Bringing readers back - The key to increasing blog traffic
Thursday, August 28th, 2008The noise online makes it very easy for your message to get lost easily. Someone visits your blog, likes your content and bookmarks your site. They really do intent to come back but do they?
The answer is a great big maybe. If they grabbed your feed and added it to a reader like Google Reader [...]
RSS Feeds - What they are and how you can use them
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008RSS is probably one of the most confused areas for people starting to blog. Everyone has heard the term either RSS, feed or the two combined RSS feed. Quite a few though don’t understand them or the power that having a feed gives you when using a blog.
Lets start with a definition from Wikipedia of [...]
List building with your blog
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Today’s question:
Hey Mike–I have a two part question about list-building. First, I know you like AWeber as an autoresponder, but are there any free or cheaper services that would suffice for someone who is frugal? And if someone did use an alternate autoresponder, is it possible/reasonable to transfer your list to a different autoresponder down [...]
Blogs and email marketing
Sunday, May 25th, 2008Today’s question:
From reading your blog and others, I have learned it is important to build an opt-in e-mail list to keep in contact with readers via an e-mail subscription. Can you talk about how to set up your blog to optimally to collect e-mail addresses? Also, once you have promised the reader periodic e-mails (such [...]
Feedburner and AWeber now integrate together
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008One of the things that I like for increasing traffic to this and other blogs I have is to use AWeber to automate the broadcast updates of this blog. If you have signed up for the update list you get an email each time I add new content. The cool part is that I don’t [...]
How to add Aweber signup to your sidebar
Monday, November 19th, 2007Todays question comes from a comment on the last post. Here it is:
How do you get your aweber code to show directly under your picture in the side bar? I have tried this many times without success. At what point in the source code of the side bar does the aweber code go?
The easiest way [...]
