Reflections in lot of things
I wonder how people succeed, others never. I wonder why while I'm very poor the other is so rich!
I'm a VB.net developer that loves blogging and writing. But I dream big; on big projects.
I have thought on making a blog and becoming popular, I just think, but doing is 1000 step away! I just wonder how the other are doing it :p
Coding horror is one of my favorite blogs. It's terribly simple, he even don't put Adsense or other publisher ads (however he uses 3 lines text ads; that he maintains in his own).
But the website still so light and loads in less than 1 second. There's no template. Only 1 picture that attract me a lot and attract him also.
Jeff, didn't blog for popularity, he hadn't worked on social website to make traffic. He's very simple! But after 4 year, Coding Horror have more than 100,000 reader!
Why did he succeed, just by being simple? Or is he hidding an easter egg?
I think I found this easter egg! Yes it's this stupid picture.
Have you ever read Seth Godin blog? Or read one of his books?
Seth Godin don't know a response for this question and don't want to know!
"Is popularity a result of quality of making something or just by the number of connections a writer has?"
I think it can be by the both ways! From connections and quality. But is quality enough to make popularity? I return to Coding Horror! He's simple, he has no connection and seems don't want to, but he's too famous and popular.
Omar Abid had been reading Coding Horror for 3 months...
In the past 4 weeks (from this moment):
I just got interested on blogging and downloaded a book about SEO, I read it all and try it on my spring of life blog. This gave good results as I had no PR and backlinks on this blog.
7 days after reading the e-book:
Omar Abid just stumble websites he loves... Enter the Coding Horror blog and.. what a horror! Coding Horror articles are SEO rules! The bold, the backlinks, the alt, the quote... all rules with no exception are extremely respected.
Omar Abid now!
Why this man connect through social websites? He already had a connection to Google!
David said...
July 25, 2008 9:00 AM
you are a great blogger and coder omar...your blogs are always a hit.
What's that book you were talking about? Was it helpful?
Share it with me as well. :)
thanks,
himoacs
himoacs said...
July 25, 2008 9:01 AM