Top Lists grace the covers of most magazines and have to be a close second to Memes when it comes to blog topics. A good list can get you a lot of traffic, bookmarked in all those cool bookmarking sites-Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us, and most of the other social networks love lists. Hit one their front pages with your top list and get thousands of hits in one day. A good top ten list will make people want to come back and see what else you might be writing a list about. Or start a nice discussion about why the things…
Category: blog promotion
Have a Blog or Have a Life
You really can’t have both you know. I’ve been diddling around here for a bit, just looking at Google Trends and this and that, I almost wrote a blog post about a service that is hiring people to be personal assistants-in the stand in line and buy me tickets sort of way. It only cost twenty dollars a months so I can imagine what they pay the people who pick up the dry cleaning. But that didn’t seem all that interesting. Then I thought about writing a blog post about the 2009 Harley Davidsons, only there don’t seem to be…
In The Perfect Entrecard World
I’ve had the Entrecard widget on If You Write It for some time now-I go through phases where I think it is a waste of space and phases where I do a lot of dropping and hitting new blogs. I have never been big on using the Entrecard forums or reading the Entrecard blog. I tend to see what other Entrecard blogs have to says as I am dropping cards. The original idea behind Entrecard seemed to be to allow the average blogger to advertise on high ranked blogs and like minded blogs. So that every one’s goal in the…