“Competition” may not be the best way to describe ProBlogger Darren Rowse’s latest writing project.
That’s because Darren will be assigning the prizes worth $2,500 randomly to 10 lucky winners.
The last time round I set my sights on the $200 Amazon voucher.
This time round, the prizes look equally tantalizing, although I’d have to say my top Continue reading
The last 5 days has been an interesting time.
Fresh from finishing an intensive two day workshop with Copywriting Guru Jo Han Mok, I went for a 3 day vacation to paradise with the family. (thanks to my buddy Rachit Dayal who helped with my blog housekeeping while I was away)
Indra Mani Villa, Bintan, Indonesia
We headed out to Indonesia in choppy water, akin to 5G roller coaster ride. (I’d later discovered that Singapore had been subjected to 24 hours of rain and flooding).
The ocean ride was tough. I couldn’t keep my lunch down. Neither it seemed could about 80% of the other passengers.
But we were rewarded with Continue reading
I was doing research for an upcoming post and came across Darren Rowse’s Who Is Darren Rowse?
And found this cool “What is” tool.
IT consultant Arttu Ylärakkola’s Solvalou.com site scrapes content off the search engine and provides a snapshot about a certain topic.
I did a search for my buddy Rachit Dayal and came up with the following:
As you can tell, Rachit is a very exciting guy. (NOT…).
On the other hand, a search for “George Bush” shows up the intriguing…
Here’s another source of social traffic: 25peeps.
It’s a single page with links to 25 bloggers.
25peeps is stated by Germany-based Hendrik Mans and the service is pretty decent SEOwise, having a PR5, Alexa 241k.
Here’s a snapshot of the page:
Here’re my observations: Continue reading
PlanetAndrea just alerted me to this.
UK-based Search Engine Optimization (SEO) specliast David Naylor has just announced the launch of his new Social Networking site TickMe (TickMe – New Social Networking Site).
Ok, so you may or may not be socially inept, but the fact is that TickMe can help you expand your network, project a different persona in your profile, or simply generate more traffic for your blog, website, portal.
I’m expecting that Terry from Kineda will be coming over very shortly to set up something. And we could use more pictures of Scarlett Johannson and Japanese Race Queens, can’t we?
TickMe’s interesting because there’s a system in place to protect your ego.
According to David:
It’s a bit like Myspace/Faceparty but with more privacy and a dating slant. It’s all very simple. Log in and “tick†someone you like the look of. They won’t know you’ve ticked them unless they tick you back and you get a mutual tick! Cut out all the nonsense and be sure that the people you’re communicating with are on the same wavelength.
That may be true, but if you you look at the profiles:
I’m not sure how I feel about Continue reading
Regular readers will know that social traffic generation is a pet topic of mine, and you’d be surprised that about 70-80% of the traffic to this blog originates from social origins (typically a blog, forum or social networking site), rather than from the search engines.
Social traffic can be a very powerful tool if you know how to use it well, and can draw traffic faster as the traffic comes immediately.
Social Traffic Generation is heavily reliant on the 11th factor: Write Well. Which is detailed in 10 Ways to a Killer Blog.
The principle works this way: You want to post high quality content on other sites such that your readers want to find out more about you and read your content. Hence they pop over to your site.
Having a good traffic mix is important
Forums in particular are a great source of traffic. Especially if Continue reading