Leave Effective Comments Use ‘The Goldilocks Principle’

Posted on August 23, 2007 - Filed Under Link Building, Writing Tips, Blogging | 20 Comments

Many of us comment at blog for a variety of reasons. One question we all need to ask ourselves is: what comment length best achieves our goals? The answer is: “Goldilocks Comments” are just right! I’ll explain why.
Reasons to comment
So first, let’s examine what commenters goals generally are. The […]

Dear Jason, You Have a Problem with Link Rot NOW.

Posted on August 22, 2007 - Filed Under Mahalo, Search Engines, SEO | 2 Comments

Dear Jason Calacanis,
I read your response to Skrentablog’s criticism that Mahalo will have problems with link rot.1 The fact is you have a problem with link rot right now on at least one page updated by your team today.
Dead Links / Stale Links on Climate_Change
Let’s look at the links on your search […]

Twitter: Rampant self promotion works!

Posted on August 21, 2007 - Filed Under Twitter, Social Networking, Plugins, WordPress | 9 Comments

About two weeks ago, I installed the “Twitter Updater” plugin to figure out if pinging Twitter brings traffic. Turns out, it does. Pinging Twitter doesn’t bring a lot yet, primarily because I am totally new to Twitter and the blog about blogging niche. So, it goes without saying I don’t have […]