I posted in August about the Blog Action Day campaign where thousands of blogs agreed to post today about the environment.
I am the first to admit that I am not the most concious person in the world when it comes to the environment. I never litter, I try not to buy things that I don’t need and I do my best to switch off my TV and laptop when I’m not using them however I know I can do more. For example, my brother and his fiancee take things down to…
My blog recently underwent a makeover, which was designed to enhance the amount of advertisement space on the pages, much like several of the “A” list bloggers have done lately. I was interested in finding out if maximizing ad space would actually increase revenue, if you don’t have monthly advertisers. If you do have paid advertisers it is pretty much a given.
The answer is yes, on Goolge Adsense alone I have more than tripled my earnings since this new theme has been installed. I have also increased click-through’s on the buttons…
I had a couple of interesting experiences with contests recently. One, was a success while the other was mildly disappointing.
Why have a contest?
Contests are a great way to create a buzz and send traffic to your blog. They’re great linkbait too. I dabbled a bit with contests a year or so ago, but it’s only recently that I achieved some success. While all experiences are different, it’s my experience that blogs without a lot of existing traffic don’t do well with contests. If your blog is popular, the results…
White space, despite it’s name, has nothing to do with colour. Whitespace is elegant, whitespace is excess, whitespace is nothing.
Whitespace is the space between graphics, margins, space between columns, space between lines of type or figures and objects. But whitespace is not just ‘blank’ space; this balance of negative and positive space is key to design. Content needs room to breath, otherwise it appears crowded, feels cramped and can even strain the eye. Too much whitespace though, can make the design seem incomplete.
The proper amount of whitespace depends on the…
Got links? Obviously, a large part of SEO involves getting backlinks. We all want and need sites to link to our blogs. Ideally, those backlinks are natural and freely given, and the best way to obtain those types of backlinks is with attractive, highly linkable content. Of course there are lots of ways to create attractive content, but one of the best is with interactive content.
Interactive content encourages the reader to do something beyond passive reading. The two types of interactive content that immediately come to mind are polls and…
I often get confused while writing posts as whether to write for humans or engines?
Often..very often, I end up writing for humans but I think that is not the best way to go about it.
What does writing for humans mean?
What I mean by “writing for humans” is writing in an appealing way, provoking readers, making them think and aligning parallel in the thinking process with them.
If you read my blog, many of the posts there are about how SEO tips can increase traffic to your blog. And every single time,…
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