Archive for the 'Blogging' Category

WordPress - The new blog police?

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Dave Taylor asks - Is WordPress the fabled Blog Police after all?

The more I think about it, the more that I’m bothered by what Matt Mullenweg and his team at Wordpress.com are imposing upon the thousands of bloggers using this hosted version of the splendid Wordpress software. As came to light through a posting from [...]

Robert Scoble demonstrates his lack of SEO understanding - or is he dodging the real issue?

Friday, November 10th, 2006

Robert Scoble (of Scobleizer fame) made a post earlier today on how Wordpress.com doesn’t allow PayPerPost and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) gaming tricks to be used on their blogs.  Fair point.  However, a visitor calling themselves Remarkable posted the following comment:

“Also, if you want to put lots of ads and things on your blog, why [...]

Getting users to sign up to your newsletter

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

If you think getting people to your site is tricky, you want to try getting them to sign up to newsletters.  Now that’s what I call tricky!
There are a number of reasons as to why this is the case.  The first reason is simple - people just have to do more work.  You can’t make a [...]

Blog lessons - Steve Irwin style

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

The world was saddened to hear about the untimely death of Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter. 
Darren Rowse, proud Australian and ProBlogger, offers a few lessons that bloggers could learn from Steve’s approach to life and his subject:

PassionYou gotta love what you do, and you need to project this in your blog.
Focused on Others“Me” blogs (blogs [...]