Topic: readers
4 things that annoy me as a blogger
December 24, 2008 by evl
Rss feeds
I hate it when people use my rss feed. Seriously, you want to read my stuff then come to my site. I cant stand it when sites and bloggers tell how many Rss subscribers they have. I bet you not even 1% of people that are subscribed to a site actually come and visit the site.
Although I hate it when people read my rss feed on a reader I still like reading other sites on readers. I know, my right to be annoying.
Leaving url in comment
Sometimes I am amazed at people. The comment section clearly states url. Now that means you dont have to repeat your url in the actual comment, it saves you time and effort. But no, you get these annoying people that fill in a comment and then put their urls under what they've written. Maybe someone should make a comment how-to to explain how the thing works.
Telling people where you've not been before
I have done exactly this for some time until I realized how stupid I must of sound to those that really has been there and know what they are talking about. Although I now have the experience, i also blogged about how to make money before I actually made money.
its like fooling people into believing you make money to make money from them.
Link exchange
I get these really annoying emails asking for link exchange. Here's a tip. Link your one page to your other page. There you have a link. Happy now?
Press release: Beleaguered Blogger Battles Timeshare Bullies
December 8, 2008 by evl
A South African blogger has been hit with a R 461 500 defamation case after he blogged
about his experiences with a timeshare company.
The only plugins that work with Wordpress 2.7 so farWond
November 21, 2008 by evl
Seems there are not that many plugins that support 2.7 yet. Upgrading might have to wait for more people than i expected. There are thousands of plugins people rely upon, including me, i also have some plugins i really like.So I really hope those will be compatible with Wordpress 2.7 A - D *Imagine the reader
October 29, 2008 by evl
As a blog author I just cant seem to imagine the reader, that is why I stick with organic traffic most of the time. Going for the reader in mind you need to imagine how other people think and to me that is sometimes weird because everyone thinks different and having one reader in your mind will out focus for another reader.
Why the blogging niche sucked when I started blogging
October 29, 2008 by evl
I could not think of another title. But the fact is that the blogging niche still sucks today. Yes, i know not everyone sucks, especially some of the sites I visit regularly but what I am talking about is in general. If you look closely and you join most sites that blog about making money or blogging you will notice that when something goes hot, everyone blogs about it.Make your blog or site faster and better by asking yourself these questions
October 29, 2008 by evl
My site has been loading really slow before I fixed it up and if you were here you might of noticed that I had many things on my site slowing it down and I asked myself these question.
Is it providing my readers anything useful
If you have something on your site that is not serving ANY purpose and trust me those do get around. You really should remove it. Not only will it make your site load faster but your readers will have less things to distract them.
Is it making me enough money
If you are planning on making a living on the internet and depend on your income from your blog you really should monitor ads on your site. For instance I am trying project wonderful but if its not working for me I will remove it. But leaving something on your blog that COULD make you money is really not useful, if you are not making money from it at the moment, remove it and put it back when you WILL make money from it.
Does it make my site look ugly
Design and layout is everything to a blog, I believe layout and design is one of the most important aspects of your blog and if something is making your site look ugly you should check if you cant replace it. I have seen some very nice sites but with a flashing thing that just totally distracts you. In fact I think I have one on here right now that I am about to remove. Although it makes me money its better to still remove it for the sake of people reading the blog.
So there are three short tips to make your site faster and better.
Changing the course of this blog
October 28, 2008 by evl
I also thought about blogging about online tips and such, but I have never wanted to blog about these things until I was at a place where I could give prove, many people still dont believe that you can make a living by blogging but it is possible. So i would like to change the focus from general stuff to blogging, wordpress and more online things. I know I have blogged about this earlier as well but did not exactly know how to change the course of this blog in a quick way.
Taking over more than one niche was my goal but you have to blog about what you want and what you like because if you dont you will lose focus and your blog will become another statistic.
Anyway the point is I can now blog about the things I love, which is blogging tips , Making a living on the internet and online marketing. Also dont forgot those Worpdress which has become my cms of choice for working with any site.
Please join my rss feed. ( Oh by the way wprecipes did a post about how to put your "subscribe" text at end of every post, you can read it here.
I am going to put that on a bit later but adding rss to every page is the first step to getting those readers to subscribe.
Feedburner and the Search engine optimization
October 28, 2008 by evl
I have always used search engine optimization as means of getting traffic to a site but recently i found a interesting article that dealt with feedburner etc. So i head of to feedburner to check out if I have any subscribers and alas, less than 100 subscribers. So i thought for a site that gets more than 50k visitors a month I really need to up my rss subscribers, because if you have no subscribers you have not well... Subscribers.68 Twitter tools to satisfy your twitter addiction
October 26, 2008 by evl
I like twitter. So, i decided to do a post about twitter. Here it is :) Twitter tools for Firefox Twitterfox - Twitter app for firefox, sits in the bottom. Twittermore - Firefox extension that lets you post longer than 140 characters Twitterbar - Post directly to twitter from your address bar Twitbin - Twitter communication from firefox. Twitkit - A entire sidebar dedicated to Twitter. (has other features as well) Dashblog - Collect media and post it to twitter / blog TwittyTunes - Post your currently playing songs to twitter with one click Tinyurl Creator - Shrink urls quickly for twitter BlogRovr - Twit about the site you are on Feedly - Rss reader integrated with twitter as well Yoono - socialize your Firefox includes twitter tools PingFire - post to ping.fm (thereby updating twitter) Twitter tools for Mac Twitterrific -Twitterrific is a fun application that lets you both read and publish posts or "tweets" to the Twitter community website. The application's user interface is clean, concise and designed to take up a minimum of real estate on your Mac's desktop.