Author: Matt Perelstein

  • Teens are Bloggin, Big-Time

    “About half of all blogs are authored by teenagers, according to a 2003 study by Perseus Development Corp.; and according to comScore Media Metrix, a majority of the top 15 sites visited by teens 17 and under in January 2005 were either blogs or social networking sites.” wow. socially cool, but kinda scary if you’re […]

  • Podcasts are a-Happenin’!

    Reuters reports that more than 6 million people , Twenty-nine percent of U.S. adults who own MP3 players like Apple Computer Inc.’s iPod have tried at least one podcast. “Nearly half of digital-music player owners younger than 29 have tried out podcasts, the survey found, compared with 20 percent of those 29 or older. The […]

  • Do the Keywords Help?

    How do the Keywords in Typepad help? I’ve meticulously entered relevant keywords for my over 200 blog entries, and now I’m wondering if they really help at all? How do you know? How many can I add? When I see what the user sees in the search engine listing itself, it only shows the exact […]

  • How To Read Your Stats and Referrers in Typepad

    I am always striving to see what people REALLY want to know… not just what I think they want. To find out the real story, I frequent the Stats and Referrers page of my Typepad account almost every day. From there I can see where every hit came from in the last 24 hours. This […]

  • How many is too many?

    Hello again: (I’ve already gotten some Great info on this list… thanks Andy and others!) I have typepad. I can set it to show between 1 and 100 posts on each page. I have it set to 100. I figured that the max setting would show people plenty of info, would be good for SEs […]

  • Blog URL Forwarding

    Instead of giving people the cryptic link that is hard to remember / type, I registered an easy-to-remember URL with GoDaddy ($8.95/year) and set it to Forward to my blog. So, TakingControlOfYourFeelings.com forwards to http://2gethelp.blogs.com/takingcontrol. Are others doing this, as well? Is there a better/different way?

  • Typepad’s Annual Fee/Gift

    If you pay for Typepad for a year up front, you get a good deal (pay for 10 months, get 2 free). Plus, you get a whole other year-long, fully paid subscription to give as a gift. Promo ends 1/16/05.

  • Bloglet is Unmanaged?

    I wrote two emails using the Contact Us page on Bloglet yesterday and they both came to me as Undeliverable. great service, sending me an email everyday with my posts from the day before, nice and clean (rather than having to cut and paste). I then forward these to subscribers (unless someone knows of a […]