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Scoble is Wrong About Blog Comments Being Dead
I think Robert Scoble suffers from the disease of early adopter-itis. What does that mean? Well, like many tech bloggers (including myself), Scoble is an early adopter. This means he tries new things way ahead of most of the people on the Internet. When you’re way out ahead, the problem is that you forget that [...]
Writing Headlines For Social Media or Search Engines?
The other evening, I attended a search engine optimization meeting here in the Tampa area. It was organized by Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal. Since he does SEO for a living, I asked him his thoughts on how social media was changing the field of SEO. One of the questions that I raised was [...]
Tip For Better Blog Writing
Sometimes I find that I get my best work done at a coffee shop. In my case, I hit Panera Bread for the free coffee refills and the free wifi.
Sure, I’ve got a nice home office. I’ve got the big Mac Pro in the office with three nice monitors attached. I’ve got the super fast [...]
Compare Your Feedburner Subscriber Numbers
We all know that Alexa allows you to graphically view your Alexa rank, traffic reach and page views and compare with up to 4 other sites. Alexa isn’t super accurate, but it is good for observing trends and for comparisons.
This morning, I ran across Feed Compare. This is a cool little website which allows you [...]
Everything You Need To Know About Writing Blog Headlines
Attracting readers to your blog is very often all about the headline you use for your post. Yes, this has been said a million times by other writers, but I thought I would simply state what goes through my mind when I write a headline. These are 5 questions I often ask myself when authoring [...]
Evolution of a Blogger
Today is Memorial Day and I therefore won’t be publishing anything of substance. I’ll be working, of course, but hardly anybody will be reading. So it goes over a holiday weekend. On that note, enjoy the evolution of a blogger. No doubt many have seen this before, but its funny nonetheless.
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Life as a Pro Blogger
I am a professional blogger and have been for some time. What I mean by that is that I make my living and pay the bills through my online activities with my blogs. Most bloggers out there are not pro. Many would like to be and are trying to get to that point. But, what [...]
When Blogging Meets Internet Marketing
Last weekend, I was at Harris Fellman’s place in Scottsdale, Arizona. I was out there because I bought Jeff Walker’s Product Launch Formula through him and he set up a sort of retreat at his place for others like me as well as some people he invited. Harris Fellman is a classic internet marketer. He [...]
New Blogging 2.0 Paradigm: What Is It?
I saw Louis Gray’s post about Blogging 2.0 Causing Friction with 1.0 and it spoke right to a thought I have been having for the last few days. I sent the link to Rich (who writes for me over on PCMech). This is a compilation of Rich’s remarks from our chat:
The single largest problem with [...]
Debating Disqus – Seems Stupid
I’ve thought about it. I checked out Disqus and pondered the idea of using it for this blog. I see that some other bloggers are using it. But, it is a bit of a scary proposition at this point. Why?
I generated some talk in the last couple days about comment fragmention. There are comments on [...]
I'm David Risley. I've been making my living as a blogger for over a decade. Blogging is my business and how I support my family. With this blog, I'm just gettin' REAL and telling you how this business works. 
