Journal: News & Comment

Promoting your blog and building traffic

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NOTE: I'll be putting notes from my panel appearance at, and other stuff about, the Northern Voice blogging conference onto a page you can find at penmachine.com/voice. Right now that URL links to an older post of mine, but I will update it after the conference itself.

Okay, it's official. I don't know if this makes me a quote-unquote "expert," but at the Northern Voice weblog conference on February 19, 2005, I'm part of the official schedule on a panel about building site traffic.

My co-panelists include moderator Darren Barefoot (also from Vancouver), Suw Charman from Dorset in the U.K., and Jeremy Wright from Manitoba. Here's the obligatory "Moose is Loose" graphic:

Here are some of my writings-ramblings-rantings about site promotion and stuff, in no particular order:

• My Northern Voice speaker submission
• Making an Editor's Website Work
• Boosting Your Search Engine Ranking: It's No Trick
• Robert Scoble's Corporate Weblog Manifesto, XHTML 1.0 Strict version
• What is a Website For?
• Building a Standards-Compliant Website at a Small Company
• Search, Articles, and Usefulness
• Traditional Media Still Significantly Influence Site Traffic (but then again, online sources can be pretty powerful too)
• 1000 Days of Visitors to Penmachine.com
• Site Visitors Are Foragers
• Sites With Personality
• The Tale of the Aerolatte battery-powered milk foamer
• Search Results That Lead Here But Shouldn't
• Links for my talks about websites to students at Simon Fraser University and Douglas College
• Is It Worth Optimizing Your Site for Search Engines?
• Writing for the Machine
• How to Submit Your Site to Search Engines

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