Blogging: The Archives
9 Random Lessons From A Successful Blog
Around 18 months ago, we started a little blog - totally on a whim - about reality TV shows. It was initially intended to serve as a portfolio sample and an experiment into Search Engine Optimisation. What we didn’t anticipate was the huge popularity the site would eventually gain, culminating in over half-a-million hits in January 2007. Here are some of things which I think made the site a success.
Posted in Blogging on Friday, February 23 2007 | Leave a comment »
Death Of The Pageview And Other Crazy Prophecies
I love reading MicroPersuasion, but I think Steve Rubel has flipped his lid by declaring the death of the pageview!
I am going to make an argument that whatever succeeds the page view (RIP) needs to go beyond counting traffic. In a Long Tail world we shouldn’t care about big amalgamated numbers. Marketers are going to [...]
Posted in Blogging, Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, December 20 2006 | Leave a comment »
AdSense In The Afterlife?
I had a giggle at the title of Eric Giguere’s post, Do You Have An Adsense Will?
Imagine it: you fall under a bus tomorrow and the next day your solicitor writes to Google requesting that your AdSense cheques are forwarded to your new address in Hades….
Seriously though, we’ve all heard the dire warnings about [...]
Posted in Blogging, Website Strategy on Tuesday, December 19 2006 | Leave a comment »
Zero Dollars, a Little Talent and 30 Days
Jennifer Laycock - an author at Search Engine Guide website - is trying to set up a profitable online venture in the next 30 days and is providing a daily progress report. The series is a fascinating insight into developing an online business and provides a lot of information about the kinds of tools that exist to help promote and earn money from a Web-based business.
Posted in Blogging on Sunday, November 20 2005 | 1 Comment »
Blogging: Advantages Of Trackback Instead Of Comments
Introducing Trackback: a mechanism for notifying other blogs when you have linked to or cited an article from their site. In this article, Gerard looks at trackback as an alternative to blog comments that allows you to write unique content for your website while properly attributing the sources you have used.
Posted in Blogging, Web Design & Standards on Friday, November 11 2005 | 6 Comments »
Never Blogged Before? Want To?
Have you ever wanted to try blogging, but didn’t know where to start? We have discovered that you can get a free blog at WordPress.com by installing a beta browser called Flock.
Posted in Blogging on Friday, October 21 2005 | Leave a comment »
Build A Better Blog: Build A Blogging Team
I’ve been following a great series by Darren Rowse of ProBlogger about building a better blog site. Building a better blog covers topics like blog design, search engine exposure and making money from your blogging efforts.
My contribution to this is simple: If you’re serious about building a blog, have a specific popular subject in mind [...]
Posted in Blogging on Monday, August 15 2005 | 4 Comments »
