CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips
Blog Tip: Shake it Up
The following blog tip has been submitted by Jon Gales – the editor of the wonderful MobileTracker blog. Learn more about Jon from this interview we did with him earlier in the year. Sometimes being a pro blogger means being a sole blogger, but that’s not always the best cawe. ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Blog Tip: Update old posts
The following blog tip has been submitted by Jon Gales – the editor of the wonderful MobileTracker blog. Learn more about Jon from this interview we did with him earlier in the year. For sites that deal with products or time sensitive information, it’s a great idea to go back ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Are You Prepared For A Good Thing?
I doubt anything I post will ever be picked-up by Slashdot, but I have hopes of being Slashdotted someday. I imagine it’s like a number of great things in life – watch what you ask for, you may get it. Having a traffic jump on the magnitude a big blog ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Am I Weird?
For every single post I write, including this one, I write it first in MS Word and save a copy in a common folder on my computer. I do the same for almost every comment I leave in the blogosphere. My thought is two-fold…if I loose everything on my site, ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Make yourself available
This may seem kind of obvious. But you’d be amazed at how difficult it is to get in touch with many business or pro bloggers. There have been a couple of instances where I’ve wanted to suggest stories to people I read, and I haven’t been able to get in ...more
General
Blog Tip: Be consistent
The following blog tip has been submitted by Jon Gales – the editor of the wonderful MobileTracker blog. Learn more about Jon from this interview we did with him earlier in the year. You should decide early into your pro blogging what style standards your site will adhear to. It ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Strategy for maximizing page views
I was going to call this article tips for maximizing page views. But tips implies that what I suggest is going to work! These are merely thoughts and suggestions. I hope to encourage a bit of experiment and conversation with this post. Please use the comments and trackbacks to let ...more
Blog Design
Trying FeedBurner Total Stats Pro on View from the Isle
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
Blog Promotion
Choosing the Perfect Blog (and Domain) Name
People often ask me what I’d do differently if I was starting my blogging from scratch – one of the big things would be around choosing better names and domain names for a few of my blogs. One of the problems with accidentally becoming a Pro Blogger like I did ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips