Another quick post filled to the top with good blogging posts 
Pick a Niche, Any Niche - North X East looks into why you should pick a niche for your blog.
5 Steps to Writing the Best Blog Posts Possible - A post from a few months ago but all the points are still valid
I’m Not A Big Fan Of Blog/Product Reviews - Here’s An Alternative - Joanthan tells us why he isn’t planning on doing paid reviews on his blog.
When blogging gets you fired - David Bradley looks at what happens when blogging…
I’ve noticed that some bloggers do not have any details of the author on their posts. Even if all the blog posts are all written by the same person on a blog I still like to see the name of the author attached to posts. At Blogging Tips I have the name of the author at the top and at the bottom of a post so that everyone knows who wrote the post. I think that it’s important to let people know the name of the author so that they…
I used to assume that if a blog which posts daily had no updates for a few weeks then subscribers would start unsubscribing. I now believe that assumption to be completely wrong.
To help explain why my view on this has changed please take a look at John TP’s Blog. John has recently had problems with power cuts and has been unable to post as often. Infact he has only posted once in the last month. Has the number of subscribers to John’s blog dropped because of this? The answer is…
I’ve known about StumbleUpon for a long time but I never used it on a regular basis. Last month I noticed that StumbleUpon is actually sending me a lot of my daily traffic but it was only when my best friend recommended it that I began to realise how useful it is (my friend has nothing to do with web development or blogging, he recommended it as he uses it to find games and clips etc).
After stumbling across one of my own posts I asked myself the question I’m sure a…
I have been speaking with Elizabeth from Table for Five about her blog the last few days. Elizabeth is hoping to increase her pagerank to 5 in the next few months. One of the first things I noticed about her blog was the amount of clutter in the blog design, infact I’ve noticed this on a number of blogs recently.
What is clutter?
I define blog clutter as something that :
- Does not offer any value to your reader (eg. pagerank button)
- Distracts your readers from your content.
Some examples of blog clutter
Blog clutter is…
