When you’re writing a blog, it can be a delicate dance between writing for search engines versus writing for readers. On the one hand, if you write only for a search engine people might (keyword, might) find you. But readers won’t stay. If you only write for people, the posts will be great but will be lost in the great chasm of the Web. Writing for both isn’t always easy, since the things that please one don’t necessarily please the other.

I didn’t particularly think about that debate in my last…

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 launch a blog and start making money right away. When this doesn’t happen, bloggers frequently become discouraged and ultimately make a quick exit from…

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 ads in my opinion. The design was done by Nate Whitehill , I think he’s done a fantastic job and I hope that he gets some…

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 Harun Yahya, went to court. And the court decided that the best way to deal with the problem was to block all access to Wordpress.com…

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 to build your blog the last thing that you need is to get bogged down with superlative details.…