One of the magic qualities of search engines is their ability to breath new life into an old blog post. Months, even years, after you have published a blog post, good old Google could start sending lots of traffic to your old post!
If you’re monitoring your blog traffic and you notice this happening, it’s a good idea to go back and revise your post. The information may need to be updated, or maybe you have since written about something relevant to the topic of the post and want to provide a link. There are many ways to make use of the new traffic, and here are a few tips for doing just that! [...]
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Updating Your Customized WordPress Theme
Posted on 23. Oct, 2009 by Jeremiah Hoyet.
With all the themes available for little-to-nothing, customizing your Wordpress theme has become an essential task in the path to becoming a better blogger. Customizing your theme sets you apart from the crowd of others using that theme — it makes you that much more unique.
What happens when the theme developers release an update to the theme you have built your blog around? Are you going to have to lose all of your hard work just to get the latest features and bug fixes?
This has happened to me several times in the last several months, WooThemes.com (the developer of the theme I use, Busy Bee) releases updates to their themes at least once a month. I’ve made some changes to my theme, and avoided losing all my hard work during an update following a few simple steps! [...]
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Increase Page Views With LinkWithin
Posted on 21. Oct, 2009 by Jeremiah Hoyet.
One technique a lot of bloggers use to increase page views is listing links to related content at the end of each blog post. Displaying related content increases the chances that visitors will feel compelled to read more; they just read an amazing blog post related to the same topic, why not read further, right?
The problem is that a lot of bloggers just install any old related post plugin and call it a day. This leaves that list of related content looking like some random block of text, which isn’t very appealing or attention grabbing. Leaving a list of boring links at the foot of each blog post doesn’t entice visitors, you need to add something to grab their attention and get them to click that link!
LinkWithin is a Wordpress Plugin that will help you spice up your related content links, and do it without you having to lift a finger (in terms of coding-work). [...]
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The Cost of Blogging
Posted on 11. Sep, 2009 by Jeremiah Hoyet.
I was recently showing off my blog to a friend of mine. At first he was intrigued and started to ask me if I thought he should start a blog. It was at this point that I told him how much time and money I have invested in my blog, and how much I have receive in return for that investment. Hearing this immediately changed his mood about blogging. He thought I was crazy for investing so much time and money for almost nothing in return.
I told him it would be worth the investment if I continued to work hard!
Blogging is a great way to make money online, but it is not free or easy by any means. Blogging requires you to pay a cost and continue to pay that cost until you eventually receive a return on your investment or quit blogging altogether. Some of those costs are monetary, while others come in the form of time and energy you give up to keep your blog going.
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Keywords That Bring Search Engine Traffic to New Blogs
Posted on 07. Sep, 2009 by Jeremiah Hoyet.
Every blogger wants to have their blog rank high for extremely popular search engine keywords. If your blog ranks high for a very popular keyword there will be benefits. Those benefits are traffic, and recognition — by peers, advertisers, and readers.
When your blog is new, it is quite difficult to appear at the top of the search engine results for popular keywords. The lack of incoming links, traffic, and the young age of your blog all work against you.
Forget the popular keywords for now, and instead focus on ranking high for long tail keywords. [...]
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