Monthly Archives: September 2007
3 Simple Things I Didn’t do to Hit the Digg Homepage
Blogging 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 ...
Continue readingWhen Do You Throw in the Towel?
Blogging 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 ...
Continue readingHow to make visitors not come back to your blog – 5 Tips
Blogging 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 ...
Continue readingTypo Tips
Design & Coding 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 ...
Continue readingIt’s OK To Be A StatsAHolic
Search Engine Optimisation 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 ...
Continue readingIs your blog really quick loading as you think it is?
Blogging Have you tested and calculated the time required to load up your website on various internet connection speeds? If yes, you are a superstar. If not, you’re still a superstar. Why? Read further.. It is a fact that on various speeds of internet, your blog loads at various speeds. On slower connections, it takes more time to load and on faster broadband connections, it takes less time. So how should you maintain the loading speed for your ...
Continue readingLearning Versus Copying
Writing We all know the sayings. “standing on the shoulders of giants” or the more direct “Bad artists copy. Great artists steal.” In blogging is it possible to be successful just by looking at what others have done? It seems from looking around there are quite a lot of bloggers who think so! I do think a great way to learn many things is to model success, but modeling doesn’t necessarily imply copying. If you took every ...
Continue readingVideo Blogging Hardware and Software
Video Blogging The shaky cam is now seem as the most trusted form of media.– John Kerr (Director, Edelman Asia) Despite what so many people think, the barriers to entering the world of video blogging is nearly non-existent. In fact, there are fewer barriers to video blogging than there are to podcasting, if only because you don’t have to worry about bandwidth. The barriers that video blogging does share in common with podcasting, however, pertain ...
Continue readingThree things I beg you not to do with your MySpace page
Blogging Probably most of you don’t use MySpace as your primary blog, but any blogger can learn from the MySpace don’ts. Don’t set up sounds that play whenever someone visits your site. This includes funny noises, YouTube clips and that song “Wonderland,” no matter how much you might love it. A lot of people surf the web when they’re supposed to be doing something else: at office jobs, in class, etc. When we’re pretending to create a ...
Continue readingDoes your Blog Captivate
Writing Have you ever done any door to door sales? If you have, you know it’s a tough racket unless you have a knack for selling and develop the skills needed to be successful at selling door to door. I did some door to door sales when I was in college several years ago and after about a month I realized that I had about 15 to 30 seconds to captivate whomever it was that opened the door in order to get my message across and make a sale. It’s pretty ...
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