Written on October 2nd, 2008 at 11:10 am by Darren Rowse
Google BlogSearch Adds Meme Tracking
Today Google released an update to their BlogSearch service – and it isn’t just cosmetic.
The update is all about tracking what’s hot around the blogosphere and presenting stories ranked in 11 different categories according to how many other blogs are linking to those stories. You can then drill down and see the blogs that link [...]
Written on October 2nd, 2008 at 07:10 am by Darren Rowse
10 Prolific Bloggers Share Tips on Generating Conversation on Blogs
Yesterday I gave 13 tips for having great conversations on a blog. As a followup to that I shot an email to a number of bloggers that have a habit of having active comment sections to ask them how they make their blogs more conversational.
As expected – their responses were rich and full of goodness! [...]
Written on October 2nd, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
Blog Tips from Blog World Expo [VIDEO]
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Last week at Blog World Expo I had the opportunity to speak with hundreds of bloggers of all topics, backgrounds and levels of experience. One of the things that quickly became evident as I spoke with these bloggers was that collectively the bloggers who had gathered together in Vegas for those few days [...]
Written on October 1st, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
13 Tips on How to Have Great Conversations On Your Blog
Lately I’ve been suggesting 11 points to take a little extra time in the posting process on a blog. We’ve looked at everything from choosing topics, to crafting titles, to calls to action, to promoting your posts.
The point of this series is simply that when you take a little extra time at each of these [...]
Written on September 30th, 2008 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
13 Gary Vaynerchuk Tips on Building a Profitable Blog
One of the sessions that I enjoyed most at Blog World Expo (actually it was one of the few sessions I actually was able to get to) was a keynote by Gary Vaynerchuck.
While I’m sure he rubs some up the wrong way his tips on building a successful blog (and business) were refreshingly honest, [...]
Written on September 23rd, 2008 at 12:09 am by Skellie
4 Quick and Simple Ways to Increase Page Views on Your Blog
Skellie wrote this post. For more advanced blogging tips and strategies, visit her blog, Skelliewag.
When selling advertising spots on your blog the metric that advertisers value most is page views, or ‘impressions’. More page views equals higher value advertising spots on your blog. While the obvious solution to increase the value of your ad [...]
Written on September 17th, 2008 at 07:09 am by Darren Rowse
Speedlinking – 17 September 2008
Here are a few links that caught my eye over the last week. I hope something in them inspires, teaches, motivates, informs or connect with you:
Scott Karp writes a fascinating post on how Drudge Report (a site that links out a lot) has a higher reader engagement level than other sites who link out less.
Shoemoney [...]
Written on September 9th, 2008 at 11:09 pm by Darren Rowse
How to Polish Posts: Individual Blog Post Design
Much is written about how to ‘design blogs’ (as a whole) but another element of ‘blog design’ that I think is just as important, yet not written about much, is the design of individual blog posts.
How blog posts ‘look’ is so important. I’ve seen the power of ‘polishing’ posts time and time again.
Image by Darwin [...]
Written on September 3rd, 2008 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
13 Ways to Add New Dimensions to Your Next Post
What do you see when you look at this image?
Image by Lord V
OK – so it’s two flies right? Yes it is…. but look a little harder.
Have you ever used one of those crazy eye cross eye 3D multidimensional pictures? This is one of them. Relax, cross your eyes a little and stare [...]
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