Yesterday, we looked at five simple steps to take note of when conducting regular maintainance on your blog - most on the more technical side of blogging (e.g. backups, 404s, sitemaps). Today, we’ll look at five more. I’ve to admit these are on the more subjective side of “maintainance” though (i.e. less maintainance and more […]
Reviews on individual website traffic statistics packages and comparisons between them are in almost every nook and corner of the blogosphere/web. We have established services like Statcounter, Sitemeter and Mint compared against heavyweight newcomer Google Analytics and a whole host of innovative niche packages like Performancing Metrics for blog-centric tracking and MyBlogLog for click tracking.
But […]
If your blogging life still has room for more structure, you might want to take a look at one of the more hidden trends going on today: Microformats. For those who wish to postpone reading the dedicated wiki on the subject, microformats are, “…a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely […]
IMHO, there are few blogger-centric topics more written on than “increasing blog traffic”, so these days, I always tread carefully before jumping on the linkwagon to yet another expert’s 5/10/100 tips on the subject, or even writing a post of my own.
But I can’t help but link to SEOmoz’s latest post: 21 Tactics to […]
When someone like Evan Williams (CEO of Odeo and Blogger co-founder) writes an in-depth analysis on why pageviews are obsolete as one of the primary traffic metrics, it’s hard not to be convinced. Not that this isn’t a beaten path though (also check this Google search), but his post is the first I’ve read that […]
Tip No. 4 to Shamelessly Promote Your Blog: Pitch it to someone big, publicly. No, not that pitch. I’m talking about pitching your blog to Steve Rubel.
All you have to do is to come up with a sub-1 megabyte pitch in either text, PDF or jpg/gif formats. At first, you might not think this […]
I wasn’t going to blog here today given the amount of bug-squashing I have left to do on the new blogHelper theme and structure, but Nick Wilson’s post on 3 ways to increase search engine traffic at Performancing really jolted me from the menial chore of debugging.
He talks about writing more specific and more linkbait-ish […]
Recently, Darren at ProBlogger and Kevin and LexBlog tackled the issue of sending traffic away from your blog versus keeping your vistors on site. While Kevin primarily plugged blogs that are not afraid to link out and share, Darren took a more balanced approach and looks at it at both angles. This exchange of thoughts […]
