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Skelliewag.org was a blog actively updated through 2007 – 2010. Though I no longer post new content here there is a wealth of information for bloggers in the archives, organized below. If you’d like to keep track of future projects from me (Skellie), you can follow me on Twitter.
Books I’ve written
Successful Facebook Marketing – I share the strategies I used to grow Facebook Pages with more than 126,000 fans.
The Blog Business Funnel – learn how to create a thriving freelance business based around a popular blog (no longer for sale).
My most popular post ever
A Complete Guide to Finding and Using Incredible Flickr Images
My favorite posts
Productivity in 11 Words
How to Launch a New Blog with (Already) High Search-traffic
25 Headline Formulas That Have Plagued and Blessed Web 2.0
How to Write Like a Painter
Creating Signature Content
Categories
Creativity and Ideas
Creating Without Ulterior Motives
If You Want to Have Great Ideas, Stop Working
The Real Reason Why You Never Did It
Spinning Plates: How to Succeed with Multiple Projects
5 Hard Questions You Should Answer Before Starting a New Project
The Flickr Guide Part 2: How to Caption or Credit Photos in Posts
The Top 20 Ways to Come Up with Amazing Ideas
70 Unique Places to Find Ideas: No Metablogs Allowed
110+ Resources for Creative Minds
Choosing a Niche
The Definitive Guide to Choosing a Topic for Your New Blog – Part 1
The Definitive Guide to Choosing a Topic for Your New Blog – Part 2
The Definitive Guide to Choosing a Topic for Your New Blog – Part 3
Escaping Niches
Nomadic Growth: Moving to Greener Pastures
Surviving and Thriving in an Underserved Niche
Top 5 Tips for Success in a Crowded Niche
What Should I Write About? Well, Who Are You Writing For?
How to Pick Your Niche Wisely
Blogs as Businesses
What Popular Bloggers Got Wrong – And How You Can Get it Right
30 Days to Become a Freelancer
Find Your ‘Flow’ and the Money Will Follow
How to Start (or Start-over) Building Your Personal Brand
How Not to Sell Out
Transforming Your Blog Into Really Big Business
Like it or Not, You’re a Marketer
How to Create and Publish Your Own eBook with a $0 Budget
Practice and Expertise
Getting Better at Bad: Why Practice Doesn’t (Always) Make Perfect
How to Find Your Hidden Talent
Why No-one is a Social Media Expert
“Can I see some credentials, please?”
Productivity
Productivity in 11 Words
Productivity by Elimination
SEO, Social Media and Growth
How to Launch a New Blog With Already High Search Traffic
How to Level the Playing-field with Digg
How to Play the Odds-game and Win with Digg
Why You’ve Got to Dig Digg to Get Dugg
The Butterfly Growth Model
How to Get 1,100 Subscribers in 5 Days
A Guide to Breaking Into the Technorati Top 100
How to Get 1,050 Subscribers in 3 Months
Whiteboard: What I’ve Learned About Social Media Success
The Three Month Growth Plan
The First Month: Building Something from Nothing
The Second Month: Building Your Springboard
The Third Month: Building Your Snowball Effect
Grow Your Traffic: Turn New Visitors Into Loyal Readers
19 Strategies to Help Turn New Visitors Into Loyal Readers
The Simple Web Philosophy for Getting What You Want
The Simple Web, Part 2: Gripping
The Simple Web, Part 3: Resonating
The Simple Web, Part 4: Interacting
The Simple Web, Part 5: Talking
On Getting Noticed
Hansel and Gretel Link-building
Find New Readers in Forums
Successful Blogging
The Three Ds That Will Make or Break Your Blogging Career – Desire
Create a Word-of-Mouth Rush with ‘Street-teams’
Hustling to Get What You Want
Be the Best, Be Discovered
How to Develop an Efficient Post Frequency
Six Lessons I Could Only Learn by Letting My Blog Go
Bloggers: Watch and Learn
The Pocket-sized Guide to Blogging
How to Get Piles of Links, Subscribers and Comments
Top 5 Ways to Generate Traffic with Less Work
25 Paths to an Insanely Popular Blog
The One True Cause of Rapidfire Growth
What It’s Like to Run a Popular Blog
The 5 Barriers to Success Series: Part 5, Blogging Without Examination
The 5 Barriers to Success Series: Part 4, Perception is Everything
The 5 Barriers to Success Series: Part 3, The Absence of Definition
The 5 Barriers to Success Series: Part 2, Lack of Entry Points
The 5 Barriers to Success Series: Part 1, Lack of Significance
9 Things That Drive a Blogger Crazy
Are Subscribers Overrated?
Creating Passionate Readers
Are You Blogging Consciously?
7 Blogging Lessons Learned from a Best-selling Author
Why Traffic, Your Subscriber Count and Money Doesn’t Matter
Audacious Blogging
Criticism: A Rite of Passage on the Web?
What Aristotle Has to Say About Stats and Subscribers
101 Essential Blogging Skills
Building Superheroes
Modesty is not a Virtue
Usability and Design
Creating Sidebars that Work
Archives Suck (and Three Ways to Save Them)
Usability is a Conversation
How to Write the Perfect ‘About’ Page (by Numbers
The Key Question Your Site Must Answer: “What Can You Give Me?”
Is Your Success a Moving Target?
Whiteboard: Why Less is More in Design
The Blog Usability Checklist
A Beginner’s Guide to Making Your Site More Usable
50 Tips to Unclutter Your Blog
Critique Your Design
Writing & Content
Tutorial: How to Write a Viral-ready Article in 2 Hours Flat
For the Next 7 Days, Stop Trying to Get New Readers
5 Content Strategies That Top Bloggers Use + 3 Things That Set Them Apart
Video is Your Chance to be a Pioneer
Number + Adjective + Contents: What Happens When a Formula Dies?
On Writing and You
Your Trump Card Post Idea
Why Great Writing Doesn’t Matter Online
My #1 Trick for Creating Better Content: Write in Advance
Comfort Food Blogging
The Web’s Best Content Has 1 Thing in Common
How to Value-add Everything – Even the Little Stuff
How to Avoid Fools-gold and Create Value-packed Content
Why Value Rules the Attention Economy
How to Innovate by Solving Problems
25 Headline Formulas That Have Plagued and Blessed Web 2.0
How to Write Like a Painter
Why You Should Start a Swipe File Today
The Beautiful Post
37 Viral Post Ideas You Can Use Today
Under the Microscope: Six Strategies for Building Viral Content
12 Examples of Viral Content, and What We Can Learn from Them
A Lesson I’ve Learned About Common Knowledge and Advice Writing
On Giving Yourself Away
Little Words, Big Meaning
Crafting Your Content
Writing Dirty
Don’t Settle for Scannable: Write Gripping Content
Creating Signature Content
Lifehack Your Niche
Be Like Wikipedia to Your Readers
Escape the Echo Chamber
Writing for Beginners, for Beginners
Good Content for Busy People
5 Reasons Why Numbered Headlines Work
And that’s all there is.
There isn’t any more.
