Blogging
20 Things I Learned from Lifehacker (this week…)
It never ceases to amaze me what you can learn online. From the interesting psychology reflected by the average user to the most basic of instructions for the tiniest task that may simply have eluded you, the worldwide web is that bit of tech that just keeps on giving. There are several places you [...]
Increase Blog Traffic and Find More to Read with Redanyway
Redanyway is a very easy and apparently quite effective way to increase blog traffic and create a direct line of interaction with your readers — as long as they also have a Redanyway account, of course. That’s the nature of the social network beast though, so it is not a surprise. The difference here, [...]
The Top 10 40Tech Stories of 2009
If you’re like me, you like lists. And if you’re like me, you like year-end lists. In that spirit, as we close out 2009, let’s look at the 10 most popular stories this year here at 40Tech. We’re going to define "most popular" as those stories with the most page views. The page view [...]
3 Lessons Learned From 6 Months of Site Statistics
40Tech launched on June 4, 2009. While the site is still in its infancy, its growth has been encouraging. We have you to thank for that. Thank you for visiting, and for contributing. In the first days, we were excited about getting 10 visits a day, believe it or not. Today, we’re going to [...]
How to Create a Social Media Hub with Tumblr, Live Writer & Ping.fm
In the quest to develop my personal brand and portfolio, to and simply create a place where all of my writing efforts across the interweb can have a single home, I came across a neat little plugin for Windows Live Writer (which all bloggers should try using, if they don’t already) called xPollinate. xPollinate [...]
40Tech: Steps & Missteps in Starting a Blog, Part II
A week and a half ago, as part of a review of the first 6 month’s of 40Tech’s life, we took a look at the technical details of starting the site, including some lessons we learned along the way. Today, in Part 2, we look at some of the other factors that went into [...]
40Tech: Steps & Missteps in Starting a Blog, Part I
As we approach the six month anniversary of 40Tech’s launch, we are taking a look behind the curtain here at the site. In this post and a future post, we will take a look at the basics of the site, the inspiration behind the site launch, and other questions that arise when starting a [...]
We’d Like Your Input on Ethics in Blogging
We’d like your input concerning credibility and integrity in product reviews that appear on blogs. Specifically, we’re interested in what factors you, our readers, think influence the credibility of a product review. Your input will factor into some decisions we make here at 40Tech.
By way of background, we’ve been contacted twice here at 40Tech [...]
5 Fantastic WordPress Plugins You May Not Know About
If you’re a blogger, you know that one of the beauties of WordPress is the sheer number of available plugins. There are the "old standbys" that many blogs use, such as WP Super Cache and All In One SEO Pack. But are you familiar with some of the lesser-known gems? Here are five WordPress [...]
Posterous Digest: Use Google Analytics to Get Up to the Minute Stats for Your Site
It is time for another digest of recent content on 40Tech’s Posterous site, where we post content that is too brief for this site, but too long for Twitter. Since the last digest, our Posterous site has taken a look at the following item:
Use Google Analytics to Get Up to the Minute Stats for [...]
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