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.
My Favourite Blogger – or – When The Comments Turn Nasty
I’m not sure I have said this before. Scott Adams is my favourite blogger. Of course I have other favourite bloggers (don’t worry I am not going to list them, I like links but I am not that desperate, heh). Before I let you in on why I think Scott is one of the best …
The Hidden Blog Metrics Trap
Since reading the FeedBurner report Aaron has been thinking about how to change his approach towards RSS metrics I wonder, really, how our strategies will change as assumptions fly in the face of reality. I also wonder how many people cater to their RSS audience and encourage engagement from those readers. I personally have taken …
Danger of Duplicate Content?
Does Google have a "Duplicate Content penalty"? Concerned about cross-posting or syndicating articles or scrapers copying your pages?
Samples and Review Items, Bribery or PR?
Nick over on his new ClickInfluence blog has a post up about Sending Gifts to Influencers Sending gifts to bloggers, in the hope they’ll write about them may seem a potentially dangerous move. If it backfired it could certainly cause some nasty negative PR, but provided some caution, and a good helping of common sense …
MyBlogLog A Magnet For Spammers
Over the weekend I received a MyBlogLog phishing email asking me to add someone I have never heard of as a co-author. While I deleted the email right away it seems the idea has worked. The spammer has attached their website to a lot of popular bloggers communities. More from John Chow This morning, while …
Blog Sales: How To See The Real Value
Buying and selling blogs is a growth area of professional blogging. People have bought and sold websites since the commercial web began but like a lot of things internet, bloggers are coming to this fresh and new. The main difference between the web sales of now and then is before the main assets of a …
Interesting Digg Monetization Strategy
While “domaining” (usually buying up domains, putting up CPC ads then selling them from what I understand) isn’t a business model I would want to get into, Ahmed at TechSoapBox thinks this is one way Digg traffic can be immediately monetized Domain registered on Feburary 14, 2007 to Kavi Siegel (cvxdes) Website and content put …
Collection of Pro Bloggers Resources
Philip at ihelpyoublog has put together a Complete Blogging Resource List For The Pro-Blogger I’ve decided to start by creating a massive list of posts, articles and resources all designed to be a go-to reference for the pro-blogger. This will be a work in progress and I’ll be updating the list frequently. His list will …
Visit, Use, Like, Love
iheartthis by miss_rogue. We all want to be liked. When creating a product, service, blog it is always our goal to create something people accept. This is setting our sites too low. The goal needs to be more than that. Love. Some people have problems with this word in a personal context so I am …
Fighting Negativity Without Getting Dragged Down Into The Mud Pit
A reader wrote to me in response to my Burning Blog Bridges post. He was concerned that in his industry there was a big, powerful but sleazy competitor. How can he compete without resorting to critical articles attacking their business practices and violations? While it would be tempting to just give them a good kicking …
Killer Flagship Content Reviews
Reviews are coming in so I thought I would do a quick round-up of the first few. If you would like to grab your own copy of the ebook, subscribe or sign up now and look for the download link.
The Truth About Advertising
It’s funny because it’s true … Via: BLOchman
When The Old Guard Gets Hit By The Clue Stick
John Battelle has hit YellowPages with the clue stick “You’re asking me to tell my advertisers to invite criticism? You’re asking me to actually create a platform that lets that criticism happen? Are you nuts?” General nodding and murmurs of assent followed. “Er…yes,” I answered. “Yahoo already does. And Google does too (though not as …
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, …
Are You Burning Blog Bridges?
Snark, criticism, attack-bait, poking wasps nests, call it what you want, while it might be an effective “link bait” strategy, it’s not one I would recommend. This is the path to the dark side. First let’s look at why someone might be tempted to use this tactic. It’s quick and easy It works Takes little …
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 …
The Problem With Metrics in a Web2.0 World
Steve Rubel is asking What Will Replace the Almighty Page View? but I am not quite convinced by his candidate, “Events”. These days most interactive web sites are built using Flash and/or Ajax (a cake mix of Javascript, XML and HTML). Page views are useless here. They only count complete refreshes of a page. Yahoo’s …
Vista, One Windows Too Many?
Mark is asking When Will You Upgrade to Vista? To answer your question Mark, not any time soon. Microsoft hasn’t exactly completely lost me as a customer but neither have they done anything at all that makes me want to upgrade. I will elaborate but first here is what Mark has to say Is there …
Jeremy Zawodny Slams Widgets
Jeremy Zawodny has gotten his dislike of JavaScript Badges and Widgets off his chest With all the talk of how the web has “become writable” with advent of blogs and self-publishing tools, you’d think that we’d have a better way of getting third party content on to our sites. Given that an overwhelming number of …
Online Reputation Management: This Is Not Your Fathers Politics
Reputations can be made or broken online. Presidential candidates you would hope would have only the very best advisors. B.L. Ochman reports one presidential hopeful has had a few problems with his online image lately … A few days ago, typing www.rudyguiliani.com — a common misspelling of his name — took you to a site …
When Virtual is Not Close Enough To Reality
Steve Rubel reports that someone has created an Apple Store in Second Life Go download the latest version of Second Life and then teleport to the Apple Store. No, not the real thing but close! Someone has created an unofficial virtual replica of Apple’s famed retail stores This is a perfect example to me why …
Sports Blog Sells To ESPN
Congratulations to Henry Abbott of True Hoop. His news? Henrys blog is Becoming Part of ESPN. Here are some choice quotes from his announcement I just signed a contract with ESPN. They now own the name TrueHoop, and I am a full-time ESPN employee … To be honest, I wasn’t looking to sell TrueHoop, and …
If It’s Worth Doing It’s Worth Making Extraordinary
A few people took my post on defeating procrastination to be advising producing poor quality under the guise of “just getting something out there”. I would like to correct this if I wasn’t clear in my post. My opinion is if something is worth doing it is not just worth doing well, it is worth …
Walking the Assumptions Tightrope
Do you find yourself Googling up words, phrases and especially jargon, when reading blog posts? I do. It happened to me about ten minutes ago. One of my current projects requires getting elbow-deep in Drupals innards. Drupal is a fantastic blog/community/content management platform. It has a vibrant community, that is very helpful. Quite often though …
Are You Making These Blogging Mistakes?
John Chow has posted up a list of popular blogging mistakes. Here they are without his commentary, do read his full post but before you do I will add my thoughts after the list: Not Updating Blogging Only For Money Rushing a Post Not Being Personal Being a Copycat Not Replying To Comments Not Giving …
Another Good Reason to NOT Have a Blogroll
I don’t like Blogrolls. While they do serve a fine purpose, allowing visitors to see other blogs they might like, and sharing the link-love is always good, I don’t do them. My reason will be clear in a second, first let’s read about the stink happening in the political blog world from The Galloping Beaver …
Seth Godin Ripped Off
I can’t believe a company of the size and sophistication of Amazon could sell a book, by best-selling author Seth Godin, without his permission AND pass it off as new. Quality control? Check it out on Seth’s Blog I didn’t authorize this book to be published, I have no idea who the publisher is and …
Meet The Masters of Social Media
It is well known that the top Digg/Netscape/Reddit/etc members can make a story. Their stories get front page status more than any others and they wield masses of influence. Want to see who the social media power-users are? WSJ.com has the details A look at some of the hidden influencers deciding what is popular on …
Defeating Procrastination: Analysis Paralysis
Analysis Paralysis is where you can’t make any forward progress because you bog yourself down in details, tweaking, brainstorming, research and … anything but just getting on with it. Sound familiar? It’s something I struggle with. Partly out of fear of failure, partly because I love the idea-generation phase of projects, mostly because I am …
Want To See First-Class Examples of Flagship Content?
People are starting to provide me with some excellent feedback on my free Killer Flagship Content ebook. One of the requests is for me to provide more examples. Funnily enough I was just reading Aarons (excellent) blog and saw his short video entitled “What is a Self Reinforcing Authority“. As well as examples that illustrate …
Blog Top Trumps: How Do You Define Blogging Success?
Lorelle over at The Blog Herald is asking about bloggers success criteria What is your definition of blogging success and popularity? What do you use to measure it? I think it is important when starting to blog to at least spend a moment to think about why you are doing it, what you will get …
The De-Geekifying of the Web
Interesting thought from Darren Barefoot today We’re rapidly eliminating the technical barriers from web publishing. Publishing text to a website is already about as easy as writing an email. The customization (“make my website pink with scalloped edges”) and intregation (“show my knitting photos and upcoming S&M events on my website”) work isn’t as simple …
Markets Are Conversations? Someone tell Sprint/Nextel …
With more and more companies getting on board the blogging and social media thing you would have thought the point had already tipped for the Cluetrain. Then along comes another dumb company to give us a kick in the reality box. According to Consumerist blogging and comments will get you fired at Sprint/Nextel Sprint/Nextel employees …
Getting Organised: Don’t Fall into the Geek Trap
I’ve never been so disorganized since I switched computing platform. Pre-Mac I used Microsoft Outlook for pretty much all my organizational needs. Sure it was slow, bloated, buggy, crashed a lot, soaked up pretty much the computers entire memory, but it kept my desk tidy. Now I am lost for what to do. I have …
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Converting Diggers: How To Maximise Getting Dugg
Reading blogs and forums you would think that getting on Digg is all about short term pops of traffic. Yes the traffic boost is nice but if those visitors arrive and leave like a tide without anyone sticking around then all you have for your efforts is a slow web site for a while. Is …
Another year, another blog
It has become a kind of tradition that chrisg.com changes regularly. This blog though is on a mission. I am separating out topics, fluff over at chrisg.org and business here on chrisg.com. Subscribe, it should all become clear!