“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
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
If you missed the earlier parts, check out:
This series is based on Robert Scoble’s presentation at the Blog Business Summit.
On with the show:
Have a Voice
Having a voice personalizes your blog. The top blogs are read not so much for their factual content, but often the ‘spin’, interpretation or analysis of the facts.
You can choose to be informative, instructional, funny, maybe even Continue reading
Fresh off the press, I got news that Darren Rowse, AKA ProBlogger (or Gold Blogger as Yanik Silver likes to call him) is about to launch the next Writing Project, and it could be as early as next week.
I’d been asking him about the Writing Project when we were talking in October (as he was msging from a beach cafe while on vacation) (see: Talking with Darren Rowse – ProBlogger.net).
The project is finally here and participating in the last project brought a massive traffic spike to this blog, plus a number of the visitors have gone on to be regular readers too.
Besides the traffic, Darren’s also doing a random drawing of winners Continue reading
I saw a post in my WordPress dashboard from Matt (one of the WordPress development team).
His intriguing title “Is Your Plugin Naughty or Nice?” features a guest article by Aaron Brazell informing developers to ensure plugin compliance with WordPress 2.1 which is ‘almost here’.
It’s hard to realize that it’s almost been a year since WordPress 2.0 “Duke” was released on December 26, 2005.
I was looking for more info on WordPress 2.1 but there’s scant info available now.
You should be using some variant of WP 2.0 and if you haven’t patched it to 2.0.5 already, this is a good time to do so. There were a number of security-related patches in the last update.
I really like WordPress and a quote on the WordPress site captures my feelings:
“WordPress: free, yet priceless”
If you aren’t already optimizing your WordPress blog, you won’t be able to traffic generate and monetize as effectively as you could, you might want to check out Secret Blog Weapon.
I really love hearing from those who’ve started using Secret Blog Weapon and are getting great results!
Tino Buntic’s What Do Bloggers Look Like is an interesting post.
Although we blog in isolation, we’re part of a larger blogging community.
Even if you choose to be a ‘deviant’ or ‘social outcast’, you have a ‘social outcast’ cliche too.
Which is why the montage is interesting. It bring together different bloggers from different segments together.
You get to see a whole cast of different people, all churning out their thoughts on a frequency ranging from daily to weekly, to be archived by the search engines, as our entries get indexed.
A sort of virtual immortality if you will.
But what’s more interesting is Continue reading