January is quickly coming to an end and at the end of each month I like to take some time and reflect on my blog performance. I take a look at my analytics, keywords that are driving traffic to my blog, and what my most popular posts are. This gives me a sense of what [...]
Archive | January, 2010
Does your wife/husband support your blogging?
It takes a lot of time to promote a blog and create solid blog content. There are a small percentage of bloggers that blog full time and earn a living from it. The vast majority of bloggers have day jobs and blog at night and on the weekends. If you are married or have a [...]
Domain Names for Bloggers
We all can agree that if you are looking to be succeed in blogging you should invest in your own domain name, right? I know there are exceptions and I do know a few high quality bloggers that blog on free platforms but the majority of serious bloggers shell out the 8 bucks for a [...]
What is Co-Blogging? and 7 reasons why it might be a good idea
Co-Blogging, also know as collaborative blogging, is a type of blog where there are more than one author that contributes content. Typically these blogs are centered around a common theme like social media, blogging tips, or technology. The set up around the blog can happen in many ways. In most cases the blog is owned [...]
Recent wordpress plugins that I installed
I don’t know about you but one of my favorite posts to read are about wordpress plugins. It seems like I always learn something from those posts and I am introduced to some cool new tools. I thought it would be fun to share the latest plugins that I have activated on this blog I [...]
Are you part of the blogging revolution?
There is a revolution going on right now in the blogging world. Can you feel it? Change is coming and there is a new crop of bloggers that are quickly taking over. These new school bloggers all share some common traits. They are passionate and most importantly they give more than they take. Bloggers helping [...]
Driving Traffic to your blog by using your Google Analytics
I wanted to write a follow up to the post I wrote yesterday about driving traffic to your blog from Google. I am not an seo expert by any stretch but I did want to dive in a little further about how I actually found out what questions people typed into Google that actually lead [...]
Blogging Questions that are driving traffic to my blog from Google
Almost every single blogger that takes blogging seriously has Google Analytics installed on their blog. There are dozens of useful features built into Google Analytics and as I was digging through my data this weekend and taking a look at what keywords were driving traffic to my blog. This was a fun little exercise and [...]
10 ways to know your blogging status is rising
Making a name for yourself and standing out from the blogging crowd takes a bit of talent, a bit of luck and a ton of hard work. It has been said that over 90% of all blogs that are started are abandoned well before the year mark. That is a shame because it takes at [...]
wordpress plugins for mobile phones and mobile devices
[stextbox id="alert"]Have you optimized your blog for mobile devices yet?[/stextbox] I am happy to say that I can now cross this off my to do list. It took me about 6 months to get around to this but I have finally made my blog “mobile friendly.” I have spent the last couple of hours researching [...]
