Archive for 'Blogging'

Quality First - Quantity Distant Second

June 2, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Blogging

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When I first bought this blog in November 2007 I thought I had to post all the time. I wanted to post all the time but sometimes you just have nothing to say.

Next time you’re sitting over a blog post with nothing really on your mind how about you do other things? That’s what I’ve been doing; I’ll tell you what I’ve been up to and how this blog has faired with just 1 update over all of last week.

First let me say the HIGHEST I’ve seen the subscriber count since I purchased the blog at around 180 subscribers was a max of 240. We’re currently at 237 after leaving a post on the front page for 1 solid week now.

What does this tell me? It tells me that it’s better to update less with quality then it is to update frequently with mediocre posts for the sake of posting. …

Twitter Replacing Traditional RSS Feeds?

May 22, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Blogging

This may seem kinda crazy but is twitter replacing traditional RSS feeds? Someone who subscribes to your RSS feed just subscribes to posts from a blog. Someone subscribing to your twitter feed is subscribing essentially to YOU. They want to hear what you have to say or at least they want to hear most of it.

With the advent of TwitterFeed you can have it set so that any blog post you make on any blog you own is automatically tweeted into twitter. You may have 50 subscribers on your humor blog, 230 on your business blog and 35 on your health blog. Traditionally you’d send that info to your subscribers and that’s it. Realistically if someone likes the way you handle and write things in one domain they could enjoy your work from others.

Imagine you had 2,000 twitter followers. Each time you make a post it’s sent to …

Spice Up Your RSS Icons Life

May 11, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Blogging

Whether your blog sells something or not you still always have an objective of turning a first time reader into an interested subscriber. If that’s not even remotely your subconscious goal then you’d might as well just write your thoughts on a pad of paper or in note pad and save the trouble of publishing them.

I found the image in the link below. They have a plethora of RSS Feed Buttons. Arguably the best I’ve seen in one place online.

60 Great RSS Icons for Your Blog

RSS Subscription buttons play a large role in the number of subscribers you have. The easier and more visible the ability to subscribe; the higher the likely hood of any one visitor subscribing.  It should go without saying that you have to write stuff worth reading and be someone others think are worth listening to. Once that’s out of the way make it as …

More Twitter Tools to Learn - Love - Live

May 10, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Blogging

Missed 2 days of bloggeries; where does time go? Oh I have an idea maybe it was spent sending ~60 140 character messages a day to people whom for the most part I had never met before.

First off if you wan to network online I can think of NO WAY better than twitter. Follow someone @ reply to them a connection is made. Also the more mainstream it becomes the less likely you will be able to add lot’s of search marketing, public relations, seo, web development, stay at home business runners etc… Eventually it will be filled with people talking about what club they are going to. That’s a long way away I think but moving faster. The point of saying that is now the pool is good. About 15,000,0000 people or more who are into technology.

The tools I want to share today are… Drum roll please…

TweetStats: …

Twitter Tools: Tweet Scan & Summize

May 8, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Blogging

Tweet Scan & Summize are 2 twitter tools you want to add to your arsenal. Personally I prefer Tweet Scan.

The search feature that comes with Twitter is lacking to to say the least; type any keyword or phrase and you’ll see it list people who haven’t been active in ~8 months or so. Maybe they give priority to seniority? I’d say it should go with relevance / latest update but that’s just me.

The two tools above let you find people based on conversations. Say you’re a guy that sells back pain relief. Wouldn’t it be cool to add people discussing back pain? I use it for less direct methods of marketing. I’m into blogging / vlogging / podcasting / SEO and now Social Media. Therefor I search those types of terms or people talking about forums and then add them.

Try the tools out and let me know what …