Friday, June 18, 2010

Use Share Options to Boost Your Blog Traffic and Visibility

Platforms have evolved enormously and with the introduction of social networking and sharing it's easier than ever for your readers to share your content with their friends and followers. So, you MUST have multiple ways for your content to be shared. By Denise Wakeman

Top 10 Tips to Sell Your Website or Blog on Flippa

If you are planning to buy or sell a website, you probably already heard about Flippa. It is the largest online marketplace for websites. Most people who list a website for sale there, however, end up selling it for peanuts (e.g., $100), or not selling at all. By Daniel Scocco

The Power of Blogs & Social Media in B2B Marketing

That’s what Forrester Research predicts for US B2B Social Media Marketing spending by 2014. By Lee Odden

8 Habits of Highly Excellent Bloggers

Ever wondered what are the traits of the top, successful and excellent bloggers? By Celestine Chua

Monday, May 24, 2010

Numbered Page Navigation For Blogger

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Page Navigation is a really awesome and long awaited feature. By Blogger Plugins

Show avatars on Blogger Comments

Blogger announces the Blogger Comment avatars.

How to remove quick edit and wrench icons on Blogger

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You might have seen the Pencil , Screwdriver and Spanner links on blogger. It seems like these icons appear only when you are logged in to your blog. By Blogger Plugins

Create Newsletter for your Blogger Blog

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Newsletter is a good option when you want to send custom mails to your blog readers. It lets you send content rich HTML emails to your readers. By Blogger Widgets

Blogger Widgets



Aneesh of Blogger Widgets has developed a new "Related Posts" script for Blogger which displays thumbnails of images in addition to linked post titles. By Bloggerbuster

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. By Bloggerbuster

Better post reviews



See how your post will look to readers via Blogger in Draft. By Amanda Kay

How to use Google's font API with Blogger



Here's an overview of the Google Font API and how we can use this to enhance our Blogger-based designs. By Amanda Kay

Are you just Blogging or are you Blogging?

Blogging as it comes to mind creates opportunities and gives you the ability to create something of value. By Giovanni

Google Buzz button for your Blogger blog

In case you hadn't seen the news, the Buzz team announced the release of a set of buttons to make it easier for your readers to share your content with their friends via Google Buzz. By Rick Klau

To Be a Successful Blogger You Need to Be Thick Skinned

To Be a Successful Blogger You Need to Be Thick Skinned

“Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” By Keller Hawthorne

7 Ways to Be a Different Blogger and Stand Out From the Crowd

7 Ways to Be a Different Blogger and Stand Out From the Crowd

You don’t hear “be different” as a means to blogging success very often, but let that not distract you from the message – Be Different! By Keller Hawthorne

Are you as social as your blog?

On and off your blog, you should have a rep­u­ta­tion for con­nect­ing with oth­ers and being a friendly per­son. Being social is what blog­ging is all about. By Alex

Creating blog headers

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So why do so many blogs skip out on such an important part of their blog posts? Certainly it’s not the lack of images available on the net. By Murray

5 SEO tips for bloggers

Kiesha Easley offers some help SEO tips for your blog.

Off Site Promotion Techniques That Dramatically Grow Your Blog

There is a lot of focus online about how to promote your blog to gain more readers through online avenues. By Robb Sutton

10 Tips to Boost Your Blog’s Loyal Readership

10 Tips to Boost Your Blog’s Loyal Readership

Building a group of loyal followers to your blog is probably one of the most difficult aspects of blogging. By Robb Sutton

What Is Your Blog Design Doing For You?

Blog and website design can be a tricky animal for bloggers that do not come from the design or marketing world. By Robb Sutton

Blogger Interview: Mark from Lose That Tyre

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Paul Cunningham conducts an interview with the creator of Lose That Tyre.

Understanding the Concept of Shoutcasts for Blogs


The ability to have your kind of music played all the time is something that everyone desires. By Myhosting

Understanding Corporate Blogging: Why You Need It And How To Rawk It!

Corporate Blogging is gaining tremendous popularity, as several businesses today are going online. Corporate blogs have their own set of goals and agenda. By Melissa Smich

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Watch Out Tweetdeck! Seesmic For iPhone Is Here


Seesmic has (finally) launched their official iPhone app, which allows users to send status updates to Twitter, Google Buzz, WordPress, Facebook, Blogger and about 45 other social networks and blog platforms (thanks to Ping.fm). By Darnell Clayton

How To Easily Embed Your Favorite Tweet(s) Into Blog Posts

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With BlackBird Pie all you need to do is:

1. Add the URL of a tweet
2. Click Bake It
3. Copy and paste the code into your post

Read more info here.

7 Essential SEO Tips for Small Businesses

When it comes to marketing in the current economy, small businesses need all the help they can get. By Glen

Leverage Your Blog Posts to Drive More Traffic Back to Your Blog

How many ways are you leveraging your business blog posts? Most people write a post and that's the end of it. By Denise Wakeman

Three Training Tips to Become a Better Blogger

James Chartrand keeps noticing bloggers out there who seem to believe that they can achieve writing prowess in just one blog post.

Why Professional Writers Need a Blog...Or Not

These days – and here comes the aforementioned point – you need to decide what kind of website is optimal for what you intend to accomplish. By Larry Brooks

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Launching a Blog Successfully in 15 Days

Website Promotion: Launching a Blog Effectively in 15 Days

From would-be bloggers to potentially successful entrepreneurs, the number of people sharing the common goal of online success is staggering – a number rivaled only by the number of people wishing they knew how to achieve it. By Mathew Carpenter

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

7 Tips for Bootstrapping Your Blog Traffic

Any time you start a new blog, the biggest concern tends to be “how do I build traffic?” By Raj Dash

Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Building SEO-friendlier blog categories

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We all know which issues blog templates usually have with SEO – and one of the most wide-spread problems is a duplicate content one: blog home page, categories, tags and archives basically have same content. By Ann Smarty

Strictly Business B2B Blogging: Let’s Call It Something Else!

There seems to be a growing trend amongst some B2B marketers, albeit a disturbing one, that blogging just isn’t right for their business. By Barry Bowman

Friday, April 16, 2010

7 Steps to Build A Better Blog



Building a better blog is not that easy, it requires dedication and sometimes it requires parting with your money. Why build a better blog you ask? By Onibalusi Bamidele

BloggingPro Launches Job Board: Free Blogger Job Listings

BloggingPro recently announced the launch of a new and free job board for bloggers. By Franky Branckaute

SeededBuzz.com helps bloggers grow their traffic and popularity

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SeededBuzz is a site that promises to help bloggers promote themselves. By Paul Short

Knowing your readers

Everyone knows that writing for the reader is the most important aspect of good blogging. By Patti Stafford

Flogging: A Secret Blog Marketing Insight



For using a blog as a marketing tool, one tip or insight is to consider a flogger -- a ghost writer who writes on behalf of your company and in line with your marketing goals. By Rhona Bronson

Marketing Insights on How to Promote a Blog

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People are always looking for ways to promote their blogs. However, it depends on what you wan to do. Rhona Bronson

How blogging and dropshipping go hand in hand

What is dropshipping and how does it fit in with blogging? By Nate Moller

Don’t Wait to be Perfect in Blogging

We all want to be perfect. We want to look perfect while going to any party, we want to be perfect while playing video games, and we want to be perfect if we are cooking something. Same rule applies to blogging.

Blogger Interview: Cori Padgett of Big Girl Branding

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BGB is supposed to be a sort of marketing and branding resource that readers can visit often and always find relevant and useful information regarding small business start-ups, marketing, branding, and all that other fun stuff that relates. By Blogging Teacher

How To Set Your Blog On Fire

Kiesha Easley shares tips on how to instill excitement to your blog.

What are the best methods for marketing blog articles?

There’s this thing called marketing, and when you actually do it, your articles tend to get read by more people. Now, “more people” can mean one or two people, or it can mean thousands of people. It’s all about how you market your blog post that gets it read. By Blogussion

How To Remain Broke As A Blogger – Guaranteed!

A lot of bloggers have a big problem. This problem plagues them despite all efforts to monetize their own blogs.

That problem is… A crappy attitude about marketing. By David Risley

Keep your Eyes out for Blog Marketing Scams

So you want to quit your job and get out of the rat race. Working for someone else is not always what it is cracked up to be, and you need a major change.

The beauty of blogs



Pamela Ferdinand shares her thoughts on the benefits of blogging.

Where to Find Writers for Your Blog

One of the best ways to scale your problogging business is to hire competent writers. With other writers on your blog, you’ll be able to generate more traffic and revenue. By Dee Barizo

Top tools for the nomadic blogger

One of the great things about being a blogger is that you can do your job from anywhere in the world. By Sharon Hurley Hall

The 7 Levels of Revenue for your Blog in 2010

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Tips on generating revenue on your blog.

Top 5 Search Terms at Online Marketing Blog – Including Pirates



Here are the six most popular site search terms for Online Marketing Blog. By Michelle Bowles

Top Ten Ways to Draw Readers To Your Blog

One of the most fun things about blogging is drawing readers to your site and creating a sense of community on your blog. There’s no secret formula to this. By Jane Boursaw

Social Media Success Summit 2010



Social Media Success Summit is a HUGE online conference dedicated to help businesses succeed with social media marketing. More than 1,000 folks have already signed up!

Are you backing up your blog and other social sites? Here's how...

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How would you feel and what would you do if you lost all your blog posts? Of if all the content you posted on Facebook disappeared because your account was hacked? By Denise Wakeman

Three Lively Blogging Debates to Explore in 2010

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Sometimes it seems like we’re running out of juicy debates in the blogosphere. By James Chartrand

9 Things Bloggers Can (and Can’t) Learn from the Army

Military blogging–milblogging as its known–is a growing, thriving niche. By Darren Rowse

Monday, April 12, 2010

6 reasons why you should avoid automated blogging tools

Marko Saric discusses 6 reasons to think twice before using automated blogging tools.

The Power of Social Networks in Promoting Your Blog

Of all the things you have to learn when building your blog machine, the most intimidating are the set of inhuman acts you’re expected to go through to promote it. By Admin

Tips From A First Time Podcaster

Bryan Curry shares his techniques on starting a podcast.

Here’s What You Should Do to Improve Your Blog Today

What is one thing that you can do tomorrow morning when you sit down at your desk that will improve your blog? By Darren Rowse

Tips for promoting new blogs

Thousands of new blogs are started by companies and individuals each day. Yet getting a blog set-up, optimized, and launched are just the first steps. By Thomas McMahon

Adobe, Apple square off over Flash software

Adobe employee Lee Brimelow, blasts Apple on his blog.

Thursday, April 08, 2010

10 SEO Tools Every Blogger Must Use

Every blogger wishes to find his blog coming at the top rankings in various search engines when keywords related to that are entered. However, this cannot be achieved without doing anything.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Top 10 Blogs To Follow For Online Business Development

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Here's a cool list of the top 10 internet marketing, social media and online business development blogs. By Sean Smith

15 Internet tools every blogger should use

Here are 15 online tools that can help make blogging easier, more efficient and enjoyable. Some you may already have heard of, others might new to you, so make sure to check them out. By Alex Ainsberg

Blog better by imitating a blogger who does it well

Kiesha Easley writes about how blogging was more than good design...she needed to know what it was that these bloggers did to stand out from the rest.

What’s your blogging story?

How and when did you start blogging? By Kiesha Easley

How to Have a Blog



The answer to how to have a blog first depends on why you want a blog. (The word blog comes from combining web and log, as in a log of what you’re doing). By Phyllis Zimbler Miller

Lazy blogging – the art of doing less

Lot of the things that go into blogging mean very little. Dropping those things is the key to lazy blogging – doing less by working smarter, not harder. By Antti Kokkonen

5 Effective Blog Post Ideas

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Looking for and finding blog post ideas often seems easy when you first start blogging, but as you progress in your blogging career, you might find yourself running out of topic ideas or subject matter for posts. By Tom Walker

Do Bloggers Really Make Money Blogging?

Do Bloggers Really Make Money Blogging?

So many top bloggers seems to make most of their income through offering their own membership course, ebooks or other training materials. So, do any bloggers actually make money from blogging alone? By Keller Hawthorne

The Blogger Template Designer


Here's more information regarding the new Blogger Template Designer.

New blog designer on Blogger



A year in the making, the new template designer is now on Blogger.

Blogging and Social Media – Benefits of Social Media Marketing

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A business who uses social media as one of its marketing tools will have available to it many benefits. By Grant Griffiths

How NOT To Apply For A Paid Blogging Gig



Although the cold call strategy can work, there certainly are disadvantages as well. By Frank Branckaute

How to Get a Blogger’s Attention

Getting the attention of a blogger you would like to work with or for is no easy task. Life feels like one big cluttered inbox. Here are a few ways to cut through the noise. By Andrew G.R.

Smart Article Marketing For Fast AND Long Term Blog Traffic

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Article marketing for traffic is by no means a new concept, but as old as it is there are still great misconceptions about the best way to use it as a tool in creating new targetted visitors to your blog. By Andrew Hansen

How To Increase Your Blog Traffic With Article Marketing

Many will claim that article marketing doesn’t work, but Henri Junttila has used it and it has worked beautifully. In this article he'll explain exactly what he's done and how he made it work.

Blogging Lessons From TechCrunch and Mashable

Here are some blogging tips shared by TechCrunch and Mashable. By Daniel Scocco

How to Use Editorial Calendars for Your Blog

One of the challenges for business bloggers that I constantly hear about is the never-ending need for fresh, relevant and timely content ideas to keep one's audience engaged. By Denise Wakeman

How To Syndicate Your Blog to Social Networks

A blog should be considered the central hub of your social networking universe. Everything you do should drive traffic back to your blog, or website, as a way of combining all your efforts to give your brand maximum exposure. By Thomas McMahon

Why You Should Always Write Your Headline Last

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When you write a post for your blog, your headline is the last thing you should be thinking about. By James Chartrand

7 Ways to end a blog

Here are some options available to bloggers who have decided to end their blog but who don’t quite know how to do it. By Problogger

30 Valuable Lessons Learned Using Social Media for Small Business

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Do you own a small business? How long have you been using social media as a marketing tool and what have you learned? By Mark Hayward

Sunday, March 14, 2010

10 Blogging Mistakes Most Bloggers Make

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Sometimes it takes years of blogging to notice your most obvious mistakes. By SEO Blog

Friday, March 12, 2010

11 Characteristics of Highly Influential Blog(ger)s


Want to build your blog and following? Here are some key ideas and takeways — as well as inspirational bloggers you might want to follow — who can help you realize that dream. By Tamar Weinberg

Saturday, March 06, 2010

21 Reasons Why Readers Don’t Like Your Blog

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Here are a Don’t Do things list for your blog. By MsaNkadl

14 Traits of Successful Blogs

Have you ever visited a blog and wondered how they got 100,000 RSS subscribers or 200,000 Twitter followers? Well, the most essential and basic ingredients behind any successful blog is Focus, Passion, and Originality. By Cyrus Patten

20 Essential Tips for Graphic Design Blog Management

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Whether you work in some corporate office, small studio, or as a freelance designer, chances are you have a lot to do. As blog owners, we many times have multiple tasks to work on, content to manage, writers to handle, research to do, and more, to increase the productivity and of course, daily traffic. One way or another, there are many ways by which one can increase the efficiency of their blog. By Albertus Ryan Adrianto