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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

8 tips for driving traffic to your blog

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

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

9 Plugins for WordPress Design & Development

One of the biggest factors for WordPress fame is the amount of development happening around this ever so wonderful content management system. By Mayank

The 35 Best WordPress Design Websites

Popularity of WordPress is clear in its own way, however it becomes crystal clear when we see small businesses, professionals or even big corporations are giving preference to WordPress over other CMSes. By Mayank

Why Web Designers are becoming WordPress Designers?

It was the evolution of blogging that brought many significant changes in the web ecosystem and one of them is that there are far more webmasters now and hundreds of them are becoming professional webmasters every day. By Mayank

Three ways bloggers just gotta have fun

What is the main purpose you blog? Perhaps it is to make money. Or it might be to spread information. It might be to change people’s minds or just to rant. By David Leonhardt

E-Commerce Blogging for Dummies

Let us say you own a website that sells products online in a particular niche. Now let us assume that you have competitive pricing within your niche and that you have decent conversion rates on the traffic you currently receive. That is great to hear, but the problem is your site is out-ranked by the big retailers and other competitors in your niche.

So what do you do to gain exposure? By Jeff Herbst

Beginner Blogger – How to Add a Favicon to Your Website

A favicon is a detail in web design that is often overlooked, and it’s a missed opportunity. By Mommygeek

Beginner Blogger – Using the Kitchen Sink in WordPress

This tutorial covers the extended toolbar inside your WordPress Dashboard. By Grant Griffiths

Beginner Blogger – Where do I get ideas for my blog post?

If not daily are “what should I post about?” Or, where do I get ideas for my blog post? How often should I post to my blog? By Grant Griffiths

Successful Guest Blogging Pitches

Tips on guest blogging by Andrew G. Rosen

Blogging Pitfalls: Why You Can’t Be Just a Blogger

Everyone knows what being a blogger entails but fewer people know what creating a successful blog involves. By Jonathan Bailey

Is Your Blog’s About Page About the Right Stuff?

When was the last time you read your blog’s About page?

Top 10 Most Important Pages Every Blog Or Website Should Have

Blogging is the best way to express your feelings. You really come to know interesting things and get the knowledge to the whole world. By Yogesh Mankani

Easily make HTML sitemap for your blog using Javascript

Here's information on creating a sitemap land loading it to blogs and then to Webmaster tools. By Blogger for Dummies

Tumblr Sneaks Out Android App

After conquering the iPhone as well as Blackberry smartphones, Tumblr has invaded the Android Market minus the official announcement. By Darnell Clayton

Tumblr Tops A Billion Posts

After dethroning Typepad for the bronze, it looks as if Tumblr has reached yet another milestone by surpassing one billion posts! By Darnell Clayton

Meet Your Perfect Blog Partner

My Blog Guest has been started by Ann Smarty, a fairly well-known weblogger and social media user. She's been guest blogging and building relationships in the blogosphere long enough to understand the power of a guest post - and that's what she wants to share via her little cozy web community.

Promoting Your Community News & Events Blog

There are some local communities that are not served by mainstream media news due to their minimal size or far-reaching location. By Gary Kohler

Why Choosing a Blog Niche Might Not Be a Good Idea

There are a few pieces of advice that tend to come as standard when you look for help with blogging. “Write compelling content”, “network in your niche”, and “stay consistent” are probably the most common words of wisdom you’ll receive. “Pick the right niche” ranks right up there with them as well. By Glen Allsopp

5 Simple Ways to Open Your Blog Post With a Bang

What’s the second most important part of your blog post after the title? By Brian Clark

Why Your Blog Doesn’t Make Money

So why do so many bloggers equate blog success with financial success? By Taylor Lindstrom

Become a Playful Blogger and Inject Some Energy into Your Blogging

Is your blogging getting a little dry? Perhaps it is time to become a bit more playful as a blogger. By Darren Rowse

50+ New and Beautiful Free Wordpress Themes

Check out these 50 new and beautiful free Wordpress themes. By Alex

Mind mapping for blog expansion: Part 2

Brain storm ing is where we dig deep into our pas sion, pur pose, and start think ing about the intial work ings of our expan sion. This is where you grab a piece of paper, a white board, ...By Derek Jensen

Mind mapping for blog expansion: Part 1

There are many ways we can build our blog. Yes, we can just “go with the flow”. Yes, we can just expand how ever way or into area we want. By Derek Jensen

BloggingPro’s Visual Guide to SEO

Ever come across the term SEO while surfing the web or browsing through blogs? Do you know what SEO is? By Jaypee Habaradas

Top 10 Ways to Tweak Your WordPress Theme

WordPress is the fastest growing CMS platforms in today’s web design industry (yes, it’s a true CMS). Much of the action in the WordPress community is largely driven by the market for WordPress themes. By Brian Casel

Should Probloggers Use Hellotxt For iPhone?

When it comes to updating multiple social networks and blog platforms simultaneously, many blogging pros choose either HootSuite (which supports Twitter, Facebook, and Ping.fm), or Seesmic (who owns Ping.fm). By Darnell Clayton

What you wanted to KNOW about blogging!

The aim of the post is to help educators and students with their personal blogging. By Sue Walters

How to use Photo Dropper to Add Flickr Images to your Blog

Do you use images in your blog posts? Check out Photo Dropper. By Denise Wakeman

Got bloggers block?

It happens to all of us. We sit in front of our computers, stare at the screen and have no idea what to write about. It should be so easy, yet nothing comes to mind. Chances are, we’re thinking to hard. By Thomas McMahon

Make Your Readers Love You: 5 Lessons from Pixar

Some good tips on how to take lessons from Pixar when writing your blog. By Sean Platt

Blog content strategy 101

Content strategy might seem like the domain of giant content sites and big-brand online publishers. But if you run a blog, you’re a content publisher. By ProBlogger

HOW TO: Add Multimedia to Your Blog

A website without multimedia is like a cupcake without icing: Functional but lacking. By Zachary Sniderman

10 Tips for Corporate Blogging

In a world where small businesses with corporate blogs receive 55 percent more traffic than small businesses that don’t blog, companies should be taking note on how to improve their blogs, attract more readers and get more results. By Erica Swallow

How to Add Custom Fonts to Blogger

Adding custom fonts to Blogger can improve the look and feel of your blog. Before getting into font embedding lets know how this works. By Blogger Plugins

Official Sharing Buttons on Blogger

Blogger has been rolling out new features to improve the looks and usability of the blogs. Blogger is now testing out a new Social Sharing icon set consisting of Email, Blogger,Twitter(with goo.gl shortener),Facebook and Google buzz buttons. By Blogger Plugins

Blog your life with the Song Bloggie Mobile HD Snap camera

There have been lots of great mobile video cameras over the last few years which have been targeted towards video bloggers (e.g. the flip) but Sony’s Bloggie is the first camera from a major electronics company to include the word ‘Blog’ in the name of a device. By Kevin Muldoon

Significantly Speed Up Your WordPress Blog in 9 Easy Steps

You blog's loading speed affects more than just user experience but is now a factor used by google to determine an overall ranking for your site. By Robyn-Dale Samuda

WordPress Ponders Palm Pre App

In their quest to dominate the “mobileverse,” Automattic (the company behind WordPress) is planning on expanding their brand upon Palm Pre and Windows Mobile devices. By Darnell Clayton

Blogging SEO Tips (and pitfalls)

Blog SEO Tips and Tricks Writing a blog is a major part of internet marketing. Writing one that helps a site’s SEO and traffic generation is a little bit trickier. Here are some blog SEO tips and tricks to increase both. By Eric Gesinski

Blogger Live Stats Vs WordPress Stats: Which Is Better?

Despite being late to the analytics game, Blogger has recently unveiled live stats for BlogSpot fans in order to help their users attain a greater grasp of where their traffic is coming from. By Darnell Clayton

Tumblr Topples Typepad

According to Quantcast, Tumblr is now receiving 10.7 million uniques when compared against Typepad’s 10.6 million stateside, although the gap between the two services expands once you include international users. By Darnell Clayton

TweetDeck Officially Loved By Millions

TweetDeck is a popular desktop application that makes for an enjoyable experience when sending and receiving Tweets. By James Johnson

Need A Reason To Switch Blog Comments To Disqus? There’s An App For That

Known for spicing up blogs with their dead simple commenting system, Disqus has emerged as one of the leading commenting systems online (the other being Intense Debate). By Darnell Clayton

Blogosphere Trends + Handling High Word Counts

Kimberly Turner is often asked about the “ideal length” for a blog post. She's heard answers ranging from 200 to 800 words, but her answer is always the same: Enough to tell the story and not one word more. Writing short is actually considerably more difficult than writing long because every word has to truly pull its weight. There is no room for filler.

How to Take an Idea to Launch in 4 Steps

How do you know which projects to go with and which to leave behind? By Darren Rowse

The Complete Guide to Video Blogging

Video blogging is nothing new — after all, video has existed on the web long before YouTube. But video equipment is now cheaper, post production software more accessible, and online platforms on which to distribute video — such as YouTube — are easier to use than ever before. Still, only some of the many people posting videos regard themselves as video bloggers. By Leah Betancourt

13 Apps to Turn Your iPhone into a Blogging Machine

Seeing as how Web services today are becoming more and more multi-faceted and multi-functional, particularly in the social networking and social media space, it really is open to debate what is and what is not part of a specific segment of the market. By Paul Glazowski

3 Advanced SEO Tips Every Blogger Should Know

There can only be one person ranking for the number one position. In some niches, competition can be fierce and require extreme attention to detail in order to win and take that number “1” spot. By Jason Capshaw

Riding The Big Wave Of Blog Traffic

Watching trends is just a part of blogging. With information changing as fast as it does online, if you are not paying attention to what is going on around you, you might as well get used to being left in the dust. By Robb Sutton

Today’s mobile blogging

Tips on how to blog while on the road. By Jose de Francisco

Top 7 Technical Mistakes Bloggers Make

It’s easy to get lost when you are new. After all, there’s too much to manage! You have design, content and what not. In all this mess, it is easy to make small mistakes. By Ishan Sharma

Translation Service for Bloggers

Have you ever considered the market potential of selling your products in other languages? By Mike's Life

4 Methods For Commenting On Blogs

Writing comments about blogs and forums inside your specific niche market is definitely a terrific way to push traffic towards your site.

WordPress Theme Releases

Here are some great WordPress Themes. By Weblogtools

Search-Plugins.com, A New Way to Power Your WordPress Search

For a long time the search function of WordPress has been the achilles heel of the publication platform and numerous plugins extending the WordPress search have been created and uploaded to WordPress Extend. By Franky Branckaute

How to Get Massive Traffic to Your Blog Contests for Free

Blog contests are a great way to drive short-term traffic to your blog, and hopefully, if your prize is relevant to your blog topic, some of those new visitors who come to enter the contest will poke around your blog, enjoy what they see, and return! By Susan Gunelius

How ho write an About Page that tells your visitors why they should listen

Google Story And The Blogging Heroes

“The Google Story” by David A.Vise is about the most widely used search engine in the world – Google. By Joanne

5 Reasons Why People Don’t Prefer Guest Blogging

Guest blogging for other blogs of a favorite niche is a kind of passion and another way of making money by just doing the same exact blogging tasks you are already used to follow on your own blog! By Murugappan

6 Tools For Better Blogging With An iPad

The upside to blogging with an iPad is that it’s portable and you can easily log your thoughts on a screen that is a lot more convenient than typing into an iPhone or other smartphone. Also, there are a number of apps to make it fairly easy. By Lee Odden

30 Day Blogging Challenge - Interview with Connie Ragen Green

Writing and blogging challenges have become popular over that last couple of years. Not only do they help you hone your writing skills, participation can generate a lot of buzz, traffic, visibility and opportunities for your business. By Denise Wakeman

4 Tips To Help You Stay Focused on Your Blog

Most people who blog also have a full time job or occupation (i.e., school), not to mention other personal activities (e.g., friends and family), so balancing everything can become tricky indeed. By Daniel Scocco

4 Tips To Help You Stay Focused on Your Blog

Most people who blog also have a full time job or occupation (i.e., school), not to mention other personal activities (e.g., friends and family), so balancing everything can become tricky indeed. By Daniel Scocco

Blogging Buddy Groups Now Forming - Social Success Story

Denise Wakeman shares a great story with you that demonstrates the power of social networking.

How to Find Thousands More Prospects for Your Business

Ever wonder why conversion rates are so low? By Sonia Simone

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

How to use guest post­ing and blog com­ment­ing effec­tively to mar­ket the “you know what” out of 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

Six Apart Goes Green

Six Apart (the company behind Typepad, Movabletype, and Vox) has dipped its toe in the green movement by purchasing an environmentally conscious network by the name of NaturalPath Media. By The Blog Herald

Blogger’s Template Designer Goes Public

After releasing the template designer upon Blogger in Draft (which is Blogger’s eternal beta site), Google has decided to drop the beta for BlogSpot’s theme feature and release the tool for the masses to try out. By The Blog Herald

LiveJournal Joins WordPress, Copies Tumblr

It looks like “Tumblr envy” is spreading throughout the blogosphere as LiveJournal has joined WordPress (not to mention Typepad as well) in copying a feature that has set apart Tumblr from the rest of its rivals. By The Blog Herald

Significantly Speed Up Your WordPress Blog in 9 Easy Steps

Your blog’s loading speed affects more Improve WordPress Speedthan just user experience but is now a factor used by google to determine an overall ranking for your site. By Robyn-Dale Samuda

Why Guest Blogging is Useless for Link Building

I used to be highly advocative of guest blogging as an effective link building strategy. I used to tell people that this way they could get a quality link back from a high-authority website for free. I used to say, these links (coming from high-quality content) are well-deserved and thus can’t be frowned upon by Google. By Ann Smarty

Tumblr Embraces Twitter On iPhone (Adds Extra Features)

After updating their iPhone app in order to be compatible with iOS 4, it looks as if Tumblr has added an extra feature that will please tweetaholics. By The Blog Herald

Tips on Promoting Your Blog

All right, so your blog is up and running and you have content on it. Now how do you bring people in to look at your blog? Here are a few suggestions, mostly taken from, “The Guide To Promoting Your Web Page”. By Blog Tutorials

5 Reasons Why You Should Respond to Every Comment

If you enable comments on your blog (which I’m sure most of you do), then you obviously want your readers to interact by leaving comments after your post. Then why, I ask, does it usually end up being a one-sided conversation? By Pat Flynn

How to use Google's font api with Blogger

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

What Is The Difference Between A Blog And A Website?

The everlasting battle between a blog and website to have the crown as the best way in advertising services by a company in the web is rarely ending. By Jeff Dedrick

The art of reading to become an amazing blogger

If you were born on a desert island, raised by a pack of wolves, would you make a good blogger? By Bamboo Forest

7 tips that will make your blog stand out

Great blogs stand out because they have unique brands behind them! By Mars Dorian

The Top 12 Success Killers In Blogging (with Solutions!)

Here are the top 12 success killers in blogging. If you do not get these items in check, you might as well pack up the laptop now and give up. By Robb Sutton

How to Get to the Next Level (for Bloggers Who Didn’t Know There Was a Next Level)

Some very good suggestions to take your blog to the next level.

Benefits of Blogging – Building a Community

What could be better than gaining a worldwide audience with blogging? Taking that audience and creating a community. By Kristi Hines

Mobile Blogging – How to Make Your WordPress Blog Smartphone Ready

Here's an article covering HTC Droid Eris, about comparing two different plugins to make your WordPress sites more mobile friendly – WordPress Mobile Pack and WPtouch iPhone Theme. Both get the job done effectively – it is just a matter of whether you are looking for something simple or something with a lot of features. By Kristi Hines

5 Tactics Bloggers Should Borrow from Traditional PR

Bloggers have been hailed as “citizen journalists” and powerful influencers for years. But bloggers have another, less frequently discussed role – they’re also citizen PR experts. My Mickie Kennedy

How to: Build a more beautiful blog

Whether you’re blogging for business or pleasure, now is the time to take your little corner of the web to the next level. By Matt Silverman

How to: Create a Successful Company Blog

Blogging in your business is vital to creating a public personae and making your company more accessible. In an era where companies like Zappos have differentiated themselves based on service, it is important to be public and accessible. By Mark Suster

WordPress 3.0 Has Arrived

How To Harness The Power Within Your Readers’ Blog Comments

For many bloggers, a comment is a very valuable thing, especially for new bloggers who are looking for confirmation that their voices are being heard and visitors are actually engaging their new blog. By Robyn-Dale Samuda

Blogging Tips Archives and Link Love

Here are some great blogging tips by Patti Stafford.

12 Ways to Make Your Blog Posts more Credible

Today’s educated readers want information from a credible, trusted source, says researcher and writer Michael Low. When you convince them you are that source, they will believe and read what you have to say. By Darren Rowse