Last week I wrote about using free publicity to attract traffic. This week I’d like to examine another self-promotion venue: social networking sites.
Most people have a MySpace page, a Facebook page, or both. Even if you hate these sites, you’re probably on there somewhere simply because these and similar social networking sites are a good way to, well, socially network. They help you keep track of your friends, find people you used to know, and – most importantly – stalk your exes on the sly. You might also be using…
One of the metrics you will use to measure how well your blog is doing is the number of readers subscribed. But how do you get people to subscribe to your feed? Mark over at 45n5.com started a conversation about Your best Tip to Increase RSS Subscribers so I thought I would continue the conversation.
So lets get on with the list of best tips to increase RSS Subscribers.
Write really good posts - I know someone would post this in the comments so I just wanted to spoil their fun. 
Of course it…
Sometimes we do things because we want to achieve a particular objective, only we come to find out later that what we were doing had the opposite effect from what we wanted. We didn’t know until it was too late. And sometimes, we even know that what we’re doing isn’t good, but we justify it to ourselves by saying we’ll get what we want…
Except that we don’t.
We hurt ourselves, our visitors, our reputations, and more.
Ready? Steel yourself — YOU may on this list:
Writing too many posts
You’re writing too many…
Strunk and White, in the Elements of Style, recommend that the words you would most like to emphasize ought to be left until the end of the sentence. A sort of “save the best for last” method. As bloggers, should we be following standards like these? Or are blogs, as a medium, the opportunity to create all new style elements?
If you have read my other posts here, you most likely already know that I firmly believe in knowing the rules. In order to create your own style, I think you…
I’ve been a freelance writer since 1993. Last year, I started to do SEO writing, and my days have changed tremendously. Following is an account of a day in my life of an SEO content writer.
SEO Writing: The Daily Rundown
7:00 am -9:00 am: I set my alarm to get up at this time now because I’m not a morning person. “Before SEO,” as I’ve come to think of it, I would climb out of bed sometime between 7:30 and 9:30 am.
I never used to get up by an alarm…
