A few nights ago I heard Bill Belew speak about how to drive 1,000,000 unique visitors to your site. I first saw Bill a few weeks ago at another South Bay Writer’s Meetup group that he hosted. It was then that I bought his book, How Wilby Got 20 Million People to Read His Blog, and How You Can Too. (I will discuss his book in future posts). In this more recent talk Belew went over the 7 + 1 steps that got him to the one million unique visitors. He reached the one millionth visitor after he had written 4,318 posts of approximately 200 words each. He was adding content a several blogs 4 or 5 times a day. He reached his goal in one year, one month and 26 days. How could you reach this goal quicker? He recommended writing posts that are 125-150 words instead of 200. In my next post I will summarize the 7 + 1 steps he spoke about since I’m now over 150 words.
What’s Your Favorite Shape?
Photo by Mary Gow
If you were to pick a shape you most identify with, would it be a square, circle, triangle, cross or spiral? In some future posts I will talk about what each of these shapes have stood for in various cultures. These shapes appear in all artwork over time.
A Tool for Building Your Personal Photo Mosaic
At http://www.zumyn.com you can build you own mosaic of photos. I participated with Laurie Marshall of Unity Through Creativity (unitythroughcreativity.net), in a project to bring more awareness to autism through constructing a Singing Tree for Autism using zumyn software. So it looks like it is not only a tool for your own photo mosaic, it is also a wonderful tool for an interactive creative project. See Marshall’s project at http://autismtree.zumyn.com.
Choose from 4,810,214 Titles to Swap
How does it work? At http://www.paperbackswap.com you sign up and list ten books you’d like to swap with other members. When it’s requested you send it to the requestor. The only cost involved is the shipping of the book – usually via the cheapest route which may only cost a few bucks. The books you request you receive for free. Here’s a video that explains it: