This morning I read 2 very interesting articles in my Google Reader list. One was from Duncan Riley’s The Inquisitr website and the other from Daily Blog Tips and I’ve decided to test their theories and see what effect it has on my traffic here and my daily subscriber numbers. So let’s look at Duncan’s article first; (more…) Read More →
Yesterday I wrote a quick post about trying to get organised, but I forgot to mention one of the biggest, most time consuming, jobs that I was going to try and undertake… Editing, tagging, and generally tidying up EVERY post I’ve written in the last 8 months! So far it’s coming along reasonably well. I’ve cleaned up, tagged and... (more...)
Just wanted to do a quick promotion of this Bloggers Glossary that Daniel over at Daily Blog Tips has put together, ever wondered what CPM means, or SEO or even SERP then you really should take a good look at the list. Read More →
Yesterday, in honour of my birthday and in the spirit of getting organised, I decided to go around to all my social networking websites to update my profile on them all, change the photo over, and make sure they’re all setup properly. My god I didn’t realise I had so many profiles! There’s a handful of sites that I use on a daily... (more...)
On the weekend I picked up a copy of a new magazine, Web Designer. It is the magazine’s first issue, well first released in Australia as I later found out there is a UK version and this same magazine is their 142nd issue, and was actually quite good reading. It seemed to be quite mature, though considering there’s been 142 issues released... (more...)
WordPress 2.3.2 is an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts. 2.3.2 also suppresses some error messages that can give away information about your database table structure and limits and stops some information leaks in the XML-RPC and APP implementations. Get 2.3.2 now to protect your blog from these... (more...)
Some afternoons I sit in front of my laptop wondering what I should blog about. Some afternoons it comes really easy, but more often than not I’ll sit in front of the screen and my mind just goes blank! Whenever I have that ‘brain crash’ I start surfing Digg, Technorati, and del.icio.us and checkout their respective front pages to... (more...)
So, you’ve started a blog but no one is looking at it. You’ve got your site looking all sweet and cool, you’re writing some reasonably good content, you’ve optimized your tags and categories to try and rank well in Google, you’ve setup a bunch of monetization streams to generate some revenue from hits and clicks, but nothing... (more...)