Blogging

The following posts are hopefully related to "Blogging" in some way.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008, 8:00pm

iPhone Blogging

Are people blogging from their iPhones? I’ve done some iPhone blogging on other blogs - mostly to a personal, non-public blog for note-taking - but haven’t found it all too useful here.

First, I use the amazing WPhone WordPress plug-in, which essentially is the only reason I even try to blog from my iPhone. The interface is very well thought out and makes navigation a breeze. It’s one of those pieces of software that immediately make you want to donate to the author. (more…)

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Saturday, January 19, 2008, 3:31pm

The “One And Done” Blogger Syndrome

Just like workers in other professions, sometimes a blogger will fall into a rut. One problem that manifests itself during a rut is the notion of “if I just squeeze out this post I can move on”. In other words, an author will begin to force ideas just to publish a post.

I call this the “One and Done” syndrome because what you’re really doing is taking away from the continuous nature of a blog - that is, the idea that a blog is a stream of ideas and that you are constantly reading and learning and building upon those ideas has now become merely an exercise. (more…)

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Saturday, January 19, 2008, 10:39am

As a Follow Up to My Last Post

…I can safely say I’ve secured more freelancing work through blogging than I have through any other method, even more than local, offline word-of-mouth marketing. I think blogging, combined with services like tumblr and Twitter and Facebook, is a great way to connect with others if - and here’s the kicker - you use these services with a purpose.

Many people are too afraid or embarrassed to ask friends or colleagues for help in their work or in their startup, but why? I’ve asked friends if they knew business owners looking for a website and more often than not it works out well for everyone involved. If it’s an awkwardness or an ego thing, you’ll get over it pretty quickly when that new client asks for a $3,500 website redesign.

The people you connect with through your blog can make a big difference in your success. Though I still feel blogging strictly for money is a poor use of your time, if you write with a purpose you’ll be successful in many other ways.

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Friday, January 18, 2008, 10:55pm

Blogging is a Bad Way to Make Money (Directly)

There I said it. Someone has to agree with me, right? While blogging can do wonders for building your personal brand and securing freelancing gigs, by itself it isn’t a very lucrative profession.

Yes, bloggers have found the occasional niche and profited very nicely, but overall the grass is more brown than green, and the median income for a blogger is probably not far from $0. Here’s a very quick analysis of why I feel blogging strictly for money is not an effective use of your time.

To Blog

Let’s say I spend one hour a day writing 1-2 posts. I think that’s a pretty realistic time commitment and I challenge anyone to write a quality post in less than 30 minutes. So over the course of a month you’re looking at around 30 hours. (more…)

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Friday, January 18, 2008, 5:55pm

Making Your “More” Links SEO-Friendly

I came across this article and thought it was something worth mentioning here. Essentially the argument is that by not including a NOFOLLOW attribute on your WordPress “Read More” links, you’re actually hurting yourself a bit in the SEO category. Here is the reasoning.

Links with generic terms in the anchor text does you no good in terms of SEO, and in fact will somehow show that your Wordpress blog is very much about “read” and “reading” due to the number of internal links containing these words as anchor text.

I’ve actually used this technique here for a while now and recommend it. I’ve also removed the anchor reference from the link so when a user clicks “(more…)”, he or she goes to the top of the post page rather than to the middle of the post (where I put the special more tag).

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