Entries Tagged as 'Research'

How to Get Ideas (for Blog Posts)

May 6, 2008 // Drew Stauffer

Over the last few years I’ve designed, built, and maintained quite a few blogs. Naturally, spending any amount of time writing you’re bound to hit a wall sooner or later, especially when you’re trying to create unique content on a regular basis. I get writer’s block just like everyone else.

Being a blogger, designer, and developer both for my full time job and freelance jobs, I stay pretty immersed in my industry for most of the day. Often, the questions that I get asked give me plenty of ideas for new content, but what if you’re not eating and sleeping your blog topics? I often get asked for blogging advice, so I thought I’d pass on this great tip.
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Is Your Website Getting Indexed?

November 14, 2007 // Drew Stauffer

How often do you check to see what pages are indexed by each search engine? If you’re not checking on a regular basis you could be in for a surprise. Yes, Google is the dominant search engine, but Yahoo, MSN and Ask are still going to bring you a decent amount of traffic.

We recently re-organized an older site and re-wrote all the content to optimize it for a new set of specific keywords. After 301 re-directing the old pages and submitting the XML sitemaps to Google, I gave it some time to see what pages were going to get indexed.

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Blog Posts That Get Attention

October 30, 2007 // Drew Stauffer

Over the next couple of months I am going to run a few experiments. Currently when I post anything, it’s usually fairly extensive. I figure if I’m going to take the time to write something then it needs to get my complete attention. I have over 30 blogs in my RSS reader and I’ve noticed that a lot of big names in the industry post a lot of short posts.

Problogger and SEO book are some great examples of posts that are extremely short but definitely get the attention of their readers and develop some great conversations between users.

Currently I have 69 RSS subscribers according to my feed burner account and I want to see if posting shorter articles, more often will bump up my subscriber count.

What do you think? Would you rather read a short post that provides quick info, or would you rather read a lengthy post that may or may not help you out?

BlogRush Frenzy

September 17, 2007 // Drew Stauffer

Driving traffic to your blog is one of the most sought after skills for any Internet marketer. Blog Rush has introduced a new widget that will allow you to increase your traffic by simply adding their widget to your blog.

BlogRush is a free widget that’s designed to promote websites encouraged around a 10 tier referral program. Just like any pyramid marketing scheme, the earlier you get in, the more traffic you can generate, so go check it out.

There have been many discussions about whether BlogRush will be harnessed by real Internet marketers or spammers. What do you think? Is this a good idea, or possibly too good to be true?

I am certainly going to be trying it out to see what kind of traffic they can produce. I will definitely keep everyone informed with the progress.