After seeing the show Parks and Recreation last night, I have come to the conclusion that the show is doomed to fail. Not only is it not funny, it’s jokes try to mimic the dry awkward humor of The Office. Parks and Recreation Fail!
April, 2009
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Apr 09
Increasing Your Blog Traffic Using Twitter Trends
Twitter Trends are a very interesting part of Twitter. They are basically the most typed keywords or hashtags on twitter for a given day. Some examples might be #musicmonday or macHeist. These are fun and all but how can you use them to get traffic to my website/blog…
Find Trends That Refer To Articles People Are Linking To?
Well, often times trends refer to words associated with website articles, videos, images, etc… For example, the other day, the word mashable was trending on Twitter. This was because Mashable.com had just put out an article on twitter trends. Since people were talking about and more importantly linking to this article, the word mashtable was trending…Naturally, this article got quite a bit of traffic.
Post a Comment On The Article
So, I commented on the article leaving a link to my blog. That day, I got ~50 extra uniques to my blog! You can do the same by closely following the trends. Make sure you read the article and are not just spamming the comments section. Many articles use blog systems (such as WordPress) that allow you to link to your website/blog in your commentsl. Post a comment that contributes to the discussion and I guaruntee it will generate more traffic to your website/blog. Again, don’t be a spammer, contribute something to the discussion…
Be Prompt (comment early)
The sooner you comment on the article, the more traffic it will generate to your site. In the above example, I was like the 15th or 16th to commenter. Imagine if I had been the first…
Although this method isn’t perfect, it’s a sure fire way to generate some quick traffic for your blog/website. Do this every day, and you could be huge!
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Apr 09
Alexa Gets a Much Needed Update
If you have a blog/website then you probably have heard of Alexa. If not, you should search your blog in it to find out some interesting stats. Being a stat junkie, I check services like this frequently.
It appears that Alexa has recently updated their interface from their old jenk web .05 hideousness. While it’s not quite web 2.0, I’d say it has a good start as web 1.6 (maybe 1.7 because of the shine on the logo).
On a side note, icodeblog seems to be huge in Canada 
