Behind every great blogger is great stat analyzer. My tool of choice is Performancing Metrics, but I also like Google Analytics and Site Meter. By analyzing my stats I’m able to learn more about the people who visit my blog and further reach out to my audience. Here’s how my stats help me:
Search Terms: What are the search terms people are using to get to your blog? Some of them are rather obvious, for instance, “Freelance Writing Jobs” is the number keyword phrase for traffic at my blog Freelance Writing Jobs.…
I’ll be going home for Christmas Tuesday, back to a small town of 7,000 people on the edge of Ontario and Minnesota, a place where designers and bloggers are a very foreign concept that I’ll inevitably have to explain to anyone asking “what I’m up too now”.
People don’t really get what a designer or a blogger is there, and explanation of either is usualy meet with confused looks and attempts at comparing you to something almost unrelated. People expect me to be working in some sort of IT support…
I always like quality traffic over quantity. If 1000 people visit your blog only once and 10 subscribe, it is not the best traffic. But what if you get 500 people to your blog and 35 subscribe and few others also return to your blog? Surely the latter is what you want. In order to turn at least 5% of the poor quality visitors to readers of your blog, you need to interact with them. One best way, which I like, is adding polls to your blog.
It Increases Interactivity
For every…
It’s nearing the end of this year and a lot of cool things are cooking up for 2008. Let’s see what happened last week at the Blogosphere.
There were many writeups focused on what happened in 2007, and the evaluations. One that I found interesting is this post from David Armano, where he does an evaluation on the happenings at Social Media in 2007 and predicts that 2008 is going to be an year of Mobile Media. I’ll have to agree with David partly, and hope his prediction comes true. It…
Part of the fun of having a CSS based site with dynamic content (like most blogs), is your ability to change the design of your site with relative ease. On a site like Blogging Tips, there are hundreds and hundreds of different pages with unique URLS. Can you imagine having to hand code design changes onto each any every one of those when you wanted to update the look of the site? No thanks. But thanks to CSS and a Content Management System like WordPress, the size of the header…
It’s coming to the end of the year. Family demands are going to exponentially increase. Work commitments are largely unchanged. Pressure mounts. Caffeine intake quadruples. Words … fail …
Actually, as yet I haven’t had the words not come but I have admittedly had a few close calls.
Hence this week at my own blog I have been writing about how to come up with blog post ideas. Here and now though I want to share with you the real secret, the number one tip for generating post ideas.
Relax.
Yes, in the majority…
