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 starting this site, and in determining what direction the site has taken so far. As with the last post, we hope that this will help those of you starting your own site, and that the experienced bloggers out there will be interested in glimpsing behind the scenes of another blog.
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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 blog. If you’re considering blogging, it might give you some helpful insights into what it is like to get a blog up off the ground. If you have your own blog, and are like me, then you enjoy learning about other blogs. In future posts, we also will take a look at traffic growth and site stastics, and the motivations and non-technical decisions associated with starting the site. But first let’s look at the nuts and bolts of the site.
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 by two different companies, with requests to run articles about software products. In both situations, the articles were written by the software developers themselves. We didn’t run either article, for obvious reasons. Situations won’t always be so clear cut, though. When, if ever, is it OK for a blogger to write an article, if solicited to write it by an outside party? Read more
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 plugins used on 40Tech.com, that may be new to you if you have a blog.
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 Your Site – Although it appears to only provide you with data for your site that is at least a day old, Google Analytics can be used to give you up-to-the-minute stats. This post discusses how.
If this headline interests you, check out the 40Tech Posterous site.