Blogging in a Sound Bite World

For those people who blog daily or semi daily is there an optimal post length that keeps people reading regularly without feeling overwhelmed?

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Googlers Blogging More

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed more activity on the official google blogs in the past few days? Wonder if it’s a direct result of the Matt Cutts Blog Faster post or just a coincidence, of course I don’t believe in coincidences … Official Google Blog: Kirkland calling Inside AdSense: Embed a [...]

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Does Your Follow Through Suck

This weekend I was cruising through digg and came across an example of how you can completely “ruin the ride” by not giving me what you promised.

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SEO Plugins for WordPress

This post is old and outdated, for a new version please visit SEO Plugins for WordPress Part II In the past few months I’ve gotten quite a few requests from people asking what plugins I use here and on other sites, and which ones I reccomend, so here’s my list with annotations.

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ShoeMoney Net Income Podcast

I can’t imagine if you read this blog and haven’t heard of Shoemoney. However if you aren’t listening to his podcast you’re missing out. I can’t listen live because I’ve got some scheduling conflicts but I’m catching up on the podcast archives. My top recommended Shoemoney Net Income Episodes are: ShoeMoney talks arbitrage, PPC, and [...]

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Flickr and Travel Agents

I’ve got a friend who happens to be a travel agent. She’s looking for ways to grow her business. I suggested she start a blog and a photo journal. She travels fairly frequently and takes lots of pictures, so I suggested every time she travels she write up a little review and post some photos [...]

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No Follow The Leper of Blogging

Jim was ahead of his time killing nofollow, Nick gives nofollow a smackdown, and Greg steps up to the plate and knocks one out with his yesfollow post. Having them in place does nothing to discourage spammers, and they only seem to punish the people who actually do participate in the conversation. If I have [...]

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Product Blogs

One of the types of blogs I like to use is what I call a product blog. This type of blog features products from small niche or vertical market. For example rather than build yet another gadget blog I’d focus on something much smaller like flat panel monitors. These blogs are all about capturing the [...]

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Disney Imagineer Blog

So if you’re a regular reader you know I’m a bit of a Disney nut (some would say I don’t need the Disney qualifier). If I could choose any job to have when I grow up it would be a Disney Imagineer (the folks who dream up the parks and rides that go into them). [...]

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Making WordPress More Crawlable

IMHO one of the hallmarks of good site architecture is ease of crawlability. For those of you in the back row, that means keeping everything no more than 2 or 3 levels (clicks) from any other page or the homepage. WordPress by default displays however many posts you selected to display on the homepage in [...]

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Double Edged Sword of Blog Success

Since the beginning of the year my subscription rate on this blog has doubled. I’ve gone from 75 subscriptions to over 160. I will admit that I’ve been working towards the goal of increasing my readership. The two key principles I’ve been using are trying to have something worth saying, and saying it regularly and [...]

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Site Targeting and Niche Blogging

I’m not the first one to say this, and I surely won’t be the last but if you use AdSense on your blog you really need to pick a niche topic and stick with it. This point become especially important if you allow site targeting on your blog. I have advertisers who target this blog [...]

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Guy Kawasaki The Blogger

I’ll shamefully admit to not knowing who Guy Kawasaki was a week ago, but I hafta say he is a damn good blogger, and I imagine a pretty amazing speaker.

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When A Pen Name Backfires

When I am developing a blog one of the things I think about is giving the blog a “voice”. There’s always a little bit of me in it, but I try to find a voice that compliments the site and makes it more interesting. Quite often that “voice” happens to be that of a woman. [...]

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Blog News Reporter: Approaches and the News

In part one of this series we talked about the tools for being a blog news reporter (Blog News Reporter: The Tools). In part II we are going to focus on the actual blog itself. Determine a Goal: When you are getting ready to start a blog try to think where you want this blog [...]

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Blog News Reporter: The Tools

I’ve been working on some blog news sites for several months now and I’ve come up with an modus operandi, and some time saving tips. This is an approach that works for me, feel free to copy it, massage it and integrate it into your schedule as you see fit. Blog Software: There’s a lot [...]

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How To Be a Blog News Reporter

I’m training people who’ve never blogged before how to be a blog news reporter. I’ve been using writeboard as a tool to develop notes, and in the effort of community spirit I’m sharing my approach. I’ve broken it down into the subjects listed below: Blog News Reporter: The ToolsBlog News Reporter: Approaches and the NewsBlog [...]

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Blogging Tip : Permalink

If you write a blog or read them regularly chances are you come across the term permalink. A permalink is supposed to do two things: First it establishes a cool URI (see Cool URI’s don’t change). Secondly it helps combat linkrot. So most blogs have permalink or similar concept, which is a good thing. The [...]

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