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Kitty Lusby
A Blogging Pro Responds to the January Empathy Challenge
Guest: Kitty Lusby When Automattic’s John Maeda invited me to evaluate the posts from January’s Empathy Challenge, I was thrilled. As a full-time blogger, I spend a lot of time thinking about ways to attract more traffic. Think about it: if nobody reads the stuff I write, then I don’t have a job. Nowadays I’m…
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Daniel W. Robert
Growing An Online Presence: Strategies For More Page Views
You’ve decided to create a blog/website and have gotten fairly decent at publishing content on a regular basis. Congratulations! Like getting into a gym routine that lasts past January, this can actually prove to be a difficult habit to form and stick with – at least in my experience. So what now?
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Erin Casali
A more in-depth look at designers’ portfolios
Just six seconds. This is what is considered the time it takes to recruiters to look at curriculum vitae. Luckily, our hiring team spends far more time evaluating the candidates we get, not just because designers also have a portfolio to present, but also because we want to be sure to hire the best. This…
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Chris Runnells
My plan to build an audience
Blogging isn’t easy, and doing it regularly is hard. I know this because it’s something I’ve struggled with for years (as evidenced by the very sparse archives on my personal site). Even if you post regularly, there’s no guarantee that you’ll actually get traffic, which is usually the point of having a web site. The…
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Dan Hauk
Do you want page views or readers?
Type “get more blog traffic” into Google and you’ll get about 70,000,000 results. The results read like snake oil peddlers trying to one-up each other at a state fair. “Increase Blog Traffic NOW!”, “25 Tactics Guaranteed to Increase Your Traffic”, and “How to Get 1 Million People to Read Your Blog In 1 Day”.* Every…
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Jeffikus
Growing my Personal Blog
Full disclosure – I have never successfully or intentionally grown a blog. Most of my suggestions are speculation until proven. My personal blog has been more of a personal portfolio and a collection of thoughts rather than an audience focused area. But, going into 2018, perhaps it is time to change that and turn it…
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Mike Shelton
Find the right tools for you
Several months ago, after having just read a debate among designers about design software, I jumped on Twitter to vent a bit: Necessary things in design that don’t actually matter: 1. Tools and software. 2. Visual polish. 3. Opinions of anyone other than your users. — Mike Shelton (@themikeshelton) August 9, 2017 It was a…
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Brie Anne Demkiw
It’s not about the page views
“When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.” ~Kurt Vonnegut Let’s face it: Blogging is hard. Writing — not to mention writing well — is challenging for most. You’re putting your thoughts and ideas out into the world, for the trolls and the fans alike. Maybe someone…
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Joan Rho
How to Create a Website for Your Small Business, Part 2: Website Structure and Content
Now that we’ve set up our website, it’s time to decide what content to put on it—this is Part 2 of our three-part tutorial series on creating a website for your small business. In this post, we’ll be addressing our site’s structure and content. If you haven’t read Part 1, click on the following link and…
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Megs Fulton
The Good Kind of Traffic
There are two kinds of traffic, good traffic and bad traffic. As a California resident I spend a non-trivial amount of time finding ways to avoid bad traffic. Good traffic on the other hand is what website building dreams are made of. Having been challenged with finding a way to get 1000 page views to…
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