Archive for January, 2012

The Three-Pronged Attack: How I Boosted My Traffic

The Three-Pronged Attack: How I Boosted My Traffic

"Anyone Need A Ride?" by Steve Webel On Monday 23rd January, Quick Blog Tips received a very nice traffic spike. Here’s a quick summary of how I more than doubled the normal traffic to the blog in a single day. The Trick: There is No Silver Bullet I’m not going to tell you that there [...]

WordPress Theme Releases for 1/28

Putte is a clean and beautiful theme with great features. Red Modern is an elegant theme with red modern menus and elements.

An Overview Of Guest Blogging

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Guest blogging, if done correctly, has good potential to attract traffic from all corners. The power of guest posting is so vast that you start experience it almost instantaneously when you start posting articles on various sites. You will be bombarded with innumerable opportunities which you might not have anticipated at all. It has been [...]

Seven Links for Sunday #7

Seven Links for Sunday

"Link" by Aarthi Welcome to Seven Links for Sunday, a weekly post where I share some of the blogging and social media links I found interesting or useful this week. Spreading the Love If your link appears below, you’re being promoted in the following ways: You’re linked from this post. (well, obviously!) You’ll be shared [...]

PressTrends Releases Plugin for WordPress Blogs

PressTrends has released a rather fascinating plugin for WordPress blogs. The plugin will allow you to measure various metrics for your posts, comments, and plugin usage, and compare these to averages across the entire PressTrends community. The feature list may be just a bit basic now, but there are more features on the way, the design [...]

Is Your Blog Post An Essay or A Novel?

Is your blog post a novel

What is your blog post? I will give you two options: An essay or a novel. Which one do you want your blog post to be compared to? To make things easier for you, I will describe it a little more: An Informative Essay and an Interesting Novel. Key: Take a close look at the [...]

Stop Waiting For People to Find You. Go and Find Them.

Stop Waiting For People to Find You. Go and Find Them.

"little people – happy dog, angry boy" by m kasahara Have you ever looked at other blogs and wondered how they get loads of comments when your blog doesn’t? Have you ever published a post and wondered why nobody showed up to read it? People don’t just find your blog automatically. You need to let [...]

How to Write for Marketing Campaigns: Think Like a Product Person

How to Write for Marketing Campaigns: Think Like a Product Person

"Old Jaguar E-type sports car: front view (close)" by Chris Devers Today’s post is a guest post by Murray Newlands, founder of Influence People and author of Content Monetization. A lot of bloggers are great writers. They’re very skilled and could be full-time professional writers, but they’re missing one key element: They aren’t very good [...]

Celebrate Matt Mullenweg’s Birthday by Donating Water

Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, turned 28 two weeks ago. It’s been a busy year for Matt. Three major WordPress versions were released, he switched back to using a Mac after 8 years on Windows, and he travelled 190,000 miles over 245 days. Even though two weeks have gone by, it’s not too late to [...]

5 Quick Tips for Google Plus That I Didn’t Know Last Week

5 Quick Tips for Google Plus That I Didn

"Chicago Circle" by ifmuth Google Plus is evolving at an incredible rate. As a result, things change quite frequently. Here are five quick tips I’ve learned that I didn’t know last week. 1. Keep Track of Who Added You I recently noticed that the “Incoming” tab had disappeared from Google Plus. This tab was useful [...]