 2007 in Design, Uncategorized - 13 Comments
In order to increase the chances of your website’s content being read by your visitors, you will need to make a considerable effort to design with their impatience in mind. In this article we’ll quickly look at 10 ways you can prepare your site for impatient visitors. Since I’m assuming your attention span is as [...]
A Guide to Promoting Your Blog Through Guest Posts
Published August 6th, 2007 in Blog Promotion - 123 Comments
If you’re looking to increase the exposure of your blog and gain new readers, consider submitting articles to be posted on other blogs. This article will cover the reasons for writing for other blogs as well as the steps required for a beneficial experience. Why Write Guest Posts for Other Blogs? 1 – It’s one [...]
Weekly Links
Published August 3rd, 2007 in Links - 0 Comments
7 Things You Need to Know About Writing Lists That Work from CopyBlogger. Muhammad Saleem explains why lists make effective blog posts and how you can use them on your own blog. Google Dumps Supplemental Name Not Index from Marketing Pilgrim. Last week I wrote an article about getting out of Google’s supplemental index, and [...]
30 Keyword Tools to Use for Your Website
Published August 2nd, 2007 in Marketing, SEO - 77 Comments
Part of having a successful website or blog is targeting the right keywords and phrases. This sounds like it would be an easy task, but with endless possible combinations of words and phrases it can be quite difficult to find keywords that will generate traffic from search engines without putting you in competition with too [...]
Removing the NoFollow Tags
Published in Blogging - 16 Comments
Update: This post is no longer accurate. Links in comments are now nofollow. The DoFollow plugin is now installed and active on this blog, which means comments no longer include the NoFollow tag in links! If you’re not familiar with NoFollow tags, they are a way of preventing search engines from following and indexing links. [...]
July In Review
Published August 1st, 2007 in Links - 0 Comments
July has been an exciting month here as our traffic has grown considerably. During the month we had a total of 26,458 visitors and 45,896 pageviews. Some of our most popular posts were: 83 Top Webmaster Tools (actually posted in May, but had the most pageviews of any post in July) Find the Perfect Colors [...]
5 Ways to Get Noticed by A-List Bloggers
Published July 31st, 2007 in Blogging - 30 Comments
Jonathan Phillips wrote a post yesterday, Getting A-Listers to Notice Your Blog vs. Social Networking. In the article Jon asks his readers which source they would prefer to send them traffic. He mentions that his experience has shown that visitors who are referred from other blogs are more likely to stay on the site longer [...]
160+ RSS Tools, Tips, Resources and More
Published July 30th, 2007 in Blogging, Design - 10 Comments
Articles Introduction to RSS What is RSS? RSS Explained RSS Specifications RSS 2.0 Specification History of RSS 35 Ways You Can Use RSS Today Making Headlines with RSS The Evolution of RSS 8 Easy Ways to Monetize Your RSS Feed RSS – Taking it to the People Creating an RSS Feed – Articles/Tutorials RSS Tutorial [...]
