I want to share a post idea anyone can use. It’s almost guaranteed to produce one of the best blog posts you’ve ever written. It’s an idea with limited uses, so I’d suggest that you use it wisely. It will also take some time to do it justice. The perfect scenario would be one where […]
Category Archives: Blogging
25 Paths to an Insanely Popular Blog 261
1. The social media runaway train. Perhaps the most sought after (and least frequently attained) route to a popular blog is rapid ‘growth from above’ resulting from huge traffic spikes, most frequently originating from Digg. This route was traveled by blogs like Zen Habits (did you know Zen Habits has been on the Digg front page more than 80 […]
How to Get 1100 Subscribers in Five Days 214
There are two reasons why I’ve used the above title for this post. Firstly, it’s a follow-up to my article on How to Get 1,050 Subscribers in Three Months. Secondly, because my new blog, Anywired, reached 1,100 subscribers five days after its launch on Thursday. This post contains everything I’ve learned about starting a second blog while […]
7 Blogging Lessons Learned from a Best Selling Author 206
Everything you’ll learn about blogging or running a successful website, you’ll learn from someone else: either by reading how-to articles, observing the mistakes and successes of others, or by observing your readers and how they react to your blog. The second element — learning by example — has the potential to impart more knowledge and […]
5 Content Strategies That Top Bloggers Use 3 Things That Set Them Apart 913
When I’m in a healthy blogging mindset, I write long posts every few days. I’ve tried short and newsy in the past, but have realized I’m no Seth Godin. If I’m going to say something important and useful, I need plenty of words to do so. That’s the style that works for me, but it […]
Hansel and Gretel Link Building-41
Most of us are familiar with the old fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel. Two children overhear their parents planning to abandon them. They prepare a pouch of white pebbles and, when taken deep into the forest, leave a trail of pebbles leading back to their home. They are able to follow the pebbles back to their […]
Rethinking Links 51
Aggregating links to content by other authors has been a staple item on the web content diet for years. Unfortunately, it’s an area almost completely devoid of innovation. Links are returned like results from an intelligent search-engine: a title, a description, a recommendation — as if things couldn’t be done any other way. In this […]
Why Traffic Your Subscriber Count and Money Doesnt Matter 170
One question I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is: what sets the top blogs and websites apart, from a visitor’s perspective? The question has an astonishing answer. It’s not traffic, it’s often not subscriber numbers and it’s not advertising revenue. These are the things visitors don’t see, or don’t have to see. If what […]
Six Lessons I Could Only Learn by Letting my Blog go 524
It was a little painful to read Darren Rowse’s series of posts on letting your blog go. It hit a nerve with me for reasons that are probably self-evident: in the last four months there have only been eight new posts at Skelliewag. In this post I want to explain some of the important lessons I […]
How to Avoid Fools Gold and Create Value Packed Content 182
In my last post — why value rules the attention economy — I argued that concentrating value is a wise growth plan in the Web 2.0 era. Though a number of readers disagreed with some of the extra points I made, people did seem to respond well to the idea of creating value-packed content. I do plan […]