Posts Tagged community

Be a rockstar blogger, almost literally

How is it that some bloggers with incredible, breakthrough knowledge with impressive, creative writing prowess can’t get traffic let alone make any money? Meanwhile, other bloggers with much less useful information with only so-so writing can gain tar-like stickiness and earn a decent blogging income? If you ask every successful band what they did when [...]

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Get the most out of your time with The Value-Driven Commenting System

How would you like to spend less time commenting and produce amazing results? I’ve always been a fan of working smarter, not harder. As a general rule, unless safety is an issue, efficiency is more of concern of mine than effectiveness. As Pareto’s Law suggests, I like to get 80% of the way there while [...]

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How I get more comments than blogs that have 10 times more traffic

communication

After weeks and months of long hours in front of your computer, you’re finally getting some traffic on your blog but you can’t get enough people to participate on your site. Ever wonder how some smaller blogs get a lot more activity than some of the giants in your niche? Let’s look at some comment [...]

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I’ll do anything for you (except visit your blog)

Do you think there

How many of you have asked your friends and family to swing by your blog? OK, of those who actually stopped by, how many of them actually read more than one article? How many left a comment? How many returned without you asking them again? Chances are, if your friends and family are like most [...]

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Six degrees of site separation

"Six degrees is a little deep." TWSS

I’m sure you already know that having quality inbound links (i.e. backlinks) help boost your blog rankings. That means having links from trusted websites in your niche is a big deal. So if you have a sports-related blog, getting a backlink from espn.com would pretty much make your site royalty. I know what you’re thinking, [...]

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Do Unto Others’ Blogs As You Would Have Them Do Unto Yours

In the last few weeks, I’ve had several fellow bloggers email me regarding not being able get much activity on their blogs. I know, it’s not like I have 200 comments per post like Problogger or ShoeMoney but considering that this blog still has that new car smell and it’s not my sole project right [...]

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