Linkbaiting with Attack
10th of November 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Linkbaiting with Attack

Nick writes an interesting post on The Art of Linkbaiting or on getting other sites to link to your blog – a necessary part of building traffic on your blog (both in getting direct traffic from the links and in building search engine ranking). Nick writes: ‘In order to bait ...more
Writing Content
Web Moments That Changed The World
10th of November 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Web Moments That Changed The World

The Webby Awards have come out with their 10 Web Moments That Changed The World – many of which were revolutionary to blogging also. Hat tip to Dave Johnston who has written a post bouncing off the Webby Awards list and adding his own comments.
General
Contextual Ad Prices Falling?
10th of November 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Contextual Ad Prices Falling?

Thanks to Stuart for alerting me to this report into keyword prices on contextual ad systems titled – Are Internet Ad Prices Slipping? The figures are from a semi regular (quarterly or monthly?) report from Fathom Online (see their 7 Nov press release) into what keyword prices are doing in ...more
Adsense
On Meta Tags
10th of November 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

On Meta Tags

Yaro asks Do Meta Tag Keywords Matter Anymore? and does a good job of explaining what they are and answering the question. His advice to whether we should use meta tags: ‘Yes and no. It definitely should not be prioritized and if you have other, better SEO things to do ...more
Adsense
What Blog Networks Look for In Potential Bloggers
10th of November 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

What Blog Networks Look for In Potential Bloggers

Blogging.wurk has a post with this ‘inside word’ on what blog networks are looking for in bloggers. He asked network owners for their opinion and got responses from 4.
Blog Networks
How to take a blog vacation
10th of November 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to take a blog vacation

Arieanna has posted about the options that bloggers have in what to do with their blogs when they go on holidays. She outlines four options: 1. Guest bloggers 2. Advance post 3. Write from the road 4. Announce you are going away I think all are valid. As she mentions ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Is Digg Traffic All its Cracked up to Be?
9th of November 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Is Digg Traffic All its Cracked up to Be?

davak at Tech-Recipes has a great post analyzing Digg as it relates to bloggers who manage to get on the front page. For those unfamiliar with Digg it’s a social bookmarking site that I’ve written a little about previously. Digg has the ability to send many thousands of visitors to ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
What Bloggers Want from Ad Networks
9th of November 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

What Bloggers Want from Ad Networks

I mentioned earlier that a few of my posts might appear on the Performancing blog from time to time. There are actually a few there already, most of which are reposts from ProBlogger – however I did write this special post for them that hasn’t be published anywhere else yet. ...more
Advertising
CEOs and Blogs – Mixed Opinions
9th of November 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

CEOs and Blogs – Mixed Opinions

news.com reports that 59% of CEOs believe blogs are a useful internal communication tool while 47% believe that they are useful for external communication. Of course this means that 41% and 53% are not so excited by blogs: ””Most CEOs are still in a wait-and-see mode when it comes to ...more
Business Blogging