An old colleague of mine used to joke he was one of millions whose job it was to “feed the internet.” This past November, an alumnus of a prestigious writing program in Louisville, Ky. told soon-to-be-alumni his blogging career was short-lived because, like a bad girlfriend, his blog constantly needed him.
A-Listers Killing Twitter With Tweets
Popular people with long lists of followers on Twitter may be partly responsible for the micro-blogging site’s performance woes at times.
A-listers Feel the Heat
One of the top search marketing bloggers “Michael Grey” recently made a video cast telling new SEO bloggers to “step away from the keyboard.” Going on to rant on about if you can’t add something unique or different to the conversation then why bother. Well for one even if your blog doesn’t have a lot of subscribers it can be extremely valuable for your customers, yourself, and search engine rankings (Google loves fresh content and so should you).
WaPo BlogRolls the C-Listers
The Washington Post Online launched a program to give C-list bloggers a leg up. The company launched BlogRoll, which offers ad revenue sharing and links to participating bloggers from the front page of the news publication website.
Hacking A Listers
Ahh, why do I fall for this stuff? Nick Carr started a whole debate about why he doesn’t get enough traffic.