Posts Tagged: blogging


3
Apr 09

Alexa Gets a Much Needed Update

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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 ;)


18
Feb 09

Blogging Practices – Frequency and Size of Posts

If you have ever had your own blog, you may have at one point been faced with a question. How often should I write a blog post and how long should each post be?

I have been thinking about this since I started blogging. It is a common thought that you must write a post every single day in order to increase/maintain traffic. But, is this really true? For busy people with families and lives (that aren’t blogging) might have a tough time writing a new content-rich post every single day.

So, would readers rather see less frequent but “better” blog posts or more frequent “weaker” blog posts? Or maybe even a combo of the two?

For example, what if between killer programming tutorials, I wrote short posts about my dog or response to popular articles. Would this benefit my readers or turn them off?

I don’t have a real solution to this but plan to employ some of these strategies while writing this blog. Hopefully, I will be able to draw some conclusions and share them. If you happen to stumble on this post on your journey through the interwebz, please feel free to comment and shed some light on this for me.


17
Feb 09

The Focus Of This Blog

The purpose of this blog will be primarily to share my programming knowlege through coding tutorials.

I will be writing tutorials based on the programming language that I am currently excited about. These will be anywhere from objective-c to ruby on rails to .NET. Whatever strikes my fancy.

Along the road, I will also be sharing my art (photo and drawing) as well as anything else I find interesting.

So just sit back and enjoy the magic of code!