The picture below originally appeared in the Op-Ed section of the New York Times. I found it amusingly insightful.
Here is my summary of the key points in the life cycle of a blog post.
Someone writes a post that gets wide publicity.
A bunch of people in agreement quickly align themselves with the author.
Soon after those […]
The worst mistake I’ve made with this blog was not choosing a more appropriate domain name.
These should be the steps when making that decision.
Select a niche or core topic for your site.
Clearly define the purpose and goals of your site.
Choose an appropriate domain name.
As you can see I missed the boat on steps 1 […]
Why would you want to set up a redirect?
To preserve search engine ranking on a page which has moved.
If your website has moved to a new domain.
To redirect incoming visitors to www.yourdomain.com instead of yourdomain.com, or vice versa.
The last point is the one I want to address in a little more detail, as it […]
If any of you are using Sitemeter for stats reporting you might want to have a read of this article. It looks like Sitemeter is now pushing specificclick tracking and advertising cookies on to visitors of sites using their service.
I can’t stand spyware or this sort of selfish business practice so I’ve moved all […]
Twitter is one of those things that people either love or hate. I didn’t expect to enjoy it as much as I have been, so I guess I’m in the ‘love’ camp. For now anyway.
For those of you who don’t use Twitter, and those of you who do but have missed it, these are […]
I’ve been looking at my stats as reported by Spotlex and they in no way correlate to reality.
The article I wrote the other day on high profile car crashes has been floating around the net and sending through a heap of visitors. My real stats are telling me I’ve had over 800 hits in […]
My post Six Effective Ways To Build Backlinks made the front page of Netscape yesterday. I’m not sure how long it was there but over a 24 hour period I received a little over 200 unique visitors.
I think it’s plain to see the traffic from hitting the front page of Netscape doesn’t even compare to […]
I don’t suggest trying this unless you plan on getting banned from Digg.
TheGoogleCache has delivered a proof of concept, showing how you can get someone to unwittingly befriend you on Digg, using a new feature they’ve implemented.
It’s amazingly simple.
You can now add a friend on Digg just by visiting the url http://digg.com/invitefrom/{username} as long as you […]
Building quality backlinks is an important step in the development of your blog, or any type of website for that matter.
It can be a boring and time consuming process but the success or failure of a site can depend on it.
What is a backlink?A backlink is a link from another website to yours.
Why do I need backlinks?Backlinks […]
I joined Twitter the other day. It’s going to be huge.
Everyone has their own take on what Twitter is exactly but essentially it is a combination of microblogging and instant messaging.
You’ve only got 140 characters to get your thoughts out so you have to be succinct and to the point. But that’s the beauty of it. […]
