Threadwatch.org reports on a Ad Age study researching blog reader habits. It showed they are loyal, reading the same blogs regularly, and judge them based on quality of writing. A specific topic focus is also valued highly.Most interesting to me was the confirmation of how people find new blogs67.3% of the respondents follow links to learn about new blogs. What is more blog readers rely upon recommendations on blogs (22.9%) more highly than simply finding a blog via a search engine (19.9%).I … [Read more...]
GeekyTraveller.com For Sale
Darren Barefoot is thinking of selling GeekyTraveller.com according to his post it has the following statsGoogle PageRank: 6 Incoming Links (according to Google): 1410 Technorati Rank: 98, 860 Visitors in 2006: 16, 314 Current average daily visitors: 65I did comment over on his blog but my comments rarely appear over there so thought I would comment here. My advice to Darren was to get in touch with The Krug. David has experience of blog sales from both sides of the table. In website sale … [Read more...]
GoDaddy Have a Serious Reputation Problem
Update: Since posting this a number of people have emailed me to say I was judging the company too harshly. I think they are right. Having said that I still worry about the lack of response from GoDaddy. The CEO has a blog, where is their side of the story? They do seem to be talking to the original owner, maybe it will all be sorted out amicably. If you want to know what it was about, check out this from Threadwatch.org The owner of FamilyAlbum.com was surprised to find that he no longer … [Read more...]
FeedBurner Wobble?
All day FeedBurner was reporting zero subscribers to this blog, now it is reporting around half of what I was expecting for chrisg.com while my other blogs seem fine. Is it just me or is anyone else experiencing this? Update: Hmm looks like its not including email count in the feed total ... … [Read more...]
Google Blogoscoped Tells You How NOT To Get Dugg
Philipp Lenssen has outdone himself this time. Check out his excellent post "How to Not Get On the Digg Homepage". When you stop laughing read it again and memorize for next time you submit a story. … [Read more...]
Seen A Boost In Subscribers? Thank Google
FeedBurner is reporting that after a long process Google Is Now Reporting Subscribers Starting with our Saturday February 17th subscriber reporting, FeedBurner publishers will be able to see how many Google Reader and Google Personalized Homepage subscribers they have. (Thanks, Google!) This information will show up in tonight's subscriber reports (meaning that most of you will start to see the data on Saturday morning, U.S. Central Time).It's possible from this you will see a boost in your … [Read more...]
Reviewing The Reviews
Reviews are coming in so I thought I would do a quick round up of the first few. Remember, anyone who writes a review of Killer Flagship Content ebook gets an exclusive early preview of my next one and a link. Well, anyone who writes a review and tells me about it!A One-Stop-Shop For All Your Aspirational Blogging Needs?An ebook that guarantees subscribers Killer Flagship Content by ChrisGBook Review: Killer Flagship Content ebook by Chris Garrett Review of Chris Garret's Free Ebook - Killer … [Read more...]
Performancing Sold
Aaron has an Exclusive Podcast with David Krug on the purchase of Performancing.Congratulations to all concerned! Update: David has more details over at Performancing.com New York,NY —” February 14th,2007 —” SplashPress Media, owner of numerous sites including The Blog Herald, one of the oldest sites on the internet covering blogging news and new media, has announced it is acquiring the core assets of Performancing.com including the bloggers' community and Performancing … [Read more...]
20,000 Visitors, 500 Subscribers, in 7 Days
It's now 7 days since I uploaded Wordpress two over my chrisg.com domain. Time for a one-week-birthday update. Since launch this blog has:Had over 20,000 visitors (according to FeedBurner, Analog reports many more but I don't trust log analysers). Most of these visitors arrived because the blog has ...Been Dugg twice.Added over 500 subscribers (again according to FeedBurner).Received 90 links from 53 blogs (according to Technorati).Downloaded Killer Flagship Content ebook over 1000 times (a … [Read more...]
Write a Review, Get an Exclusive Preview of my Next Ebook
Thanks to everyone sending me feedback on my Killer Content ebook. I had an idea you might find interesting.If you write a review of the ebook on your blog you will getA link back from my blog to your review*Early access to my next ebookPotentially a quote on my forthcoming testimonial page along with another linkNow obviously I am not going to put the "you suck", or "thanks for wasting xxmins of my life" quotes on the testimonial page (you know who you are) but I do want real feedback so the … [Read more...]
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