Take this quick quiz to find out whether you’re committed to your blog…or whether you should just plain BE committed.
1. You tried a weird breakfast cereal this morning, way different from your normal breakfast. You:
A) Write a long post about it when you get to work, though your blog isn’t generally food-oriented. But see, this cereal had super weird flakes that got stuck in your throat. People need to know.
B) Post an analogy between the weird cereal flakes getting stuck in your throat and the troops that are still stuck…
You have three seconds. Snap. Snap. Snap. And they’re gone. How can you get your visitors to linger longer? The technical Internet word for enticing surfers to hang around your blog is stickiness. Stickiness is usually associated with three factors:
1. Duration: How long do your visitors spend at your site?
2. Depth: How deep will they go exploring?
3. Frequency: How often do your visitors return?
Those wanting to increase stickiness need to offer a “mix of the four C’s: community, content, communication and commerce.” Of the mix, content is definitely the most…
Information is the one thing that can take a person to any place they want to be. Because learning is the key to everything and that applies even to blogging and search engine optimization. Each of these is something powerful and has its own function in the wide Internet world. There are different tactics available at your fingertips for success and if you want to be successful with blogging, it does require the assistance of search engine optimization.
Blogging tips, as well as search optimization tips will be given here to…
Stumble Upon is a nice tool to increase the traffic volume on your website although it may give you increased bounce rates.
However, there is some value with the stumble upon traffic, it is a different and outstanding community of people out there who are very particular about the content. If you take care of the content and set a trap (may be the wrong word) the traffic will pour down.
Here are a few pointers on the good practices of gaining stumble upon traffic.
- Create unique content on your website
SU users love…
Your blog is a publication, and because it is, it needs an editorial calendar.
The term “editorial calendar” comes from publishing. The calendar shows the major editorial features planned for upcoming issues of a newspaper or magazine.
Magazines and newspapers set up editorial calendars so they can assign stories to writers, and also they can sell advertising. If a magazine has an issue with the theme “your first baby” in its calendar, the advertising staff will be selling space in that issue months ahead.
An editorial calender makes blogging easy, because it…
