Stephan Miller

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!If you only have one site that you can access the stats to, the recent Alexa change probably freaked you out. But I can tell you from running multiple sites, with stats on all of them that Alexa was [...]

I lay awake at night thinking of things like this. Not long. A few minutes or so. Sometimes I get an idea when I am driving. Sometimes I write the ideas down. Sometimes I see if they will pop back up on their own. The ones that do get focus. But I always give them [...]

Writer’s Block
I woke up today with nothing to write. That usually happens when I am in research or programming mode. These modes are necessary evils but they can throw me for a loop if I stay in either one too long.
I have also seen a tiny slump in my affiliate sales in the last few [...]

Yet another viral link meme to brighten up your Sunday!
The benefits of Viral Linking:
1. One of the fastest ways to see your Technorati Authority explode!
2. Increase your Google PageRank fast
3. Attract large volume of new traffic to your site [...]

Most people don’t give a second thought to how the search engines work. When I explain that part of my job, I have to say something along the lines of, "You know, when you are searching for Athlete’s Foot Cream online. That first link you click on. Well, someone worked hard to get their site [...]

I was tagged a few days By Nickoo Shore. I got involved in one of these a while back. It helped with my Technorati rank, but it seemed kind of a sneaky way to do it. What other value does it provide. So I left it for today. It’s Easter. It’s a quick post to [...]

I don’t like rehashing. Most of the time I wait until I had something to add to a topic before I jump in, whether it be a new technique or some research results or maybe just a point of view, which may be closer to an attitude. I’ll leave that to you to define.
But I [...]

The Power of Feeds
I can’t say that I am an expert on getting subscribers. I only have about 160. But I will cross that bridge when I come to it. But I do know a little about feeds. I know that feeds can be useful to a site if you don’t get one subscriber.
Just looking [...]

Why final? Because I don’t think it adds much any more. This is the sixth one since I started focusing on getting traffic to this blog and I haven’t added too many new tactics, although I need to. Showing numbers is getting old.
The numbers:
 

 
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There are a few things you have to do if you want to get the word out about your blog. Joining blogging social networks helps. Writing good posts help. But you will probably go unnoticed by other bloggers if you are not commenting on their blogs.
Oh, great. Another rehashed post on commenting.
Not!
I am not going [...]