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Oops, I got banned from Digg
2007-02-21 09:51:03 As a 3 week old blog, I’ve been finding ways to get traffic coming into NorthxEast since inception, one of the first ways that I did that was to sign up three accounts on Digg and when submitting a post there to give it a little 3 digg kick in the butt and let it ... More About: Anne , Banned
Snap.com - a Google Alternative?
2007-02-21 09:51:03 In the many years since I adopted Googl e I have tried a few search engine alternatives, but have always felt like they were trying to be Google except not really adding anything new or doing what Google does as well. Examples include Alltheweb.com, Live.com, Altavista.com, MSN.com and so on. Yesterday I was trialling the Snap -Preview Anywhere ... More About: Alternative , Alter
Building a Web App? Be realistic with your timeline?
2007-02-21 09:51:03 As you may already know, my wife and I own a design agency here in Sydney (which she runs for the most part) called Good Creative. Because it has a really nice website (one of the best of 2006 according to NetDiver.net) it attracts a lot of quote requests. Most of the time ... More About: Building , Time , With , Your , List
24? Black iMac
2007-02-20 15:49:01 I would like to switch to a Mac , in fact I am going to switch to a Mac… However I’ve decided to wait until a black iMac is released. Since this doesn’t appear to be any time soon, I’ve decided to use my Photoshop skills to render one to keep me happy in the ... More About: Black , Lack
Dealings with Lawyers
2007-02-20 03:48:01 Yesterday I went to see some lawyers in the city. At $500 an hour for a senior partner and $300 for your day-day contact, lawyers frighten me - and these people are only a middle-tier firm here in Sydney. With that price tag you want to make sure you get the right service. ... More About: Lawyer , Lawyers , Deal , Ealing
5 Things You Can Do to Pull the Reader in
2007-02-19 21:47:02 As a blogger your one overriding goal above all else is to provide your reader with compelling and engaging content to read. The problem is sometimes as bloggers we have a tendency of making it as hard as possible for a reader to get to see that our content is compelling and engaging. ... More About: Reader , Read , Things , Thing , Pull
Keeping Track of Thoughts and Ideas
2007-02-19 09:46:02 A couple of days ago I was rambling on about my blog on the way home and my wife said to me “I’m amazed you have so many things to write about”… This got me to thinking, because I don’t always feel like I have lots to write about, in fact when I first started ... More About: Ideas , Thoughts , Idea , Thought , Keep
Blogging and the power of celebrity
2007-02-19 09:46:02 Although blogs are sometimes used for corporate purposes (on news sites, company sites and so on) the overwhelming application is still personal. In fact even on a corporate site, a blog is by definition still inextricably tied up with the main writer. As a blog gets popular, this then translates to a sort ... More About: Power , Celebrity , Celeb , Blogging , Blog
What it Takes to Start a Business Online - Part II - Focus
2007-02-19 09:46:02 This is the second part of a multi-post series called What it Take s to Start a Business Online. This series applies whether you’re starting a blog, the next YouTube or just about any other business idea you might have. You can read the introduction here. Focus Starting a successful online enterprise is not an easy task and ... More About: Hat
Are you Statistically Addicted?
2007-02-19 09:46:02 This morning when I got to my computer I found myself logging on to Google Analytics to check up on user stats for the various sites I administer, then I checked Feedburner to see how subscribers were going, then I checked Alexa to see how our rankings were faring in comparison to actual stats, then ... More About: Call , Stat , Ally , Addicted , Addict
Alexa Updates their Traffic Ranking Page
2007-02-19 09:46:02 Today I logged into Alexa’s Traffic Rank ing page to find that they have changed the way statistics are presented. Most notably the “Reach” is now expressed as a % of internet users who visit the site. This is much better as the old method was confusing no matter how many times I read the explanation! ... More About: Dates , Page , Updates
What it Takes to Start a Business Online - Introduction
2007-02-19 09:46:02 It often seems that there are all these people out there making bucketloads of money online without lifting a finger - at least not more than it takes to tap your mouse. I’m talking about both the YouTube founders of the world and on a lesser scale the JohnChow’s of the world. There is a ... More About: Business , What , Take , Hat , Start
Task-oriented Advertising Challenges
2007-02-19 09:46:02 On Sunday I discussed what I term Task-oriented Advertising - that is an advertising model where a user’s goal is to browse ads. Employment sites, classifieds, dating sites and so on all fall in this category. As with all forms of advertising the success of a business that pursues this model rests on its ability to ... More About: Orient , Challenge , Sing , Hall
9 ways to make your new blog seem more established
2007-02-19 09:46:02 As the proud owner of what is essentially a week old blog, I have been spending ample time thinking about how to make my blog seem more established. After all the bigger, more established and more reliable you look, the more likely a reader will say to themselves "Hey that was interesting, i’ll subscribe". So ... More About: Blog , Your , Tabl , Make , More
A Little Blog SEO
2007-02-19 09:46:02 Because getting people to your blog is such an important task, optimising it for search engines to crawl becomes uber important. Thankfully this blog uses WordPress which is pretty good for SEO anyway, but of course there are always new things you can learn. Today Lucas of Uncommon Knowledge sent me over to SearchGrit which ... More About: Blog , Little , Litt , Fakta , Doof
What it Takes to Start a Business Online - Part I - Time
More articles from this author:2007-02-19 09:46:02 This is the first part of a multi-post series called What it Take s to Start a Business Online. This series applies whether you’re starting a blog, the next YouTube or just about any other business idea you might have. You can read the introduction here. Time The very first ingredient that any successful business requires ... More About: Hat 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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