Bloggers spend a lot of time on their computers. They're posting, reading, commenting on other blogs, sending Tweets, checking half a dozen social networking sites, and generally being web-geeky.
They find something interesting or random, and then clue in other people to that interesting or random thing.
This is how blog posts gain steam on Digg or go viral. This is how we find out about new YouTube videos. This is how we communicate now.
Except we don't.
We were people before we were bloggersThink about the blogs that you like the most. Like, to pick a totally random example, mine. Full story...
I’ve found it just doesn’t pay to crow too much about what I’ve accomplished.
Sure, I celebrate when things go well.
When I first started Copyblogger in 2006, I was almost militantly against on-page search optimization.
This is another addition to our ongoing series of tutorials and case studies on landing pages that work.
If there’s any one thing that can be said about SEO with certainty, it’s that it manages to cause a lot of confusion.
Those of you who subscribe to the Internet Marketing for Smart People email newsletter found out on Monday what Brian and I have been up to for the past few months.
The McGuffin has been a powerful storytelling device for a long time. It was Alfred Hitchcock who popularized both its use and the name that sounds like it should be on a dollar menu.
Conversation in social media is supposed to be “open source,” right?
We’re supposed to gain energy and excitement from being open to the entire internet, to ideas that come to us from literally every corner of the globe.
Do you know this story?
A scorpion needs to cross the river. He asks a friendly-looking frog to carry him across.
Many of you began blogging to get more business. I’m sorry to tell you that many of you are doing the exact opposite.
Right around a year ago now, I made my first cent online. It was literally a cent — $0.01 — and it showed up in my Google AdSense account after a certain number of people had viewed an ad for dog food or a shiatsu massager or whatever on my old humor blog.