The Better Blog

It’s been said that the key to becoming an expert is simply practicing a specific task for 10,000 hours. But your schedule is tight, so what we do is talk to the experts in their fields, glean many morsels of their expertise, and then condense that knowledge into one yummy 10-minute nugget. This week we’re… Read More…

Here it is: 10,000 hours of experience running a huge online community, distilled into a 10-minute read. We started our comedy community GAB on ZUG back in the mid-nineties, back when Web communities were still fairly new. While there were plenty of online communities on Usenet and AOL, ours was the first Web-based comedy community,… Read More…

From “11 Handy Housework Tips” to “The Top 6 Ways to Eat Lettuce,” the Internet is stuffed with more list articles than than funny cat pictures—and that’s saying something.

Being the friendly Irishman that he is, Paul Crowe will probably admit that Irish food could use some spicing up. But at the same time, being the veteran blogger, blog designer, and all around honest dude that he is, he’ll also freely admit your blog could use some spicing up too. Paul owns one of… Read More…

Corporations – especially large corporations — always prefer to follow trends rather than start them. It’s just safer that way. Well, wait, hold on; there was one time, in 1982, when a corporate giant tried its hand at innovation: Ever since then, companies have rigorously toed the line on trendy. So when blogs started to become a thing about… Read More…

Optimizing websites for search engines is a practice that may have began back when Jumanji was clogging up movie theaters, but the phrase “SEO” and knowledge of it has really exploded in recent years. These days everyone from the savvy Fortune 500 exec to the sassy granny selling handmade quilts knows about the importance of search engine optimization. But there are people who… Read More…

Jonathan Bell is the Development Director with Informed by Nature, a public non-profit organization designed to increase the public understanding of science. While we totally respect what IBN does, we’d be lying if we said we didn’t choose Jonathan as this week’s interview subject in hopes of getting a free science lesson ourselves. Fortunately he obliged!

For anyone creating and promoting their own content, it’s hard to find a better platform than Google+. G+ is currently the second-largest social network on the web, with only Facebook claiming higher numbers of active users. As of January 2013, it has more active users than Twitter, Youtube, LinkedIn and Tumblr. It also has a very… Read More…

If everyone used to be a critic, then today everyone is a publisher. From corporations to personal blogs, the Internet is filling up faster than Louie Anderson at Fuddruckers.

If you’re gonna call yourself Mr. Web Guru, you oughta know what you’re talking about. Luckily that indeed is the case with Robert Wright. For nearly 20 years he’s been an expert on search engines and SEO, and now his expertise has extended into the realm of social media. Mr. Web Guru offers a wealth… Read More…