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 […]
Written on November 1st, 2008 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse
10 Ways to Find Readers for Your Blog By Leveraging Other Online Presence
One of the simplest ways to grow your blog’s readership is to leverage other places that you have an online presence.
Leveraging places that you have presence online could include:
1. Twitter Background Image:
I’ve been using a background image on Twitter that has URLs of other places that I’m online and it’s gotten a lot of interest. […]
Written on October 18th, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
Feeling Overwhelmed by Social Media and Web 2.0? - Here Are 5 Tips For You
Last week I spoke with a blogger who had thrown the towel in on his blog. One day he simply stopped posting with no explanation.
I emailed to ask him why he stopped and his response was:
“I can’t keep up with the advances in technology. Every day there is a new tool, widget or social networking […]
Written on October 12th, 2008 at 12:10 pm by Darren Rowse
If you have a spare 55 minutes and 33 seconds this weekend….
Produced by Dr. Micael Wesch and his team at Kansas State University - via David.
Tags: social media, Video Posts, YoutubeShare This
Written on October 11th, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
8 Tips for Affiliate Marketers on Using Twitter
Two days ago I asked Does Affiliate Marketing belongs on Twitter. The conversation that has emerged from that question has been rich - thanks for your contribution.
At the end of that post I said that I would post some tips today for affiliate marketers on how perhaps they should engage in the practice on Twitter […]
Written on October 9th, 2008 at 08:10 am by Darren Rowse
Is Twitter Selling Links and What in the World is a ‘Promotion’
Yesterday I logged onto Twitter and find a little addition to their sidebar. It says ‘Get some Perspective’ and contains a link ‘Watch Hack the Debate‘.
Here’s how it looks.
So I have two reactions to this.
1. How much more politics does Twitter need?
I’m sick of the ‘election bar’ that continues to appear when I visit Twitter. […]
Written on October 8th, 2008 at 10:10 pm by Darren Rowse
Affiliate Marketing on Twitter - Does it Belong?
What do you think about affiliate marketing on Twitter?
Lately I’ve noticed more and more affiliate marketers getting onto twitter. There’s been a real buzz about it actually in many internet marketing circles - almost like it’s the latest ‘new’ thing (I guess it is relatively new).
The unfortunate thing is that the model I’m seeing some […]
Written on October 8th, 2008 at 10:10 am by Darren Rowse
Aweber to Add Twitter Updates Feature
I just found out that later this week Aweber (the newsletter delivery service that I use) is adding a new feature that will allow their publishers to automatically send an update to their Twitter account when they send a new broadcast/newsletter. The tweet will link to an online version of the newsletter so that your […]
Written on October 6th, 2008 at 09:10 pm by Darren Rowse
Home Bases and Outposts - How I use Social Media in My Blogging
Lately I’ve been pondering the part that social media plays in my blogging business.
This post is an attempt to make some sense of it. I’d value your thoughts in comments to help me take these half thought through ideas to something more concrete.
Those who have been following me for a while know that I […]


