I’ve been writing the Traffic Growth series for ten weeks now. The first question was “How much traffic can I get through viral methods?”. The answer to that is “a lot more than before”. I’ve demonstrated that it doesn’t take […]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Is A Brain Dump Interesting?
Every piece of advice on blogging will tell you it’s important to choose your topic before you write an article. You need focus, and you need planning. This post is an experiment on the opposite side of that rule.
I […]
My Ears Are Burning – Finding The Chatter
There’s been a lot of discussion in the blogosphere about the fragmentation of conversation. It was a topic that came up a lot last week. I’m not going to judge whether that fragmentation is a good or a bad thing, […]
Traffic Growth #9 – Eggs In More Than One Basket
Less big social networking site spikes means less traffic. But it means more valuable traffic. And it means a better opportunity to analyse the traffic. The value of blog commenting continues to develop. And the traffic potential of Friendfeed is […]
Be Realistic, Be Like Internet Explorer
Web designers and developers have long demanded consistency of standards. It’s frustrating when web pages appear differently on different browsers. Internet Explorer is the most criticised browser for needing “hacks”. Yet in the absence of consistent standards Internet Explorer provides […]