Written on September 15th, 2005 at 01:09 am by Darren Rowse

8 Reasons Why Lists are Good for Getting Traffic to your Blog

Writing Content 56 comments

Here’s a tip for how to get people to link to your blog.

Write lists!

I’ve been reminded by this again today by seeing just how many people are linking up to Piaras Kelly’s list of Tips on writing content for your blog. I must have seen 10 or 15 people link to it in the last […]

Written on September 14th, 2005 at 11:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Blog Crushes

enternetusers Site News, Blog Promotion 64 comments

Things have gotten a little heavy in some of the latest comment threads here at enternetusers so I thought it might be time to put a little love in the air and have some fun.

So I’m suggesting we make the next 7 days about naming our Blog Crushes.

Do you have a crush on another blogger? […]

Written on September 14th, 2005 at 06:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Google Blog Search - First Look Review

Search Engine Optimization, General 20 comments

My initial reflections on Google’s Blog Search:

the basic bones of the technology seem to be there.
basically it seems to be using similar (or the same) technology as Google News.
they seem to be indexing new posts very quickly which is great.
the pool of blogs that they are indexing seems smaller than I’d have expected. Of […]

Written on September 14th, 2005 at 04:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Google To Launch Blog Search

Pro Blogging News 12 comments

John Battelle reports that Google are about to Launch Blog Search:

‘Tonight Google will announce (well, the embargo is tonight at 9 pm PST) that it is launching blog search, in two flavors, one for blogger.com, and another as a beta at google.com/blogsearch (not yet up, but will be soon…).
I spoke with Google about this, more […]

Written on September 14th, 2005 at 02:09 pm by Darren Rowse

12 Tips on Writing Content for your Blog

Writing Content 16 comments

Piaras Kelly PR has 12 tips for writing content for your blog which has been linked to by a few people today. I’d actually agree with most of it - but would also recommend a little caution with a few of them. Let me make a comment on each one.

1. Use catchy titles - there […]

Written on September 14th, 2005 at 10:09 am by Darren Rowse

Using Other People’s Content

Writing Content 56 comments

Here is a free tip.

If you’re going to IM me and ask me to look at your blog - don’t fill it with stolen content.

I’m going to make this as clear as possible.

If you are going to use other people’s content to your site:
- ALWAYS reveal your sources. Give a link to your source if […]

Written on September 13th, 2005 at 10:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Blog Job - Search Engine Herald Editor

Pro Blogging News 1 comment

Do you know anything about Search Engines? Do you like to blog? Would you like to combine these interests and make a little money on the side from it? You might want to apply for the editor’s position at Duncan’s Search Engine Herald. Get information here.
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Written on September 13th, 2005 at 08:09 am by Darren Rowse

‘Real Life’ takes a Turn

enternetusers Site News 3 comments

Most regular readers know that I’ve been working on a part time research project for the past 6 months on a non blogging related topic (in my ‘real life). Today is a major deadline day where we present what we’ve done so far. It takes us to one step away from finishing it up […]

Written on September 12th, 2005 at 11:09 pm by Darren Rowse

A enternetusers Dilemma - Seeking Your Opinion

enternetusers Site News 41 comments

I’d like to ask the opinion of you, my friends and readers about something I’ve been pondering this past few weeks.

Longer term readers will remember back in April when I asked your opinion about whether I should allow some of my posts to appear on WebProNews.

At the time I was a little torn on the […]