Finding Cost Per Visitor: Are Your Ads Paying Off?
All advertising comes down to cost. If you are paying too much for an ad spot, chances are you won’t purchase it again. You want the most cost efficient advertisement possible. Obviously nothing is better than free, but what if you are paying money? Recently I posted about using Linkreferral to get traffic. I also […]
Are Rankings Everything?
There’s quite a lot of talk on blogs about PageRank, Alexa and Technorati ratings. Some bloggers even seem to be trying to find ways to manipulate the rankings in their favour. I was thinking though today, does this mean that many bloggers are perhaps forgetting why they started their blogs and what they hoped to […]
The Benefits Of De-Lurking
Let me start by saying I have no objections to lurkers (people who read, but don’t comment) at all on my blogs. I’m pleased you’ve visited, I hope you find my various posts interesting/funny/useful and you’re more than welcome. But de-lurking is one of the best things you can do, both for yourself and the […]
Recycling – not just for the environment
We all know that we need to recycle. It’s sensible for the environment, it’s unselfish and practical. But you can also recycle your blog posts. Think about posts that you’ve done before and you’ve been proud of only to have it knocked from the top spot by your next post until eventually it disappears from […]
Misspelt kewords
I nearly fell off my chair to see that I have written one of the more popular posts on Blog About Your Blog. A feather in the cap for satire? No, one lucky lucid moment about optimising the darker corners of your blog or website. I think, ironically, that one of those links (About the […]
How We Got 300 MyBlogLog Members
For a while I was on a quest. A quest to be on MyBlogLog’s top 50 community list. That quest hasn’t vanished, just slowed down. As the website grows, it has also become more difficult to get on that elite top 50 list. You need over 500 members to be featured. For our traffic and […]
I’ve been tagged!
I was asked by Nick “The Details” Techboggle to complete some sort of modern day chain letter deal. Namely, come up with a paragraph explaining each of my top 5 obsessions, and then tag, or pass it on, so to speak, to 5 more bloggers to rinse and repeat. That is a tall order, unless […]
Round Up of My Blogs and Projects
Whew, it’s been a long week even though it’s a short one! Yay for holidays (even though I’ll spend it working probably!). Instead of my usual post I thought I might give everyone a catch up on what I’m doing in general in the blogosphere. Details About My New Project First off and this is […]