New Version of Woopra Released

April 22, 2008 | Filed Under Announcements, Blog News, Blogging Demographics, Featured, Features, News, SEO, Technology, Tools | 1 Comment

The web analytics program, Woopra, that generated massive enthusiasm when John Pozadzides presented it at WordCamp Dallas, will release a new beta version on Friday along with thousands of requests for access granted.
“We are excited to be able to extend the Woopra Real Time Analytics service to an additional 10,000 users beginning Friday April 25,” […]

If You Don’t Write With Keywords, Will It Hurt Your Blog?

April 14, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Marketing and Monetization, Blog Relationships, Blogging Demographics, Editorial, Featured, Features, SEO | Leave a Comment

Recently, I got the following comment on Lorelle on WordPress:
I just set up my blog and I am still trying to get everything in line. When I write original content, does it have to be about the subject of my blog? Will it hurt to have content not related to the title and keywords of […]

Drilling Down Your Blogging Niche?

March 27, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Relationships, Blogging, Blogging Demographics, Editorial, Features, Passion, Professional Blogging | 3 Comments

Over the past year alone, I can’t count how many hundreds of people who have told me that they’ve just decided to make “beginning blogging” be their blog’s focus. They wanted me to tell them what I thought of their plan.
I told them they weren’t done, yet.
Yes, this news can be crushing, but […]

What Are You Not Doing With Your Blog

March 14, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Marketing and Monetization, Blog Relationships, Blogging, Blogging Demographics, Editorial, Features, Marketing, Professional Blogging, SEO | 1 Comment

When Aaron Brazell put his blog up for sale, he got a rude awakening of what he was not doing with his blog that would have made his blog more marketable, thus worth buying.
Recently, I started thinking about what I’m not doing with my blog that I should. I do a lot already, and I […]

The Long Tail Applied to Blog Hosting Services

March 10, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Hosting, Blogging Demographics, Features | 4 Comments

The Long Tail is a popular consumer demographic often applied to Internet related business and services. In How Many Blogs Are There? Is Someone Still Counting? I proposed studying blogging demographics based on software platform, country or a combination of both. While looking into the blogging demographics per platform it became clear that there are […]

Connect With Readers Over the Phone

February 29, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging Demographics, Podcasting, Recommended | 3 Comments

While certainly not the first free Web-based conference call system, Rondee might be an ideal tool for bloggers and podcasters.
The site takes the expense and equipment out of conference calling, making it available to the everyday, financially challenged blogger. Your only expense is a long distance call (though, that could be quite high for […]

Google Blogger Finally Gets Scheduler

February 16, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Hosting, Blog News, Blogging Demographics, Google | 2 Comments

Often thought of as innovative and ahead of the curve, Google isn’t a leader in every tech category. For example, I’ve always found Blogger, as a blog publishing platform, to be far behind WordPress, TypePad and Square Space. Aside from being a bit cumbersome to use, some basic features were, for some strange […]

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Do You Tag Yourself?
May 16, 2008 | By Lorelle VanFossen | 2 Comments

Do you tag yourself? Honestly? No, this is not a game.
With everyone back on the tag versus categories versus tags bandwagon, have you checked to make sure you are tagging yourself?
Inside of Lorelle on WordPress is the tag attribute that turns “Lorelle on WordPress” into a tag.
<a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle on WordPress" rel="tag">Lorelle on WordPress</a>
When […]

A BIG Reason to Read a Pet’s Blog
May 16, 2008 | By Andrew G.R. | Leave a Comment

I’ve often taken a snarky approach when it comes to people who set up blogs for their pets. I barely want to read about humans’ mundane lives, let alone issues with litter and pooper scoopers. However, there might be a new reason to subscribe to Lucky, Fido or Buddy’s blog.
Animals’ ability to prognosticate […]

Yahoo Nabs Safari Plugin Inquisitor
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Inquisitor is a cool plugin for Safari, and now Yahoo owns it. The developer, David Watanabe, won’t be joining Yahoo, but will continue the development.
I look forward to assisting Yahoo! in refining and extending the Inquisitor user experience beyond where it is today. I truly believe that Inquisitor and its users can only benefit, both […]

YouTube Gives You Insight
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

Now you can get some more statistics for your YouTube videos, with the recently launched Insight tool, available in your YouTube account (under Manage my Videos, which is probably temporary). The new stats feature is described like this by Tracy Chan, YouTube product manager:
For example, uploaders can see how often their videos are viewed in […]

Google the New Number 1 in the US
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

I thought they were already, but obviously not so. Google has been the leading search engine, but overall Yahoo is the most popular web site according to ComScore’s rankings. No more though, according to an AP report:
According to comScore, Google’s unique U.S. audience in April was 141.1 million, an 18 percent increase from the same […]

Blogging from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Stephanie Stockman is a NASA contractor working at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which is cool by itself. What’s even cooler is that she’s blogging it, talking about rocketships in voice and text, as well as posting photos, something every space nerd should follow for sure. Her blog is Geosteph, which incidentally is her Twitter […]

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