Written on January 7th, 2009 at 12:01 am by Darren Rowse
The Essential Guide to Growing Your Blog on Minimal Time
This is a guest post from Leo Babauta of Zen Habits, author of the new best-selling book, The Power of Less.
If you’re like most bloggers, you probably want to grow your readership as quickly as possible, but don’t have much time.
Unfortunately, blogging usually takes a lot of time — writing blog posts takes up a […]
Written on January 4th, 2009 at 12:01 am by Darren Rowse
When Being the Number 1 Blog in Your Niche is Not Enough
“I’m the number 1 blog in my niche but I’m not getting much traffic - do you have any words of advice?”
This question hit my inbox earlier today and I thought I’d repost part of my reply here as I think it could be relevant to more than the blogger concerned. Here’s most of my […]
Written on December 14th, 2008 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse
Ten Ways to Keep Technology Savvy Readers Engaged and Coming Back for More
Writing technology, science and programming blogs, or simply writing for technology savvy readers can have unique challenges. They are often more critical, not as loyal to a single blog source, and are difficult to keep engaged. The ten tips I share here should help attract this finicky audience, and keep them coming back for more.
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Written on December 5th, 2008 at 03:12 am by Darren Rowse
You’re Losing Subscribers, Here’s How to Get them Back
Today Glen Allsopp a Personal Development blogger at PluginID shares a great technique for capturing lost subscribers to your blog. You can subscribe to his blog here.
A few months ago, I was messing around in feedburner and noticed something pretty drastic, I was rapidly losing subscribers on a regular basis. I bet that you […]
Written on December 4th, 2008 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse
How 24 Hours of Work Will Send Millions of Readers to My Blog
I have written numerous times about how I use weekly email newsletters to drive significant traffic to my photography site (here’s why newsletters are good and here’s how to use newsletters).
However lately I have started using a second type of newsletter that in time has the potential to send even more traffic. In fact initial […]
Written on December 2nd, 2008 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse
Characteristics of Traffic Generating Posts
When I set TwiTip up look after itself over the weekend (I set up a few posts to go live at specific times) I wasn’t expecting it to be a huge weekend of traffic. The posts were good - but there were less than during the week and past history shows weekends are quiet (particularly […]
Written on November 30th, 2008 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse
Ten Tips for Stats Addicts
Today Dr. Nicole from Kitchen Table Medicine shares her story of overcoming her Stats Addiction and gives some tips on what to do with your time to build your blog instead of checking stats.
Do you obsessively check your blog traffic stats throughout the day? Do you optimistically expect your Alexa ranking to drop every four […]
Written on November 26th, 2008 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse
Do You Make These Mistakes in Guest Posting?
Guest Posting is a great way to get your name out there. Today Chris Garrett from ChrisG.com (and co-author of the ProBlogger book) sheds some light on some common mistakes made my those doing Guest Posts.
You will notice this is a guest post. This isn’t Darren writing, it is some other guy filling in while […]
Written on November 18th, 2008 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse
Search, Social and Direct Traffic - [TRAFFIC ANALYSIS]
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 […]
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