FEFF - Feeling The Joy

What an exciting week it’s been. We just concluded the second round of interview topics with Lorelle (of Lorelle on WordPress) and learned:
1) Revisitng old posts can provide fresh content
2) How to Manage our feed readers
3) And then we Wooped it up.
4) On Tuesday we welcomed our first teenage [...]

You’re Only As Good As Your Current Post

Have you ever noticed the majority of visitors to your blog only comment on your most recent post? Even your loyal readers aren’t digging to find more of your writings.
If they are, they often don’t comment.
Why is that?
Today’s Lesson
As bloggers we’re continually publishing new posts.
As our new posts are pinged, our RSS feed readers/visitors come [...]

Social Meth - One Taste - You’re Hooked

Remember when you first started blogging? An increase of one in your visitor counts or feed readers was exciting.
Then you discovered Digg, StumbleUpon, and Twitter. By a submission of your site to popular social networks, you saw your blog growing by the hundreds.
Today’s Lesson
I remember those days.
Each new unique visitor made my day. [...]

Blogging - Year One - Lesson Eleven

The amount of blogs online grows by thousands every day.
There is no way we can read, or even find them all, but we try.
Over the past year, I’ve read hundreds of blog posts (possibly thousands).
There’s some good stuff out there.
In the beginning, I remember reading posts written by seasoned bloggers. I was often in [...]

Blogging - Year One - Lesson Nine

B-2, I-25, G53, O-68. BINGO!
It’s been a long time since I played Bingo.
For those who have never played the game, the object is to get five numbers in a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal line. Sometimes you may play “four corners”, or a game when you must cover all of the numbers on your [...]

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