Tweet Last week I stepped you through how the sign-up process for Pinterest skews its numbers dramatically. A follow-up on this topic, drilling down into some of the details was promised. Here you go. Senseless Formula, Skewed Numbers Since Pinterest went public in August, they have been involuntarily signing every new subscriber up to 40-60 [...]
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Major Flaws in Pinterest: the Big Numbers Story
Tweet I haven’t blogged about blogging or social media in quite a long time — and I apologize to my readers that aren’t interested in this non-travel post, but I think it’s too important to ignore. There is something quite foul afoot at one of the biggest social media platforms out there today and it [...]
TBEX 2011 Review (Part One): In Need of Some Professionalism and Basic Organization
Tweet Yesterday, I was getting a post-TBEX bite to eat with some of my favorite travel bloggers, Ayngelina of Bacon is Magic, Jenny of Where is Jenny, Gareth of Tourist2Townie and Dylan of The Travelling Editor. We walked up to the street food cart and the guy working there asked, “are you guys travel bloggers [...]
My Favorite Spam Comments (Part II)
Tweet Part One of my attempt to troll through my spam box for some funny and ill-timed comments seemed to be met with some modicum of approval and there was a recent discussion on the Travel Bloggers Group on Facebook where some folks asked for more, so here goes Part Two in that effort. You [...]
Basic, beginner travel blogging tips and advice
Tweet This post is not geared to my many friends that have been out there blogging for years — frankly, most of ya’ll know a vast amount more about the blogging, internet, SEO and tech world than I do. But recently, I have been asked by a good number of very new travel bloggers some [...]
Travel Photography: Overcoming my Inner Coward
Tweet I am a coward. Well, perhaps it is cowardice or perhaps a acute fear of rejection or perhaps just being lazy (my personal choice for most likely) or perhaps just simply contentedly solitary, but regardless, I undoubtedly chickened out in the last few days. And it was far from the first time during my [...]
Using StumbleUpon to Drive Website Traffic
Tweet One of the tools that I have become a lot more familiar with in the past few months for driving traffic to your blog is StumbleUpon. Here are some Stumbleupon tips to effectively to get more traffic to your website. Basically, StumbleUpon is a social media tool whereby you can rate web pages (via [...]
I took off in December of 2008 to circle the planet with no reservations and without leaving the ground. Sixteen months later, I succeed. My permanent travels have just continued from there. Feel free to email me at: michaelshodson@yahoo.com
Michael Hodson
