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 [...]
Written on October 1st, 2008 at 06:10 am by Darren Rowse
270 Bloggers that Use Facebook
A few months back here at ProBlogger I held a social media love-in experiment where I asked readers to submit their social media profiles so we could all get to know one another in different social media settings. The result was fantastic with lots of great connections.
We produced lists of bloggers who use Twitter, Stumbleupon, [...]
Written on September 27th, 2008 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
Launching Your Next Venture Using Social Media – 5 Lessons Learned
Today Mark Hayward shares some lessons on how to use social media to launch an online venture.
Are you getting ready to launch a new project? Have you worked for months, or possibly even years trying to complete your vision and make it ready for the big launch day?
If you find yourself in a similar predicament [...]
Written on September 20th, 2008 at 12:09 am by Skellie
How to Grow a Young Blog With StumbleUpon
Skellie wrote this post. She writes plenty more advanced blogging tips and strategies at Skelliewag.org. You can also get to know Skellie on Twitter.
It’s ironic that arguably the biggest challenges for a blogger come when they are least experienced–when their blog is just a few weeks or months old.
Any blogger will tell you that [...]
Written on September 19th, 2008 at 12:09 am by Skellie
What is the Real Value of a Social Media Visitor?
Skellie wrote this post. She writes plenty more advanced blogging tips and strategies at Skelliewag.org. You can also get to know Skellie on Twitter.
Bloggers are fiercely divided when it comes to deciding the value of social media traffic.
Some crave it or even become addicted to it, writing every post with an aim to hit the [...]
Written on September 9th, 2008 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
Present a Consistent Brand in Your Blogging
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In this video post I reflect upon the one of the downsides of changing your blog’s brand and/or design.
While updating blog design, logos and avatars in social media sites can bring a lot of life to a blog and present you with an up to date [...]
Written on August 28th, 2008 at 06:08 am by Darren Rowse
A Downside of Getting to the Front Page of Digg
The Holy Grail of incoming links for many bloggers is an appearance on the front page of Digg. It has the potential to send tens of thousands of visitors and bring about a lot of secondary links from other sites who see it.
However the downside of a site the power of Digg linking to one [...]
Written on August 20th, 2008 at 11:08 am by Darren Rowse
The Buzz about Yahoo Buzz
I opened my inbox this morning to find quite a bit of mail on the one topic – Yahoo Buzz which today opened up its doors to the public and started allowing other sites outside of it’s initial closed test to submit stories to it. Yahoo Buzz is a social bookmarking/voting site (quite similar to [...]
Written on August 9th, 2008 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
How To Get to the Front Page of Digg – 6 Ingredients of a Successful Digg Campaign
“How do I increase the chances of getting a blog post to the front page of Digg?”
I’ve had questions about getting to the front page of Digg many times in the last few weeks so thought I’d put together a guide with a process for doing it. By no means is this something that will [...]
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