Home Bases, Outposts, Frontiers, & Communities

A concept has been making it's way across the internet that describes the use of social media in a bloggers daily routine, that deals with Home Bases, Outposts, and Frontiers. Darren Rowse of Problogger talks about Home Bases and Outposts on his blog and how he uses social media in his blogging. "A home base is a place online that you own, that is your online ‘home’. For me my home bases are blogs but for others they will be other types o...

Achieving top rankings in any search engine is all about getting more links from other sites.  The reason is simple: Modern search engines place a huge value on links. The more links you have, and the better quality these links are, the higher you'll rank. If a site is linking to you, they are essentially casting a vote of trust. And the more "votes" you have, the more trustworthy your site is to Google, which naturally translates into better ra...

I've noticed recently that there are alot of people commenting on other's blogs using a profile picture or "Gravatar" of a sexy girl with big boobs. At first impression, it would seem like it would cause some guys to click to visit the blog just to find out more about the picture.  And I think it would.  But would it cause an increase in readership overtime, or would it be a simple one time increase? While I think the idea behind the ma...

Well, some of you will.  But most of you won't.  It's not because you're not good enough, it's not because you don't have the determination, and it's not because you can't write a coherent sentence and make it sound interesting. It's because you aren't marketing your blog correctly.  Change your methods and you can make money blogging. How many of you are going to John Chow's blog, or Yaro Starak's blog everyday to read the next greatest...