Posts Tagged ‘Blogging’

Google Plus Photos: 5 Reasons Why This G+ Feature is an Amazing Blog Tool

It’s well over a month in, and the web is still buzzing with content about Google Plus. Fascination of early adopters, most with their own blogs, has produced pages of ideas, experiments and reviews of the social network. We know that G+ is having some type of effect on our other web properties, but it’s still to early to say just what that will mean a year from now. For me, plus.google.com is now in my top five referral URL’s and a few of the posts I’ve written about Sparks and Hangouts have become some of my most popular posts in terms of traffic. What’s interesting is that in the month of July, the URL’s Google.com and plus.google.com have accounted for 28.28% of my referral traffic traffic. I’m comparing that to the 30.13% of my traffic that’s been referred from Twitter.com, Facebook.com and Hootsuite.com combined. All three of those referring URL’s have reigned supreme in my Google Analytics for the last two years. So what does that tell me then? Any way you look at it, I spend way to much time on social networks. One company now owns roughly the same amount of traffic referrals as three separate competitors. I’m spending about 1/4 the amount of time distributing content on Google Plus, and getting nearly equal traffic referrals to my blog. Everyone and their brother is still searching for information on Google Plus. The nature of my content makes sense for what I perceive the G+ crowd to be — mostly business folks, early adopters and other regular social media users. Plusers, as were now being called by some, are the folks who would tend to read my blog regularly. While I wonder if that same type of attention would be had around non-business related topic areas, it’s pretty apparent that using Google Plus as a distribution network makes [...]

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Blogging Style Guide for the Week of July 25th, 2011

Welcome to this week’s edition of Blogging Style Critiques. Before we get started, I wanted to bounce an idea off of you that came from Zelko Kecman over at Microsoft by means of a Google Plus conversation. Zelko suggested that a Google Plus hangout might be a good way to have a Q&A style weekly get together on the topic of blogging styles where we could dig into critiquing posts and disucssion the topic in a mastermind group fashion. As The Naked Redhead would say: “Score!” If you’d please look over to the sidebar, I’ve created a quick poll so that I can get your feedback on Zelko’s idea. Would you help me by sharing your opinion there? Remember that if you’d like to stay in the loop on my blogging styles book, sign up here. Doing that will help me keep you in the loop on promotions, upcoming style workshops, and how and when you can get a free copy. As always, I promise to respect your privacy. Cheers! ~ @nateriggs For the 7th installment of the blogging style guide series, were going to look at a few media integration styles. Using media in regularly in your blogging discipline has quite a few benefits to both the blogger and reader base. First, featuring videos, images, presentations, widgets and applications and even downloadable documents in your blog posts adds a nice variety that keeps things interesting for your readers. Media styles can also work to engage your readers in a variety of ways that work to crowd source information you can use to create more content as well as show off your personality as a blogger (unique subscriber proposition). Feel free to try to dig into these examples and find a way to experiment with using media in your own [...]

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Blogging Style Critiques from the Week July 18th

Welcome to this week’s edition of Blogging Style Critiques.  I want to take one short moment to encourage you to email me with your posts so that I can feature your work here. What’s in it for you? First, you’ll get some feedback from me, a blogger who writes ever day and has about 5 years of practice in the art and science of blogging under the belt. You’ll also get some back links and attention from my readers to your post. So, get writing and send me links. I would love to feature your post next week. Remember that if you’d like to stay in the loop on my blogging styles book, sign up here. Doing that will help me keep you in the loop on promotions, upcoming style workshops, and how and when you can get a free copy. As always, I promise to respect your privacy. Cheers! ~ @nateriggs For the 6th installment of blogging style critiques, were going to look at one of the most common styles posts —  the sub header post. Sub header posts are useful in that the use of sections, divided by sub headers provides your readers with an easy way to navigate your content in sections. Each complete thought or even a unique story is sectioned out in the post and the sub headers. Most bloggers will use between 3 and 7 sub headers per post, selecting the H1 and H2 formats to style sub headers in each new section. Feel free to try to write your own sub header post this week. Blogging Style Critiques: Week of July 18th, 2011 How To Integrate Google + Into Your WordPress Site Style Type: sub header style Author: Kelli Shaver Blog: Mashable.com Style Comments: First, a sidebar thought: It seems like one in two blog posts these days have something [...]

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