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 […]

When I wrote yesterday’s post suggesting the use of two forms of linkblogging (speedlinking-linkblog-style and semi-linkblog-style) when you’re “late to the party” (i.e. late at blogging on breaking news), I couldn’t have predicted that Darren Rowse would promote a post by Tony Lawrence on how you could screw yourself by linkblogging poorly onto ProBlogger’s front […]

Yesterday, three pieces of news were all the rage in the tech. blogosphere.

FeedBurner Eats Blogbeat
Yahoo! Homepage Gets Remodeled
YouTube Hits 100 Million Milestone

Ken Yarmosh at Technosight says this is part of the “me-too” mindset - where only a few blogs provide the scoop (signal) while the rest are plain noise.
But Nick Wilson (from Performancing) rightly argues […]

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 […]