I recently had a run on the Digg homepage with an article I wrote titled “You Won’t find an iCache in My Pocket!“. Now this wasn’t the first time one of my articles has been on the homepage, but it was the first time its been one from my own blog, so it was exciting for me. Since its been a few days now, I have had some time to reflect on why it made it and also what I did differently. So rather than telling you what I did…
The other day, a regular to my Freelance Writing Jobs blog sent this email:
“I have a blog that I love but the problem is, no one reads it. It’s been six months and I only get 30 or 40 visitors a day. When do I throw in the towel?”
If you enjoy blogging, there’s no need to throw in the towel. 30 or 40 people are visiting this blog every day, obviously there’s some interest. I wondered though, what this blogger did to promote her blog and to bring in traffic so I…
This seems to be a rather easier topic to blog about isn’t it? Well, I too thought so before sitting down to write this article, but in fact, it is a difficult topic to write, believe me. So what are the things that will make you not pay a second visit to a new blog?
A lot of things actually, it’s difficult to categorize and prioritize each but I’m sure all of us can give ‘n’ number of reasons from our own experience.
- The Layout and template
Having a bad template…
Here are a few tips on how to make your typographic style a little more solid.
Alignment
Aligning your type properly goes a long way to influence readers perception of your site. Justified gives a more “official” impression due to the fact that newspapers use this alignment. However, ragged right (Left Align) is more common in the online world due in large to the fact that properly setting blocks of type justified, adjusting for the loosely spaced lines (rivers of white space through the text) and the inability to hyphenate words over…
Bloggers are often teased about their incessant need to view their blog stats. Sure, we may need to stroke our blog egos once in a while, but if you find that you just can’t get enough of stats, don’t despair. You may not know that there are good reasons to be a stats junkie. The next time you’re accused of merely feeding your vanity when you check your stats, you’ll be able to counter-argue with the good reasons you read about here.
Stats give you a wealth of data to mine,…
