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About the Author

Bruno Škvorc

(pronounced Sh + Quartz)

a.k.a. swader a.k.a. @bitfalls

SitePoint's Managing Editor for the PHP channel, Developer Advocate for Diffbot.com

Trivia

Freelancer with a full time job
Master's degree in Computer Science and English Language and Literature
6-ish years of experience with enterprise level PHP
4 years technical writer, proofreader and translator

Work from home on treadmill desk
"Virtual travel" blog at 4kk.me - 4000km from Rijeka to Stockholm

Active on G+ (+BrunoSkvorc) and Twitter (@bitfalls), blog on bitfalls.com

A bit about Diffbot

Visual Machine Learning
JSONify any web resource
Super simple to use
Libraries/SDKs for almost any language available
Free-ish tiers available

Diffbot: Visual Machine Learning

Fully renders websites - stripped down Chrome
Executes JS
Learns from examples - behind the scenes AI

Diffbot: JSONify any web resource

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Diffbot: Super simple to use

Configured via a simple UI
Supports regex overrides
Supports fully custom APIs for misc content
Supports merging of API results via two different rules into a single request
Automatic concatenation of paginated content

Diffbot: More info

For more information see:

sitepoint.com/tag/diffbot
support.diffbot.com and blog.diffbot.com
me after the talk

A bit about SitePoint

An online magazine with tutorials and news resources about the web industry
Covers a wide array of languages, from PHP to JS and Ruby
Provides business, marketing and WordPress content as well
Dedicated editor for each channel, keeping channels loosely coupled and professional

History of The PHP Channel

Used to be PHPMaster - de-branded, turned into a channel
Transition happened around 1 year ago
Exponential growth since, increase in active authors tenfold, traffic increased by several factors
Renewed focus on community - Social Media, Discourse

Stats

September 2013 - 30k average weekly uniques
September 2014 - 90k average weekly uniques
Most popular post: 330k views in 9 months

As an author: excellent for exposure, building your online presence, demoing your expertise

As an advertiser: huge traffic conversion, product demos for increased conversion rates

Becoming an advertiser

Get in touch after the talk

Becoming an author

Prerequisites

Decent command of the English language
Ability to simplify and explain concepts unfamiliar to the audience
Punctuality
Quality of information

Becoming an author

Perks

Covered conference attendance and other costs on a case by case basis
Massive community recognition and outreach
Promote your open source project - community feedback
Ca$h, of course
Networking with fellow authors - opprotunities for being a mentor and mentoring

Becoming an author

Getting paid to play with new technologies

Support for 2.5th world countries like Croatia - PayPal, bank transfer, etc
Three tiers
- Quick tip (e.g. bit.ly/himproved - Homestead Improved)
- Normal post (e.g. bit.ly/full_stack - Being a Full Stack Developer) - 800-1200 words
- In-depth tutorial (e.g. bit.ly/from_source - Building PHP Extensions from Source) - 1200-2000 words

Becoming an author

Getting paid to play with new technologies

Tier-break posts possible: bit.ly/critical_hit - 18 Critical Oversights in Web Development
Article series: each part an individual post
Prolific/high profile authors get more perks:
- The more you write, the faster I review
- Good feedback (traffic / comments) yields better prices
- Good work leads to commissions for sponsored posts - even higher prices

Becoming an author

Quality over Quantity

Listicles OK - but content must be good.
No shortcuts - research done well, or pre-established knowledgebase
Unique(ish) content
Revisits of old posts OK

Becoming an author

Boosting post exposure

Images - 5-8 per post
Clickbaity titles but with actual quality behind them
Social promotion: Twitter, Reddit, HN, G+, maybe FB
Controversy is good (bit.ly/legacy_cancer - Legacy Code is a Cancer)
Riding the Google Trends waves

Becoming an author

Ideas

Dark Gritty Reboots - revisit outdated posts
Technology Smackdowns - X vs. Y vs. Z
How-tos - Install X; Use Y; Build Z;
Reviews
How did they do it? - take technologies apart
Etc. - suggest!

Writing Workflow

Suggest topic in Trello
Start writing after approval
Submit Markdown draft within 2 weeks or so
Wait for review
Revise if necessary; rinse and repeat step 5 and 6
Wait for publication
Send invoice after publication

So how do I become an author?

Get in touch via bruno.skvorc@sitepoint.com

If you can, include previous work, Github profile, anything to speed up the vetting process

A bit about the community

The Community In Numbers

Best PHP IDE Survey: Results at bit.ly/idesurvey
Went viral, provided valuable insight into the community
Examples:

Stat fact:

99% of our readership is male

Stat fact:

People from Europe prefer IDE, USA prefers Text Editors

Stat fact:

People over 40 prefer Eclipse based IDEs (Zend Studio, Eclipse)

Play with the data

Free to use for any purpose at: bit.ly/idesurvey

Thanks!

Ping me at @bitfalls or bruno.skvorc@sitepoint.com for more info!

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