Testing some blogging advice, Part 2
In the last article, Testing some blogging advice, Part 1, I put into play Duncan Riley’s advice and moved my Google Analytics tracking code up into the header of this blog as he suspects that Google Analytics may be under-reporting my traffic.
In this article we’re going to look at a technique that the guys over at Daily Blog Tips have used to increase their email subscriber numbers.
The Best of The Week [TWBOTW]
In a week where my RSS subscriptions have been dominated by news and commentary from SXSW I figured this was going to be a difficult TBOTW to put together, in actual fact it’s been very easy as there is still some fantastic content being produced by the ’smaller’ name blogs while all the big guys are at SXSW.
So here’s this weeks The Best of The Week!
11 Must Have Firefox Extensions by Shoemoney - as a Firefox user I’m always looking out for good extensions that will speed up my workflow, there’s a couple of ‘must haves’ in this list.
and why not follow that up with another software one, and I know there’s a fair number of Mac users reading this blog last time I checked Google Analytics
5 Amazing Mac Apps for Getting Things Done by Zen Habits - The ideal for anyone interested in Getting Things Done (more on GTD, and more)– or just being productive and organized, for that matter — is to be able to quickly add things to your to-do lists without interrupting your work; to be able to see what you need to do right now, without worrying about everything else; to be able to organize stuff without too much work.
The Blog Entrepreneur brought us this interesting article on Why Most Bloggers Will Never Succeed at Blogging - You don’t have to spend very much time surfing the blogosphere to deduce that a number of blogs get started and are posted on for a week or two, maybe even a few months, but then go dormant. Another bit of evidence is the sheer number of domains that are available for auction via GoDaddy or the various forums.
Seopher had some interesting things to say in his article on How to get success by authoring multiple blogs that I found pretty interesting as someone who is getting into authoring multiple blogs (I’m With The Band, Medical News Stat!, A Business is Born, Fat Stacks of Cash).
and on the topic of search engine marketing (SEO) Stoney over at Search Engine Guide gave us some insight that I think a lot of people would find useful in his article titled Sometimes Fixing a Site Means Breaking It First
and still on the topic of SEO check out the article on Daily Blog Tips with the tip on how you can Check How Search Engines See Your Website which you should bookmark as a valuable resource any time you do any changes to your website’s SEO! was quietly suprised on how this website shows up.
Last but not least check out Chris G’s Free eBook on Personal Branding written by Ted Demopoulos, why go out and pay a bunch of bucks for quality information you can get for nix, and it is quality information.
Anyway, those are some of the best articles to hit my RSS Reader this week. Hopefully there’s something amongst this lot which will help you out in the future, be sure to Digg and / or Stumble it for future reference, maybe even Subscribe to my RSS feed so that you get this delivered to you each week.
Till next week, Matt
The Best of The Week [TBOTW]
Well I’m only a day late posting this weeks TBOTW article, I have excuses and each one is better than the last..hehe Anyway, no need for a long winded introduction this week, let’s get straight to the list!
Here we go, and in no particular order;
10 Signs That Your Blog Is On The Right Track by Daily Blog Tips - Starting a new blog or growing an existing one can certainly be frustrating, as it may seem like you are not on pace to achieve your goals. Like anything worthwhile, building a solid and effective blog will take some time and hard work. Read more..
The 7 Habits of Highly Successful Bloggers by The Blog Entrepreneur - If you are going to be successful in the blogging world or really at anything then you need to learn to play to your strengths and minimize your weaknesses. This sounds easy but in reality it can be incredibly difficult. Read more..
With Darren Rowse over at SXSW at the moment the guest posts have been coming through thick and fast on Problogger. There have been a few articles that I thought were great, this one would be the pick of the bunch for mine.
12 CPM Alternatives to Adsense by Problogger - Video content publishers face a unique capitalization challenge on the internet today. Sites that rely on new media for the bulk of their content are unable to earn as much from Adsense as those sites that feature more traditional written articles. Read more..
Anywired is rapidly becoming one of my favorite blogs to read, and with the rising number of people writing and selling ebooks over the last couple of months this article will give you a head start over the competition.
5 Short-Term Strategies for Building Long-Term eBook Sales by Anywired - What’s the #1 deterrent that keeps people from writing and selling their own eBook? According to the people who e-mail me for advice, it’s the so-called grandeur of the task. Read more..
and last but not least
Instant SEO boost using Google web history, 70 extra visitors a day by Seopher - SEO is a strange beast; you can try really hard to optimise a piece of content for the search engines only to have it sit in your archives, alone and unloved. Did you know that there’s an excellent SEO tool sitting right under your nose? Read more..
So there you go, the articles in my RSS feed that I either enjoyed reading the most or that I took the most useful information from.
As always feel free to suggest some articles or blogs that I should be reading and let me know if there’s anything here you liked by Digging or Stumbling this post.
Cheers, Matt
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