From the monthly archives:

December 2009

It Is Better To Have Your Own Blog

December 21, 2009
free blogs

I ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in a while this weekend and he expressed to me his plan to start a blog and jump into this “new blogging thing”.  He sounded pretty enthusiastic about it and we talked a little about how he was going to go about getting into blogging.  He had [...]

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5 Quick Tweaks To Improve Your WordPress Blog

December 18, 2009
wordpress

WordPress is great right out of the box, but the default setup leaves many areas for improvement.  Here are just 5 things you could do to boost performance, SEO or usability. Boost your page serving speed You can use a caching plugin to speed up your blog, but you could also add a snippet of [...]

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Persistence Is Required For Blogging Success

December 17, 2009
persistence

Over at Salemites the other day the one and only Salem Man made a great point on what it takes to build a popular blog and that is persistence.  Persistence is the underlying key to so many things that go into turning a blog that only your mother reads into something that is read and [...]

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A Local Business That Does Social Media Right

December 16, 2009
social media

I’m going to come right out and say that I hate how so many of these “social media experts” spout off about how nowadays you have to integrate yourself into the social web, that you and your business will be relegated to the halls of obscurity if you fail to do so.  I spend a [...]

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Response To My Opinion On Coloring Your Twitter Avatar

December 15, 2009
argument

Two weeks ago I wrote a little opinion piece about changing the color of your Twitter avatar to show support for a cause.  My wife and I don’t agree on everything, and when I spout off with something like this I try to keep her eyes from seeing this blog for a little while.  For [...]

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Is Syndicating Your Blog Content Costing You Too Much?

December 15, 2009
traffic

I don’t remember how I heard of zimbio.com, but a few years back is when I started using them.  If you don’t know, Zimbio is a collaborative online magazine with thousands of contributors.  People either syndicate their blog content with them or directly write articles for publication.  It is a very popular site that receives [...]

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To Live And Die By Google

December 14, 2009
eggs basket

Are you putting all your eggs in the search engine basket when it comes to building your blog?  Focusing your efforts on search engines to bring in visitors and build a reader base is a good way to build up your blog, but if it is the only method you are using then you are [...]

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Follow Friday: How To Recommend People And Make Yourself Look Good

December 11, 2009
follow friday

Do you know what day it is?  It’s Follow Friday! People are going to be handing out recommendations to their followers, giving them advice on who they should follow.  Bundles of names will clog up Twitter timelines while tributes are passed around like Valentine’s Day cards.  Everyone is going to have a great time and [...]

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Would You Pay To Read A Blog?

December 10, 2009
pay for reading a blog

Off the top of your head, name three blogs that you follow religiously.  Are you done? Now give the reasons why you follow them.  Chances are good that the reason you keep visiting these blogs is because you continue to receive something of value from them. The value you receive from these blogs can come [...]

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If It Works For You Then It Must Work For Me

December 9, 2009
frustrated

Two people walked out to the parking lot after work and slipped into their cars.  They inserted their keys into the ignition, fired up the engine, pushed the right pedal down with their foot and drove away.  In case you missed it, do you see what happened here?  Two different people with two different cars [...]

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