How To Capitalize On Your Blog Statistics

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Monday, June 29th 2009

Filed In: Archives, Blogging Lessons, Stats

Google Analytics vs AwStats vs Webalizer statistics. Many bloggers and/or webmasters may ask, “Why is there a difference between these numbers?”
Add Woopra, WordPress Stats, Sitemeter or another statistical program to the mix, and it gets even more confusing.
Truth be told, anytime we begin to compare the results from more than one statistical program, there [...]

Blog Posting - Rap It Up

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Friday, June 26th 2009

Filed In: Archives, Blogging, Blogging Lessons, Posting

Good Day Class!
What a wonderful surprise I have for you today. Our substitute teacher (guest writer) is none other than the famous singer, song writer, Ms. Jannie Funster.
You all know her as the bra flinging blogger from Jannie Funster.com who will write about anything she sees, and maybe even turn it into a [...]

Do “They” Have The Right To Know

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Monday, June 22nd 2009

Filed In: Archives, Blogging Lessons, Branding, Search Habits, Social Networking

In case you haven’t been following the news, here’s a story that has been raising a lot of controversy.
The name of the article is, “Town Requires Job Seekers To Reveal Social Media Passwords”, by Aba Journal. In part, it says the City of Bozeman, Montana is requiring the following information from it’s applicants:
“Please list any [...]

When The Conversation Moves Off Of Your Blog

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Friday, June 19th 2009

Filed In: Archives, Blogging Lessons, Comments, Increase Traffic, Networking, Stats

Good Day Class!
Remember Tracy, of I Hate My Message Board? When I interviewed her last month, she told us what happened when a post of hers went viral (see: For The Sake Of The Children, Blog Smart)
Today, we have the honor of having her as our substitute teacher (guest writer).
Tracy will [...]

The Squeaky Wheel Gets The Grease

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Monday, June 15th 2009

Filed In: Archives, Blogging, Blogging Lessons, Comments, Plugins and Widgets, Posting, Stats

With blogging, if we stop updating, commenting, visiting and/or promoting other blogs, our readership may drop.*
When Chania Girl of Living Happiness went on vacation, she noticed a decrease in her readership. Davina of Shades Of Crimson noticed the same when her paying job used up all of her free time, as did Vered [...]