Blogging Tips

The Long-Term Approach to Blogging

Building a business takes time. If you’re hoping to make a business out of your blog, blogging is no exception. Sure, there are some ways to quickly make a little bit of money, and yes, the risks are much lower than starting a traditional business. But overall, building a steady income through a blog is similar to any other business venture, it doesn’t happen overnight.

Many bloggers hope to …

Written by Steven Snell from Vandelay Design
Posted on August 22nd, 2007 and filed under Making Money
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John Chow takes his blog to the next level

Yesterday, John Chow launched his new theme. John contacted me at the weekend about taking an ad spot in the new design so I was lucky enough to get a sneak preview of it a few days ago (I took him up in his offer).

In the past I have criticized some blogs for having too many advertisements but John’s blog previously had too few …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on August 22nd, 2007 and filed under Around The Blogosphere
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Wordpress.com banned in Turkey

Less than a month after the Malaysian goverment cracked down on bloggers, the Wordpress.com domain has been banned in all of Turkey (*Wordpress.com is the hosted version of Wordpress).

From wired

Turkish millionaire, accused criminal and cult leader, anti-semite and anti-evolutionist Adnan Oktar didn’t like what was said about him on a few WordPress blogs. (This appears to be the only English-language blog).

So Oktar, who also goes by the name …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on August 22nd, 2007 and filed under Blogging News
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Basic Blogging for Beginners

Being a new blogger is not necessarily a bad thing. Sure, you have to start on the ground floor, but this will give you the chance to build your blog the way that you want. Every move that you make is on your shoulders, and if the right decisions are made, success will be right around the bend.

New bloggers should have one thing in mind: keep things basic. When you are trying …

Written by Chris Bibey from Freelance Writing
Posted on August 22nd, 2007 and filed under Blogging
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An introduction to tagging

If done right, tagging is a great way to get some extra traffic to your blog with very little effort.

What is tagging?

Tagging is when you mention other bloggers in your posts or invite them to participate in something you have taken part in. It’s commonly associated with blog trains and carnivals however you can tag people in any of your posts. A good example is the ‘8 things about me’ type post …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on August 22nd, 2007 and filed under Promote your blog
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Where and how to find potential readers to your blog

Blogging would have been a much easier job if all you had to do is just write great posts.
Try that you may, but you cannot really avoid that phase of blogging – to find readers to your blog. It’s a general notion that if you write great articles, traffic would automatically come in. Well, not really.
There are two ways of driving traffic to your blog.

Hunting readers and
Baiting them
Both strategies are unique in it’s …

Written by Mani Karthik from Daily SEO Blog
Posted on August 22nd, 2007 and filed under Blogging
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The Power of Specializing Your Blog(s)

When I say specializing your blog, I mean taking your blog from no-topic to one topic. So many blogs have seen the light of day because of it, and so many blogs fall away because they don’t.

There are (at least) two kinds of blogs:

Personal blogs
Specialized blogs

If you are running a personal blog, odds are you aren’t all that interested in who reads and subscribes to it. Odds are you also don’t stick …

Written by Ryan Imel from Theme Playground
Posted on August 21st, 2007 and filed under Blogging
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