Thursday, July 13th, 2006

How To Shamelessly Promote Your Blog

We looked at some basics of shameless promotion in the blogsosphere yesterday - including several examples and motives of doing so.
Today, we’ll look instead at shamelessly promoting something closer to our hearts: Our own blogs. In order to do that, I’ve decided to compile a small list of ways you can practice Shameless […]

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Shameless Promotion 101

Being capable of shamelessly promoting something you have an interest in is important. These days, it’s not only the salespeople and CEOs that have to realise this, but also the average blogger - whether to promote an affiliate, increase exposure and thus, traffic to your own blog, or just increase your blog’s page views. In […]

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

Free Blogger Templates: The “Definitive” List

Despite the rather negative stance of many bloggers against Blogger (or Blogspot) given its many limitations and uhmm… spam blogs, a large number of bloggers still use Blogger - a service which is pretty effective for many purposes, and is ultimately free.
This, of course, is reflected by the considerable number of Google searches coming this […]

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

Misleading Post Titles: Just a Rant

While there are times that you are allowed to deliberately use misleading post titles to attract attention (a.k.a. pull in more eyeballs), more often than not, it is an intolerable practice - especially for bloggers that read hundreds of RSS feeds (or used to do so) and thus, especially depend on somewhat accurate post titles […]

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

Getting Your Blog into Google News

Traffic, traffic and more traffic. That’s what you’ll get if you somehow manage to coax Google News into accepting your blog. Of course, that blog has to fit a whole load of requirements first, which I never knew until reading a recent post over at Search Engine Roundtable.
P.S.: One Google News requirement is that, “The […]

Monday, June 5th, 2006

How To Be A Better Blogger - My Thoughts

The Blog Herald recently published a guest post by Alex Morganis on how to be a better blogger. Basically, Alex touches on three main aspects: Traffic, content and design - most of which are targeted at beginner bloggers (who I believe require tried, tested and working advice).
As a result, I must take this opportunity to […]

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

One Bulletproof Way to Increase Traffic Per Blog Post by 50%

We’ve all heard about the importance of post titles. The greater their impact, the higher the chance someone will actually bother to read your 400-1000 word blog post. But I’m not here to just tell you that.
I’m here to point you to an in incredibly intuitive, yet excellent post by Brian Clark on very specific […]

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

Performancing Metrics: First Impressions

I’ll not waste time and go straight to the point. Performancing Metrics hasn’t performed at the level I’ve expected it to, but it’s perhaps too early to say anything as it is still in public beta after all. You could point to coding issues, server issues or even the relatively large number of blogs tracked […]