Tia Peterson

How to Get Out of Akismet Spam Purgatory

Dear Akismet, My comments are not spam. Thank you. Wondering how you can get out of spam purgatory? You’d know if you’ve been there. It’s when all of a sudden, your comments stop getting approved or stop showing up in places where they have before. The worst part of all of this is that your [...]

Are Your Readers Snoring?

by Tia Peterson on September 11, 2010 · 51 comments

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YAWN. Not to be rude, but there is some really, really boring content out there among some of us in the blogosphere. I mean, really boring. Dry, totally void of any creativity – it’s the stuff encyclopedias are made of, guys. Boring content can still be informational and/or usable. It’s just… boring. And boring does [...]

Blog Traffic: 5 Straightforward Ways to Get More of It

The other day, my blogger-friend James from TheAverageGenius asked me about the spike in traffic going to my blog. Blog Traffic… say what? It hadn’t occurred to me that I’d had one (a spike); I had been too busy blogging! I never feel comfortable talking about traffic or popularity, because it’s not my area of [...]

Say goodbye to your boring, isolated, blah blog and say hello to Insights. Insights is a WordPress plugin that allows to you Find and insert flickr images Find and insert youtube videos Find and insert related links doing a Google search Find and insert related links to other blogs Find and insert related links to [...]

Developing a Funnel To Turn Visitors into Buyers

…or readers, or subscribers, or members. If you have a greater plan in mind for your visitors, and you want to take them from casual to loyal, it will help if you create a funnel to guide them through with as little distraction as possible. In marketing, the term funnel is used to describe the [...]

4 Effective Ways to Increase Average Time on Site

There are so many things that go into producing a truly successful blog. You want quality inbound links, lots of traffic, low bounce rate (depending on the type of blog) and you want conversions. All of these things are positive. When considering your Alexa ranking and Google page ranking, many additional factors come into play, [...]

8 Useful Tips for Putting Your Blog on Auto-Pilot

Money-making blogs fall into two main categories: small, very focused niche blogs that generate a decent amount of traffic each, and large, rather broad blogs on popular topics that generate tons of traffic. Whether you have tons of small blogs or one large blog, the key to turning a profit is automation. Automation is found [...]