A few days ago I added the Spotplex tracking image into my sidebar and sat back to watch what would happen.On Saturday my blog was in the Top Ten listing of most heavily visited blogs and my articles were all being tracked. Then something went wrong.At some point between March 4th and March 5th all…
Tag: Blogging
Say hello to our new addition
We have just added a new writer to the blog; Amazing Gaze.Amazing Gaze is a friend of mine and she will be writing articles for the blog under such far reaching categories as career consulting, parenting and general ramblings.I expect her first post to be up in a few days.
The fringe benefits of HMTK
There are some fringe benefits to being a part of the HMTK community. Some are more tangible than others but, they are all good.There are several ways to become a member of my fast growing community. One of the easiest ways is to leave comments on the blog. If you look to the right, over…
I’m real popular in Slovenia
With the rise in on line advertising and sites such as Pay-Per-Post and ReviewMe a lot of weight is being given to Alexa rankings. The problem is that even Alexa warns it’s users that it’s rankings are not very accurate as they only count people who use their toolbar.What’s a web entrepreneur to do?Thankfully Alexa…
Ask Steve: How do I increase my blog’s readership?
I get asked this question a lot, “Hey Steve, I’m a new blogger and I just can’t seem to get any traction. How do you get readers to come to your blog? I’m not looking for thousands of hits a day but I would like more than 10!”Getting people to come to your blog is…
Million Dollar Avatar: a few days later
Several days ago I wrote a blog post about a new site called Million Dollar Avatar. Before writing that post I signed up for an account and added my avatar to their system.It has now been one week since they went live so I went back.After logging in I went to my ‘home’ page on…
How To: Getting Alexa to like you
One problem many people are begining to face is that of Alexa. Alexa is not exactly the problem itself, the problem is that many advertisers will look at your Alexa rating and make a judgement based on it.The problem with Alexa is that it only tracks information gathered from people who use the Alexa toolbar…
Is the WordPress Top Commentator plugin screwing up Technorati?
For a while now I have been slowly working my way up the Technorati ladder. When I first became aware of Technorati I had a ranking in the 90K range. Last week I broke into the 50K range. This morning I checked and found myself sitting at 15,955!I’m sitting at this rank because 341 links…
My archives page is up
I’ve been scouring the Internet to find a good plugin to use for my archives page and I found one.This plugin was written by Shawn Grimes and is called the SRG Clean Archives.This plugin does require you to also run the Exec-PHP plugin by Sören Weber.Once both plugins are activated it is as easy as…
Speed linking for Feb 23, 2007
I’ve decided to add a new blog post on Fridays. I know the name “speed linking” is not exactly original but I’m not feeling very creative right now. What follows is five links that I consider to be worth sharing. They are in no special order but each will have some short commentary.1) Warning: Blogging…
Why are you here?
Now that I’ve given my blog a proper make-over I find myself asking a very important question; why are you here?I’m talking about you, the blog reader, why are you reading this blog?I can look through my server logs and see where people come from to get a general idea of what people are reading…
Million Dollar Avatar
I’m always on the lookout for new ways to advertise my blog and a new website Million Dollar Avatar my be the next big thing.Mad props to Baron for breaking this story to me on his blog Million Dollar Avatar – get hits or die tryin’.I signed up right away and it looks like this…