So you've got a great blog with great content -- only no one knows it yet. Not a problem, because getting visitors to great content is one of the easiest things you'll ever do. Here's how to get visitors to your blog.
Take Advantage of Your Network
If you've been actively getting out and meeting your neighbors, you've built up a pretty good network of blogging and website-owning friends. Drop them an email to let them know about your new ... Keep reading »
That's the title of an article I just read. Actually, sorry, it's what the title should have been. It was actually 20 Quick Ways to Increase Your Alexa Rank. Only a handful were real, long-term ways of increasing your rank, though. The rest were simply ways to manipulate your ranking for short-term gain.
Be very careful of advice like this that detracts you from what your focus should really ... Keep reading »
Frequently, each of us blogs something that, given the resulting user feedback, we would have written differently given a second chance. That very thing happened over at ProBlogger.net yesterday with 10 Ways to make your Blog more Attractive to Advertisers.
The guest blogger, Chad, strongly recommended not using AdSense on your blog. Well, readers had quite a bit to say about that, and if you are in the habit of reading only blog posts and not the comments, ... Keep reading »
Oops. For those of you who are reading via RSS, I forgot to post my shared links once I hit 10 new ones like I promised last week. So without further ado, here's the new 14!
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I realized while looking through a lot of the WordPress themes that I linked to last week (Nobody Cares What Your Blog Looks Like) that the majority of them just weren't great. That weren't terrible by any means, but if I were starting with a new theme, I wouldn't recommend most of them. That experience, coupled with the very low signal-to-noise ratio of WordPress's official theme site, spurred ... Keep reading »
Since most large advertisers are experimenting with video now -- large advertisers who most often have the largest budgets -- Google recommends the 300x250 Large Rectangle format because that's the format they most often use.
That's the format I'm using prominently over on my website design gallery, Unmatched Style, and this morning I noticed the ad you see to the right. (It's just an image here, so it's not clickable.) My problem ... Keep reading »
One of the most difficult parts of selling advertising on your site is actually figuring out what rate to charge. Here's a super easy way to get started, though.
When you determine where you want your ad(s) to go, put an AdSense ad there. After a few days or a few weeks you'll have a firm idea of how much that ad is making you. Then, you can simply mark up your advertising over that rate.
For example if ... Keep reading »
Google Reader has a Share feature that allows you to mark items in the RSS feeds that you subscribe to. When you do that, those items are then made available for public consumption through a custom URL and through a custom RSS feed.
Well I read things all the time that I want to share a link to, but it's frequently a chore to write a full post about them, and I just never seem to get around to ... Keep reading »
Forget the NCAA tournament, the real March Madness is at The Name of the Year. The bracket has been announced and real-life names like Outerbridge Horsey, Babu Chalamala and Chief Kickingstallionsims are now vying for the 2007 NOTY crown.
I literally laughed until I was doubled over in pain with tears rolling down my face at some of these names. The names above are even the lower seeds. You absolutely have to see the favorites in ... Keep reading »
Thank you, James Taranto for giving me the title for this post. I had started it without a title, knowing I needed something interesting and offbeat, but couldn't quite come up with anything. Then later that day, Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan just leaped off the page :D
(Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan is one of the finalists for oddest book title of the year, not surprisingly.)
So what is the world ... Keep reading »
