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3 Simple Ways Bloggers Sabotage Themselves
Blogging As we’re entering the new year, it’s possible you’re finding yourself in something of a blogging rut. Maybe your traffic growth has flattened some, your entries don’t feel as good as they once were or you just don’t seem to be making any progress. There is many reasons that this could happen, some of them unavoidable, but many bloggers sabotage their own efforts without realizing it. If things aren’t coming up ...
Continue reading7 Tips to Get Media Attention for Your Blog
Promote your blog As much as we all want to be linked to and referenced by other blogs, there is both a great deal of credibility and attention that still comes from being mentioned in the mainstream media. Whether it’s a small-town newspaper or a huge magazine, the attention, as long as it is positive, never hurts. But getting the attention of journalists is a difficult task. On a crowded Web, how does a blog stand out? Well there are a lot of things that ...
Continue readingMy Top Five Chrome Extensions
Software & Programs As Charnita covered a few days ago, Google Chrome (for Windows) has extension support and the floodgates have opened to new, interesting ways to extend the functionality of Google’s browser. As a long-time Chrome user, this has been a very exciting time for me and I, as well as many others, have gone a bit crazy installing new extensions. Part of this is the excitement and part of this is because it is so easy to do, not even requiring a ...
Continue readingHootSuite on the iPhone
Social Media Twitter and the iPhone have always been a natural combination. Twitter’s mobile-friendly 140 character limit, robust API and mobile-centric features have, overall, meshed well Apples flagship cellphone. The presence of Twitter on the iPhone was strong enough for Time Magazine to name Tweetie 2 the number one iPhone app of 2009, ahead of both Yelp and SlingPlayer. Despite this, crossovers between desktop applications and iPhone ones have ...
Continue readingGoogle Analytics Gets Faster, Better
Design & Coding Many bloggers are using Google Analytics (GA) on their site to collect information about their visitors. It is feature-rich, accurate, extensible through an API and, most importantly to many, completely free. However, despite its popularity, it seems that most of its users have missed one of the most important improvements to the service in recent years. Historically the only drawback to GA has been that it is somewhat slow. It has a tendency to ...
Continue readingService I’m Thankful For: Diigo
Links There aren’t many tech products I would consider myself dedicated to. I change browsers at least weekly, keep at least one Mac, one Windows machine and one Linux PC around at all times and a two-year cell phone commitment can seem like a prison sentence by month six. I’m also not the kind of guy who gives glowing reviews, everything is usually tempered with a mix of good and bad, an attempt to find balance and deeper understanding. ...
Continue readingMake them Subscribe: 6 Tips to Build Subscriptions
Blogging As much as we all love visitors to our site and watching our Google Analytics tick up, RSS subscribers, for most blogs, are more valuable. Not only are they some of your more frequent visitors, thus helping with your aforementioned traffic, but they are also your best community members, leaving the most comments and adding the most to your site. Where a non-subscriber may visit your site once, once a week or whenever they remember to check out ...
Continue reading5 Tips for Building Trust on Your Blog
Blogging As a blogger, you’re in a very awkward position, especially if you are a relatively new face. You are essentially asking people to trust you and take the things you say seriously even though those who visit your site know almost nothing about you. Still, whether you’re writing a personal blog, a news site or just providing information, this trust is crucial as very few kinds of blogs can survive without it. Unless your sole goals are ...
Continue readingHow to Write a Review
Writing Reviews are one of the most difficult kinds of posts bloggers commonly write. Where most can tell a story, offer instructions or even voice an opinion pretty well, writing a review that is complete, useful and reasonably short is extremely difficult. Too often blog reviews come across as biased or simply mean or seem to have no real purpose. Writing a review of a product, service or event is not as simple as saying what you think, one has to be ...
Continue readingThe Capitalization Wars
Writing Last month on this site, Patricia laid out a very simple rule for capitalization when it comes to titles, she said that writers should capitalize major or important words in a title or headline. She is absolutely correct. That is the rule I was taught in high school and again in college where I studied journalism. I didn’t question it at all until, more recently, I’ve begun noticing that the sites I link to don’t seem to obey ...
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