Archive for December 15th, 2007

Watching The Viral Tag Effect Wear Off

Six months ago, viral tags were all the rage.  Blogs everywhere were posting them, and whenever a new one appeared, dozens would sign up immediately in order to be one of the first to get added to the matrix so that other sites could promote them with a minimal amount of effort on our part.  [...]

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How Not To Advertise A Blog Contest

Believe it or not, for the last two weeks I’ve been running a contest on this site.  The idea was rather simple, I thought.  I wanted to have 1000 comments in time for the new year, there were 250 to go an 33 days to get them.  That equates to less than 10 comments a [...]

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