Posted in Blogging, Competition on Aug 27th, 2007
Well I have to say the Guess & Win competition that I held a few weeks back was not as successful as I had hoped. The site itself has since earned 36 backlinks in it’s short lifespan. The individual competition post received 10 backlinks over a course of 2 weeks. The winner of the competition [...]
I wanted to make a post about my experiences blogging for almost a year and especially show you the different designs I used and how it affected my blog and me. When I first started blogging I was a complete newbie. Design did not matter much because I was still trying to figure out what [...]
Posted in Blogging on Aug 21st, 2007
I had a heck of a time deciding what to post about for my maiden post here at Blog Duck. I tossed back and forth between several ideas, and finally decided to settle on a post about Wordpress MU. I plan on focusing more in individual blogging moving forward, but I’ve seen some questions pop [...]
Posted in Blogging, SpeedLinking on Aug 17th, 2007
Traffic Analysis - Cass talks about Sitemeter and Statcounter.
Blogging Tasks - The Beef Jerky Blog talks about various blogging tasks.
Comment Cheater - Find out how to impersonate top commentors.
Technorati vs. Digg - Andy talks about getting on the front page.
Digg Traffic - Patrick talks about how getting on Digg means Google traffic.
Posted in Blogging on Aug 12th, 2007
Having two blogs that are updated about once a day, I am always posting pictures. I decided to post the steps I take to do so, and see what everyone thinks.
First, I go to Google image search and find a photo or make one in Photoshop.
I save that image to my desktop.
I go to Resizr [...]
Posted in Blogging, SpeedLinking on Aug 10th, 2007
Resizr - Free online photo resizing, cropping and editing. Perfect for bloggers.
Shiny Text - Learn how to make things shiny in Photoshop!
Having Ads, A Turn Off? - Enkay explains why readers hate ads.
Blogging Frequency - Matt explains how blogging frequency and consistancy doubles traffic.
Lastminute Auction - eBay auctions ending in an hour or less for [...]
Posted in Blogging, Competition on Aug 8th, 2007
I decided to make a competition that did not have an elaborate method of entry, thanks to Kumiko. To enter this competition all you have to do is make make a post telling your readers about this competition and in that post make a guess as to how many individual linkbacks this post will receive [...]
Posted in Blogging on Aug 7th, 2007
This is basically a want ad for a partner in blogging. This site deserves to be posted to a lot more than I do. So I figured I can add an author or two to make this blog better. But it can’t be just anybody, here are the terms:
Must be a competent blogger with a [...]
Do you like blogging? Do you like people from North Wales? Then I have to show you a site that you will absolutely adore, it’s called The Gospel According to Rhys. This self-proclaimed geek is operated a pretty addicting blog about blogging. The crazy part of this blog is it’s age. [...]
Posted in Blogging, Increase Traffic, Social Bookmarks on Aug 6th, 2007
Having been blogging for almost a year I am always looking for more readers. So naturally I look to take advantage of social bookmarking services. There are plenty of these services - Digg, Reddit, Magnolia, Bumpzee and I could go on forever. The best of these services, in my experience, is StumbleUpon. What I do [...]
Posted in Blogging, Ideas, Increase Traffic on Aug 4th, 2007
A great way to reward your readers is to randomly give away free stuff. It really doesn’t matter what you give away, as long as it’s completly free. Sounds easy enough, right? Just give away things for no reason, as often as you can. Take Zac Johnson for instance - he gives away the stuff [...]
Yahoo mail is a web based email service. I have always used Yahoo email, for as long as I can remember. As a webmaster I get mail from all of my websites, The Prize Blog and Blog Duck. I even have to check email from the college I graduated from. So I decided to try [...]
