User Testing Provides Valuable Feedback
February 25, 2009 by Jason · 3 Comments
This is a guest post by WC, who is still in denial about the whole “You have to have a cool name to be a good blogger” thing. He stubbornly blogs about money and writing over at The Writer’s Coin.
If you’re a blogger—regardless of whether you’re starting out or have been doing this for a long time—do yourself a favor and bookmark Darren Rowse’s series on ProBlogger called 31 Days to Building a Better Blog.
That could be the end of this post and it would still be a fantastic tip. But since I’m here to give Jason’s readers as much value as I can (and because I love hearing myself talk), I’ll say a little bit more about this.
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Something Wrong With Adsense?
February 14, 2009 by Jason · 2 Comments
If you serve Adsense ads on your blog, you may have been surprised today to see your stats much lower than normal. It appears ad reporting was frozen sometime this morning, and reporting for both impressions and earnings have yet to be updated. This has happened before, and with all previous occurrences stats and earnings were still being recorded behind the scenes, though they were not being reported in Adsense’s reporting area. I trust that will be the case today.
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Five Surefire Ways To Lose Readers
February 6, 2009 by Jason · 4 Comments
Most people blog because they want to share something–their opinion, their knowledge, or a bit about their daily life. Others do it for more cathartic reasons; after all I have found writing to be very therapeutic and it often helps relieve stress to “get stuff of my chest” through the keyboard. Regardless of your motivation, it is flattering when others read what you write and find inspiration in your words. I recently shared a few ways to attract an audience, so now I’ll share ways to lose one.
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