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

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

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

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

12 Ways to Get More Comments on Your Blog

Having a lot of comments on your blog has a lot of advantages including social proof, however, many people find it difficult to get comments on their blogs, this post will be listing 12 ways to get more comments on your blogs. By Onibalusi Bamidele

Three Great Forum Plugins for Wordpress

Discussion forums were one of the earliest forms of online social networking and are hard-wired into the DNA of the internet. By Brandon Cox

5 Cool Widgets & Services for Your Blogger Blog

Some cool widgets to use for your blog. By Gouthaman Karunakaran

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

In case you were wondering, it is possible to hide the Blogger nav-bar (which displays a search box and useful links). By Amanda Kennedy

Nexus 5 - A New Blogger Template for Free Download

Nexus 5 is a one column template, with widgetized sections in the footer for any gadgets you may like to include. A wider, two column version will be available shortly for those who prefer gadgets in a sidebar section. By Bloggerbuster

How to Add a Featured Content Section on your Blog's Home Page

Here's a great customization to use when designing Blogger templates. It's called a "featured content" that you can display on the home page. Use this technique to display a content slider, mini-portfolio or slideshow above the main posts section. By Amanda Kennedy

New Ways to Find WordPress Themes

There are thousands of themes available for WordPress. By James Huff

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

In an age where everyone wants to be first, many bloggers are sacrificing elegance for speed in a vain attempt to break the news before their rivals get a chance to analyze the story. By Darnell Clayton

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

ExpressionEngine To Leapfrog WordPress On iPhone? (iExpression)

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Ning Courts WordPress

Ning (a premium DIY social networking service) is reaching out to WordPress fans by eliminating the need to repost blog entries upon ones social Ning network. By Darnell Clayton

How do you influence your blog readers?

To quote Spidey’s uncle “with great power comes great responsibility!” and our responsibility as a blogger shouldn’t be taken lightly. By Diane Corriette

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.

As more and more people join Twitter, Facebook and other social networks, bloggers are increasingly trying to get their content shared and it in-front of more people. And why wouldn’t they? By Thomas McMahon

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

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