Using Social Media to Find Quality Information

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, or [...]

What Types of Posts Draw the Most Comments and Links?

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 (primarily links [...]

Putting Your Network Into Action

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 your readers [...]

Weekly Links

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 Readers from [...]

The Value of a Network

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 that networking [...]

99 Ways to Promote Your Blog for Free

LINK BUILDING:

Exchange links with other bloggers
Use BlogRush
Submit to RSS directories
Submit to blog directories
Submit to general directories
Start a 2nd blog and link to yourself
Create and give away blog themes (with a link to your blog in the footer)
Create free plugins
Create link bait
Participate in blog carnivals
Comment on DoFollow blogs
WordPress Backlinks Plugin (link removed due to possible [...]

Designing to Save Time on Maintenance

If you’ve ever tried to redesign a website (especially one that was designed by someone other than yourself) you know how frustrating it can be. Even performing routine maintenance can be difficult if you don’t spend a lot of time on the site and you’re not familiar with the structure. There are a few things [...]

How to Set Up a Domino Effect of Traffic

Do you think your blog doesn’t have enough traffic to become popular with major social media sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and del.icio.us? I don’t normally have a huge amount of traffic either, but I’ll show you how I was able to get over 34,000 unique visitors in two days without submitting the page to any [...]

Weekly Links

It’s been a busy week here (with more than 40,000 visitors in 4 days) and with all the new subscribers I wanted to point out a few things. First, this blog uses the DoFollow Plugin to remove nofollow tags from links on comments. I value your participation, so I am happy to give a real [...]

Improve Your Look with a Customized WordPress Theme

One of the features of WordPress that is most appealing to bloggers is the theme system. With WordPress you can find literally thousands of free themes, pay for a premium theme, or design one yourself. Most bloggers choose free themes for obvious reasons. However, it can be difficult to stand out from all of the [...]