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Building Blog Readership – An Evolving World

Building Blog Readership – An Evolving World

When I started this site in March, after I stopped working with Vario Creative, where I had previously been blogging, I expected that the same traffic building steps that had worked for me before would work here.  After 5 months, I can safely say, that’s not the case. You see, when I started blogging at Vario, the important keys to getting readership were Technorati position and getting trackbacks from other sites.  In today’s world of sploggers and spammers, the trackback…

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Week 4 – Online Community Building Field Test

Week 4 – Online Community Building Field Test

The march to success continues.  This week: We’ve jumped to 112 registrations from the first day of our trial. We’ve had several users starting to post on their personal blogs. I had a request to create a new forum for the Bicycle Commuter – and got the forum up in a couple minutes. We were helped by the news today that Lance Armstrong will return to next years Tour De France. Again, I’ve been too busy with normal responsibilities both…

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Online Community Building Field Test – Week 3

Online Community Building Field Test – Week 3

(If you didn’t read the first post in this series, you really ought to start here…) I was really, really caught up with other issues last week, but even with that, the experiment somehow managed to continue rolling along on it’s own, which honestly is a big surprise to me. The cycling.com server was upgraded to use the Akamai Dynamic Site Accellerator system, which has greatly increased page rendering speeds.  It’s not something a user would generally notice, but a…

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Week 1 – Community Building Field Test

Week 1 – Community Building Field Test

(If you didn’t read the first post in this series, you really ought to start here…) We’re moving right along on Cycling.com – and it’s beginning to look like the site now has a pulse! Things improved dramatically after we got our login issue fixed.  Here are the basics for the week: 40+ users registered Several new photos added Comments starting to come in 2 new regional cycling groups were created by users The first weeks poll had 65 votes…

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Day 1 – Community Building Field Test

Day 1 – Community Building Field Test

(If you didn’t read the first post in this series, you really ought to start here…) Got off to a bad start, after upgrading the site to WordPress 2.6 and the latest BBPress, I find that our Ajax login isn’t working.  What’s worse is that I don’t use that to get logged in usually, so it’s been that way since late Friday afternoon.  Hence I am the only one that was able to login. After such a bad trip down…

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