Bronchitus

So yeah, I'm not doing this too much anymore because of all the stuff I'm working on with servers. Thought I'd check back to see who's still blogging their life away. Been pretty sick with asthma-complicated bronchitus and on a crap load of medicines to kill that stuff out of my system.

Once I can get through another few weeks of work, I'll probably get back to posting regularly again. Hopefully!

100 followers!

I've cut back with blogging a bit over the past week, so I haven't been able to get to reading some of my lists. It sucks. Real life does that kind of thing though. With that said, I'd like to say thanks to my followers for sticking it out and congrats to whoever was my 100th follower. Now to see what this might bring...

How to boost traffic to your blog (aka how to write a better blog)

Sources of traffic and how to write blog that boost traffic?

Where does the traffic come from? Where my readers come from?

It's essential to know the sources of traffic. Then, you know where your effort should go to boost traffic to your blog.

The sources of traffic:

• Your blog itself
• Major search engines and Directory: Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL,...
• External links

Grey area blogging?

So I've been thinking of starting up a separate blog that covers some of the more 'grey area' stuff, so I'll have to do some self-hosted thing should I go forward with it. I already have several domains that I could use for it, so getting that taken care of is not a problem. My only real issue would be what content management system I should use for it. I know there's wordpress, but what else might be out there for me to use?

12 Reasons Why You Need a Blog

Found this across somewhere else on the internet and I thought I'd share with any lurkers out there~



Why Should I Blog? I Simply Don't Get It"

This post on a popular discussion forum set me thinking - and I came up with 12 reasons you should blog.

Read them and get started on your blog. Or better still, go get your blog up and running and THEN come back and read this :)

#1 - You Do Not Need To Know HTML

One of the biggest hurdles many hopeful website creators face is they don't know to design a webpage. Blogs overcome this - all you do is type into a box, and the blog software automatically converts it into a webpage and publishes it on the World Wide Web for anyone to see.

#2 - You Are 'Forced' To Keep Your Content Fresh

Blogs are essentially online diaries. It doesn't make sense to write in your diary every month or two. Similarly, running a blog itself 'forces' you to update it often. And refreshing your blog often makes it more useful to readers and consumers - and by extension, to search engines who are in the business of presenting *their* clients with valuable resources.

50 Followers!

Thanks for sticking around and listening to my various ramblings an stuff. For anyone who wants to see what I may be doing through the day an night when I feel like updating, head on over to twitter @NekoArc.

Here's to more daily posts and to 50 more followers! Cheers~