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Creating Signature Content
2007-08-05 03:06:00 Photography: An artist’s signature by Slewrate I have dim memories of the time I spent creating my signature, and looking back on it, I didn’t give the task the attention it deserved. Now the signature I’m stuck with is somewhat jagged and messy, and I’d go back and change it if I could. Despite its short-comings, it ... More About: Features , Creating , Content , Eating , Natur
Cheat Sheets: Why Readers (and Social Networks) Love Them
2007-08-03 04:44:00 Photography: Cheat ? by Pperinik A cheat sheet is a single page one-stop reference you’ve probably only ever encountered in your high-school math class. Web developer Dave Child, however, has created cheat sheets on a variety of techie topics like CSS, RGB Hex Colors and World of WarCraft. They all have one thing in common, though: they’ve ... More About: Social , Love , Social Networks , Networks
Weekly Swipe file
2007-08-02 13:43:00 Photography: Filing cabinet by alexstaubo I first encountered the idea of a ’swipe file’ through a guest-post by Chris Garret (who also runs a wonderful blog in his own right) over at Brian Clark’s CopyBlogger. He defines it as such: A swipe file is simply a folder, real or electronic, containing examples of good copy. You might ... More About: File , Weekly
Modesty is Not a Virtue
2007-08-01 08:45:00 Photography: NAM - Radione tablets by Marshall Astor People are magnets to a good spectacle. An accident, a captivating street performer, a crime scene and a breath-taking work of art will all attract a crowd of fascinated onlookers. The old saying “If you build it, they will come” should probably be reworked to “create a spectacle, ... More About: Modesty , Virtue , Odes
Organization the Simple Way
2007-07-30 06:44:00 Keeping track of the work that needs to go into your content can be difficult. You need to jot down future content ideas, remember tasks you’ve set yourself, and work your blog or website schedule in with other commitments. A tool I’ve just discovered which has been really helpful for me is Backpack. It’s a free ... More About: Organization , General , Simple , Organ
Lifehack Your Niche
2007-07-29 09:39:00 Photography: Hipster PDA by karindalziel. Lifehack s, the bread-and-butter content of sites such as Zen Habits, Lifehacker, 43Folders and Lifehack.org, are tips and tricks to help you be better, happier, faster, and more productive. These are things all of us want, so it’s no surprise that this kind of content has seen the above four sites ... More About: Niche
Be Like Wikipedia to Your Readers
2007-07-27 16:13:00 For many of us, Wikipedia is our first port of call when searching for general knowledge on a topic. It does have its draw-backs though: the information there is often incomplete, and most importantly, it can be edited and vandalized by anyone. You don’t have a relationship of trust with the creator of the content. Your ... More About: Readers , Like
Welcome to Skelliewag
2007-07-26 14:07:00 You’ve stumbled across the launch of something that has been a long time in the making. Skelliewag is a blog about creating content your readers will love, whether you’re a blogger, webmaster or a freelance contributor. If you want to know about me, Skellie, you can find information on the About page. If you have suggestions or ... More About: Kell
What Works: Freelance Switch
2007-07-26 09:28:00 This week I want to take an in-depth look at Freelance Switch , a blog for freelancers. I think this site is worth examining because it’s experienced the kind of rapid growth we all dream of: from 0 to more than 10,000 subscribers in under four months. I’ll be looking at the site first and foremost from ... More About: Features , Works , Lance
Monetizing Trust, Not Tricks
2007-07-25 09:14:00 Advice on ways to make money through your website or blog is monopolized by webmasters talking to webmasters, bloggers talking to bloggers. One vital part of the equation is often ignored, and that’s the perspective of the target - the readers whose clicks are generating money for others. It’s impossible to browse the web and not ... More About: Features , Tricks , Trust , Monetizing , Rust
Escape The Echo Chamber
2007-07-25 04:50:00 It’s hard to find web content which does not, at least to some degree, fall trap to the echo chamber effect. When inside this mental echo chamber we create content that echoes other content or is derivative of it, direct readers to other people’s work instead of our own, link out only to viewpoints and ... More About: Features , The Echo , Amber , Escape , Scape
Writing For Beginners, For Beginners
2007-07-22 16:07:00 Why write for beginners? Imagine you?re the owner of a site about search engine optimization (SEO). This is the kind of topic that requires a lot of entry level knowledge. A person might have heard the term but not know what it means, resulting in a Google search for ?What is search engine optimization? which brings ... More About: Writing
How To: Leave Quality Comments
2007-07-22 15:53:00 There’s much to be said about comments but this post will deal with them from the perspective of trying to share your blog’s content with more people. Bloggers often comment on other blogs in the hope that the owner and readers of the other site will click back to their own blog. This post discusses ways ... More About: Comments , Leave , Quality , Ality
Good Content for Busy People
2007-07-22 10:30:00 ‘Busy People ’ includes most of us. We’re working or studying full-time, trying to maintain active social lives and pay attention to our families. Creating successful web content can seem incompatible with these things, but it’s not: as long as you focus on creating content that one busy person can manage. Tricky content Aggregating You’ll run into tough times ... More About: Content , Good , Tent
Find New Readers in Forums
2007-07-20 14:04:00 We create content in order to share it with others. We want those others to be both numerous and engaged in what we’ve created. Forums and message boards offer us an opportunity to reach many new readers who are actively engaged in the topics we write about. Unfortunately, making effective use of forums to find ... More About: Readers , Find
5 Reasons Why Numbered Headlines Work
More articles from this author:2007-07-19 14:06:00 Lists are great at making the popular pages of social bookmarking sites. They’ve also become hallmark content for many popular blogs and websites and have ruled magazine covers for years. 5 Powerful Reasons to… 80 Tricks to… 19 Ideas for… They’re everywhere - even this post! Here are 5 reasons why writers use them and readers ... More About: Work , Headlines , Headline , Number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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