Website Traffic Series Part 11: Put Your URL On Online Profiles
If you are a savvy Internet user, I am sure that you have a bunch of online profiles spread all over the place. Facebook, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Twitter and so on. Sometimes we just create an account on those places because friends encourage us to, or out of sheer curiosity. Regardless of the motive, it would be cool if you could put those many profiles to work and gain some traffic out of it right?
Now I See Why the WordPress Image Align Feature Was Not Working
There is one WordPress feature that was introduced with version 2.5 that always made me curious: the image alignment feature of the “Add media” editor. Why? Because it never worked!
The Art of Writing Catchy Articles: 11 Simple Tips
This is a guest article by Rajat Bhadani.
1. Content is Important:
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them - George Orwell
It’s like good storytelling – your writing needs to guide your audience into what you want them to think/perceive or they will create a picture on their own which might not be necessarily what you originally wanted.
The Trends of Online China
As I opened my email account this morning I came across a pitch from a guy that wanted me to take a look on some handboook his company had published. Rarely I cover the stuff people send to me over email (else that is all I would end up doing here, since I get some 3 or 4 every day…) but the title of this one got me curious: The Handbook of Online China.
What Is A Blog?
This is a group writing project. If you want to take part, read on!
It is 2008; do we still need to ask ourselves what a blog is? I think so, and for two reasons. First of all we still have many misconceptions about blogging floating around the web. Pretty much every week I get at least one email from someone asking if I believe blogging has a future. My answer is always “as long as the Internet has a future, blogs do too.” You will see why I answer that below.
Gmail Tip: How To Browse Only the Unread Messages
If you are anything like me, you probably have dozens of unread messages sitting on your Gmail account. I try to keep my inbox zeroed through out the week, but sometimes you just can’t handle the amount of incoming messages.
Blogging Questions & Answers 12
Welcome to another Blogging Questions & Answers column. They go live every Friday. If you have a question that you want answered, just leave a comment below with it. All questions get answered (even if I don’t know the answer!).
1. Shoban Kumar asks:
As bloggers we sometimes left without ideas for writing posts. What do you do to generate ideas?
Alexa is Becoming Completely Worthless
Alexa is becoming a joke lately. Some people claim that over the previous two years it was already losing reliability, but lately it went completely nuts. Whatever they did on the last algorithm update, it messed up their rankings badly.
I know that many people already ignore Alexa, but most advertisers still consider it when evaluate ad buys on websites, so I think we need to raise the awareness about it, and encourage them to use other available tools to gauge traffic.
Sponsors
Popular Articles
- 43 Web Design Mistakes You Should Avoid
- 101 Blog Tips I learned in 2006
- 30 Traffic Generation Tips
- 28 Ways to Make Money with Your Website
- Top 25 Blogs About Blogging
- Darren Rowse vs. Jeremy Shoemoney
- 12 Do's and Dont's of Copyright Law
- Hold Tight, It Will Only Get Easier
- How to Find Advertisers for Your Website
- 7 Ways to Promote your Site
- Top 10 Underrated Wordpress Plugins
- The Best Website Taglines Around the Internet
- 10 Tips To Write Your Most Popular Post Ever
- Blog Setup: 40 Practical Tips
- Homepage Excerpts Wordpress Plugin
