Blogging Tips
In this category, you'll find posts that might be helpful for your own blog. These posts are about things that we've done with our blog, in detail, so that you can either try it with your own blog, or so you can do it differently because we did something wrong or stupid.
Published by Mike on 11 Jun 2008
As many of our loyal readers may know (ha, like we have many loyal readers), we haven’t updated the site for about a month-and-a-half. And I know I’ve said this before, but you can expect more frequent updates from now on, seriously this time. Anyway, even though we’ve been gone for so long, our Alexa [...]
Popularity: 54% [?]
Published by Mike on 15 Apr 2008
When I read blogs about blogging, there’s one common theme that I see pretty often. People want to know how to write better posts. They want to know how to write posts that people want to read, bookmark, and tell their friends about. I can tell you, with certainty, that I have not figured out [...]
Popularity: 74% [?]
Published by Mike on 14 Mar 2008
So you have a blog with some great content, and you’re finally starting to get a consistent readership that comes to your site daily. If that’s your story, then congratulations, because you’ve made it past the toughest part of starting a new blog. Now, let’s see if we can’t help you make [...]
Popularity: 65% [?]
Published by Mike on 27 Feb 2008
I’ve never been much of a golfer. I have participated in the activity many times, but that doesn’t make me a golfer. Shooting below 100 is cause for celebration, in my opinion. But it is fun to play, and there are a lot of things that you can learn about blogging from [...]
Popularity: 66% [?]
Published by Mike on 18 Feb 2008
How do you write a great blog? What differentiates your blog from all the others just like it? How do you create your own, unique brand of blogging? These are just a few questions I’ve been trying to wrap my brain around recently. I’ve read a lot about the ways people [...]
Popularity: 38% [?]
Published by Mike on 15 Feb 2008
So, as I go through my daily, “What can I do to get people to read this site?” routine, I found some information about social bookmarking sites, like Digg and del.icio.us.
About Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking sites give people a chance to discover and share websites with people that have similar interests. The content [...]
Popularity: 59% [?]
Published by Mike on 07 Feb 2008
Lately, Mike and I have been talking a lot about what we can do to improve our blog from the reader’s perspective. Before now we have been tweaking the inner workings of our blog, focusing on ways to optimize traffic and get our site out in the open. Now, I want to focus [...]
Popularity: 38% [?]
Published by Mike on 28 Jan 2008
SAN.com has launched its first advertising campaign using Google’s AdSense. Kevin and I figured that if we’re going to try and reach our goal laid out in our Expectations post, we better start trying to earn some money. This post will take you through what AdSense does, how to setup an account, and [...]
Popularity: 90% [?]
