Search, Social and Direct Traffic – [TRAFFIC ANALYSIS]
18th of November 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

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 ...more
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BuySellAds – [USER REVIEW]
17th of November 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

BuySellAds – [USER REVIEW]

My name is James, I currently run iLoveMacApps and MacTricksAndTips. I am not a big time blogger by far and my income is quite small in comparison to some of the blogs on the web today. But I have found a service that has managed to triple my monthly income. ...more
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What I learned about Blogging from the U.S. Presidential Election
16th of November 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

What I learned about Blogging from the U.S. Presidential Election

In today’s guest post Trisha from Ideas for Women shares some lessons that she learned from the US Presidential Election. I followed this year’s U.S. presidential election pretty closely on T.V. and also volunteered for one of the candidates. Over I time I began to notice some parallels between running ...more
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16 Essential PC Applications for Bloggers
15th of November 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

16 Essential PC Applications for Bloggers

This article was written by Ruchir Chawdhry. PS: Mac users can check out 14 Essential Mac OS X Applications for Bloggers that Darren wrote a while ago. 1. Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox is the king of all browsers. Limitlessly extendable, fast, and lightweight. If you’re still using any other browser ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Are RSS Subscribers Worthwhile if they Don’t Visit Your Blog?
14th of November 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Are RSS Subscribers Worthwhile if they Don’t Visit Your Blog?

“Why do bloggers put so much focus upon growing RSS subscriber numbers to their blog if most of them only ever read your content in Feed Readers and don’t visit your blog?” This question (or variations of it) hit my inbox 3 times in 24 hours from different people so ...more
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Why Bloggers Should Consider Social Bookmarking Sites Like Digg
13th of November 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Why Bloggers Should Consider Social Bookmarking Sites Like Digg

Earlier in the week I published a post titled Skip Digg: Not All Traffic is Created Equal. In that post I mentioned that I’d follow up the post with some arguements FOR using Digg by a top Digg user. Today social media expert Muhammad Saleem tackles that very topic. You ...more
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How to Manage a Multi-Author WordPress Blog
12th of November 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Manage a Multi-Author WordPress Blog

More and more blogs seem to be transitioning to multi-author set ups and as they do I’ve been asked increasingly for information on how to manage these types of blogs. If you have a multi-author WordPress blog then you’ll want to check out a great post at Hongkiat – 35 ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Sphere – Show Your Readers Related Content [REVIEW]
12th of November 2008 Jeff Chandler 0 Comments

Sphere – Show Your Readers Related Content [REVIEW]

One of the tips that is often given by bloggers is that you should use some sort of service or plugin that shows related posts on your blog. Not only does this give readers something else to look at, it provides another way to make your blog sticky. This will ...more
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How to Find Advertisers for Your Blog
11th of November 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Find Advertisers for Your Blog

In this video Gary Vaynerchuk answers how to monetize your blog or video blog with a practical illustration. Of course you need to have at least some traffic to pull in advertisers – but once you do, if the advertisers are not coming to you yet – go to them. ...more
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