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Twitter Tuesday: Being Human
Simply put Twitter is a platform of communication. People want to communicate with other people. It's rather easy be human (and not to be human) on Twitter. 8 ways NOT to be human on Twitter Share only quotes Share only links Don't reply or reply only when you someone mentions you first Automate and schedule Tweets ReTweet too much Mention (and list Twitter handles) without real reason Use a logo as a profile picture Repeat same Tweets over and over again 8 ways to be human on Twitter Share your own ideas and thoughts in your own wo...
Size matters or Use bigger fonts
As it comes to web and email newsletter design and the fonts, the size matters. For a while back in time (not that long ago) it was hip and pop and cool and all sorts of neat things to use rather small fonts on websites. The general idea was it made the sites look more professional. That's totally wrong. When your text content matters (and when doesn't it matter?) it needs to be easy to read. Small text is terrible to read. Headachy terrible. You may have heard 14px is currently fashionable size. However this size isn't always the best solution as the appearance of different type...
Blogs, design and advertisement
When you try and get some money out of your blog, the first thing that comes to mind is advertisement. Especially if your blog gets lots of traffic, selling ad space sounds like a great idea. Advertisement however comes with a design problem. To make advertising effective, the readers must notice it, yet it cannot be too distracting. If the advertisement is too distracting, it will annoy the readers and can send them off of the site. Google Adsense is a very popular way to include advertisement on a blog. These ads are quite difficult to fit in a design. The image ads are often q...
Why it's good if your blog isn't very popular?
If your blog isn't very popular, there's probably one good thing that comes out of it. That good thing is you don't have to fight against as much comment spam as the more popular bloggers. Because there aren't that many backlinks to your blog and because your blog doesn't rank high on searches, the spammers are less likely to find it. It's true they are still finding it sometimes. Especially if your blog is hosted for instance by WordPress or Blogger (Google), there's more spam on the way. Yes, even for us less known ones there are those days when the spam bots are having a big party over...
Twitter Tuesday: 3 simple ways to get more followers
Getting more followers on Twitter requires effort, unless you are a celebrity of some sort. There are a couple of "magical" ways to get them, like following tons of folks and expecting them to follow you back. One of my favorite types are those who follow you and when you follow them back they unfollow you immediately. Buying followers is an excellent way not to get any real followers. Extensive use of hashtags is a great way to get spam accounts to follow you. Instead of taking these easy and highly not recommended ways, try working for it. Here are three simple, yet time taking, ways t...
Ten blog post ideas
Having a blogger's block? Below you can find ten ideas to use when you are running out of your own ideas. When you use these, I'd appreciate highly if you would link back to this post. In case your blog doesn't ping other blogs automatically, it would also be great if you'd leave a comment with a link to your post. That way I'll be able to see what sort of writing this post has inspired. My favorite iPhone/Android photo editing apps - Showcase your favorite photo editing apps. Use your own screenshots and examples. DIY roundup - Find the last week's best DIY blog posts and link t...
Twitter Tuesday: Scheduling and other automation
One of the popular things to do on Twitter is sharing links to websites, articles, images and videos. In order to ease the sharing process and make sure they are sharing everything, many users are automating their Tweets. Services such as dlvr.it and twitterfeed or HootSuite provide ways to autotweet content and schedule Tweets. I used to do this for my blog posts as well. There has been some really good examples lately of how scheduling can be go terribly wrong. Right after the Aurora shooting a Twitter account belonging to NRA Tweeted: "Good morning shooters. Happy Friday! We...
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