We recently reported on Wibiya, an exceptional tool for Wordpress blogs (and other sites but we don’t care about them). At the time, Wibiya was in beta mode, asking you to request an invitation to use the plugin. Just recently, Wibiya took two pretty big steps.
First, Wibiya is now open to the public. Simply click [...]
Have you noticed some websites have those toolbars at the bottom of the screen? They stay put as you scroll around and offer you all sorts of conversion tools like twitter buttons, subscribe buttons, search features, etc. See them in action on the top blogs like Web Ecoist, Walyou and The Next Web. [...]
The idea of creating content to target social media is nothing new. Terms like “Made for Digg” have been coined, and many people have created a basis for a successful site by focusing on attracting social media. When discussing the term Social Media Optimization (SMO) I consider it to be the optimizing of content on [...]
After reading Dana Wallert’s article, 34 Stumbleupon posts that aren’t crap, I am feeling inspired to write about one of my favorite web services, StumbleUpon.
StumbleUpon is a great browsing experience, you find great content quick. It learns what you like, so great new content keeps on coming. Because of this it is a terrible procrastination [...]
I have just read an interview in the October .Net magazine with Andrew Keen. Andrew is self proclaimed as one of the most hated people on the net because of his criticism of Web 2.0, current social network habits and online culture. As hated as he may be by the masses, I feel most of what he is [...]
This article will discuss success ranking systems within the blogosphere, and then give ideas about how to manipulate and benefit from them.
TEN – Technorati Favorites
Although I don’t think this is a particularly useful metric, having a lot of people who have added your blog as a favorite on Technorati may get you some traffic. [...]
In an environment rich with social media sites providing quick fix for our short attention spans what is an acceptable time for a visitor to spend on a Blog? If you don’t keep track of the statistics of your site Google Analytics will do nicely for tracking your site statistics.
The Bounce Rate (also called % Exit) [...]
This article is a summary of some of the best articles I have read recently.
Steven Snell from Vandelay Design writes about 9 Essential Tools for Bloggers. This is a great article summarizing some key tools for bloggers. The article names the following list of tools, please visit the article for a full write up.
FeedBurner
Google [...]
Social media sites like Digg, MySpace, Flickr and del.icio.us are very popular. They have millions of users, and you want in on that action. But how do you get traffic from these sites?
How Are Social Media Sites Good For Your Blog?
You can create pages with links back to your site, or submit an article which is [...]
After reading an article on skelliewag.org called 10 steps to building a killer feed Collection I got to thinking about what sorts of extra feeds I should be subscribing to. The 10 points are listed below, but if this topic interests you I suggest you go and read the details of each point.
Subscribe to every good [...]
