In Death of a Blog, Guest Author Jean of Cycle Write Blog and Third Wave Cycling Blog shares her experience of giving birth to a blog and bringing it to an end prematurely. Last year, she was guest author of this post Blogging and Cycling: It’s Like a Drug. Continue reading
The latest Quantcast newsletter advised of New Demographic Features but I was to ill to read it until today. Quantcast demographics reports now include expanded age segments which you can break out by gender. They’ve also improved household income demographics to include a $150K+ bracket. Continue reading
We are all suffering from information overload and the notion that everyone must have a blog has led to the creation of hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions of new blogs every year. However, a significant number of those new blogs will be abandoned blogs or deleted blogs in less than a year from the date of their creation, as blogger burnout is a common ailment. Continue reading
Search engines detect and use keywords when indexing your posts and each tag has a unique descriptive keyword term permalink. Theoretically assigning relevent Tags/Categories to posts helps potential readers locate relevant content in search results, and increases the odds your content will be found by new readers. Continue reading
If you have being blogging regularly then you will have an archive of articles that are no longer on the front page of your WordPress blog. The WordPress.com Top Posts Widget displays your most popular posts as of the last 48 hours. The Top Rated Widget displays which of your pages, posts, and/or comments have the highest ratings. But the posts you may want to call reader attention to may not be among them. What to do if they aren’t? Continue reading
