How Twitter Makes You A Better Writer

Since you only have 140 characters to get your message across, you’re forced to dust off your dictionary and thesaurus and find new words to use—Words that are shorter, words that are more descriptive, and words that get the job done in 140 characters or less.

Blanchard, Jennifer. Copyblogger (2009). Articles>Writing>Rhetoric>Social Networking

Five Steps to Going Viral on Twitter

Twitter is changing the way information spreads online. Links that would have been blogged a couple of years ago are now more often shared via the micro-blogging service instead, which fundamentally changes strategy when trying to get content to spread.

Zarrella, Dan. Copyblogger (2008). Articles>Content Management>Writing>Social Networking

How to Attract Links and Increase Web Traffic – The Ultimate Guide

The number of excellent resources that have come out since the beginning of the year on attracting links and building traffic has really mushroomed. Plus there are some timeless classics that are still very relevant today. I think it makes sense to compile the very best in one handy location and share it, so here’s my entire collection. If I missed your link and traffic resource let me know and I’ll take a look.

Clark, Brian. Copyblogger (2006). Resources>Bibliographies>Web Design>Marketing

It’s Time to Shoot Your Blog

The question is, what happens when your blog stops working? When your car quits, you take it to the junk yard. When your horse quits, you shoot it out of mercy. What are you supposed to do when your blog stops spreading your ideas? Simple. You do what thousands of bloggers do every day: You quit.

Morrow, Jonathan. Copyblogger (2009). Articles>Web Design>Blogging