Friday, December 17, 2010
Marketing the “You Know What Out” of Your Blog, Part 3
One of the best ways to market your blog and attract heaps of visitors is through social media. By Big Girl Branding
Marketing the “You Know What” Out of Your Blog, Part 2
This article continues with two actual methods of promoting your blog. By Big Girl Branding
Marketing the “You Know What” Out of Your Blog, Part 1
Marketing a blog is pretty much like marketing anything else. It requires time and commitment. It also requires patience and consistency, and a willingness to use a bit of elbow grease. By Big Girl Branding
5 Ways To Build An Epic Blogger Brand
Designers Checklist 1.0: Does Your Blog Design Accomplish all of the Following?
As blog design has evolved, getting a theme has become easier. Premium themes have become more advanced and allow for simpler customization to be done by the owner. By Alex
Creating a Trend to Effectively Stand Out
How to Massively Improve Reader Participation on Your Blog
A blog is supposed to be a dynamic website; a place where blog owner and readers can come together in a single community designed to offer communication and the relaying of thoughts. By Matt Jackson
Blog Promotion: 169 New Ways to Build Traffic like a Ninja
Promoting your blog is perhaps the most difficult part of blogging. After spending hours writing a great post and putting links and images in it you push the publish button and wait… but nothing happens! By Seth
30 Real Ways to Make Money Blogging
Looking for ways to make money with your blog can be frustrating. Either you don’t have enough traffic or you are not sure what to do. Here are some links to check out. By Seth
45 Link Building Tips To Help You Promote Your Blog
In an ever changing approach by bloggers to keep up with the Google SERP algorithms, many of us get carried away with our “SEO Techniques.” It’s not a surprise nor a shame, because without this experimentation, we are bound to hit a plateau in progress. By Janith
How To Give Your Visitors More
If you’re a blogger, it isn’t hard to figure out what your visitors came to your website for: content. By Karan Singhal
Mind Mapping for Blog Expansion & Making Smart Mistakes, Part 2
Wow to use mind mapping for building your blogs and making smart mistakes. By Derek Jensen
Mind Mapping for Blog Expansion & Making Smart Mistakes, Part 1
When it comes time to expand our blogs we need to take many things into consideration and use caution along the way. By Derek Jensen
5 Ways to Skyrocket Your Blog Traffic
Fresh Cookies: How to Keep Your Writing Relevant
There’s nothing worse or more frustrating than losing readers or subscribers. By Lydia
Do You Only Fuel the Blogosphere or Reap the Benefits?
Especially in the blogging niche, when it comes to your followers, the one’s who have just begun in the blogosphere and know very little about it, are your strongest links. By Peter J
How to Create a Better Non-Blog WordPress Site
WordPress has far surpassed its anticipated use as a blogging platform as many website owners have been using it for non-blog websites. By Alyssa Gregory
A Story About A Blogger…
Like a lot of bloggers, this blogger wanted to get better and make more money. So, he did what any blogger would do – read other people’s blogs about making money blogging. By David Risley
My Small Mistake That Cost Me Big Money On My Blog
Rob Sutton talks about how he made a mistake that cost him money. The funny thing is that it was not a huge mistake by any means…just a small oversight that was caused by not taking that extra couple of seconds to make sure everything was in line and ready to go.
Avoiding Blogger Burnout: How To Keep The Wheels Turning
To the untrained eye, blogging seems to be a relatively easy job. Hell, anyone can just sit around at Starbucks all day and play on the Internet, right? Not quite. By Robb Sutton
7 Things NOT To Do Before You Have A Lot Of Blog Traffic
Are you giving visitors a reason to revisit your blog?
In other words, we’re all flying blind. By Christopher of CreativeBlogger
5 Must-Measure eCommerce Blogging Strategies
It’s critical to have a goal in mind before writing a single word of a blog post. For eCommerce sites that thrive through online sales, goals of each post should be different than for a B2B blog’s goals. By Michael Redbord
The Power Of Combining Blogging And Podcasting
Podcasting and blogging can simply go together to make powerful assets for brands, organizations, and businesses. When combined successfully, they can play off of one particular a different and result in a really successful, on-going promotional campaign. By I Do Blogs
Grow your blog traffic by commenting
One of the most common tips you will hear, when it comes to growing traffic for your blog, is to comment on other blogs that are similar in topic. By Grant Griffiths
How To Make A Better First Impression With Your Blog
The advice in this post isn’t new advice, not new at all. In fact, you’ve probably read the following many times before: When a new visitor hits your site, you have just a few seconds before they form their first impressions of you and your business. That’s all you get. By Jonathan Woodward
Free Template - Blogger Buster Christmas
Should WordPress Bloggers Use Blogger As A Backup?
Blogging Pitfalls: Why You Need Your Own Domain
Is blogging really on the decline?
How to Create an A-List Blog Plan
Yahoo! Killing Off Delicious, Buzz And MyBlogLog?
The blogosphere is a buzz (pun not intended) over the rumored shut down of Delicious, as well as other services such as MyBlogLog and Yahoo! Buzz. By Darnell Clayton
8 Amazing Blogging Lessons from Albert Einstein
12 Days of Blogging 2010: 9 SEOers Optimizing
How to Reinvent Yourself with Blog Marketing
What does Tim credit for his rapid emergence into the public eye? His blog and his blogger outreach strategy, which took him from unknown to successful author, angel investor, and social media celebrity is a few short years. By Brian Clark
How Boring Is Your Blog?
Are you repeating the same things every other blogger is saying? Are your valuable visitors turning away as soon as they see what you have to offer? Is your blog great, or is it boring?How would you know?By Julien Smith
Sunday, December 12, 2010
10 Common business blogging questions answered
A list of 10 questions you may find useful if starting a business blog. By Dan Zarrella
How To Build Your Credibility As An Expert While Blogging
When your strategy for making money with your blog is to sell something you have created or something you do, then your credibility as an expert is crucial. By Eduard Ezeanu
LiveJournal Challenges WordPress On iPad
After reigning supreme as the only blog platform with an official iPad app, it looks like WordPress is finally being challenged upon Steve Jobs “magical” device. By The Blog Herald
Should WordPress Mimic Apple Regarding Premium Plugins?
One of the major advantages that WordPress has over its rivals (aside from its beautiful user interface) is the sheer number of plugins available for users to download. By The Blog Herald
Tuesday, December 07, 2010
Blogging with keyword research in mind
Tumblr Returns After 24 Hours Of Downtime
While the exact cause of the issue which occurred during a scheduled maintenance period has not been released, Tumblr team members have mentioned “database cluster issues” as a culprit. By Tumblr
8 Incredibly Simple Ways to Get More People to Read Your Content
Saturday, December 04, 2010
Be Inspired: 40 Blogs with Amazing Grunge Design
While designing a user interface, it is important that your design is attractive to entice your viewers with your website. One of the hot design trend these days is Grunge Design. By Charina Torres
Thursday, December 02, 2010
A Word About Blog Email Management
The main reason bloggers give for not replying to emails is this: “It’s just not scalable for me to reply to every email.” I see your argument and raise you a hearty, “You’re an idiot.” Here’s why.
Everything You Need to Import and Display RSS Feeds with WordPress
WordPress makes it super-easy to publish your own content, and even easier to import and display content from other great sites around the Web. Just as other people are displaying and reading your feed in their apps and devices, you can use external RSS feeds to supplement and strengthen your site’s primary content. By ProBlogger
Thursday, November 11, 2010
5 ways to join the blogging community
If you’re thinking of blogging, or you already blog, do you feel you’re a part of the community? If not, it’s time to join. By Rebecca Osberg
4 Nasty Habits Blog Commenters Should Avoid
It takes a lot of dedication and time to run a blog, and some of the most gratifying rewards a blog owner can reap are comments on his or her posts.
Getting Feedbacks For Ones Blogs
Feedbacks for a web log produce your blog full of life. By I Do Blogs
Top 5 PR Prediction Tools For Your blog or Website
Page Rank Prediction is one of the most important factor for every website owner or blogger. As all of us knows very well that page rank of a website which is being given by the google to the websites or blogs according to their ranking and the content searched by the search engines. By Latest Tech World
Branding 101
Nominate your favorite writing blog
The ANNUAL TOP 10 BLOGS FOR WRITERS has now moved to Write to Done. In the past four years Michael Stelzner, author of “Writing White Papers” and Founder of Social Media Examiner hosted this important competition. By Write to Done
I don't like your stinkin' blog!
You might be a super popular blogger, but I don’t like your stinkin’ blog. By Alli
Repurpose Your Blog Posts Into Bite-Size Audio Tips
RSS, not just a blogging tool
If you happen to be a blogger, you must be perfectly aware what role RSS (Really Simple Syndication) plays in the blogging world. By Mustafa Khundmiri
45 Link Building Tips To Help You Promote Your Blog
In an ever changing approach by bloggers to keep up with the Google SERP algorithms, many of us get carried away with our “SEO Techniques.” It’s not a surprise nor a shame, because without this experimentation, we are bound to hit a plateau in progress. By Janith
5 Ways to Skyrocket Your Blog Traffic
One of the major problems many people face is getting traffic to a blog, and the truth in the online world is that traffic is very essential to any online business you do; it is traffic that brings about people that buy. By Onibalusi
7 Reasons Why You Should Blog With A Partner
5 Things Madonna Has to Teach You About Blogging to Success
A 5 Word Tagline Can Say More Than 5 Words
How to Massively Improve Reader Participation on Your Blog
A blog is supposed to be a dynamic website; a place where blog owner and readers can come together in a single community designed to offer communication and the relaying of thoughts. For the new blog, and even for some of the more established blogs, getting readers to participate in discussions and leaving comments can prove a difficult challenge. Take heart, though, because it is possible by following a few guidelines to improve blog reader participation. By Matt Jackson
Light vs. Dark Blog Designs: Design Versus Week
There are two primary color schemes in design: light and dark. Each color scheme has its own design elements that work for one, but not always the other. It has been debated many times before as to which scheme was better. By Blogussion
Why Writing Blog Posts Should Not be a Top Priority (And What Should)
There are a countless amount of debates that your blog post content is “king” and essentially the most valuable thing you can do for your blog. While posting new content frequently is crucial, it holds a lot of bloggers back from doing other great things. By Alex
When is the best time to start monetizing your blog?
5 reasons to attending blogging conferences
It’s a known fact that conferences can be expensive. Not only do you have the cost of registration and travel, but also the expense of time away from your work, family and social life at home. By Jonathan Bailey
Do You Only Fuel the Blogosphere or Reap the Benefits?
Especially in the blogging niche, when it comes to your followers, the one’s who have just begun in the blogosphere and know very little about it, are your strongest links. By Peter J.
7 Self-doubts New Bloggers Can Beat
You’ve just launched a shiny new blog and you’re buzzing with excitement about sharing content and building an audience. At first, it requires a lot of time and effort to get things off the ground, but your confidence is sky-high that this blogging thing will take off and push you straight up to the A List. By Scott McIntyre
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
4 Ways to Write Several Blog Posts at Once
Here are several ways you can write several blog posts concurrently. By Andrew G. Rosen
Advice to potential bloggers: Don’t ‘Just Do It’
Blogging is not meant for everyone. It is time consuming and draining. But it’s also incredibly rewarding and exhilarating. By Tracy Boyer
8 Ways to Reduce Your Site’s Bounce Rate
15 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Blogging
Great list on what to know to get your blog off to a good start. By Daily Blog Tips
What Makes Real Blogging Success?
How do you move your blog to be a great success? By Chris Garrett
Create Shorter URLs For Increased Usability and SEO
Do you customize the URLs (aka permalinks) on your blog posts? Chances are, you don’t. By Blogger Design
How to Start a Blog the Right Way
So what's it take to have a great blog? By Chris Garrett
Why Social Media Is a Better Investment than SEO
As a blogger, you probably do not have the luxury of having a staff of people to work for you. By Pro Blogger
Sunday, November 07, 2010
Deciding On The Best Blogging Tool For You
With an increasing number of options from a blogging platform perspective, it’s important to do your due diligence on the front end so you choose the tool that’s right for you–and your corporate culture. By Arik Hanson
Monday, November 01, 2010
How to Simplify WordPress Custom Fields Layout for a Layman
We are already aware of the incredible power and flexibility of WordPress, which is one of the biggest reasons for its popularity among its users. By Ashish Sharma
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Top widgets for the sidebar of your class or student blog
Did you know that the fastest and easiest way to add new features to your blog is by embedding widgets into the sidebar of your blog? By The Edublogger
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
12 Ways to Get More Comments on Your Blog
Three Great Forum Plugins for Wordpress
5 Cool Widgets & Services for Your Blogger Blog
The First Weblogs and the First People Who Made a Living Blogging
These days, blogs are commonplace and anyone can set one up in a matter of minutes. Many people do this for fun, and to share their lives with the world, but many more do it to make money. By Melissa Tamura
Four Great Blogging Platforms For People Who Hate WordPress
That said, there’s more to the blogging universe than WordPress. Other blogging platforms come with their own unique set of challenges and advantages. In no particular order, here are four great alternatives to WordPress. By Maria Rainier
9 books about WordPress design and development
Here are nine books worth checking out about WordPress and blog design. By Mayank
10 simplicity tips to grow your blog
Here are some great, but very simple tips when blogging. By Chris Stroud
Keyboard Shortcuts for Posting with Blogger
Blogger offers us a range of keyboard shortcuts we can use when creating and editing our blog posts to perform some most-used tasks without having to scroll around to find their appropriate buttons. By Amanda Kennedy
How to hide the Blogger Navbar
Nexus 5 - A New Blogger Template for Free Download
How to Add a Featured Content Section on your Blog's Home Page
New Ways to Find WordPress Themes
How to Get Readers to Return to Your Blog
There may come a time when your once popular blog begins to lose readers. While it is not entirely uncommon for blog popularity to wax and wane, it can certainly be disheartening for the blog owner who is simply trying to market their products or services. By David Smith
3 Things Probloggers Should Do Before Hitting The Publishing Button
20 Easy Ways to Promote Your Blog Across the Social Web
For a business to succeed in building a brand and growing, it needs to surround consumers with branded online experiences, so those consumers can self-select how they want to engage with the brand. The same theory holds true for bloggers who want to grow their own blog brands and audiences across the social web. By Susan Gunelius
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Ning Courts WordPress
How do you influence your blog readers?
You’ve Landed a Blogging Job – Now What?
Blogging for other people is a great way to make money online. If you run your own blog and have published regular content, then you are well placed to write for other people or companies. By Nita Teoh
5 Things Learned While Working at BlogWorld ’10
So. BlogWorld ’10 is over, and the Monday morning quarterbacking is about to begin. Attendees and speakers are posting their thoughts and takeaways and you can be sure we’re going to read them all. By Deb Ng
How to Get Incoming One Way Backlinks to Your Blog
An ongoing concern for many bloggers is how to get incoming backlinks to their blog. Backlinks serve a couple of important functions: they can drive more traffic to your site and they "tell" the search engines how important your site is for key search terms. By Denise Wakeman
How To Get Your Blog Content Shared More – More Tweets. More Likes.
Forget about backing up your blog, automate it.
When’s the last time you backed up your blog? A few weeks ago? Months? Never!? By Thomas McMahon
Build the Perfect Blog Audience for You
If you could hand-pick your ideal blog reader, who would they be? What are they like? What do they look like? By David Risley
Saturday, October 09, 2010
How to Make Your Blog Load Faster
Earlier this year, Google began using site speed, or load time, as a search ranking factor, claiming that “faster sites create happy users.” Since the search engine’s professed goal is to give users what they want, it makes sense that load time would enter into the ranking algorithm. By Elisa Gabbert
50 ways to take your blog to the next level
Blogging is as varied in its applications as using the telephone or taking a picture. The tool doesn’t predict the output. By Chris Brogan
What Makes Real Blogging Success?
So what does it take to make your blog a success? By Chrisg.com
Friday Feature
Brent Pohlman discusses his social media success.
5 Blog Naming Basics
Is your blog getting the attention you know it deserves? Maybe you haven’t started your blog yet because you can’t settle on the right name or theme. By Pro Blogger
5 Life Skills You Already Have that Can Make You a Great Blogger
If you’ve just started a blog you are, no doubt, using your best Google-fu to hunt down every last post giving advice to novice bloggers. By Pro Blogger
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
3 Reasons to Start a Private Blog
Just because you CAN share every detail of your life online doesn’t mean that you should. By Andrew G. Rosen
5 things to do after creating a new blog
OK, you did it, you created a new blog! You post a few entries on which you sweat for days, give it the best of your best. But what’s next?
Eat, Pray, Blog
If you could order it off a menu you would. “I’ll take the life changer please. You know, the holiday where I get to indulge in the best food on the planet, quiet my deeper self and discover true, passionate love. That one.”
Reality check please! By Katie Tallo
Reality check please! By Katie Tallo
Investigative Tips for Bloggers
Each and every blogger has the capacity to produce the original content that other media outlets and bloggers link to. By Gregory Ferendtein
5 Clever Ways to Make A Sticky Blog
No doubt about it – Content is King. However, the formula for successful blogging doesn’t end there. By Darren Rowse
Sunday, September 05, 2010
Google Realtime search cna boost traffic
Google has again found a way to transform the search engine into a even more necessary part of what we as bloggers do. By Toya Bryant
How to Create Blog Evangelists
The truly successful blogs don’t just create great content based around a niche, tweet it out, and wait for the readers to come in...they create blog evangelists. By Ross Hudgens
Grow Your Blog’s Influence by Solving a Problem
If you want to be read, be needed. And to be needed, solve a problem. By Brandon Cox
8 Ways to Get Inspiration as a Blogger
The biggest pitfall to blogging is to allow yourself to become “a bore”. In other words you basically have nothing to say, but if you are anything like me I tend to sometimes become a lazy blogger. By Liorsy
4 Solid Reasons Why you’re Not Getting Traffic to Your Blog
Traffic is very important to your blog’s success. It is traffic that determines how many comments you will get, it is traffic that determines how many mailing list subscribers you will get and it is also traffic that will determine how many sales you will make. By Onibalusi Bamidele
8 Tips to Keep 1st time Visitors Coming Back to your Blog
You work hard to create quality content for your blog, so you owe it to yourself to make sure that you’re doing everything that you can to generate traffic to your blog, and to keep visitors coming back. By Blase Ciabaton
10 Must Follow Resources for WordPress Design Inspiration
WordPress is considered to be God-send CMS for designers & programmers. It gives enough flexibility for designers to not worry about what all can be designed and can be run on WordPress. By Mayank
15+ Useful Cheat Sheets & Presentations for WordPress Design & Development
WordPress as we all know is the most fantastic blogging software and is turning in a great CMS. By Mayank
Blogger, Do You Know Who You Are?
Blog SEO Tips: Are keywords that important?
Are keywords really that important for a blog? By Blogsessive
Top 5 most annoying blogging cliches
The niche of blogging tips is a crowded one and no wonder it’s that way. Blogging is so “the new black”. It gives you freedom,... By Blogsessive
How To Turn Out To Be A 5-Figures Blogger
Blogging forms a main portion within the The web world. Those who would like to unearth a platform for expressing their views.
7 Beginner Blogger – How to launch your new blog
Before you even launch your new blog, you need to be positioning you and your blog for a successful launch. In other words, you need to be getting noticed now. By Grant Griffiths
How to Target Blog Content
There are always many criticisms on how one should write a blog for a certain website.By Eugene Aronsky
How to Avoid Lazy Writing and Editing
While it is true that bloggers are, with good reason, expending more and more into video and audio, at some point every blogger is going to have to write something. By Jonathan Bailey
Your Blogger Blog Gone Missing?
Do you have the experience of your blog on Google’s blogger (blogspot) suddenly disappeared into thin air just like that? By Mengulik Dunia Maya
Six Apart kills off Vox
After having launched the social networking blog platform in 2006, it looks as if the Six Apart execs are shutting down Vox at the end of the month. By Darnell Clayton
Sustainable Blogging: Blog Like a Farmer
Sustainability is the capacity to endure. For animals to remain strong and healthy under adverse situations. For humans to maintain their well-being. For agriculture to satisfy human needs for generations. By Kim De
Happy Birthday Blogger!
A 11 years ago on this day a man named Evan Williams set out on a quest to make blogging easier. After much thought, sweat and hard work he introduced the world to Blogger, which was later on assimilated by Google. By Darnell Clayton
Disqus Seeking Out A Few Brave Bloggers?
With more blogs embracing Disqus dead simple comment service, the engineers behind the company have decided to roll out a new tool to help publishers gain more insight about their commentors. By Darnell Clayton
Tumblr Perfects Reblogging
Despite popularizing the art of reblogging (or at least convincing WordPress, Typepad and LiveJournal of its worth), crediting the original author has (more or less) been an ugly affair on Tumblr. By Darnell Clayton
How to Build a Blog Network from the Ground Up
Getting exposure is a goal of many bloggers. They work hard writing and sharing their thoughts on various topics. By Darren Rowse
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
10 Must Follow Resources for WordPress Design Inspiration
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