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Search Versus Social: Analysis of One Blog's Traffic Sources

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 …

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Blog Comment Spam: What It Is and 5 Funny Examples

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 …

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5 Types of Popular Blog Posts (with Examples)

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” …

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Top Internet Marketing Strategies & Affiliate Marketing

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 …

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Lots of Good Blogging Tips Floating Around

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 …

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Blogging To Continue Blooming. Trends & Statistics.

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 …

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