Monday, October 24, 2011
Blogging Turns Social Networking into Business Networking
While millions of people are doing business every day on social networking sites, some business owners are reluctant to spend much time there because they don't think it's a valid business activity. By Denise Wakeman
BlogWorld LA: Optimize & Socialize For Better Business Blogging
The Picasso Guide to Becoming a Social Media Legend
During his career he was loved, hated, admired, dissed, fought over … but never ignored. His name? Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y … Picasso. By Copyblogger
How to Write a Blog Post Like a Troublemaker with a Heart of Gold
In a world overflowing with bloggers, there’s the type of troublemaker you love and the type of troublemaker you hate. By ProBlogger
Make Your Blog the Event of the Year (and have People Clamor to Attend)
Great ideas to promote your blog. By ProBlogger
My 3-Step System for Finding Guest Post Opportunities
Tired of haphazardly, randomly struggling to find guest blogging opportunities? Or finding yourself stressed to the max because you’re unable to locate your next guest-post goal for the month?
You’re not alone. Most bloggers don’t know where or how to search properly, and if they’re trying to search at all, generally end up with dead-end leads. By ProBlogger
How to Use Blogging as a Job Search Tool
Blogging is not just writing your personal notebook these days: it’s a truly open platform where people share their ideas, passion, goals, and thoughts on subjects they care about. Gone are the days when people would consider blogs “a personal affair.” The scene has long since changed. By ProBlogger
Friday, September 30, 2011
The Secret to Getting More Traffic to Your Blog
Every new blogger today is on the lookout for new ways to get traffic to
their blogs but very few of them actually get results from the tips
they read from other blogs. By Blogging Tips
5 Places to Generate Enough Content Ideas
The reality of blogging is that to be able to build a successful blog you need content, and you need a lot of it.
It doesn’t matter what format your content takes, you need to work on ensuring you have an endless source of content ideas to help you run your blog and market it outside your field. By Blogging Tips
It doesn’t matter what format your content takes, you need to work on ensuring you have an endless source of content ideas to help you run your blog and market it outside your field. By Blogging Tips
Distinguish Yourself Among Bloggers
There’s no way to get around it: if you’re looking to become a pro blogger, you’ve got some pretty tough competition. Even bloggers who write on supposedly “niche” subjects face opposition from similarly themed blogs. By Blogging Tips
Is it Really all about Your Content?
When it comes to “content being king” you need to know that the phrase
“content is king” isn’t as conclusive as it seems. In fact, that
statement can be very confusing and deceitful that it has made a lot of
new bloggers quit because they can’t just get their “great content” to
work for them. By Blogging Tips
Is Quality Content the Key to Blogging Success?
Or is valuable content more important than the quality? If you don’t
feel like your writing skills are up to par you can implement video into
your content planning. By Blogging Tips
Blogging Tips That Can Help You Become Successful
For many people, blogging represents a steady source of income. However,
this activity can easily bring along not only a nice monthly income but
also a great reputation. By Blogging Tips
The Importance Of Scheduling Your Blog Posts
One of the most important responsibilities of running a popular blog is scheduling posts. This is particularly true for blogs in which the blog owner doesn’t write every day themselves. That is, they just need to organize the articles written by staff and guest posters. By Blogging Tips
5 Ways to Improve Your Writing and Become a Better Blogger
When it comes to being a better blogger and building a successful blog
it is important for you to realize that your communications skills
matter a lot. Working on improving your writing as a blogger can result
in great rewards for you since writing is one of the major modes of
communication for bloggers. By Blogging Tips
You Can’t Wow Them Until You Whoa Them; Writing Headlines
Do you suck at writing headlines? Does it seem like you can’t
get your blog posts read? Maybe it’s your headline. You want the
headline to stop them from skim reading so you can wow them with your
content. By Blogging Tips
Key Concepts in Blog Marketing Strategy
Blog marketing has emerged as a great way to promote online businesses. While new concepts on blog marketing are evolving every day, there are few strategies that have been time tested and proven worthy. By Blogging Tips
The One Element Your Entire Blog Marketing Campaign is Subject To
If you’re a new blogger, you’ve probably read a lot of articles online, and you read them all with hopes of achieving great results soon. After a few days, or weeks, of marketing your blog without getting results you come up with the conclusion that the tactic you used doesn’t work.
Have you ever thought about the possibility of the tactic working, but just one element missing? By Blogging Tips
Simple Tips to Avoid Information Overload
If you’re a new blogger you may be a bit confused by all of the
information out there telling you how to set up, run and monetize your
blog. You need to learn list building, traffic generation, SEO, email
marketing, and a host of other things you should be doing. By Blogging Tips
Internet Broadcasting is the Next Big Wave
Also known as podcasting, internet broadcasting is much bigger than the term “podcasting”. Certainly, many of the blogs are adding their very own show. By Blogussion
Taking Your Blog Mobile: A Basic Guide
Has your blog gone mobile yet? I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but ever since smartphones were introduced, mobile web browsing has exploded. More and more people are visiting your site on their phones, and you may not be prepared to satisfy them with a great experience. By Blogussion
3 Simple Ways to Make Money Blogging Without Selling Out
Over the past several years, blogging has become a new source for generating money online. Early on it was a major focus on creating web sites and e-commerce platforms. By Blogussion
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Enhance your Blogging Experience with Select Bowser Add-ons and
Bloggers know that running a blog is not a simple task: it takes a lot of time and effort to ensure that your blog is constantly updated with valuable and unique content and that it’s aesthetically pleasing—aesthetics play a huge role in attracting a strong audience; and as many bloggers may already know, without a strong audience it’s very difficult to earn revenue from your blog(s). By Technotip
New dynamic view from Blogger
Built with the latest in web technology (AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3), Dynamic Views is a unique browsing experience that will inspire your readers to explore your blog in new ways. The interactive layouts make it easier for readers to enjoy and discover your posts, loading 40 percent faster than traditional templates and bringing older entries to the surface so they seem fresh again. By Rick Klau
5 Ways To Monetize Your Blog Without Banner Ads
The reason is simple, banners don’t necessarily portray credibility. With all the unscrupulous acts online, one has to be very careful and ensure your hard earned cash isn’t diverted. By Marko Saric
7 Essential Tips for Creating Effective Video Blogs
So how do you create popular video blogs? This article outlines the seven most essential tips for creating effective video blogs for any niche. By Marko Saric
How to Choose What to Blog About
It’s probably the first question every blogger has to ask themselves. It comes before writing the first post, choosing the theme or even selecting your blogging platform: What is my blog going to be about? By BloggingPro
Why You Should Backup Your Blog
It would be nice if all bloggers had to worry about was coming up with the next great post. But in a world of constant security threats, even WordPress blogs need to up backed up once in a while. By Performancing
Blog Checklist - 13 Things to Review Before You Hit Publish
Do you ever hit the "publish" button for your new post then cringe because you see a mistake or missing word, or realize your forgot to add an image? By Denise Wakeman
Content Marketing Optimization: 8 Content Ideas for Business Blogs
Tips for business blogs. By Toprank
A Practical Strategy to Increase the Value of Your Blog
If valuations are based on earnings, it is obvious that earnings must increase if the value of your web property is to increase. Many online entrepreneurs take their time growing their web property organically, often on their own due to funding restrictions. By Problogger
7 Ways Interviews Can Skyrocket Blog Growth
Interviewing experts in your field is a gold mine waiting to be cashed in on, and it offers many benefits to the blogger. By Problogger
Principles of Effective Blog Design
The content of your blog is always more important than the design, but you need to woo people with your design first. You draw them in with design, and keep with content. By Problogger
Sunday, September 04, 2011
17 Tips to Get More Exposure for Your Blog Posts
The most significant challenge that bloggers face is attracting
visitors. For new bloggers nothing can be more frustrating than trying
to figure out how to get people to see the content that you’ve spent
time preparing. By Vandelay Design
9 Reasons for Freelance Designers to Blog
For freelance designers blogging can serve many different purposes
depending on where you are in your business and what direction you want
to go. By Vandelay Design
Exposing Common Myths About Blogging
There is no shortage of content available on the topic of blogging, but
many who are interested in the subject still have misconceptions about
making money through a blog. By Vandelay Design
Monday, August 08, 2011
Why You Should Add A Podcast To Your Blog
Optimizing your Blog for Google Panda
What is Panda all about? By Blogsessive
Best 3 Advanced Chrome Extensions To Manage a WordPress Blog
When it comes to choosing a web browser, Internet Explorer and Firefox tend to be two of the most popular. However, Google Chrome is now making its mark in the browser sector. Many people are enjoying the easy to navigate and simple Chrome features, though one problem has cropped up for bloggers. By Blogsessive
Use a Blog to Build Your Brand
Brand building is the only route to business success in the present global market scenario. Sales alone cannot make a business successful since they do not increase until the brand becomes a forceful tool that will launch the business into the big league. By Blogsessive
How to Choose a Blog Topic
Choosing a blog topic is the most important factor in having a successful, well-read blog post that attracts comments and attention. Here is how to choose a topic for your blog post. By Blogsessive
9 Plugins To Help You Optimize WordPress Performance
Time is more precious now than ever before and most people definitely have less of it (than ever before); so you want to be sure that your blog is optimized for maximum performance.
The best way to do this is through the use of plugins. By Blogging Tips
The best way to do this is through the use of plugins. By Blogging Tips
Sunday, August 07, 2011
7 Time Management Tips for Bloggers
Let’s face it, blogging takes a lot of effort. This is especially true for those of you who hold down a full time job, coach your son’s little league team, and are involved with your church on the weekends. Can blogging ultimately give you the freedom that you deserve? Absolutely Yes! By Blogging Your Passion
10 Best iPad Apps for Bloggers
Here's a listing of 10 apps for bloggers. By Blogging Your Passion
How To Add Adsense Ads to Your WordPress Blog
How to Manage Multiple WordPress Blogs in One Dashboard
If you are like most bloggers these days, you have several interests and passions. Although when just starting out, it is recommended that you stick with one blog and put all your effort into getting it off the ground. By Blogging Your Passion
Productivity Tips for Bloggers
If you haven’t already figured it out, blogging can take a lot of work. Bloggers taking shortcuts for the sake of managing their time better. This is a bad strategy. You should never sacrifice quality for quantity. Blogging Your Passion
7 Habits of Successful Bloggers
The truth is there are more than 7 work tasks that you can get involved in when blogging. Unfortunately, many tasks do not contribute to your blog in any substantial way. Being able to drown out the noise and focus on the most important tasks is a great achievement in the life of any blogger. By Blogging Your Passion
How Do Bloggers Make Money?
Whenever someone is first introduced to the world of blogging, invariably the first question is “How do bloggers make money?” By Blogging Your Passion
Keyword strategy too
How best to determine keywords for your blog. By Blogging Your Passion
20 Different Blog Post Ideas
Ever sit down to write for your blog and you become hypnotized by the blinking cursor? Do you need some blog post ideas? Sometimes we just need some fresh ideas to get us started. By Blogging Your Passion
6 Steps to Creating a Simple Blog Business Plan
Some good tips on creating a business plan for your blog. By Blogging Your Passion
A Blog Traffic Strategy: Quality vs Quantity
When it comes to blogging, there are different mentalities around both the quantity of traffic and the quality of traffic. At different stages in a website’s development, we tend to focus on one or the other, but when we start a new blog, we primarily want to get traffic to it. By Problogger
Friday, August 05, 2011
How to install Wordpress 3.2
Want to post to Blogger from Google+?
Tip on how to post to Blogger with your Google+ account. By Rick Klau
Using Opinion Polls
Allowing people to contribute to your blog is a great way for you to establish that you are serious about what they think. There are a lot of different ways that you can allow people to contribute to your blog, and one of the best ways would be by using opinion polls. By BloggingPro
Ho to be a more productive blogger
At its core blogging is about sharing ideas and personal opinions. While bloggers may have ideas bouncing all over the place, a crucial choking point is trying to convey those ideas from our mind to paper. By DailyBlogTips
SEO 101: Beginner's guide
For many bloggers, SEO seems to be one of the hardest obstacles bloggers run into. By SEO 101
How Blogging Helped Me Keep My Sanity
5 Legal Guides Every Blogger Should Read
With a slew of potential legal issues including copyright, defamation, trademark, privacy and much more, there are many ways a well-meaning blogger can find themselves being sued. By The Blog Herald
Thursday, August 04, 2011
14 blogs that even celebrities love to read!
Blogging Pitfalls: It’s Time to Kill the Popup (Again)
Popups: A single word that drives both fear and anger into the hearts of nearly all web surfers. By BloggingPro
Interact with Your Blog Audience Using Webinars
Google+ Raises the Bar for Bloggers
Not to imply that every blog you write isn’t chocked full of relevant, well-written content, tailored for just the right audience, I’m sure it is, but understanding the real implications of Google+ should have you thinking twice before you hit any publish buttons. By Faye Armand
How Public Relations Can Avoid Failing at SEO
Our Online Marketing agency at TopRank has been providing practitioners in the Public Relations industry information and insight on Search Engine Optimization for nearly 10 years. By Online Marketing Blog
Bloggers, There’s More To Focusing Than You Think
Focus is a hot topic. Those who do it are always talking about how great it is. Focus helps us be productive, isolate problems, and change aspects of our lives. By DailyBlogTips
Sunday, July 31, 2011
5 DO’S and DON’T’S of On-page Optimization
On-page optimization forms an integral part of SEO. It can be visualized as a foundation of search engine optimization. By Bloggingpro
15 Awesome WordPress Home Pages
Blogging Pitfalls: What You Need in Your Site’s Footer
11 WordPress Plugins For Travel Bloggers
Here are 11 awesome plugins that the travel blogger can use for their own blog. By Bloggingpro
How to Improve Your Blog’s Traffic
Everyone knows that it takes a lot of time and effort to create a good blog but there’s a big difference between having a good blog and having a great blog. By Bloggingpro
Blogging Pitfalls: Why You Can’t Hop From Platform to Platform
Bloggers love to argue about what is the best blogging platform. The simple truth is that every blogging platform is perfectly fine to run your blog. By Bloggingpro
15 Ways to Drive More Traffic to Your Blog
You hear a plethora of SEO’s and Internet Marketers claim that content is king. This is true to an extent, but the fact is a lot of people are more than capable of writing great content, but is great content alone enough? By Bloggingpro
PressWork, A Free HTML5 Drag & Drop Framework for WordPress
When somebody uses the tagline PressWork is not only a framework… we’re setting the standards for premium themes too! on the paid WordPress themes section of their website, eyeballs are caught and we here at BloggingPro like to have a closer look at things. By Bloggingpro
How to Choose the Rights Business Model for Your Blog
If you work on your blog long enough and hard enough, at some point you’re probably going to want to earn at least some revenue from it. After all, though most bloggers get started out of fun or love, revenue is not only a powerful motivator but it also frees a blogger up to invest more time and energy into their site. By Bloggingpro
Blogging Pitfalls: How to Deal with Press Agents
If you build a blog with any reasonable size or status, you’re going to draw the attention of companies and their their public relations managers. By Bloggingpro
Try These 5 Analytics Tools For Your Blog
As a blog owner it’s very important to know who your visitors are, what they like, what they don’t like and what they’re looking for. It’s even more important to have what they’re looking for on your site so that you can keep them there as long as possible. By Bloggingpro
Why I’m Very Glad I Didn’t Spend Money on Advertising my Blog
When I first started blogging I knew the importance of traffic to the success of a blog. I knew it is traffic that results in sales, I knew it is traffic that converts into subscribers and I knew that the less traffic you have the slimmer your chances of success as a blogger. By Onibalusi Bamidele
Bring Your Blog to Life with a New WordPress Theme
As bloggers, we always want our blogs to look the best they can. While a custom designed blog theme is nearly always the best way to go, not all of us have the necessary funds to hire a design team to create our blogs. The next best option is to find a quality wordpress theme that fits your blog style. By Bloggingtips
Lazyscope – Your Twitter Stream Turned into an RSS Feed
Lazyscope is a desktop tool works kind of like a feed reader for your Twitter account. Along with reading tweets though, you can also use it to keep up with your favorite RSS feeds. It lets you import your Google Reader feeds and subscribe to other blogs as well.
By Bloggingtips
By Bloggingtips
10 Ways to Pimp Your Blog
If you’ve been blogging for a little while now, you might be looking at how you can take the next step. To that end, this post offers 10 ways to “pimp” your blog, both in the sense of “tricking out” your blog to make it more attractive and more useful, and in the sense of pushing your blog to earn more readers, subscribers, and (hopefully) fans.
By Dustin Wax
By Dustin Wax
Not all Your Blog Posts Will go Viral
As bloggers, the key to our success lies in our creativity and this creativity is hampered when it isn’t our sole focus. When you’re obsessed only with writing viral blog posts as a blogger you will find it difficult to focus on what really matters, which is delivering value to your audience. By DailyBlogTips
How to Be a More Productive Blogger
At its core blogging is about sharing ideas and personal opinions. While bloggers may have ideas bouncing all over the place, a crucial choking point is trying to convey those ideas from our mind to paper. By DailyBlogTips
6 Reasons Blogging is a Good First Business
The dream of becoming self-employed is the fuel that takes so many bloggers from the first few months of scraping for followers to the successful later years of making a comfortable income. But what is it about blogging in particular that makes it such a great option for first-time entrepreneurs? By DailyBlogTips
The Steven Spielberg Method: How to Write More Blog Posts In Less Time
In a recent interview, Steven Spielberg, the famous Hollywood film director of hit films, Jaws, E.T. and The Color Purple, admitted to a strange habit. He said he liked to seek out distractions while working on a film. By DailyBlogTips
How to Choose a Blogging Platform [comparison chart]
You need to choose based on your own criteria. By Denise Wakeman
- How technically savvy are you?
- Are you a do-it-yourselfer?
- How much customization do you want?
- Will someone be designing and building it for you?
- What's the purpose, goals and outcomes you want from your blog?
Is Curation The Future Of Blogging?
Traditional blogging is hard work. From creating content on a regular schedule and social networking and link building, to doing things like product fulfillment and replying to comments, blogging the traditional way is not an easy job. By Jack Humphrey
7 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog from LinkedIn
Can Google+ Help You with Your Business Blogging?
Is Google+ the answer for your business blogging? By Denise Wakeman
YouTube Super Secrets
A "vlog" or video blog, is a powerful alternative to the traditional text based blog. And if you do video you've got to know how to harness the power of YouTube, the second largest search engine on the web. By Denise Wakeman
Why Bad Writing is Essential to Good Blogging
5 Reasons Why All Freelance Writers Should Learn To Write a Sales Letter
Whether you want someone to buy your product, join your email list, retweet or +1 your post, you’re doing one thing — leading your audience down a path at the end of which lies the action they’ll take. By Copyblogger
Creating Great Content for Today’s Social Web
Welcome to an increasingly social landscape on the Web. Social media started this shift from information to conversation, and now with the search engines increasingly using social signals to determine what to show searchers it’s a trend that, as a publisher, you have to get on top of to write and promote great content. By Problogger
How to Build Trust by Association
If you haven’t got a degree and you want to run a successful website, there is nothing stopping you! By Problogger
The 23 Blogger Breeds—Which Are You?
The blogosphere is populous and it keeps growing. With millions of bloggers out there, there are a certain number of very identifiable qualities that are seen. This blogger aims to cover as many of those qualities, or “breeds,” as possible. By Problogger
Understanding Blogging Arbitrage
If you are a blog owner and spend a lot of time writing articles for your own blog, there is a more suitable question to ask: “How much is my time worth as a blogger?” By Problogger
How to Silence Readers From Commenting on Your Blog
You open your Google Analytics to check your blog’s stats. And you feel a bit relieved to learn that you do have a number of pageviews. At least somebody saw your recent post. But how come your visitors left without leaving any comment on your blog? Not a single one! By Problogger
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Top 10 female expert bloggers to follow on twitter
Are you a female entrepreneur? Or are you a female trying to set up a business?
If you are either of the two, then this list is for you. By Genuine SEO
If you are either of the two, then this list is for you. By Genuine SEO
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