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

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

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

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

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

Plugins For WordPress Blogs

Listing of plugins for Wordpress.

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?

Who are you? Do you know? When people visit your blog, do they know? By David Risley

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

Apple Pings Your Music Tastes

Apple’s new Ping network has debuted with the most recent release of iTunes. By Dina Ely

Social Media SEO Success with Blogging

Better Blog Marketing with Social SEO

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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