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As you probably know, I’m extremely active on Google+, and I think you’ll really enjoy it too. But I think people don’t realize how much the service really has to offer. People set up a Google+ account, don’t see any of their friends there, and then abandon it. The trick is that you need to [...]

I know I rarely share the business side of Universe Today, but here’s a very interesting metric: visitors to Universe Today viewed a total of 5 million pages in November, 2011. That’s up about 100% from this time last year. So, if you think that interest in science and astronomy is declining, allow me to [...]

I’ve decided I’m going to be the official curator for the list of space bloggers/reporters/researchers on Google+. My current list only contains about 35 people, so it’s missing lots of people. Tyson? Cox? If you’re not on Google+, I can’t get you on the list. And Google+ is free for anyone to join. So, if [...]

Hi everyone, Google+ has given me 150 invites I can use to hand out to people. You should be able to just click this link and sign up for the service if you want: https://plus.google.com/_/notifications/ngemlink?path=%2F%3Fgpinv%3DJbarXukyHyg%3AjamdZlG8eVs We’ve been having a lot of fun with Google+, including recording live episodes of Astronomy Cast, Universe Today hangouts, and [...]

Hi everyone, if you look over on the right-hand side of the page I’ve added the new Google +1 button to every page on the site. Now you can click that button to endorse pages on the site that you enjoyed. An obvious place to click that button is on the Universe Today homepage. If [...]

This isn’t exactly space news, but here’s a behind-the-scenes video interview with me and Think Traffic’s Corbett Barr. It’s about how I run Universe Today, what I’ve done over the last few years to increase the traffic and number of subscribers, and the software company I co-founded to let other webmasters to the same thing.

As you probably noticed, Universe Today was unavailable for the last couple of days. The site is hosted with Amazon.com’s EC2 service, which has been very stable up until now. But the entire East Coast data center failed early Thursday morning, taking out hundreds of thousands of websites (including Universe Today). This has been a [...]

I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but Universe Today articles are showing up on other websites, including our good friends over at Discovery News, Physorg, and even the Christian Science Monitor. I’ve had a few people emailing me, warning me that people are stealing our content. They’re not stealing, I’m encouraging them to steal. Here’s [...]

If there are any webmasters or web marketers out there, you might want to check out another project I’m working on. It’s called the Keyword Strategy tool, and it’s what we built internally to handle all the pages and content for the Guide to Space. If you’re doing any search engine optimization, check it out.