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$5000 Blogging Scholarship - Voting Opens
Voting is open for the $5000 Blogging Scholarship. There are some good bloggers in the list but after a bit of consideration I went with Paul Stamatiou (who I’m a regular reader of and admire as a blogger).
It is a bit of a difficult one actually as there is such diversity between the bloggers and it is difficult to know whether to vote on blog ability, potential, like-ability etc. I suspect in the end it’ll unfortunately end up as a popularity contest? The guy winning so far has the fortune of writing for the ever popular Daily Kos and as a result will be difficult to beat.
Who are you voting for - and why?
Written on November 1st, surf Active Apparel website Men's Online Clothes Shopping 1 zone.at 01:11 am by David Shawver Stanton
How Comments Can Help Your Blog Rank Well in the Search Engines
A few weeks back I wrote a post titled 10 techniques to get more comments on your blog which got a bit of attention around the web after doing well on Digg.
As usual - the comments that a post gets when it is featured highly on Digg were mixed (both the comments on Digg and the post itself) but one of the recurring questions I was asked as a result of the post was:
Why would you want more comments on your blog?
There are many reasons why I think comments on a blog are good. Here’s three that I responded to the question with last week:
- Feedback - I find that the comments readers leave help me to improve my blogging
- Group Learning - the comments on posts often add to the knowledge base and learning that goes on as a result of the post. My ‘expertise’ on any given topic will only ever be partial at best - but between us we know a lot more
- It Feels Good - OK - I’ll admit it. Looking at a post and seeing that a few people have wanted to take the time out to respond is a nice feeling.
I’m sure there are a lot more reasons that we could come up with (feel free to share yours) but another one that hit me earlier today was the impact that comments can have upon Search Engine Optimization.
Comments Present Search Engines with Fresh Content
One of the many ‘rules’ of SEO is that search engines like freshly updated and changing content. This is one of the reasons that blogs do so well in search engines (if you regularly post that is) as your blog’s front page is constantly presenting new content to the SEs.
The beauty of comments is that they too freshen up your blog and present the search engines with something new to look at.
Each time that someone comments on your blog they change the page that your post is on and the next time that Google or Yahoo send their bots to index it they will find that it has been updated - which can’t hurt that page’s ranking.
The exception to this is when comments are spam comments with links to dubious sites - which can actually hurt your standing in search engines - plenty of motivation to keep on top of comment spam.
Written on October 31st, surf Active Apparel website Men's Online Clothes Shopping 1 zone.at 11:10 pm by David Shawver Stanton
Increasing Blog Readability
One of the more recent additions to my RSS feed is more minimal - a blog about… minimalism.
One of the latest posts on it relates to blogging - five ways to make your blog more readable.
- focus your content
- reduce the amount of text on your page
- stick with simple fonts
- dump the blogger bling
- be smart about color
It’s a nice list.
One of the problems that many bloggers (including myself) fall into from time to time is allowing their blog to become cluttered (yes - I’m guilty of it). From time to time it can be worth doing a spring clean and getting back to basics. Some of these rules might be helpful in doing that.
Written on October 31st, surf Active Apparel website Men's Online Clothes Shopping 1 zone.at 12:10 pm by David Shawver Stanton
Google Adds Blogs to ‘Alerts’ Email Service
Google has continued to integrate blogs into their news site by extending their ‘Alerts’ service (that emails you any time any site in their new index writes on a particular keyword) to cover blogs also.
This is very cool (I should say that the ‘idea’ is cool - I’m yet to actually test it)!
I have used ‘news alerts’ for some time now as a way to find breaking news on blog niches - but now to be notified via email when blogs use those keywords opens up some great possibilities also (although the numbers of blogs writing on some keywords could lead to overwhelming numbers of alerts).
Set up alerts here where you enter the keyword/s, whether it is a blog, news or web alert (etc) and how often you want to be alerted (ie as it happens, once a day or once a week). You can have alerts arrive in your inbox either as HTML or text emails.
Written on October 30th, surf Active Apparel website Men's Online Clothes Shopping 1 zone.at 11:10 pm by David Shawver Stanton
Speedlinking - 31 October 2006
I’m back from our few days away. Thanks to everyone for your well wishes for our little break. It was a nice time away although we had some pretty below average weather and I’ve come back with the flu unfortunately.
I hope you enjoyed the mini-archives series that I ran - was it something people found helpful? Your honest feedback is always appreciated.
Now I’m home I’ll get back into some ‘normal’ blogging here at enternetusers over the coming few days. To start with - here are a few links from the past few days - I’m sure there will be more that I need to catch up on but here’s something to start with):
- Wordpress.com now allows domain registration and mapping (so now you can use WP.com as a platform on your own domain for $10 per year or $25 if you need a new domain) - very very cool - watch out TypePad!
- Fast Company writes How to Launch a Career With Your Blog
- Zero Boss has a good review of the MyBlogLog (aff) service (which has updated significantly since my own previous reviews of them.
- Paul Stamatiou has a quickie tutorial on how to embed a Flickr Slideshow on your blog
- Six Apart launched Vox to the public.
- Do you want to add a job board to your blog (like mine)? You might like to check out the free JobCoin service that will help you do it.
- Adrian wrote a post on how he’s culled his RSS News Reader list by 40. It’s interesting to get an insight into how people decide who to subscribe to (and unsubscribe) - how do you make those sorts of decisions?
- The first (that I know of) Blogging Scholarship ($5000) is up for grabs.
- Steve writes a post on Leaders and Loser in the blogopshere
- Pat McCarthy presents Fifteen Ways to a Killer Blog with the Scobles
Written on October 30th, surf Active Apparel website Men's Online Clothes Shopping 1 zone.at 12:10 am by David Shawver Stanton
Product and Brand Names are Best Keywords
One of the simplest and yet most effective tips that I’ve got hidden away in my archives is one reflecting upon Product and Brand Names being the Best Keywords.
The study that I linked to that stimulated the post is no longer live but luckily I took a quote from it that pretty much sums it up.
While I’d already been using this tip in my blogging before I came across this study it has been a key to me earning a full time living from blogging over the past couple of years. By no means is it the only type of keyword to target when blogging - but it’s definately worth keeping in mind.
Written on October 29th, surf Active Apparel website Men's Online Clothes Shopping 1 zone.at 09:10 pm by David Shawver Stanton
Changing Clocks
A friendly public service announcement for those engaging in global communications….
Daylight Savings started here in most parts of Australia over the weekend. I’m told it also ended in many parts of the northern hemisphere.
While it signals the start of summer to us Aussies I generally find that over the next few months that quite a few of my North American friends seemingly ‘disappear’ from my instant messenger interactions - simply because the times no longer line up in a convenient way.
It looks like there’ll be some late nights and early mornings ahead!
Written on October 29th, surf Active Apparel website Men's Online Clothes Shopping 1 zone.at 12:10 am by David Shawver Stanton
What to do When Someone Steals Your Blog’s Content
Another post from 2004 that I regularly point readers to (increasingly so in the last 6 months unfortunately) is:
What to do When Someone Steals Your Blog’s Content - Blog Plagiarism
Unfortunately the problem of people misusing other people’s content is one that is increasingly common. I find that some seem to do it without realizing that they are breaking copyright and not knowing what is and isn’t acceptable - however there is also an increasing number of people who do it quite maliciously.
PS: in more recent times Lorelle has written a comprehensive and up to date post on what to do when someone steals your content also which will also be useful to those facing the problem.
Written on October 28th, surf Active Apparel website Men's Online Clothes Shopping 1 zone.at 12:10 am by David Shawver Stanton
Entering ProBlogging With Realistic Expectations
One of the most common misconceptions that I come across with bloggers hoping to make their fortune from blogging is that it is quick and easy.
As a result I quite often point PreBloggers to the following post in the hope that it will help give a bit of a reality check.
Do you have time to be a enternetusers?
In a similar line of thought PreBloggers might also find my Public Service Announcement posts useful.
Hope it’s all not too much of a downer. While these posts don’t get the attention that some of my other posts get (like the one talking about how much I earn) they are important posts that I write in the hope ofgiving a realistic impression of ProBlogging as a strategy to earn an income.
Written on October 27th, surf Active Apparel website Men's Online Clothes Shopping 1 zone.at 02:10 am by David Shawver Stanton
How to Generate High Quantities of Content for Your Blog
This post is part of a series of posts that I’m writing while on a short vacation that highlights a few posts from this blog’s thousands of posts in the archives.
Another series of posts that I wrote back in my early days was titled Generating High Quantities of Content.
I started the series of 7 posts with the following statement:
“Do you want to generate good traffic on your blog and therefore give yourself a chance at earning an income from it? Quality Content is a good first step - but it is not enough - you need to work on Quantity also.”
One of the criticisms that this series received from readers was that I was saying Quantity was more important than Quality of posts - of course this was not the case. I am totally in favor of bloggers working on post quality (and have written many tips on this) however - I still think that some bloggers could improve their blogs by upping the quantity of posts.
I probably have mellowed a little since writing this series in 2004 (from memory I was posting between 10 posts a day back then - and increased it to 20-30 posts per day over the next few months) but I’m still a big believer in regular posts (Quality and Quantity).
So that’s enough disclaimers - take a look at the series. Keep in mind it’s from over two years ago now - but much of it is still relevant.
- Generating High Quantities of Content - Introduction
- Set Yourself a Target
- News Sites and News Aggregators
- Start a New Blog
- Break Posts Down
- Ecto and Desktop blog Editors
- Recruit Writers
PS - in the interest of balance - perhaps I should also link to my recent post on ‘Getting a Life‘ as one of the consequences of taking the Quantity thing too far is blog burn out. Make sure you look after yourself and keep balance in your blogging or you’ll never sustain your blogging for the long term!
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