Traffic analysis is an important part of tracking the growth of your website, and seeing where traffic is coming from. This helps you plan out future decisions for your website such as what topics to write about. You probably all use Google Analytics to anaylyse your traffic. I use the …
With the news of Google Reader closing down in a few months, many people are looking for alternative ways to read their favourite news websites and blogs. Jean Galea today shared with me a link to his WP RSS Aggregator WordPress plugin. The plugin allows you to create a page …
I spoke the other day about how Google has completely abandoned Feedburner. It seems that no service is safe over at Google. Google Reader, one of the most popular RSS readers on the web, is set to close down on 1 July 2013. I was really surprised about this as …
Top Stories is a WordPress plugin that was inspired by the “Top Stories Sidebar” on tech blog Engadget. For years I was a plugin junkie, changing my sidebar on a regular basis with newly released plugins. I’m keen to get into this habit again, as I love trying out new …
The Feedburner service is no longer supported by Google. The blog has been closed. So has their Twitter account…and it’s been years since they ever added any new features. The service is all but dead. In this article, I look at alternative solutions that allow you to deliver your content to subscribers.
The guys at the top of the boxing and mixed martial arts world’s make a lot of money. Guys like Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao make millions every time they step into a boxing ring. Likewise, Georges St Pierre, Anderson Silva and Jon Jones are making millions every year from …
In the second episode of The Business Hangout, Ian Dawson Mackay joined me for a discussion on video interviewing and blogging. Ian has secured interviews with some really high profile people over the last few months through his blog Next Level Guy. I was really impressed how Ian managed to …
Today is the final day that The Art of Freelance Blogging is available for nothing on Amazon. From tomorrow, the book will only move towards it’s full price of $9.99. Perhaps this price will change, perhaps not. Pricing an eBook is not always easy. It’s not an exact science. Too …
Everyone knows that guest posts are a great source of traffic. Many top bloggers, such as Bamidele Onibalusi, have established themselves solely through successful guest post campaigns. It’s a tried and tested way of getting traffic to your blog or website. I’m sure you are already aware of the benefits …
Blogs are notorious for being left for dead. From the millions of blogs that are launched every month, most are later abandoned. It’s not a huge surprise when you consider the majority of these blogs were built on free hosted services such as Blogger and WordPress.com, as most were created …