CategorySocial Media

Over the last 10 days I’ve been running twin polls on two of my blogs – ProBlogger and TwiTip – asking readers whether they’d prefer more Twitter Followers or Blog Readers. The overall results were fairly clear – 84% of those who responded people would prefer more Blog Readers. I ...more

This interview was conducted by Monica O’Brien (@monicaobrien) from Twenty Set. As the recession looms on, more and more people are turning to social media and blogs to look for jobs. Jamie Varon (@jamievaron) has generated buzz in the Twitter community with her new website called Twitter Should Hire Me, ...more

Today I was reading a post on CopyBlogger by Dean Rieck on the importance of using email to grow a blog and it struck me how many bloggers still don’t fully understand the power of email as a way to grow their blogs. I’m not going to rehash all of ...more

On Twitter yesterday Yaro asked me whether I like Twitter more than Blogging. My reply was of course limited to 140 characters and as a result not overly comprehensive: “no I like blogging more than Twitter but Twitter is fun and a useful part of the mix of what I ...more

There are many reasons that a blog post might get spread widely through ‘ReTweets’ (when one person passes on the tweet of another) but one fairly obvious, yet often overlooked one, has to do with the length of your blog post title. Yesterday on TwiTip I published a post with ...more

Many bloggers attempt to use social networking sites to gain new readers for their blog. In this post Kevin Palmer of Social Media Answers shares some tips on how to do it. One of the most undervalued places to find readers is a niche social networking site. Right now there ...more

Wednesday was the biggest day of traffic that I’ve seen to any of my blogs for a very long time (perhaps ever). I mentioned this on twitter yesterday and had a few followers request that I write up how it happened – so here’s a quick recap/timeline on the 24 ...more

In this guest post, Steve Schwartz, a professional LSAT tutor, discusses how he has used Facebook to promote his Ace the LSAT blog and create a community of readers. Your blog’s readers probably have Facebook profiles already, and making your own Facebook profile is easy enough. Aside from allowing you ...more

In this post Dan Zarrella tells us about a new tool he’s created for bloggers – TweetBacks – a tool that allows you to add instances where your blog has been mentioned on Twitter to your blogs comments section. A few days ago, I created the first implementation of TweetBacks ...more