One of the best ways to improve your blog is to develop more passion for your niche. Being passionate about your niche will help your blog in many areas. One of those areas is the quality of your readership. If you show a lot of enthusiasm for your niche, if you show a ton of…
A couple days ago, I wrote about the importance of being a passionate blogger. Passionate bloggers have advantages over non-passionate bloggers including attracting a higher quality and more supportive readership. So, how do you become a more passionate blogger? First of all, enjoy your niche. Blog about something you love. If you don’t like to…
I just read a great post from Seth Godin (via Problogger). His post was about the power of recommendation. He wrote about posting excerpts from his new book last month and also giving a recommendation for a book by author Garr Reynolds. He built a Squidoo page about that book with an affiliate link to…
EatonWeb was honored to be mentioned in the Search Engine Journal’s list of 20 Essential Blog Directories to Submit Your Blog To. It’s good to know that our hard work is paying off. If you’re wondering which blog directories to submit to, and looking for the authoritative list of killer blog directories, look no further…
EatonWeb uses a combination of metric factors to determine the value of a website. However, we are planning to phase out PageRank in our metric over the next 12 months because, quite honestly, we no longer feel that it’s an accurate reflector of site value. Not to mention the empirical observation that our directory rankings…
With the popularity of The 4-Hour Workweek and its recommendation of outsourcing, more bloggers are looking to outsourcing to improve their blog. But is outsourcing worth it? I think if you give clear instructions and find the right people, outsourcing can definitely help your blog. Good outsourcing can free up a lot of time. Also,…
Last week I wrote about having a consistent style in your blogging so that your readers will know what to expect from your blog. (To understand what I mean by “style”, please read that previous post. I give four examples of what I mean when I say “style”.) Having a consistent blogging style will help…
Skellie has excellent advice on being a more influential blogger. She writes: Develop a consistent style. Leo Babauta is renowned for his lists, Seth Godin — to pluck an example from above — is known for pithy, thought-provoking posts, while Jason Kottke is famous for interesting links and insightful commentary. What kinds of posts do…
About 2 weeks ago, I wrote about marketing without spamming. One of my points was that networking is an essential part of marketing. If you don’t have a relationship with the bloggers you’re marketing to, then you could be classified as a spammer. For example, if you promote your content to a blogger out of…
If you want to have long-term success in the blogging game, you need to have attention. I just found this very relevant post. It’s entitled Links or Content? Nope, the Issue is Attention. In this post, Aaron Wall tackles the question that webmasters often debate: Which is more important, links or content? However, he argues…