Get in Shape for Guest Blogging

Guest blogging is something that everyone should do at least once, either as host or guest. For the host, it gives editors and writers a break from writing and can also offer a fresh perspective on the topics they cover. In addition, guest bloggers can pull in their readers as extra traffic if they publicise [...]

Why You Can’t Just Demand to Be Placed on Somebody’s Blogroll

Every so often, the form on the contact page will generate an email that goes along the lines of this: “Hi! I read your blog and enjoyed it. I have a blog too. Add me to your blogroll!” Not even a please. Now I knw that being on somebody’s list of recommended websites is a [...]

Catching the Content Cheats

Yesterday, Aaron Wall of SEO Book (who you should be reading, by the way) brought my attention to what has to be one of the most flagrant instances of content theft I’ve seen in a while. Hitwise, the online analysis arm of the Experian empire had used a graph from one of SEO Book’s recent [...]

How Kenyan Bloggers Can Get More Attention

If you’ve been blogging for a while, but wonder why you only get a couple of visitors a day, it could be that you’re not doing much to promote yourself. It’s all very well coming up with terrific content that you relay in a witty and erudite way, but if nobody sees it, what’s it [...]

Do You Ration your Wisdom?

When I decided to update the blogroll yesterday, I was struck by how bare it seemed in comparison to the multitude of websites and feeds I read as sources for the Inari Media Twitter. There were less than twenty blogs and websites listed in its previous incarnation, while Google Reader tells me that I have [...]