http://www.jonathanboettcher.com Internet Marketing Tips and Ideas Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:58:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/dealing-with-the-list/ http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/dealing-with-the-list/#comments Fri, 08 May 2009 00:30:23 +0000 Jonathan http://jonathanboettcher.com/?p=293 Let me tell you about the strange cycle I’ve been stuck in lately. Back in February or March I started building a list for this blog. I figured it would be a good way to increase “stickyness” and readership. So, I got a plugin and got started. Prior to “the list” (said in a deep,...]]> http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/dealing-with-the-list/feed/ 2 http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/charting-my-traffic-may-2008/ http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/charting-my-traffic-may-2008/#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:15:24 +0000 Jonathan http://jonathanboettcher.com/?p=66 If you’ve been following this blog for a little while, you’ll know that early on I decided to do a monthly post on my blog’s traffic. Seeing as this started and continues to be something of an experiment in SEO/free traffic, I figure my progress or lack of it can provide some helpful insight, taken...]]> http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/charting-my-traffic-may-2008/feed/ 4 http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/the-mechanical-turk-gets-stuff-done/ http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/the-mechanical-turk-gets-stuff-done/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 02:22:11 +0000 Jonathan http://jonathanboettcher.com/?p=64 I just found out about this cool site the other day, called the Mechanical Turk. The site is named for a machine some guy made a long time ago, dubbed the Mechanical Turk. The machine could apparently play chess, quite well in fact. Except after quite a lot of publicity etc etc the secret got...]]> http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/the-mechanical-turk-gets-stuff-done/feed/ 0 http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/woopra-chat-turns-bloggers-into-stalkers/ http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/woopra-chat-turns-bloggers-into-stalkers/#comments Thu, 01 May 2008 23:21:33 +0000 Jonathan http://jonathanboettcher.com/?p=58 Since I have installed Woopra, I have attentively watched visitors come and go, browse around my site etc. One several occasions I gathered up enough courage to actually initiate a chat with someone. Not one of them has ever chatted back. I got to thinking about this, and I’m not really all that surprised that...]]> http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/woopra-chat-turns-bloggers-into-stalkers/feed/ 6 http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/woopra-the-chuck-norris-of-site-analytics/ http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/woopra-the-chuck-norris-of-site-analytics/#comments Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:59:45 +0000 Jonathan http://jonathanboettcher.com/?p=52 You know in the movies when they’ve always has this cool laptop with some program on there that seemingly lets him rule the world? You know, they can access whatever they want, hack into things and do cool-looking stuff. Well the little techno-control-geek in me has always wanted something like that, and I’ve got a...]]> http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/woopra-the-chuck-norris-of-site-analytics/feed/ 10 http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/5-blogging-commandments/ http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/5-blogging-commandments/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:57:48 +0000 Jonathan http://jonathanboettcher.com/?p=45 I’ve been working through Rob Benwell’s Blogging to the Bank 2.0 and came across his 5 Blogging Commandments. I thought I would paraphrase them here for you (somewhat heavily), as I think they’re a useful reminder for us all. 1. Imitate Nature. People don’t naturally write with 20% keyword densities! Write naturally, on topic, and...]]> http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/5-blogging-commandments/feed/ 0 http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/3-simple-seo-tips-for-bloggers/ http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/3-simple-seo-tips-for-bloggers/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:24:15 +0000 Jonathan http://jonathanboettcher.com/?p=38 Are you one of those people, like me, that writes a post then changes it 10 times immediately afterwards? Perhaps not. Nevertheless, it is important from an SEO standpoint to choose how you want things to look from the search engine and post with this in mind. Here’s a few tips: 1. Pick a catchy...]]> http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/3-simple-seo-tips-for-bloggers/feed/ 0 http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/insert-youtube-in-wordpress/ http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/insert-youtube-in-wordpress/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:17:17 +0000 Jonathan http://jonathanboettcher.com/?p=33 Inserting a YouTube video into WordPress 2.5 is really, really simple, and here’s how:  Five Simple Steps to Adding a YouTube Video in WordPress 2.5 1. Go to the YouTube page you want to use, 2. Find the text box on the right side with the code in it to embed the clip. 3. Copy that...]]> http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/insert-youtube-in-wordpress/feed/ 7 http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/seo-are-site-directories-worth-it/ http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/seo-are-site-directories-worth-it/#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:24:18 +0000 Jonathan http://jonathanboettcher.com/2008/03/25/seo-are-site-directories-worth-it/ In my newly found quest to promote this blog and generate traffic, I thought why not submit to a ton of site directories? I found a ridiculously long list of free web directories at lazyurl (they will know if I copy it!! and I submitted my site to a few. I’m curious – has anyone...]]> http://www.jonathanboettcher.com/seo-are-site-directories-worth-it/feed/ 0