Monthly Archives: March 2008
5 Factors to Calculate Your Blog’s Worth
Making Money There are many page rank checkers online that will also provide you with a “value” or “worth” of your blog, many of which you can show off with a special button directly on your blog. Unfortunately, most of the valuations those websites provide seem overly generous. How then can you calculate the value of your blog if you want to sell it? The best way to start is by determining the your blog’s value using the ...
Continue reading7 Ways to Ensure Your Readers Feel Welcome
Blogging Regular readers are the soul of a successful blog: besides the steady stream of page views and subscribers provided by regular readers, you are also assured of more backlinks, recommendations and commentary through building a loyal audience. But how can you convert a casual visitor into a loyal reader? Make them feel welcome! By making even the casual reader feel welcomed to your blog, you offer them an important incentive to return; they are ...
Continue readingDesign Podcasts
Links Podcasts are a great way of sending and receiving information. It’s just so much easier to listen to something while doing other things, allowing me to multitask. I’ve even tried my hand at doing a monthly cast, but here are some design related podcasts for you to check out. The Prepared Mind Discussion about designing human interaction. I personally listen to this show but they haven’t published in some time. Still the old ...
Continue readingDo you Make These Mistakes When Guest Blogging?
Blogging Image Source: cote Did you know that guest blogging will help you build a good reader base for your blog? If you didn’t, let me tell you that guest blogging is a great way and one of the most used ways to put your blog in front of other bloggers. With that being said, there are certain things (call it mistakes) that you shouldn’t do when you are writing for other blogs. Getting a guest blogging opportunity is easy nowadays. Many bloggers ...
Continue readingThe Power of Polls
Design & Coding Some months ago I added a poll to my web site, and I was blown away by the increase in activity to the site as well as the number of people who were taking the poll in comparison to doing other activities on the site. I suppose I shouldn’t have been so surprised because polls are hugely popular all around the web. Entire sites are dedicated to building and displaying polls, and numerous freeware, shareware, and low-cost technologies are ...
Continue readingBreaking the block
Writing Writer’s block can be tough. It’s often easier to give in and give up than to struggle through, especially when you’re writing a personal blog and accountable to no one. But that’s not quite true, is it? You are accountable to someone: your readers. Your blog might only be read by five family members, or it might be read by five thousand strangers: either way, you’re providing a unique service to them that they can’t get anywhere ...
Continue readingOk WordPress is installed. Now What?
WordPress Your WordPress blog is installed and you are all ready to start posting to it. But wait before you do that why not do a little post install configuring to make sure everything is setup correctly from the very beginning. Before I begin I want to make clear that these instructions are specific to a WordPress install that you are hosting on your own hosting account. But thats not to say that most of these items can also be configured on a different ...
Continue readingBloggers Commitment to Content
Blogging Put a dozen successful bloggers in a room, and in short order the debates will begin over the thorny issues of the blogosphere. Are partial feeds evil? How should comments be moderated (if at all)? Do tags matter? And so on. In fact, you’ll find that there are few things that experienced bloggers universally agree on. One of the rare items that would be largely undisputed among this group is that authors should be committed to providing ...
Continue readingShould You Go “Off Topic” On Your Blog?
Blogging Most of us who blog have a theme, a mission statement, a defined focus for our blog. And that’s as it should be. However, there are some times when it would help to go “off topic” on your blog. Following are three such times. 3 Times When Going “Off Topic” On Your Blog Can Generate More Traffic for Your Blog First, let me say, don’t go so off topic that your readers don’t even identify the content with you at all. My point in even ...
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Maintaining a Presence in the Blogosphere
Blogging While posting is the most important thing you can do to establish and maintain a presence in the blogosphere, there are many other options available that can help create or maintain a high profile for you and your business on the Web. Commenting like crazy on posts that others write, especially on popular sites not only reminds the big-time bloggers of your existence, but can also get other commenters to drop by and check out your blog. Online ...
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