Earlier this morning Fred Wilson published an interesting comparison of his blog’s traffic sources where upon splitting “the top ten” referrers “into three categories”, he discovered the following breakdown: Direct — 50% Social — 40% (with nearly 1/2 from StumbleUpon) Search — 10% These numbers amused me to say the least, and I decided to [...]

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Comment spam, a common form of spamdexing, has been a longstanding problem for blogs of all kinds. In search of “quick and easy backlinks” some people engage in it themselves, others hire “blog commenters” for as little as a couple hundred of bucks month (many which actually call themselves “SEO experts” and sell their services [...]

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Geno on June 2nd, 2010

Having put together over 500 blog posts since 1 January 2009, I’ve found it especially interesting to monitor which of my posts get most of readers’ attention. It appears that certain types of blog posts are destined to become more popular than others, even though the content in those “others” can at times be significantly [...]

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Geno on November 13th, 2009

Interesting survey data has been published by eMarketer.com with a reference to an August research conducted jointly by Internet Retailer and Vovici Corp.: As look through the above statistics, the two things that I see in it are: 1. Social Media Channels Are Top Priority While I am not entirely sure why “Blogs” and “Consumer [...]

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Geno on May 14th, 2009

Yes, thanks to Amazon’s new feature, you can now read my blog posts right on your Kindle. I have just added it to the Amazon’s Kindle Store: The monthly service fee is $1.99 which “includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet.” The first 15 people to subscribe to the Kindle version of my blog via this [...]

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Geno on April 24th, 2009

Jason Rubacky’s “unique content tips” he’s been systematically posting in ShareASale’s blog since April 17 reminded me of an one amazing post made by Rand Fishkin earlier this month. In it Rand listed and discussed 21 tips that every blogger simply must incorporate into their overall blogging strategy if they want that blog to be [...]

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Geno on April 22nd, 2009

Earlier today eMarketer has published some interesting data on blogging, bloggers and blog readers. In their report they’ve looked at the US blogging landscape. While many bloggers fo live outside the United States, here are the two main reasons why it is important to know what is going on in the US: (i) According to [...]

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Geno on April 22nd, 2009

Earlier today eMarketer has published some interesting data on blogging, bloggers and blog readers. In their report they’ve looked at the US blogging landscape. While many bloggers fo live outside the United States, here are the two main reasons why it is important to know what is going on in the US: (i) According to [...]

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Geno on April 17th, 2009

Almost a month has passed since I have made my Blog — Best Friend of An Affiliate post, and today I would like to return to the topic of running blogs once again. Over the past months I have been noticing a significant growth in traffic of the two blogs that I run: this one, [...]

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