Written on September 24th, 2008 at 12:09 am by Skellie
The Truth About Creating a High-traffic Blog
Skellie wrote this post. For more, you can follow her on Twitter.
Did you know that some blogs receive over one million visitors each month?
Have you ever wondered how they do it?
This kind of traffic isn’t easy to attain, but the pay-off for a high traffic blog with hundreds of thousands of page views each [...]
Written on September 16th, 2008 at 10:09 pm by Darren Rowse
13 Ways to Promote Your Next Blog Post
You’re slaved over your post – crafting titles, opening lines, adding depth, designing the post to be eye catching and more – you select the perfect time for your post to go live and hit ‘publish’!
It’s over – another post ‘released’ into the wild – there’s nothing more you can do except sit back, see [...]
Written on September 14th, 2008 at 04:09 am by Darren Rowse
7 Strategies to Invite More People Into Your Audience
Do you want to grow your blog’s audience? Today Chris Brogan shares some strategies on just how to do that.
It took me years to start figuring out how to grow my blog’s community such that it was steady and sustainable. A few years back, I figured out how to hit the Digg front page from [...]
Written on September 13th, 2008 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
What I Learned by Increasing My Forum Membership by 400 in 24 hours
Yesterday I challenged myself to grow my Digital Photography forum membership numbers by 500 new members in 24 hours.
I only got just over 400 in the end – but learned a few things a long the way about growing forums – some of which can be applied to blogging.
The Challenge
I like to set myself challenges [...]
Written on September 2nd, 2008 at 01:09 pm by Darren Rowse
How to Get Noticed [the Art of Positioning]
Jeremiah Owyang has written a good post today on how to get noticed.
Getting noticed is a major problem for most bloggers starting out (and most who have been going for years also). Jeremiah’s suggestions are great:
Have a goal, Develop a unique brand, Get personal, Attend local events, Lead events, Be interesting and Archive your achievements.
He [...]
Written on August 5th, 2008 at 10:08 pm by Darren Rowse
How to Get 2500 New ‘Subscribers’ to Your Blog Overnight (and Why I Don’t Really Care)
Every 2nd blog about blogging today seems to be writing about a video showing how to get 2500 subscribers overnight using a Netvibes accounts and an OPML file with thousands of copies of your own feed in it.
I’ve had a lot of people email me to ask what I think about the technique. My response:
1. [...]
Written on June 10th, 2008 at 09:06 pm by Darren Rowse
Offline Blog Promotion Tips – Part 3
Over at ScribeFire they’ve just published the 3rd part of my offline blog tips series (read part 1 and part 2). This one includes 7 tips from some of my Twitter buddies as well as four more of my own.
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Written on March 23rd, 2005 at 01:03 am by Darren Rowse
Add an ‘About’ Page to Your Blog
One of the ways you can make your blog more engaging for readers is to consider adding a feature that I’ve noticed that some bloggers are increasingly avoiding using – an About page.
About Pages: Two of the most viewed pages on my blog here are my About ProBlogger and About Darren pages – this gives [...]
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