1.6.10 - Quality vs Success: What is more important for you?
On one hand, you have the burning desire to create something remarkable, memorable, and of sheer quality. It takes time, love and hard work, and you run the risk that it will go unappreciated, for after all you are pandering to your own notion of what needs to be said and done. After all, to [...]
1.6.10 - Three steps for writing good blog posts
Thord (he of Swedish descent and bearing a reputation for ‘crack’ design skills) writes about the two most important skills a blogger can have.
#2 is knowing how to blow your own horn (‘toot’ is so politically correct it gives me a shiver). Thord discusses it in some detail, and I like this part best:
Some of [...]
1.6.10 - Three ways to immediately improve your networking skills
Promoting websites online, just like in the offline world, is about finding the right people with the right resources and having them help you get the word out. By yourself, you are nowhere near as effective as when you have a network of contacts and friends working together to help you promote your new venture.
How [...]
1.6.10 - Ten networking tips for non-US bloggers
As a blogger residing in a third world country, networking opportunities are limited for me. Logistical problems mean that it is bloody hard to hop over to the US for conferences – and in many cases, us non-US bloggers are at a disadvantage in terms of real networking opportunities.
However, if you’re a non-US blogger (or [...]
1.6.10 - 12 link building tactics
As 2007 turns into 2008 (yes, its more than a month away but you can’t fault me for preparing right now, can you?), it’s worth taking a hard look at our blogging and promotion strategies and how those will evolve in the future.
Today I’d like to cover 12 link building tactics that will be most [...]
1.6.10 - Blogging on the move
If you’re a problogger and you travel more than once every 3 months, you need some sort of ‘living on the road’ solution to keep you plugging in and functioning (work-wise, of course). It may be a romantic (and healthy) notion that you should ditch all things work and Net when taking a break, but [...]
1.6.10 - Optimizing for search users vs Optimizing for search engines
While reading Stoney deGeyeter’s article – 10 Useless SEO Worries (his booboo on PageRank apart, I agree with the fellow on everything else) – I couldn’t help but notice this gem:
Is it smart to work on getting your site ranked on MSN, Yahoo, and Ask? Sure, absolutely. But never at the expense of your Google [...]
1.6.10 - Poaching writers and blog network ethics
One of the big plusses of the Internet is the ability to hire people from across the globe and have them work for you remotely. As a blog (and blog network) owner, I tend to take it for granted that I can, at any point in time, contact any of my bloggers and get them [...]
1.6.10 - Ten simple rules for online success
This article was inspired by an offhand rant in an IM session with David – thank you for listening mate.
Over the weekend I was looking at my own life (you know, the usual introspective Sundays) when I was – to put it mildly – interrupted by another whining session from someone who has been seeking [...]
1.6.10 - Blogs and leveraging the search tail
We’ve already established that bloggers need SEO, and that it’s not PageRank or some other silly metric that you should be running after, it’s search referral volume.
Here’s a plug-n-play strategy for attracting (and profiting from) search engine traffic to your blog:
Build a website that is trusted by the search engines in that niche.
You need links [...]
