Darren Rowse has a simple but incredibly useful tip that you may not have even considered - subscribe to your own RSS feed!
That might strike you as a bit of a strange thing to do. After all, you’re probably the one who wrote the posts in the first place… and it’s likely you [...]
28 Nov
Posted by Dom
Tags: gimmicks, johnchow, johncow, subscribers, tricks
I’ve mentioned John Cow (the bovine John Chow impersonator) before. I subscribed a while ago because I found a couple of the posts vaguely amusing… and partly because the Cow has a really cool blog template.
But lately, most of the posts I’ve seen from John Cow simply not worth bothering with. But this post [...]
Do you have a linking policy? You should.
By “linking policy”, I mean how you decide what you’re going to link to when writing your blog post.
It may seem counter-intuitive, but including links in your post can benefit your blog in many ways. You might think the best way to keep your readers’ attention is [...]
I’m pleased to say, over the weekend Money Blogger passed the 100 RSS subscribers mark!
That’s a pretty good growth rate for a blog that’s only 6 weeks old (and easily beats any of my other blogs), but I’m sure we can do better.
Those first 100 subscribers have been achieved by a combination of methods, [...]
One of the things I’ve noticed about other blogs in my niche lately is just how little thought many bloggers give to spelling and grammar.
There are exceptions of course, but I’ve noticed far too many bloggers are simply not reading their posts before hitting the “Publish” button.
Now these bloggers might argue that they don’t [...]
I’ve mentioned before how competitions and contests can be a great way to increase subscriber numbers and reader loyalty, but here’s an example from one of my own blogs.
Chocablog is a blog all about chocolate. We review chocolates, post recipes, chocolate related news, links and a whole lot more. Every now and then, we [...]
I’ve already written a quick tips guide for AdWords this this week, so I thought it might be an idea to do the same for AdSense.
AdSense is the program that allows publishers to put Google Ads on their own sites - and generate revenue from them. It’s popular because it’s so easy to do [...]
With all the fuss over Google stripping people’s PageRank, one company has decided to take matters into their own hands by developing their own alternative to PageRank - RealRanks.
IZEA - the people behind PayPerPost - introduced RealRanks last week following reports that Google was stripping PageRank from PayPerPost users.
RealRanks uses a piece of Javascript [...]