http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18822081/posts/summarySat, 16 Sep 2006 14:56:46 +0000http://blogspinner.countwordula.comchameleonBlogger115http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18822081/posts/summary/115841761982632168Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:32:00 +00002006-09-16T10:40:19.839-04:00I'm unfortunately forgetful, and it's taken me many months to post this, but this URL has moved, sort of: BlogSpinnerV3.0. The new URL is similar to the old, but doesn't use the "/index.html" because it's a WordPress blog. The theme is different there, but I am hoping to update when I have some time, so forgive me until then. Anyway, if you found articles on this site that you liked, you really http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/2006/09/i-moved-url.htmlchameleonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/18822081/posts/summary/113954083441003976Thu, 16 Feb 2006 02:45:48 +00002006-02-15T21:45:48.803-05:00This post about productive writing habits for blogs/ online journals has been moved to BlogSpinner V3. Please click on the link to view the article.http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/2006/02/developing-writing-habit.htmlchameleonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/18822081/posts/summary/113955327777981773Thu, 16 Feb 2006 02:43:10 +00002006-02-15T21:43:10.203-05:00This post about managing writers for a blog network has been moved to BlogSpinner V3. Please click on the link to view the article.http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/2006/02/developing-good-writers-for-your-blog.htmlchameleonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/18822081/posts/summary/113989137323536752Thu, 16 Feb 2006 02:37:43 +00002006-02-15T21:37:43.963-05:00This post about writing and managing multiple blogs has been moved to BlogSpinner V3. Please click on the link to view the article.http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/2006/02/developing-multi-blogging-habit.htmlchameleonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/18822081/posts/summary/113995547220048904Thu, 16 Feb 2006 02:23:09 +00002006-02-15T21:23:09.706-05:00This post about converting Blogger.com blogs to WordPress has been moved to BlogSpinner V3. Please click on the link to see the post.http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/2006/02/converting-blogger-blogs-to-wordpress.htmlchameleonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/18822081/posts/summary/113951668566683103Thu, 09 Feb 2006 20:24:00 +00002006-02-09T15:24:31.553-05:00The term Sliding Average has the same meaning as Rolling Average and Moving Average, or MA for short. I've talked about MAs and MMAs (Multiple Moving Averages) at length over many posts. I like to use MMAs as a reverse crystal ball to find patterns in my web traffic and ad revenue, as well as a means to making an educated guess at future trends. A moving average is essentially an average value http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/2006/02/sliding-average-explanation.htmlchameleonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/18822081/posts/summary/113945918382075356Thu, 09 Feb 2006 04:26:00 +00002006-02-08T23:24:32.093-05:00A few visitors to this blog were looking for "tips to increase pagerank". The problem with any advice for this result is that it's mostly conjecture. Why? Because unless you work on a search engine team, you probably don't know all the necessary factors. I was once a search engine webmaster, but this was over a decade ago, when ranking in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) could be bought. http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/2006/02/tips-to-increase-pagerank.htmlchameleonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/18822081/posts/summary/113944948258310522Thu, 09 Feb 2006 01:44:00 +00002006-02-08T20:44:42.613-05:00With more and more people blogging on a daily basis, many bloggers are looking to differentiate themselves. One way that bloggers have been doing that is to podcast and vodcast media content from their blog. Podcasting and vodcasting specifically refer to including media files in your RSS or Atom web content syndication feeds (web feeds). However, the terms are also used to refer to including http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/2006/02/podcasting-rss-audio-in-your-blog.htmlchameleonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/18822081/posts/summary/113944184109928110Wed, 08 Feb 2006 23:37:00 +00002006-02-08T18:36:21.483-05:00Hot on the heels of my previous milestone, I reached an AdSense milestone of the highest number of clicks in a given day, since I started publishing AdSense ads. Google's TOS (terms of service) do not allow me to tell you the number of clicks, but it is one click more than my October 2005 high. As for pageviews, while I almost reached the 300 pv/d (pageviews/day) level again yesterday, I missed http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/2006/02/more-blogging-milestones-and-some.htmlchameleonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/18822081/posts/summary/113938015172527150Wed, 08 Feb 2006 06:29:00 +00002006-02-08T01:25:07.090-05:00Now that I'm getting more traffic, and more regularly, I can see a correlation that I suspected existed. That is, there appears to be a relationship, but I haven't proven it yet. What my web metrics for my blogs and websites are showing is that on the days that I post less entries, my traffic is lower. So is the traffic for the next day, which sometimes sets off a chain reaction: disappointed inhttp://blogspinner.countwordula.com/2006/02/relationship-between-traffic-and.htmlchameleonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/18822081/posts/summary/113934270937364161Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:05:00 +00002006-02-07T23:55:06.243-05:00One of the debates currently ongoing in the blogosphere are questions relating to posting frequency. Should you post lots of short entries per day, or fewer longer entries. Should you focus all of your writing to a single blog, or branch out into several topics? These are important questions that you have to ask yourself. Your answer may be different than another bloggers. For me, I enjoy http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/2006/02/more-single-blog-pages-or-more-blogs.htmlchameleonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/18822081/posts/summary/113933039027090512Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:39:00 +00002006-02-07T14:48:47.533-05:00February is continuing January's role as a milestone-reaching month. After 3:00 am my time zone (12 midnight in Google's home), my total pageviews across all channels squeaked just past 300 for yesterday. That's after I subtracted my own page impressions, which I needed for testing. Now, granted that some of these 300 pageviews had a bit to do with a couple of higher-traffic blogs linking to onehttp://blogspinner.countwordula.com/2006/02/web-traffic-milestone.htmlchameleonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/18822081/posts/summary/113929912544369270Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:58:00 +00002006-02-07T02:58:45.456-05:00A scan of my Google Analytics reports shows the title question in the logs. Both the Google and Yahoo search engines have a PR (PageRank) designation. It's possible MSN does as well, but I honestly don't know. So does PageRank increase traffic? The short answer is: not necessarily. The more detailed answer is as follows. What a high PR does do is give those pages higher visibility in the SERPs (http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/2006/02/does-pagerank-increase-traffic.htmlchameleonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/18822081/posts/summary/113928660651695841Tue, 07 Feb 2006 04:30:06 +00002006-02-06T23:30:06.530-05:00Upon scanning my Google Analytics report recently for this blog, I found a few people searching for instructions on setting up a blog on a regular website. The short answer to this question is that it really isn't much different than if you were to set up the blog's homepage as also being your website's homepage.You need to create a subdirectory under the root directory of your domain. In this http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/2006/02/how-to-set-up-blog-on-regular-website_06.htmlchameleonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/18822081/posts/summary/113903372966010877Sat, 04 Feb 2006 06:15:00 +00002006-02-04T01:17:13.210-05:00As with my previous web metrics posts, this one uses Google Analytics as an example, but you can use any web analytics package. Under the Marketing Optimization section is a subsection called Visitor Segment Performance. Under this subsection is a report called Referring Source. This an extremely valuable report, and a potential source of ideas for future blog posts. Once you've clicked on this http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/2006/02/referring-source-deciphering-web.htmlchameleon