The Januarist isn’t the most popular blog in the world, but thanks to lots of good content and some great incoming links (e.g. from Wikipedia and Boing Boing), it usually attracts about 100 visits a day (mostly through search engine referrals). Yesterday (well, on 31 May 2010), a new post called “Why Are the...
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I spend a LOT of time on Google Analytics (GA), especially since increasing the number of blogs that I regularly write content for (Contentini, The Januarist, Amorphous Blog, Lame But Cool, this one…). For me, the most valuable part of GA is keeping an almost real-time check on where traffic is coming from /...
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Just something I’ve been thinking about lately. Most bands, early in their career, would benefit from being sampled by a reputable artist (say, Girl Talk). If you were in a new band, and Girl Talk sampled you, you’d be pretty happy, right? When does this emotion change, from happiness (gaining attention) to anger (having...
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A number of people have asked about, or questioned my SEO-influenced move from Tumblr to (self hosted) WordPress for this blog. A lot of people know a little about SEO, which has caused a number of, “It’s not Tumblr, you just haven’t configured it; just edit the template” style responses, which I’ve seen repeated...
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Right now, if you search Google for “Register of members interests”, to find out what MPs are being paid by commercial companies, the first result, to the parliament.gov register page, returns a 404. Dodgy? I blame Cameron!
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Note: Apologies for this repost, as some posts were lost in my recent move from Tumblr to WordPress. I thought it would be interesting to create a version of the London Tube Map (copyright Transport for London) which replaces the station names with the main point(s) of interest at each location. Click the map above for...
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All good digital content has purpose. If you sell ads on your website, the purpose may be to attract traffic and increase page views. If you run a museum website, it may be to educate the reader, or to attract visitors. If you’re a freelance consultant, it may be tweets or other social media...
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In between all the other thousands of things I have on at the moment (including: writing my book and keeping up with blog posts for Amorphous Blog and The Januarist), we’ve been setting up a website for our new Content Strategy consultancy: Contentini. Great web content is something that both Amy and I feel...
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If you subscribe to this blog via RSS, please, please update the RSS URL to point to: http://feeds.feedburner.com/danzambonini At some point in the next couple of months, I’ll be moving my blog from hosted-Tumblr to self-hosted WordPress, because I believe Tumblr is pretty bad for SEO (based on my experience ofrunning 5 or 6...
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Whenever I need to test some new code or interface I’ve written, it always surprises me how difficult it is to easily find a variety of test content; for example, trying to easily find a selection of video files, of different sizes (resolutions and filesizes) and codecs. So we’ve started to put together a...
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