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Driving traffic from Twitter to your blog: TechCrunch’s example

I posted before about how to use Twitter to drive traffic to your blog, and illustrated the principle with a simple case study. TechCrunch, a hugely popular resource for us webgeeks, just published interesting statistics about the impact of their Tweets onto their main website traffic.

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Understanding the traffic on your blog – Part 1: Traffic Quantity

A serious blog is geared towards its audience. As a serious blogger, it is important you understand your audience, your readers. When I started blogging, I struggled to understand my blog traffic. Simple and free tools like Google Analytics, gave me heaps of figures and graphs, but it took me a while before I could [...]

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5 things to do after creating a new blog

OK, you did it, you created a new blog! You post a few entries on which you sweat for days, give it the best of your best. But what’s next? Here are five basic steps I follow for every new blog I create:

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Understanding the traffic on your blog – Part 2: Traffic Quality

In Part 1 of this series we concentrated on the quantity of your blog visitors. We used a case study based on the 300,000 visitors on The Road to the Horizon, my personal non-profit blog. In Part 2, we will focus on the quality of your traffic: Based on the 7 main groups of traffic [...]

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Understanding the traffic on your blog – Conclusions

Using an actual blog as a case study, we looked at the quantity of the traffic in Part 1 of this series. In Part 2, we zoomed in on the quality of the traffic. In this post, we will summarize our conclusions and practical tips. The bottom line A blog, just like any website, has [...]

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How to increase traffic on your blog using Twitter?

Here is a small case study on how you can use Twitter as a social networking tool to “create” a new loyal public for your blog. Hello, my name is Twitter As an experiment, I started my own Twitter account about six months ago. Sure, I heard about Twitter, as a micro-blogging platform, limiting any [...]

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10 Free blogging tools I use daily

There is a mass of interesting tools available for the serious and less serious blogger. Here are 10 free tools I use almost daily for my blog. 1. Picasa

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