Writtent Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

One of the smartest bloggers on the block, Chris Brogan, recommends that “technology should serve your community and your content, not just be there.” Don’t Force Registrations to Comment: People may just bounce when they see you require an official account to join your community. Reward Your Community. Ask for What You Want.

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Laurel Papworth

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

While some journalists adapt to the new writing style well, understanding the media shifts and blogging well as part of the blogosphere, other journalists that blog – let’s call them journoggers – stand apart from the blogosphere, raiding it for content, and disturbing equilibrium.

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Taylor Marek

OCTOBER 26, 2009

This held a small community of vibrant people that quite literally can shake the world upside down and rightside up again. I want to bring you into this vibrant community and open your eyes. I know waay too many people in my space that bounce around too much, and are losing my trust little by little. Why am I saying all this?

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 7, 2013

In the 24-hour machine that is the blogosphere and accompanying social media, there is the potential for our blog/life balance to be so far off kilter it’s all but disappeared from view. The fear of being forgotten is very real, as the blogosphere is awash with ten more blogs to take your place should you quiet down.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 29, 2016

Below I’ll walk you through how I’d approach each step and then suggest some further reading that will be helpful on other important questions like: choosing a niche, finding readers for your blog, building community with your blog, and thinking about how to make money from it, etc. Step 1: Choose a Blogging Platform. It is easy to set up.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

I have collected a Super Link List from around the blogosphere for you to be all that you can be online! This morning Chris Brogan found this site with a list of 50 articles on social media. [.] ¬ Just a sentence about each article and what site it is on. From Blogs to Twitter and everywhere in between. Thank you.

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Almost Savvy

MAY 3, 2009

jolilore Web log, a site featuring routine updates/posts, usually from an individual. I wrote about my own entry into the blogosphere late last year: Blogging Between Hot Flashes. Another business is on the way and definitely will be having its own blog site too. Powered by WordPress Let the blog-o-rama begin! (I

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ProBlogger

JULY 13, 2011

He was busy with his new start-up gig and I was simply bored, so I decided to take a seminar on blogging, something the rest of the creative community seemed to already know so much about. Launch your blog on a domain you own, not a subdomain of WordPress or Blogger. These are the very people who you want stopping by your site.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 20, 2011

This guest post is by Brian Milne, a longtime sports blogger and founder of the BallHyped Sports Blogging Community. Like our blogging platforms (WordPress, for example, has two or three major updates each year), individual bloggers have to evolve as well. We’ve all been there. Traffic is stagnant. How niche is too niche?

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Viper Chill

MAY 3, 2010

Overall Traffic Visits : 32,196 Pageviews : 60,924 Avg time on Site : 2 mins 59 seconds Due to a lack of posting the traffic has dipped slightly from last month. Although I don’t have any goals for the size of the community here, I still think it is an interesting metric to monitor.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Our first site was designed to help people, to fill a gaping void we saw in the online world. ” Well at some point, no thanks to GoDaddy, we find Blogger or WordPress. How am I ever going to have as many posts as that other site? wordpress and basically think the world will rejoice over our decision. I think so.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 12, 2011

Based on many conversations over coffee, fries, and ice-cream, I was able to ascertain that the following people will have a lot to contribute to the wider blogging community. Last year, he became community manager of the Beyond Blogging Project and moderated the Treating Your Blog Like a Business panel at BlogWorld. Jaime Tardy.

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Diva Marketing Blog

JANUARY 1, 2009

Blogging is powerful because it is the power of niche communities. 2009 I'd love to see companies, PR professionals, governments and more continue to embrace new media and to reach out to, rather than be afraid of, the blogging community. But the real value comes in the form of strong communities built around relationships.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Data Shows English Blogosphere Has Peaked » Sunday, February 25, 2007. When you tap into this power and combine Gmail with some other tools, it is perhaps the most essential site ever developed. How to blog from Gmail (Gmail + Wordpress/TypePad/Blogger + IMified). Micro Persuasion. This series has several parts.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

And to the extent that we have core values, I think we need to demonstrate that as we operate on a daily basis in the blogosphere.” One the one hand, I applaud the Commandant on his realization that social media has the potential to improve the Coast Guard’s ability to communicate, especially in times of crisis.

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 13, 2008

Time to step out of the echo chamber of the social media blogosphere. I encourage all of my fellows in government to find ways to meet their mission needs through community building and social media technologies. Becoming part of the community and collaborating is a huge piece of successful social media.

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Viper Chill

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

If I recommend a site that people don’t get value from, you guys will start to lose trust in the links I share. It’s pretty much a waste of time trying to get a cooking blog to link to your marketing website, and also a waste of time trying to get them to link to your guide on how to make toast, even if you do run a cooking site.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Be very careful to fix these if they’re present on your site. But we’re talking about blogs, and on blogs, it’s the community that matters. One of the ways you can make it in the blogosphere is by appearing bigger than you are until you actually get there. I need to open this post be reiterating a simple truth.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 16, 2012

But as the blogosphere continues to expand (as noted by Diana Adams below), it becomes more difficult to stand out and be heard above the noise. 6 Tips for Blogging for SEO in WordPress by Business Insider. Sue Reynolds offers a half-dozen tips for SEO on WordPress blogs, helpful particularly for those just getting started.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

This list includes female bloggers that cover a huge variety of topics in the blogosphere. Her blog, But You’re a Girl , covers a ton of topics including blogging, business, events, technlogy, Google, WordPress, and more. Her blog, Kommein , covers blogging, business, community management, social media, and more.

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Almost Savvy

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Do I belong in the blogosphere? Over at TechCrunch , there is a “spirited&# discussion going on regarding a new site called Boomerator , which is aimed at the Baby Boomer generation. In my previous role as a online community advisor, our demographic was an inverted bell curve, we had about an equal number of 60+ and 20- members.

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Almost Savvy

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Do I belong in the blogosphere? Over at TechCrunch , there is a “spirited&# discussion going on regarding a new site called Boomerator , which is aimed at the Baby Boomer generation. In my previous role as a online community advisor, our demographic was an inverted bell curve, we had about an equal number of 60+ and 20- members.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

He also write about wordpress on wpkube.com. I know I’m using blogger and not Thesis theme on WordPress, but I’m curious if it really makes a huge difference with SEO, or if it’s more of a fad, and blogger with it’s improvements may offer the same. Some also build traffic but fail to build a community.

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Writtent Blog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Truth is you wouldn’t be reading this site if you didn’t want to create something epic that goes on to change lives. Add these to your playbook, and never head out to the blogosphere without a gameplan again! I’m honestly betting you couldn’t name even one (and all of them are highly regarded in the political science community).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. What are the most popular sites in these age groups?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

because the plaintiff’s wife learned about her husband’s infidelity directly from the online florist who, despite a privacy policy on its site, sent a card to their home thanking him for his business. For you fellow WordPressers out there, go to Appearance > Editor and open footer.php.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

These scenarios come to fruition in spontaneous communities, on social networks, and other self-service tools – all thanks to the availability of low cost technology and access to the world wide web. You can also not use the tools correctly or not behave appropriately within communities around the tools and market poorly.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 22, 2010

I’m simply telling the truth, and giving you the real state of the blogosphere for no other reason than it’s about time something like this was said. His site made over $3.5m His site made over $3.5m One such product, Site Build It, helps you build websites that make money.

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Viper Chill

JULY 25, 2016

This isn’t some “SEO is Dead” article you see go viral in the SEO blogosphere every six months, but a genuine prediction based on how Google search results have evolved over the last few years. It’s not improving my on-site SEO. I have more links to the page ranking than anyone else.

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Viper Chill

MAY 6, 2010

You will find blogs with tips here and there on Wordpress SEO , and I go and write what I think is the only guide you’ll ever need. Yahoo Answers If you don’t want to ask your readers directly what they would like to read, you could browse a popular site like Yahoo Answer s and see what related questions people are already asking.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 31, 2010

If you wanted to create a system that replicated as best as possible the physical act of two people speaking to one another in the same place at the same time, would you build Twitter, or a WordPress comment system, or Facebook, or Linkedin? I think of the great web based communities like brazen careerist and 20something bloggers.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 11, 2010

For a while I couldn’t work out why his site wasn’t growing as it should’ve been, but a few hours after sitting down and inspecting the blog, I had a large checklist of suggested improvements that have really taken Upgrade Reality to the next level. Besides your articles, that’s the first place most visitors will go.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 17, 2011

The number of people who are visiting social media sites has increased by 24% over the last year. The average visitor spends 66% more time on these sites than they did a year ago. Americans spent nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs in 2010, up from 15.8 And much more. 40 percent of U.S.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 24, 2010

In my monthly posts I often say that I don’t have any goals for the site, but if I’m totally honest, hitting the 10k subscriber mark was definitely one of mine. I’ve managed to grow this site by over 9,000 subscribers in 9 months which is quite rare in the blogging world. Here’s how. It’s not a lie.

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Viper Chill

MAY 10, 2010

Steve Pavlina makes over $100,000 per month with his; Darren Rowse had an estimated $300,000+ month when he launched his last eBook and my friend Al’s site, Coolest Gadgets , was having $60,000 months way back in 2007. In a sea of over 100 million blogs, these guys are the exception.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 3, 2010

Every day I receive targeted visitors from the site who tend to stick around for quite a while. Finally, comments also help you drive more search engine traffic to your site thanks to the long-tail traffic that the words in them generate. Anything that shows community on your site is also a good thing in my eyes.

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Viper Chill

MAY 17, 2010

How would being referenced on a blog with tens of thousands of subscribers, hundreds of times, help the growth of your own site? Anything you do to build your audience outside of the partnership is going to help them grow their site. With PluginID and now at ViperChill I never accepted one single guest post on my sites.

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