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24 Ways to Increase Traffic to a Technical Blog

March 28th, 2010 · View Comments · Google

Making money from blogs in an inexact science. What works one blogs fails on another. I’ve launched over 200 websites since 1998 (mostly ecommerce) and about 30 blogs (mostly technical). If your blog has a technical slant, for example, it’s target audience is technical writers, analysts, architects, or others micro niche areas, then use some of these techniques to increase your traffic.

Camtasia Studio: Using Captions & Subtitles To Make Videos More Sticky

March 23rd, 2010 · View Comments · Camtasia Studio

One way to make your video content more sticky, that is get more readers and keep them on your site, is to use captions. Why use captions? Because, they keep the reader focused, reinforce your key points and give the viewer a second way to digest your material. While watching your video, they can read along.

How To Get More Traffic To Your Technical Writing Blog

March 17th, 2010 · View Comments · Technical Writing

To quote Van Halen, ‘everybody wants some.’ And what you want is traffic. Why write a blog if no-one visits, right? I have 17 technical writers’ blogs in my Google Reader & RSS feeds. Most are fine but… if they used some of the following tactics, they’d get more traffic, comments, money and Nobel prizes. [...]

How To Create Content For Your Blog Every Day

March 4th, 2010 · Comments Off · Social Media

In this short video I explain how to create content and to remove the barriers that stop most people from creating content on a daily basis. It’s not difficult but you do need to have a system that lets you maximize your opportunities to create content and reduces the barriers that stop you from doing [...]

Review Camtasia 6: The Good, Bad and The Ugly

March 2nd, 2010 · View Comments · Reviews

I upgraded to Camtasia 6 at the weekend (from v4) mostly to import and edit .MOV files. These are created by my faithful Canon Powershot when I shot videos. Sony makes AVIs. The other reason was to do more heavy lifting with Camtasia. I have tons on material on the hard-disk and want to get [...]