Archive for October, 2007
A slight hurdle - Gaining more blog traffic, a 30 day adventure in blogging - Day 4
It seems I’m going to have to change the rules o the game a bit. CbsoP has gained a sponsor and will have to be removed from this running experiment. If the deal I’m working on goes through, the traffic to that blog will skyrocket, thereby making any numbers given here useless.
In the end, I [...]
The tools of the trade - Gaining more blog traffic, a 30 day adventure in blogging - Day 4
Part four in a series on driving more traffic to your blog in 30 days.
So, have you been playing along? If so, you should probably know what your routine for the day should have been. If not, I’ll recap.
Post a new entry to your blog (or blogs) and if possible, mention someone else’s [...]
After a stall - Gaining more blog traffic, a 30 day adventure in blogging - Day 3
There are probably a few of you out there who’ve been wondering what happened to the author of this series over the past two days. Honestly, it ws something called a weekend, and a teething one year old… It was my actual life, and those can interrupt even the most dedicated of us. I deviated [...]
Tactics for improving blog traffic - Gaining more blog traffic, a 30 day adventure in blogging - Day 2
Today’s installment is on the tactics we’ll use to gain more readers on the two blogs in this study. These will include, but are by no means limited to, the following actions:
Posting relevantly and often. At least once a day and up to 3 posts per day, per blog.
Leaving intelligent comments on related [...]
Improving Google Pagerank
A lot of people obsess over Google page rank. While I don’t believe that page rank has any bearing whatsoever on the quality of a blog or website, it is the measure by which advertisers judge how much to pay you, and in the case of payed blog services like Pay Per Post, it’s the [...]
Gaining more blog traffic, a 30 day adventure in blogging - Day 1
As promised, the second installment in “Gaining more blog traffic, a 30 day adventure in blogging.” As I said yesterday, I’m going to be using the tools available on the Internet, along with tips from other bloggers, to see just how much of an increase in traffic I can manage in 30 days time. [...]
Gaining more blog traffic, a 30 day adventure in blogging
As a blogger, the number one thing to remember is that content is king. It’s probably the most often heard phrase in the blogging world. You have to have high quality content if you’re going to gain repeat readers. You have to provide something that is unique to you, to your experiences and to [...]
Image resources
If you have a blog that requires images, or you’re just like me and like to have a few pictures in your posts to spice things up, you may have spent some time pulling your hair out while looking for a good image that doesn’t require you to pay royalties.
There are quite a few sites [...]
Thoughts on Themes
There are a lot of great WordPress themes out there. Depending on the look and feel you’re going for on your blog, and the number of customizations you need, it’s a good chance that one quick look at The WordPress Theme Viewer, or WordPress Themes That Don’t Suck will get you something drastically close [...]
Getting Cimy Extra user Fields working in WordPress MU
One of the projects I’m working on is a community-based blog system. Because of what I’m trying to accomplish, I have a need to add extra fields to my user’s profile information. Without giving anything away, I need a profile picture, some information on what organization my members belong to, state, and a [...]
