I'm sorry I've been away so long… one of the hard drives on my server has died, and I do not have the money to buy a replacement.  I have it up and working for now, but it really needs replaced. If you would like to contribute to me, you can donate here… if you do, thank you very much. I will try to have a new article up soon. Sorry about my absence, and [...]

Sorry about no posts, no answers to comments or emails for a few days… I've been as sick as I can remember being in a long time.  I had a bad fever that kept me in bed, cold sweats, massive sinus problems, a really ugly cough, and various other problems… essentially everything but throwing up. I'm somewhat better today, but still not entirely healthy, so I'm going to conserve my energy, try to heal some [...]

This is offtopic, but of interest to many of my readers (judging by their questions).  If it's not for you, stay tuned, a normal article will be coming tomorrow.   So, you have a new blog you have started, you're not really getting any visitors, and you don't know how to change that… where do you begin?  How do you kickstart your site's growth? Strangely enough, I get asked questions about this frequently, in spite [...]

I need your help with something.  I set a goal, quite some time back, of reaching 100 subscribers.  As you can see if you look near the top left corner of this page, I've reached that goal.  I was talking about this fact with my wife last night, and she asked me what my next goal would be.  I had already thought about this, of course, so it didn't take me long to answer:  500 [...]

  StumbleUpon is a social bookmarking site with a feature most (if not all) others lack… you can choose categories of interest and then "stumble", which takes you to a page that someone else bookmarked in one of those categories.  It can be a fun way to kill time when you're at the computer and bored.  It can also, and this is the focus of this article, drive a lot of traffic to your website. [...]

An RSS reader, once set up, is much like a newspaper targeted specifically at your interests.  It's nice, in the morning, to sit down and read a bit about a few different topics, find out what's going on in your areas of interest, and maybe learn something new.  It's even nicer when you don't have to weed through other things which don't even slightly interest you in order to find those bits that do. That's [...]

A lot of people want to get traffic for their blog more than anything else.  Digg is one of the biggest social bookmarking sites, and is famous for sending huge volumes of traffic in a short time (other sites can do it, too, such as Slashdot, but it's much harder to get a story on there, as it has to pass the editors). So, how do you get on Digg?  Well, you can add a [...]

  We all know what deja vu is… when you feel like you've experienced whatever it is you're going through before.  Blogja vu is my made up word (phrase?) for when you write about something, and then it comes up in a conversation with someone outside of the online world. It makes you feel odd, like you're echoing yourself, or quoting something you've read.  You can have seventeen conversations with different people about one subject, [...]

  Want to know how to increase your traffic immensely?  There is nothing else like the social bookmarking sites… they can potentially bring in an extra 100,000 visitors in a day or two, if your article is popular enough. So how do you get results like that?  While there are no guarantees, if you follow the guidelines below, you'll increase your chances immensely. * This is not my normal topic, I know, but I've gotten [...]