Need to re-force your presence on-line?
* Have a central location and link from as many sites as you can to yours.
* Have a nice central location.
* Work on cool projects.
* Share with your viewers interesting content that they cannot get elsewhere.
* Build your central location in a way that people can interact.
* Use SEO; Use consulting
Twelve steps:
* Provide good content should always be the key. Like [[http://www.gskinner.com/blog/|gskinner]] and [[http://www.dougmccune.com/|dougmccane]] you need a language/technology and you need to focus on that. Sorry but you can’t really be good on something if you’re always trying out different things.
* Work on cool projects that you love. With people you love. Make things people want.
* Start by solving your own problems.
* Port your blog to a nice blogging engine and make it look nice.
* Talk with a consultant to get your SEO skills up to date.
* Have a “badge” for people to put on their sites and link to mine. This might be complicated, what would your badge be and why would be people link to you? Well people will link to you if you provide good and fresh content, that’s for sure, you probably don’t need the badge.
* Make things that bring your local community together for a greater cause.
* Talk with interesting people about interesting stuff and publish your conclusions.
* Now is the time to bring out all your energy, all your passions, the best you want to do with the world. The time is now.
* Test and benchmark cool and interesting stuff.
* Document: Sounds boring ? Maybe, but you’ll be doing everybody a favour, not least yourself. Forcing yourself to explain things crystalises your own understanding.
* There is an enormous need for testing guys. Help open-source projects by testing their code. Publish the results.
* How can people interact with you? Twitter, comments on my blog. What other ways are out there? Friendfeed, Facebook, etc. explore those new mechanisms but in the end don’t forget about the basics. Maybe a mailing list or a google group works.
* People like exclusive content: Organize something
* Comment on other people’s blog. Please normally follow the links.
And you’re right, that was more than 12 steps :-)
