Archive for: November, 2008

Written on November 22nd, 2008 at 07:11 am by Darren Rowse

Statistical Analysis of a Blog’s Traffic

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 54 comments

Today blogger and MBA student Eric Rosenberg fromThe Israel Situation and Narrow Bridge Adventures talks us through some statistical analysis of the traffic to his blog.
As a hobby blogger trying to increase readers to my Israel blog, The Israel Situation, I have always been glued to my site traffic. What does a spike mean? How [...]

Written on November 22nd, 2008 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse

How I added the Twitter ID field to comments on Twitip.com

Blog Design, Blogging Tools and Services 53 comments

A couple of days ago I added the ability for those leaving comments on my TwiTip Twitter Tips blog to add their Twitter ID as well as their URL to comments. Since doing this I’ve been asked time and time again how we did it. In this guest post Sean Walberg (the guy who actually [...]

Written on November 21st, 2008 at 12:11 am by Jeff Chandler

Tell A Friend Through A Widget

Blogging Tools and Services 39 comments

In this guest post Jeff Chandler reviews the TellaFriend Widget.
In the ever increasing socialness of the web, everything from news to photos to videos are being shared. Outside of  ShareThis, I’m not to familiar with other sites or services that are exclusively centered around sharing items across the web. During the past week, I was [...]

Written on November 20th, 2008 at 11:11 am by Darren Rowse

InLinks – TextLinkAds 2.0

Advertising, Search Engine Optimization 61 comments

In the last 24 hours MediaWhiz (disclosure – they are sponsors of this site) have released a new advertising product for those interested in selling text links on their blogs) called InLinks.
InLinks is an ad network that allows advertisers to buy text links within the content of your posts. The links pass on Google Juice [...]

Written on November 20th, 2008 at 06:11 am by Darren Rowse

How to go about finding a Blogging Buddy: The Power Of Collaboration In Blogging Part 2

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 33 comments

Yesterday we heard from Eric Hamm from Up-And-Coming-Blogger and “Motivate Thyself” and Sean Platt from Writer Dad who wrote about the power of finding a blogging buddy to work collaborate with in your blogging.

Finding that special blogging buddy (or buddies) isn’t anything you can place on Craig’s List. Like any relationship worth developing, only [...]

Written on November 20th, 2008 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse

Sign Up with Me for ‘Partnering Profits’ and Get Some Great Teaching

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 15 comments

Brian Clark from CopyBlogger has done it again. He’s launched what looks to be an amazing new teaching resource to resource those looking to build successful online businesses. It’s called Partnering Profits – and it’s a simple teaching resource focussing (as the name suggests) on ‘praetorships’.
It is made up of two main components:
1. A 150 [...]

Written on November 19th, 2008 at 10:11 am by Darren Rowse

What You Need to Know about WordPress 2.7

Blogging Tools and Services 43 comments

WordPress 2.7 is already released in beta and will go live shortly for all. I was lucky enough to get a demo of it at BlogWorldExpo a couple of months back and I have to say that I’m quite excited by what I saw. It is very different to look at and will take some [...]

Written on November 19th, 2008 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse

The Power Of Collaboration In Today’s Blogging World – 10 Reasons to Find a Blog Buddy

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 52 comments

Working alone as a blogger can at times be lonely. In this guest post two bloggers, Eric Hamm from Up-And-Coming-Blogger and “Motivate Thyself” and Sean Platt from Writer Dad have together written a post outlining some of the advantages of collaborating as bloggers and finding a ‘blog buddy’. This is the first part in a [...]

Written on November 18th, 2008 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse

Search, Social and Direct Traffic – [TRAFFIC ANALYSIS]

Blog Promotion, Case Studies, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media 71 comments

This morning I spent a little time doing some analysis (using Google Analytics) of the traffic coming into my main blog – Digital Photography School.
My analysis was stimulated by a question from a reader who in response to last week’s two posts examining the place of Digg and Social Bookmarkingin a bloggers priorities asked me:
What [...]

Close
E-mail It