So over the last two weeks I have started to revamp my approach and reinvigorate my presence as The Binary Blogger. Why that name? I am an IT junkie and it felt appropriate and more importantly, unique. I decided to take this blog into the arena of not only IT focused but broaden its reach and scope into photography, games, reviews, and little tidbits about what I do... and away we go.
What a better blog topic than to lay out what I have done thus far and what I need to do to meet some goals and where I need to go in the future. A few comments on things that I am not doing would be greatly helpful and appreciated as well. *hint hint*
So let's start with getting the blog out there
- Blog Catalog - A blog catalog site where you submit your blog and your posts will be placed in categories for others to find and read. http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/binary-blogger. When I post, it posts here.
- Feed Burner - Now owned by Google, Feed Burner is your centralized RSS link. Sure you could distribute the standard blogger RSS link but you lose a lot of data if you are looking for users. Feed Burner will track and throw tons of data to you about how many are using the RSS feed, where they are from, how often they ready it, etc... http://feeds.feedburner.com/BinaryBlogger and http://feeds.feedburner.com/PhotosFromBinaryBlogger
- Taking advantage of Blogger hosting services. I purchased for $10 www.binaryblogger.com domain and applied that to this site as well as setup the email domains for my own email address for the blog contactme@binaryblogger.com
- Networked Blogs - This is a Facebook blog catalog app. It will synchronize and distribute my posts within the app for others to get access to it.
- Twitterfeed - This is an RSS watcher site that will track RSS feeds, such as the Feed Burner RSS, and automatically post updates to my Twitter account and Facebook account when new Blog Posts go live. This makes the announcement to other social sites easier. It's reach is limited, I only use it for Twitter and FB for now, looking for other services that are farther reaching.
- Posterous - Just started using this, playing around with it. Another experiment to find that one post, auto post to the other sites. This one is close, except for the problem I have with Instagram not working when it tries to auto post to Blogger. Case opened with Posterous to see if they know. If it wont work, I wont keep using Posterous.
- Twitter - I am on Twitter @binaryblogger and the blog is a more detailed version of Twitter. I use them together for different things and topics.
- Flickr - Flickr is a great photo site, but it's seriously lacking when it comes to social networking distribution. There is no service to automatic way to post to a blog or twitter that a new photo has been added. So I added my photostream on the side menu, but those don't end up in the RSS feed, the whole goal of this central posting is so all my activity I want out there can be recorded and broadcast from my Blog's RSS feed.
- Google Analytics - A must. A great tool to get all the data on amount, location, time spent on the site, for all the users visiting. I have this on every website I have control over. You can set goals, trends, to help you see your progress.
Advertising. Now, I have ads on this site because at one time I get an AdSense account. Is it the main purpose for my blogs, no. I will make sure that I don't get sucked into that whirlpool of disaster. I had some close colleagues and bloggers I followed that I stopped reading because they turned to the dollar. They went from inspiring, interesting blogs with good content to a shell of uniqueness. Phony, canned, forced product reviews, links that are obviously sponsored, and nothing but posts about how to make money, selling ad space, begging for co-writer jobs, and just one big bloated site where you have to struggle to find the content through the counters, tags, links and crap. There's a way to do it and way not to do it. They did it wrong.
I won't get sucked into that because to be perfectly honest, I don't need to. If it comes as a bonus, great. But I want to be read, re-read, passed around because of what I write, which is what I want to write. I won't write a phony review because I got the product free to do it. That's one step away from a spam site.
So that's where I am at with this now and I will keep looking for more ways to get this out there and hopefully can keep up with new, unique and original content to keep people coming back.
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Binary Blogger
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