As the title might imply, NovaLet is a blogging service that is very simple, without all of the extra bells and whistles of, for example, Wordpress or Movable Type. It is not meant to compete with either of these services, however, NovaLet aims to make blogging a simple and fun experience for the user. From the outside, it looks just like a normal blog, tiny orange RSS icon and all, but when logged in, management is like no other blog service you’ve ever used.
One of the best things you can do to generate repeat visitors to your blog is setting up a newsletter.
Some of your readers will of course prefer RSS; a newsletter works best if it compliments your regular blog, rather than a rehashing of your blog posts in email format. (For that, use Feedblitz)
People who actually subscribe to your newsletter are doubly interested in what you have to say. Treat them right, respect their time, add value to their otherwise busy & chaotic lives — and I guarantee your newsletter will blossom into a goldmine over time.
This is a guest preview post by Shanti Braford, check out the full article here:
Blog Traffic Hack: How to Add an AWeber Newsletter to Your Blog
What happened to social networking is now happening to social news. At first, there was only Digg and a few also-rans. Shoutwire and reddit have seen modest success. But now, just as niche social network sites like LinkedIn, Dogster, etc. have risen in popularity, so to are we seeing a surge in niche social news sites. One of the hottest entrants into the field is news.ycombinator.com, the brainchild of entrepreneur, Lisp hacker, and best-selling author/essayist, Paul Graham. Despite looking a lot like reddit (a YCombinator startup), news.YCombinator.com is actually written in Arc, a dialect of Lisp. But that probably doesn’t mean much to all but a few hardcore programming geeks out there. The real goldmine of News.YC is the community, links and resources featured on the site.
Link: news.ycombinator.com
About the poster: Shanti Braford has sold three web companies, grossing thousands monthly and attracting tens of thousands of visitors daily. He blogs regularly at On Web Apps.