With only 2 days left of the Problogger challenge, it is time to analyze the traffic to my blog. If you have never looked at analysis statistics and want to know what to look for, he gives you 17 different metrics to look at. Analysis of my stats is one of the reasons I love wordpress – there are great plugins that make it so much...
Problogger is worried about passive readers. I was too, so I asked all my readers to de-lurk. A lot of them did But problogger says de-lurking isn’t enough, your readers need to act and they must be called into action by you (okay, by me, but you get what I mean). For his challenge today, he offers a solid list of ways to get...
We are up to day #20 of problogger’s 31DBBB challenge and I am excited to say that I have made it this far. Not every day was right on time…but I was pretty close! Today’s post is about commenting on other blogs in your niche, or those of your readers. He lists a few benefits of commenting, but I think that he is missing one...
Today’s blog challenge for the 31DBBB by problogger is a little difficult today. The requirement is to find someone who has never read/visited your blog and ask them to visit it. He recommends not talking while they go through it, but watch where they go, what they click on, avoid, look at, etc. Then, have them answers a few questions:What were their first impressions? What...
Blogging is not about writing, it is about conversation, it is about knowledge, and about listening. Problogger points out that many bloggers forget to take a step away from their wordpress dashboard to see what is going on around them. The solution? Set up alerts to monitor what is going on in your niche! My challenge for day 10 of the Problogger’s 31D2BBB is to...
As many of you have heard – I have been laid off. Now I can do 2 things:get really mad, frustrated and pissed. get over it, and figure out the future.I’m going with #2 (no jokes, c’mon, we’re all adults here!). so…what does that mean for me? I think I am going to go after the dream I have always had to be 100% freelance. So…what does...
I love askimet – it is the most impressive spam filter I have found for wordpress. Plus, it has this nifty little feature where if it is not sure that it is spam, it keeps it in a ‘spam’ folder rather than immediately deleting it. Most people I know never check it, because they assume it is just spam-that-hasn’t-been-deleted-yet. My idea: CHECK IT!!! I repeat –...
Just a quick message to my subscribers: I finally switched my feedburner account over to Google (darn them for making this change…I loved that feed wasn’t part of Google!) Anyway, there have been problems in the past with the change over, so I wanted to make sure that everyone who was subscribed to me, didn’t lose their feeds. Please double check that you have the right...
Last week, I asked everyone on twitter what their favorite websites were. But, I only talked about one that I liked (my own). Many people later asked me what other sites I liked. The problem was, I couldn’t define a category to stick with. There are so many posts out there about the 10 sites you must go to if… …you’re into social media …you like sports …you’re...
Have I mentioned that I love wordpress? I do. Wholeheartedly. Easy to use, fully cutomizable, creative and always improving. Today I found one more reason to love wordpress – new widgets! One of the new fun widgets is the rhyming widget! Trying to become a rap superstar or just love poetry? Type in any word you want, and it spits out hundreds of rhymes for...
