Practicing what you preach
November 15, 2005
In light of all of the various “how to get good blog traffic” articles that have been hurtling around lately, Jack of All Blogs has put up a list of the The Ten Evilest and Mostly Unethical Blogging Hacks.
My favorite one was this one:
#2 Hack Elitists
It’s always better to piss people off than it is to cozy up to them. I have found that no one needs new blog friends but what all these stuck up folks need is someone to throw stones at them. A few really great people to piss off are Joi Ito, Jason Calacanis, Nick Denton, Jeremy Wright, Jason Kottke, and Jen Chung. They get upset and tell all there friends to not visit your site. In turn everyone visits your site.
And then he proceeded to do exactly that…
Looks like it’s working like a charm for him too — his first trackback was from Scoble, who simply referenced it as “a contrarian list”.
Calacanis should be descending on him like a ton of bricks any moment now too…
Cute.
(via Memeorandom)
Introduction to dynamic pages
February 14, 2005
One of the most powerful features of blogs and other content management systems (CMS) is that they can create pages “on-the-fly” that to all intents and appearances look like a hand-built static web page. This allows you to focus on developing your content itself, while the software generates the pages for you.
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Weblog Software Choices
February 11, 2005
What software should you use to add a blog to your business web site? Here are the top choices, along with some considerations regarding each.
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Reach new audiences with Podcasting
February 9, 2005
Podcasting has yet to hit the mainstream, but the process has started — in the past two days, USA Today has covered the phenomenon in two different articles. If you have (or can produce) audio content, there is still time to reach a major new audience as it grows.
Passion and Business Blogging
February 1, 2005
The other day I wrote about finding your passionate voice; here are some similar comments from last week’s Blog Business Summit.
Google, “nofollow” and Comment Spam
January 19, 2005
The ‘net is all a-buzz with word of a new initiative by the Google, MSN and Yahoo search teams to “eliminate” comment spam from blogs. What does this mean to you?
When is a blog a blog?
January 19, 2005
One of the frequently heard objections to adding a weblog to a small business website is that they don’t want their site to look like a blog. Of course, my standard reply is that it doesn’t need to in order to have all of the same functionality. This can work too well, however.
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Finding your passionate voice
January 17, 2005
If you don’t regularly add fresh content written in your own personal voice to your small business web site, you are essentially producing nothing but “brochureware”. The net is full of dead-end typed-in brochures; they don’t get traffic, and they don’t make sales.
Business Blogging Article Roundup
January 15, 2005
There are a lot of people busily writing away this week on how to successfully build and promote business blogs. Here are a handful of good tips regarding finding your voice as a business blogger, and some anecdotes regarding search engine success.
One way to start a blog
January 13, 2005
Debbie Weil at BlogWrite for CEOs points readers to a series by Joe Carter on How To Start A Blog.
While it’s not necessarily the approach that I’d recommend, it’s still a very interesting read. Joe’s focus is more on “how to get attention from the blogging community as a standalone blog” than it is on how to start a business blog.
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you had my hope up 
