Social Publishing
Simple ways to multiply blog traffic
Something has happened. The traffic of this blog is up, multiplied. Over four times more visits than the same time last year. Even more pageviews. Almost six times more unique visitors. Double of new visits. And this has happened in a very short time. What's different? Well, that's not an easy thing to answer. There are lots of smaller things in the play. In the following are a couple of things I've done and what you can do as well to get your blog traffic up. Much more promotion I have always been a bit shaky about marketing my own stuff. Yeah, it's silly, but I've been raised not to ma...
Twitter Tuesday: What if I have nothing to Tweet about?
We all have one of those days in time to time. Well, all and all. Some people seem find inspiration to Tweet from the color of their underpants. But the rest of us have those days, weeks or even months when we feel like there's nothing to say. Or rather Tweet. So what to do when this happens? Most Twitter advice by most Twitter "experts" would tell you to keep consistently Tweeting. Sharing links, scheduling, giving tips, being all social. They are right and they are wrong. If you are Tweeting for your work and keeping a brand alive with it, having one of those days may seem like a bad idea....
Twitter Tuesday: Real ways to get ReTweeted
One of the things at least most Twitter users hope is to get their Tweets shared along, ReTweeted. Especially when you are promoting something (your blog, your work etc.), you are counting every ReTweet. There's lots of tips and tricks to how to get ReTweeted out there. Most of them don't really work. For instance as I previously wrote, "Want to be ReTweeted? Be ReTweetable!" is an useless piece of advice. It doesn't mean a thing. Often you are also told to ask for ReTweets. That works with some Twitter users, but may also upset and repel many. So be careful with that. Make your ...
Is this blog post unique enough?
One of the reasons for a blogger's block is the nagging feeling that everything has already been written. Especially with all the advice out there telling you to be unique. The advice is kinda okay, but it's mostly misleading. When that blogger's block - or blogger's anxiety - hits, a bunch of depressing thoughts come to mind. Someone else has already wrote about this. Why would your writing be any better or at least as interesting? Do you have anything new to say about this subject? Is it worth the effort? Will anyone read it? Is it unique? The unpleasant truth is most of bloggers don't a...
Twitter Tuesday: How to get followed back
How often have you followed someone on Twitter and (maybe secretly) hoped them to follow you back? If they are very popular or even a celebrity, your chances of a followback are less likely, but it's not completely impossible. Whether the person is a popular one or not, there are some simple ways to make sure they will notice you. Why you want them to follow you back? Is it just because you want more followers, cause you want to improve your Klout score or because you want your followers/following count to be in a certain balance? Are they providing you with content that's beneficial to you...
Being anonymous
Facebook is infamous of forcing the use of real names. Recently they started to ask people to snitch on their friends for not using real names. Great, isn't it? Online anonymity is a difficult subject. Lots of people are using the possibility of being anonymous in order to do harm to others and to act otherwise badly. Especially those who don't understand the online realms are taking advantage of anonymity and on the other hand are scared about it. For them anonymity is same as lying. The reality is that (forced) usage of real identities has never stopped people from bullying or doing ot...
Twitter Tuesday: How to identify a spammer
In time to time my Twitter followings list gets reduced by one. When I do a little digging around I notice a person who had been big with sharing tons of links, ReTweeting way too often, @mentioning mindlessly for no good reason and abusing hashtags has been suspended for suspicious behavior. Well, no wonder. They weren't really a spammer, but I can see why someone might misread them as one. There's a crazy amount of spammers online these days. Or at least that's how it seems. Blogs are drowning into comment spam and looks like every other new Twitter follower is following for other r...
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