Archive for: September, 2004

Written on September 23rd, 2004 at 05:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Martin Roth’s Blog Tip

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Martin Roth is a legend around some Blogging circles. He’s the guy who started collecting links of Christian Bloggers which today is Blogs4God.
Martin responded for my call for people to post their own blog tips.
So here are Martins Blog Tips.
To paraphrase his main points:
1. Tell people that you’ve arrived.
2. Tell people when you write [...]

Written on September 23rd, 2004 at 05:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Getting listed on Search Engines

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Since writing the Finding Readers series of blog tips I’ve had a number of people ask for more information on getting listed on Search Engines – particularly Google.
Patrick Taylor has written a great post on Boosting your Google Ranking. He incorporates most of the tips [...]

Written on September 23rd, 2004 at 05:09 pm by Darren Rowse

More on Blog Design

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Here an old article written by Biz Stone who has been blogging (and writing books) about blogging for years now. This article is on Designing your blog and it has some good tips. His main points include:
- Create Your Own Limitations
- Think Simple
- Adding On (features)
- Designing Beyond the Blog
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Written on September 23rd, 2004 at 05:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Good Blog Design

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Taking a short break from the ‘Finding Readers mini-series‘ because I asked fellow blogger and blog designer Rachel Cunliffe to write a post for me on good blog design. The following is what she wrote:
Darren asked me for a post on “what makes a good blog design” in his blog tip series.
I’ve been [...]

Written on September 23rd, 2004 at 05:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Blog Logo Design

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Whilst not specifically written about Blog logos, the article – Trends in Logo Design – is a great resource for looking at some recent trends in graphic design which might be useful in considering the design of your blog.
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Written on September 23rd, 2004 at 05:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Finding Readers for Your Blog (Part D)

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This is the final post of the ‘Finding Readers’ mini series. Also read Parts A – B and C of this series.
12. Blog Search Engines and Indexes – Get yourself registered on sites like Technorati. These sites have features that allow people to search for blog entries via topic and keywords. They also list the [...]

Written on September 23rd, 2004 at 04:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Finding Readers for Your Blog (Part C)

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Also read Parts A – B and D of this series.
Part C
9. Web Rings – A web ring is a group of blogs with a common interest that refer traffic to one another. There are many of these dedicated to blogging on a variety of topics. They don’t bring heaps of hits, but I have [...]

Written on September 23rd, 2004 at 04:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Finding Readers for Your Blog (Part B)

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Also read Parts A – C and D of this series.
Part B
5. Interact with Readers – I’ve written about how to interact with your readers before so I won’t go into it too much except to say that if you interact with your readers they are more likely to put some time aside to come [...]

Written on September 23rd, 2004 at 04:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Finding Readers for Your Blog (Part A)

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Also read Parts B – C and D of this series.
A number of new bloggers have recently asked me how to get people to visit their blog. Let me say up front that ‘getting hits’ isn’t everything – there are other reasons to blog than simply to have your thoughts read – for some its [...]

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