Customizing our blogger blogs is now easier than ever. Aside from the hundreds of pre-made templates available for us to simply upload to our sites, there are innumerable tutorials helping us design more beautiful and interesting sites.
Thursday, February 04, 2010
80+ hand-picked beautiful and original blogger designs
Customizing our blogger blogs is now easier than ever. Aside from the hundreds of pre-made templates available for us to simply upload to our sites, there are innumerable tutorials helping us design more beautiful and interesting sites.
Top 50 Canadian Marketing Blogs – Guess Who’s #1?
Canadian, Ian Lee, has compiled a list of the Top 50 marketing blogs in Canada.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Survey Results: Impact of Blogging on Search Engine Optimization
Good article on how companies are using blogs for search engine optimization purposes and what kind of impact those efforts have.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
How to Blog like Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is the shorthand we use when we want to describe a great writer. He stands for the pinnacle of writing ability. By Charlie Gilkey
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Perform a Landing Page Analysis on your Blog
One needs to optimize their pages for search engines, build back links from relevant sources, as well as putting your heart and soul into your content to make it as valuable as possible for the reader. By Darren Rowse
Posterous vs. Tumblr: A Head to Head
In the space between a long-form blog and a short-form Twitter account, there are mini-blog services like Posterous and Tumblr that seek to make blogging much more immediate, support all types of rich media, allow for longer entries if needed, and support short spurts that auto-post to Twitter as well. By Jennifer Van Grove
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Friday, January 08, 2010
Writing a good blog for dummies
Here are three guiding principles to writing a successful blog:
- Develop a writing style and tone appropriate to your subject material.
- Post often, even if your posts are short.
- Allow your readers to comment on your posts.
3 Things to Remember When Designing a Blog Footer
Blog footers have traditionally been neglected by designers, usually home only to the obligatory copyright line. Times are-a-changin’ though. Creative footers have become one of the hottest trends in web design, and blog footers are no exception.
10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Blogging
Why are most corporate blogs failing and why do the few succeed? To answer these questions, we need to face a few harsh truths about corporate blogging. By Paul Boag
5 Quick Ways to Improve Your Blog
Let’s say that you have a few hours free and you want to dedicate it to your blog. It’s not enough time to take on a major project such as building a new theme or completely redoing your categories/tags (at least not if you have a large site), but you want to do something to make your blog better. By Jonathan Bailey
The Four Stages of Growing a Blog
Growing a blog to a successful, monetizable state is a long journey that requires a great deal of effort and dedication. Most bloggers fail to realize their initial goal of developing an income producing blog. Daily Blog Tips
10 Questions You Should Ask and Answer About Your Blog
Before you sit down and start a blog, take these tips into consideration. By Larry Brooks
Mind Mapping: Turning Ideas Into Content
Mind Mapping is considered a form of “creative note taking” meant to map out your ideas similar to how your brain processes them. You start with a central topic or bubble and branch out accordingly to categories and sub-categories. By Mario Mendoza
Marketing Your Blog: 10 Essential Tips You Should Know
Well, a new year is upon us, it’s also the start of a new decade within the blogosphere. More and more people are building blogs, and that means there are lots of blogs competing for the same eyeballs and your blog is just one of many. By Edward Khoo
Thursday, January 07, 2010
Why simple blogs are better for business
When it comes to so many things in life, we over-complicate. Wouldn’t you agree? Don’t you think we do this with blogging as well? We make it way too hard. By Christian Russell
A new way to retwet blog posts
If you are viewing BloggingTips online, you will see a retweet button at the top left hand side of every blog post. This button allows you to retweet BloggingTips articles using the website TweetMeMe. Retweeting is incredibly popular so it was only a matter of time before someone tried to challenge the popularity of TweetMeMe. By Kevin Muldoon
How to Go Beyond Your Small Business Blog and Create a Social Media Footprint
You have a polished website for your small business and even a professional blog where you publish posts a couple of times per week, and both are meant to help spread your story and bring more sales. By Darren Rowse
50 examples of great blog engagement
Writing great content for your blog is only half the battle. A blog is a success if it has loyal followers who read, interact and share the posts that you create (see right- a tiny snapshot of Blogging Tip’s engaged Twitter followers!). By Lucy Langdon
7 Tips to Get Media Attention for Your Blog
On a crowded Web, how does a blog stand out? Well there are a lot of things that you can do to make yourself a more likely target for an interview, but there are no silver bullet answers. By Jonathan Bailey
AOL Lusts for the Brad Pitt of the Blogosphere (and His Company)
AOL is interested in buying the world's largest tech blog, Mashable.
Create a Tag cloud for your blog.
Create a Tag Cloud for your blog so that your visitors can easily navigate through your pages and as a result increase your page views.
How to Change the Favicon of your blog ( blogger )
Tired of seeing the very old and very common [favicon] "B" in your address bar? why not change it and make it look funky or creative?
Elements of a Distinctive Blogger
Being effective at what you do must be the first area of concern. Every blogger needs to develop the most important aspects about themselves. One needs to have the right attitude to triumph; attitudes that will give you the edge in facing the challenges inherent in the pursuit of success. By Walter
9 Ways To Stand Out In A Crowded Blogging Niche
David Risley provides insights on how to stand out int he crowd with your blog.
Dragon Naturally Speaking — A Great Tool For Bloggers
Have you ever wished that you could write twice as much in in a single day? Have you ever thought of the number of successful blogs you could have if only you had the time to write enough posts? By Sharon Hurley Hall
Plugins That Make Your Blog More Visitor Friendly
With the blogosphere being saturated with content on virtually any topic you can think of, making your blog as visitor friendly as possible should be one of your primary design goals. By Jeff Orioff
The Importance of Visitor Engagement In Rankings and Blog Success
Jack Humphrey discusses the importance Google and others are placing on “user engagement” as a major factor in ranking sites and pages.
10 Steps to Build a $50 iPhone App for Your Blog
With the world going mobile and online even more than ever before, you’re going to have to make your presence known on the go, so you don’t get left in the proverbial dust. By Garry Lee
30 Bloggers To Watch in 2010
Jade Craven shares her thoughts on 30 bloggers worth keeping an eye on in the year ahead!
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