Entries Filed Under 'Blogging'

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Track Your Search Engine Rank With Sitening SERP Tracker

Whenever you make optimization changes to your site you can never be 100% sure how they will affect your rank on a given search engine results page (SERP). Even the most minor changes can sometimes have a major impact with search engines - both positive and negative.
Being able to track your search engine rank not [...]

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Secrets To Being Productive

Ben Yoskovitz from the Instigator Blog has created a group writing project and is asking for peoples secrets on productivity. Charlene from Essential Keystrokes, Maki from Dosh Dosh, and Zep from In-Sect have all invited me to join in.
Before I jump into my own thoughts on productivity I wanted to mention some points Charlene and Maki brought up in their [...]

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

MyBlogLog Adds Twitter To Profiles

Twitter’s popularity just keeps on growing, and considering nine out of every ten people using it have their own blog this is a really smart move from the MyBlogLog team.
Here’s what Eric had to say about the new feature:
As of today, your Twitter can now be broadcast on MyBlogLog too.  If you have a Twitter account, just [...]

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Why Do Blogs Fail?

In the last month I’ve seen a few blogs stumble. Some have disappeared altogether, others are are still kicking about but are updated infrequently, which ultimately is just the same as if they had ceased to exist.
What did they do wrong? Why did they fail?
There are some common reasons people often bring up:

Burnout.
Lack of motivation or [...]

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

April 2007 Roundup

Most popular in April:

Full Vs. Partial RSS Feeds: According to Rick Klau from Feedburner there appears to be no significant difference in clickthrough rates between full and partial RSS feeds.
Choose Your Domain Name Carefully: Your choice of domain name can be the most important decision you make for your site.
Quick SEO Checklist: SEO isn’t [...]

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Eliminate Duplicate Content Using robots.txt

A few weeks ago I put together a quick SEO checklist and I’ve been meaning to expand on some of those points.
One issue in particular I’ve had to deal with recently is duplicate content.
I’ve been using the SEO in Firefox extension to check various stats about my site from time to time. It gives you a quick snapshot of [...]

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

Some Thoughts On PageRank

I opened my feed reader today and found about ten posts mentioning that the PageRank update is in progress. It’s nice to finally have a number set in stone but the reality is nothing much is going to change as far as your search engine rank goes.
The PageRank value you see when you use an online PR [...]

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

16 Must Read Articles For Bloggers

I firmly believe the best way to be successful is to watch, listen, and learn from those who have already made their mark. With that in mind I’ve collected a list of articles from successful people, covering a range of issues related to blogging.

Declaring War On Blogger Apathy
Darren Rowse (ProBlogger)
10 Sure-Fire Headline Formulas That [...]

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

An Introduction To RSS In Plain English

Using a few pieces of paper and a magic marker the guys over at Common Craft have created one of the best introductory primers on RSS and feed readers I have seen.
If you want to educate anyone on RSS and it’s benefits I suggest you have them watch this video. For something so simple it’s amazingly [...]

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

The Blogosphere In 3D

Ever wanted to know what the blogosphere looked like? Me neither, but Discovery Magazine has provided a picture nonetheless.
Even though the vast majority of blogs are either abandoned or isolated, many bloggers like to link to other Web sites. These links allow analysts to track trends in blogs and identify the most popular topics of data [...]

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