When Google announced Google Buzz earlier this week, it kicked off a heated debate as to how great (or useless) it was. By Jonathan Bailey
Monday, February 15, 2010
Will bloggers adopt Google Buzz
When Google announced Google Buzz earlier this week, it kicked off a heated debate as to how great (or useless) it was. By Jonathan Bailey
5 Blogging Basics You Can’t Live Without
Why do you blog? What do you hope to achieve by taking time out of your busy day to write a blog post? By Nate Moller
9 More Way to Promote Your Blog Offline
Eric Cummings shares his thoughts on how to best promote your blog offline.
What Makes the Ultimate Blog Post?
Paul Cunningham offers some qualities one should be aiming for when writing blog posts if you want them to be successful.
Make sure your comment is relevant to the post, ads value, and provides positive feedback. By Michelle Salater
Add your blog to Technorati
You may increase the hit rate of your blog by making use of blog search engines such as Technorati. By Rahul Trivedi
Mutitask blog tool
Posterous is a micro blog where you email in your posts to your account and simultaneously have them delivered to multiple social media sites at once.
What Will Content Look Like?
The blog will continue to be a critical element in marketers’ social media strategies. And with the expected increase in businesses using social media, competition for readers is only going to grow. So what’s a blogger to do? By Neicole M. Crepeau
Meet Your Blog’s Objectives Using SWOT Analysis
Everyone has their own objectives when they begin or expand their virtual identity through blogs. Obviously, these objectives may vary from person to person. Planning helps bloggers to customize their approach in order to meet their respective blogs’ objectives. By Rahul Trivedi
How to Write Blog Posts When You are Blogging to Market a Novel
Publishing a non-fiction book will usually make it easy for you to write a blog dedicated to your book. The non-fiction subject of your book and related topics can provide ample blogging material. By Phyllis Zimbler Miller
Blog Post Buffer and Pre-Writing
Would you be interested in creating posts to your blog during the weekends and use weekdays for something else, or blog commenting and promotion instead of writing new blog posts? By Antti Kokkonen
10 Ways To Make Your Blog Load Faster and Save Bandwidth
Some very good tips to help your blog load faster.
Tuning blog landing pages
There are pages in your site which you didn’t design as a landing page, but which have become so. These are the pages that do well in search for you. By Mike's Life
How to Open a New Line of Revenue from Your Blog by Creating Information Products
Information products are gold buried in your blog and you may not even know it.
If you’ve been using your blog to market your business and generate leads and sales, that’s awesome. But it’s not the only thing you can be doing. By Michael Martine
If you’ve been using your blog to market your business and generate leads and sales, that’s awesome. But it’s not the only thing you can be doing. By Michael Martine
Pages Now Available on Blogger Blogs
Huge news from Blogger.com this month -- a tool that bloggers have desperately wanted from the application is now available -- pages! By Susan Gunelius
Concise Answers to Your Top Beginner Blogging Questions
Blogging can be a mighty confusing endeavor for newcomers. If you’re just starting out as a blogger, or contemplating making the leap, don’t let the technical side of blogging, or all the confusing options, hold you back. By Leo Babauta
How to Apply for Freelance Blogger Work (Yes, there’s a right way)
There are several tactics you can employ to help increase your odds of landing a freelance blogging gig. Here are a few that have worked for Andrew G.R.
21 Tips for Driving Traffic to Your Blog or Website
Denise Wakeman shares 21 tips for driving traffic to your blog.
Your First Week of Blogging – Write Compelling Content
The content that you write will vary depending upon the type of blog you’re running and it’s topic. By Darren Rowse
Saturday, February 13, 2010
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!
Monday, January 04, 2010
How should bloggers attempt to monetize their content?
Mark Collier discusses how bloggers should attempt to monetize their blogs, and which options would work best for the blogger, and their readers.
15 Incredibly Useful Wordpress Plugins to Boost your Blog
The world of internet is full of hundreds of wordpress plugins. WordPress by itself is very easy to use and its wide collection of plugins makes it more persuasive for its users. By WDCore Editorial
Design blogs to look out for in 2010
This is a great article which features an interview with 12 web/design blogs which were started up in 2009 and are essential design blogs to look out for in 2010. By Martin LeBlanc
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
What Did We Learn About Blogging in 2009?
Technorati, the chronicler of all things blog, has been measuring, categorizing, and tracking blogs for some time now. Their success and demise has been declared and predicted by blogosphere insiders just about every year since the site came online. By Jack Humphrey
Bloggers Crash Fashion’s Front Row
Not everyone thought it was adorable in September when a 13-year-old wunderkind blogger named Tavi was given a front-row seat at the fashion shows of Marc Jacobs, Rodarte and others. By Eric Wilson
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Blog Keywords: How They Can Help You
Creating a blog with great content is only half the battle. Without readers, a blog just lingers, and you put too much time and effort into your blog to let it linger. What good is our subject matter if nobody reads it?
SEO Your Blog with Keywords
Bloggers can increase their blog traffic if they use keywords and phrases strategically, taking advantage of blog seo (search engine optimization) techniques. By Peg Corwin
TechCrunch counterpunch: Blogger sues Fusion Garage
In an increasingly bizarre Internet catfight, TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington unloaded on Fusion Garage and its investors, and even had a few choice words for the media. By Alex Phan
Step Away From The Computer: A Blogger’s How To, Part 2 of 2
There’s an old joke about personal development – maybe you’ve heard it. “How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb?” By Patricia Mayo
How to Change the Favicon in Blogger
Blogger supplies every blog with the standard orange "B" blogger favicon. Having your own unique favicon is a great way to give your blogger template both a distinct and explicit brand.
Monday, December 21, 2009
What the US Media Shield Bill Means for Bloggers & Citizen Journalists
The Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 (also known as the Media Shield Bill) recently passed the Senate Judiciary Committee, meaning that the bill has been placed on the official calendar of business and could be considered and voted upon by the entire Senate soon. By Sarah Evans
WordPress Makes Blogging On The Fly Easier
A blogging platform and a microblogging platform have become more symbiotic. WordPress has enabled posting and reading the blogs the platform powers via the Twitter API. By Leena Rao
Do You Want Some Word-Of-Mouth Blog Marketing?
Any marketer will tell you that word-of-mouth marketing is the best kind of marketing you can ask for. By Karl Foxley
The Importance of Writing Great Blog Content
Becoming good at writing requires practice, effort and skill. Great writers are focused more on the substance of their work rather than spelling, grammar or citations. Those elements of writing are not forgotten, but great blog writers know substance matters most. By Blogussion
10 ways to find post inspiration without even leaving your blog
Finding inspiration for blog posts can be a tedious task. By Blogussion
The Best Time to Post or Update your Blog
Many pro-bloggers actually pick a particular time to post their new content. Why?
4 Bloggers Doing It Right
Here are four bloggers who are good at what they do, and each provides examples of right things to do as a blogger. By David Risley
Blogging in 2010 [Free Report]
Is 2010 going to rock or is it going to suck for bloggers? By David Risley
10 elements of style of blog post writing
The Elements of Style by Strunk and White is recognized as the best book on writing. Stephen King raves about it in his On Writing as a book for anyone who wants to write for a living. This certainly includes bloggers.
How to optimize your blog for mobile devices
According to Comscore, the number of people accessing the web through their mobile phones has doubled over the last year to 22 million every day. Social networking sites and blogging are the most popular sites people are visiting on their hand held device.
Google provides a new way to socialize your blog’s feed
Now you can take advantage of Google’s new Socialize feature to tweet your new blog post from Feedburner.
Tutorial: How To Merge 2 WordPress Blogs
In this tutorial, Franky Branckaute, covers how to merge two WordPress blogs.
Improve Your Blog’s Brand by Creating New Jargon
You don’t necessarily have to create something completely new. You can take jargon from other niches and apply them to your niche. By Dee Barizo
Behind the Scenes of the Blogging Process
Blogging can be very time consuming, between the research, writing, editing, formatting and re-syndicating. But it’s all part of your job as a blogger. By Kristen Nicole
Building a company blog presence
Here's a presentation by Tom Swift on building a company blog.
View more presentations from Tom Swift.
How to Brainstorm Brilliant Ideas for Your Blog
Brainstorming is one of the most powerful creative techniques ever devised. When used properly, it can produce more and better ideas than any other process. By Dean Reick
Rookie Lessons for New Bloggers
Katie Kimbal share her thoughts about knowing how it feels to know absolutely nothing, but that’s actually a good place to be.
Blogs and Search Engine Optimization
Your favorite thing about having a blog may soon be this - they naturally attract search engine traffic. By Wendy Boswell
Monday, December 14, 2009
4 Tactics To Increase Your Blog Traffic
Do you want more traffic to your blog?
Well, why wait? Don’t let grass grow under your feet. Here are some tips from David Risley.MacGyver Guide to blogging
If MacGyver has taught us anything, it’s that you don’t need big expensive tools to get the job done. The same goes for blogging.
5 Essential Blogging Tips from the Father of Chinese Philosophy
Confucius, the father of Confucianism, died more than 2500 years ago, but his teachings are still relevant — not least when it comes to blogging. By Michael Aagaard
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
30 Top Blogs For Social Media Updates
Social media is media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. By Anders Ross
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