Saturday, October 31, 2009

Best Offline Blog Editors for Mac and PC Users

Do you use an offline blog editor to update your blog such as Windows Live Writer or BlogDesk? By Susan Gunelius

7 Steps to Blog Post Perfection

Here are some suggestions on gather ideas for posting your blog entries. By Charles

Tips For Measuring Post Success: Part 1 Bookmarking

Analyzing blog metrics can give one a headache! But as a blogger it’s important to know ‘Is the content you’re providing is fulfilling your readers needs?” By Sue Waters

Visibility via Video: How to Extend Your Reach Online

Some tips on how to make the best use of video on your blog. By Denise Wakeman

How to Write a Blog Post That’s Stickier than Velcro

Do you have a really good idea which you want to go viral? By Darren Rowse

Judge Refuses to Punish Lawyer for Anti-RIAA Blogging

An attorney defending against a music-piracy lawsuit didn’t cross ethical bounds by filing motions broadly attacking the recording industry and posting them on his blog, a magistrate judge has ruled, rejecting demands from the RIAA for monetary sanctions. By David Kravets

Friday, October 23, 2009

20 Reasons Why You Should Blog Before You Twitter

At first glance this makes a lot of sense as Twitter is easier and quicker and staff and management can be tweeting within a very short time frame. By Jeff Bullas

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Monday, October 19, 2009

How to Prioritize and Manage Multiple Blogs and Websites

Most internet marketing gurus preach only two important things for your website to be successful – Great content and great promotion. All other things that you do to a website are merely complementary to either of these two jobs. By Blogsessive

How to Get Traffic by Blogging about Future Events in Your Niche

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Want to get a spike in your traffic? By Dee Barizo

Blogging More Efficiently by Doing What Works

Often meet bloggers that think that blogging is about doing certain things. They’ve read a couple blogs about blogging and find out that there are many different blogging activities they can do. By Dee Barizo

How I Use Social Media to Promote My Blogs



Building on work from ChrisBrogan.com this post shares how I promote my blogs using social media and other websites

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This video introduces the idea of expanding a blog by adding a book to it - something more and more bloggers are moving towards with their blogs.

Social SEO & Channels of Distribution

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The image above to illustrates how a blog can be the centerpiece to a social SEO effort where objectives are focused on raising brand awareness and improving customer relationships in a way that is beneficial to search engine visibility. By Lee Odden

10 lesser know Wordpress features

Whether you are new to WordPress, or have been using it a long time, there are always features that are available in the software that people either forget about or don’t know exist.By Bloggerdesign

Don’t Let Your Blog Readers Touch that Remote

You remember the last time you channel surfed? We all do it when there’s nothing good on TV — nothing that holds our attention. By Melissa Karnaze

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Apture provides the first rich communication platform that allows people to intuitively experience the web.

The Recessionista Blog Finalist in 6th Annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business

The Recessionista Blog - http://therecessionista.blogspot.com -a guide to
surviving the economic downturn in style, today announced that it has been named
as a finalist in the Blog of the Year category for the 6th annual Stevie® Awards
for Women in Business. Reuters

Blogger Goes Lijit With Search

Search specialists have unveiled a new tool: Blog and Social Content Search Gadget for Blogger. By Andrew G.R.

4 Easy Ways To Increase Readership On Your Blog

As a blogger, one of the most frustrating things you can experience when checking on your Analytics stats is to realize that your bounce rate is sky high. By Igorkheifets

Support Social Good on Your Blog

Ford has generously offered to make a donation to Mashable’s Summer of Social Good Charity Fund. 50 of their Ford Fiesta Movement Agents will be donating $2 per retweet for this post up to 3,000 retweets. By Barb Dybwad

25 Great Blogger Widgets

Many people think that Blogger lacks in all of the extra goodies you can add to other platforms like WordPress, but it simply isn’t true. By Sean P. Aune

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Blog Design: Making the most out of your footer space

The footer (the very end of your blog) is a very important place of information on your blog. Your footer can hold a variety of information, such as copyrights, links, ads, and a lot of other stuff. The footer is also important SEO wise for a lot of reasons. By Alex Fraiser

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5 Ways you are Unknowingly Harming Your Posts

It’s common that once you start reading around the blogosphere, you will find trends that others have been partaking in on their blogs and you may want to get in on it. You learn things people are doing to make their blog better, and more “error free” if you will. By Alex Fraiser

Google Analytics Reveals the Importance of Branding and Content

Great article on how building good branding and content will help your blog. By Seth Waite

7 Lucky SEO Tools for Your Blog

Most traffic for highly successful blogs comes from search engines like Google or Bing. Search engine visitors are more likely to buy products, click on advertisements, and sign up to newsletters. The question is then, how do bloggers get search engine traffic? By Seth WaiteSEO Tools

5 Easy Blog Improvements in under 5 Minutes

Your blog is not perfect. There are many things you can do to improve your blog, and after reading this post – you will be glad you made some of these changes. By Alex Fraiser
5 Easy Blog Improvements in under 5 Minutes

Unique Blog Isn’t As Hard As You Think

The most important part of every conversation about the blog always revolves around the question, “How can we continue to provide useful resources for our readers?” By Seth Waite

50 Surprisingly Amazing Themes for Blogger

Blogger may not be the first blogging platform you would choose, it does have a reputation of being lacklustre, featureless and the bog standard skins have the look of a site that was designed five years ago. By Speckyboy

Blogger Themes and Templates

Sunday, October 04, 2009

In this tutorial, you’ll learn to create a modern, clean and classy blog layout in Adobe Photoshop using some basic techniques, by Jean-Baptiste JungCreate a modern blog layout in Adobe Photoshop

How to Display Your Content on a Blog’s Front Page

The front page of a blog is obviously of great importance to the overall design.

Up until a few years ago, most blogs simply showed posts in order of publication, the most recent at the top. By Steven Snell

How to Make an Impressive Blog Layout in Photoshop

In this easy to follow web design tutorial, you will learn how to construct a beautiful, sleek, and professional-level weblog design using Adobe Photoshop that you can later use for your very own blog theme. By Matthew Heidenreich

How to Make an Impressive Blog Layout in Photoshop

Dazed Raw Blg Awards

From each category of Fashion, Music, Art and Photography, fifteen blogs were shortlisted by Dazed and G-Star and then put to public vote.

Saturday, October 03, 2009

63 Popular And Promising Web Design Blogs

It’s difficult to create something exceptional when you are working to a strict deadlines. If you can’t come up with a good idea in a stressful situation, it’s best to take a break and look for inspiration. By Andrew Valums

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