As a blogger, I know it’s important for me to keep abreast of technologies which can support me in making my blog more effective. A number of people have been getting in touch with me recently asking how to best use Digg to promote their blog, so I thought I’d take a few moments to give you an overview of Digg, and how to best use it to make the most of your blog. This is a follow-up to my previous post of Do Your Digg It?
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Using Digg To Enhance Your Online Success
I’ve been thinking a lot about blog analytics and measuring progress and success. There are lots of measures and measurers (not a real word) out there and it can be consuming what stats to believe
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How Do You Measure Success?
Recent years have seen an explosion in blogging. Platforms such as WordPress and others have ensured that everyone is able to have a site, and know enough to post up regular articles about everything from green living right through to SQL programming. As bloggers, we should celebrate the rise of the humble blog, as it turns from an exclusive media for business owners to a form of online diarizing about day-to-day life.
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Are People Getting Sick Of Blogs?
Habits are formed by association, when you repeat something often enough the brain recognizes it as a pattern and that pattern becomes associated with something either pleasurable or negative. As we get older this becomes harder for the brain to accept, so we need to help it along! Keeping your blog as a positive thing on your task list Try associating writing your blog with a pleasurable part of your day, maybe you have a cup of your favorite coffee and a couple of biscuits while you write
As I’m sure a lot of you know by now, Andrew and I run a blogging course called Income Blogging Guide . You can read some previous feedback on this site and on We Build Your Blog , but here are some further reviews.
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More Income Blogging Guide Feedback
If you’ve just set up your blog, or have been running it for a while and it’s becoming established, you may be sitting back and looking at it thinking; “Was this a great idea”? We know that blogging can work, in terms of generating revenue and working hard to promote your business and services. We also know that blogging is not an overnight money-maker, and we’re probably not going to change the world with our blog, no matter how fantastic it is
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The Highs And Lows Of Blogging
It can be a bit confusing to know what social networking sites to target to improve your blog readership. One of the most popular sites to use to generate hits on your own site is Digg . Digg has been going since around 2005, and has grown steadily in popularity so that its website traffic was ranked 100th by Alexa.com in April 2010.
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Do you Digg it?
Most of the blog posts I write make the assumption that you have been blogging for a while, and understand the basics. However, for those of you who are just passing through to decide whether a blog is right for you, here is my perspective.
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Making The Jump To Writing Your First Blog
After my previous post on little known blogging tools , there are some more tools that may not be directly related to pressing Publish, but can certainly help with your blogging life. WebMii is related to the previously mentioned Social Mention and Addictomatic , but rather than looking at your brand reputation (though you can do that too), WebMii searches the web for your first name and last name. It’s pretty cool actually, especially if you name is your brand, but of course, unlike your brand, your name is often not unique so you can find out some interesting namesakes! Gliffy is a cool online diagram drawing tool
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More Easy Blogging Tools For You
This week I have a great audio interview that Andrew and I did with one of our wonderful Income Blogging Guide members, Debbie Bills from Happy Maker Now . It’s only about 22 minutes long and will give you more background on what you can expect from becoming a member of our blogging course. If you’d rather read it than listen to it, there is a full transcript below.
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Podcast: How Income Blogging Guide Can Help You With Debbie Bills
