Mehmet Ali Ertürk » Blogger

Some Reasons Why My Blog Traffic Doubled

admin — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:33:44 +0000

First, I’ve started blogging in August 2005 with a friend suggestion. I’m blogging for myself, trying to share my feelings, my thoughts, my lifestyle …etc. I never been in a worry to become popular or someone else, just trying to be me.

Recently, I noticed that somehow my blog traffic has doubled for last months. I figured out some possible reasons that my drive blog traffic:

Shift from blogger to custom domain with wordpress
WordPress plugins like SEO, Google sitemap ..etc.
Regular entries
Twitter
Be myself

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WordPress 2.7.1

admin — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:26:35 +0000

I’ve been using WordPress for months and tried alternatives (I used Blogger for years) and when I compared WordPress with others it is a real killer application. I haven’t faced any big issues yet.

A few years ago updating web based applications was a nightmare. You have to touch database, your existing data and source code. Today upgrading your exiting application with WordPress is just one click. Automatic update handles everything in seconds for you. I did it a few minutes ago and now blogging on WordPress 2.7.1

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A Little Change

admin — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:38:04 +0000

After blogger disaster in Turkey, I moved my blog to a shared hosting. Shift happened too fast, so I just picked a random theme for my blog. At the end, today, I found a chance to Google for some cool wordpress themes. I decided on something called “resurrection”. It is buggy and doesn’t support widgets. You have to manually adjust the your sidebar content. Despite lack of wordpress functionally, it makes your blog look like a bit geeky and cool. I’m planning to play with theme and write some stuff to handle standard wordpress things in my free time.

Finally, I’m getting close to the end of the semester. So, I’ll have more free time to play Red Alert 3 and do some funny things. Describe “funny things”? I registered a funny domain to make a small enjoyable web 2.0 application. It won’t be a big issue but it’ll have more functionally than isit2009yet. Enough talk lets, fight

Blogger Dashboard

admin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:32:00 +0000

Blogger has changed the dashboard ui. I liked new rounded style. An other useless twitter application but it looks cool

Multitasking

admin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:52:00 +0000

Multitasking is the ability of eating pear with milk while reading about term weighting and listening Linkin Park and thinking about feature projects at the same time. Sure blogging and tweeting all the stuff.

Blogging from iPhone

admin — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:39:00 +0000

I’m writing this blog entry from my iPhone. I’m traveling from Istanbul to Konya. Thanks apple for supporting map location finder almost everywhere in Turkey, now I’m near Bolu. Thanks for Blogger for supporting javascript limited devices.