CategoryBlog Promotion

Research out of Forrester is showing a growing interest to place advertisements on blogs and/or in RSS feeds. This should be no surprise, given the mainstream business coverage of blogs that has issued recently. Of those surveyed by Forrester, 64% would be interested in advertising on blogs, while 57% would ...more

Yeah, I admit it, I’m a metrics junky.  Which is good, since I am the chief blogger for Elytics.com writing on the web metrics blog.  Regardless, I’m also a huge fan of FeedBurner.  I admit I check my FeedBurner stats throughout the day, especially when one of my articles has ...more

Darren asks, ‘What’s in A Blog Name?‘. He’s right, a name is a very important piece of becoming a successful blog. Think branding…it’s all about branding. Certain names and words flow off the tounge and are more memorable than others. I’ve been reading Darren’s blog before it was ProBlogger.net. What ...more

Nicholas Roussos has a good post on How-To Get Slashdotted. His method is a slightly less direct method than you might think – ie it’s about getting your link on Slashdot in the byline of the person who submitted the article rather than having a post you’ve written directly linked ...more

WorkBoxers writes a great post comparing Search Engine Traffic to Daily Visitors, Which Is Better? I agree with Scrivs again on this one – its a ‘both’ thing – both types of readers have their value to your blog. You can successfully target either one exclusively or even both depending ...more

One of the good blogs that I’ve started reading a bit more of lately is Search engine optimization and Online marketing, a group blog written about Affiliate programs, B2B Marketing, Business Blogging, SEO and more. They write an article today that might be helpful to bloggers wanting to explore developing ...more

Finding readers for your blog can be one of the hardest and most frustrating parts of blogging. You slave over your content, writing witty, clever, insightful, humorous posts and check your stats at the end of your day and barely anyone has taken any notice – it can be downright ...more

This morning as I do the rounds of some of my favorite blogs I’ve noticed a theme. Its the Academy Awards – the Oscars. I wonder how many blogs are listing the winners of the 2005 Oscars today – I’ve just seen at least 10. As I surfed around and ...more

This is the fourth and final post in this series on making first time readers loyal readers. Read previous parts at part I, part II and part III Promote your RSS Feed – Under my invitation to receive an email newsletter I have an invitation to subscribe to my RSS ...more