Whether your blog is professional or personal; whether it’s about football, knitting, your weird coworkers or your inner turmoil, you should be having fun. And we all know that there comes a time in the life of a blog when the fun gets hard to have. Blogging starts to seem like a chore, and you begin to wonder whether it’s worthwhile to continue. When that happens, take a break, take a breath, and try some simple exercises designed to invite the fun back into the room.
Laugh at yourself
This works for…
Angela had a good point yesterday when she mentioned how new Bloggers are more concerned with things like how their Blogs template looks rather than having any content. If you worry about each and every detail before you start writing content, your going to burn yourself out around your 10th post. The best advice I can give any new blogger is, don’t over complicate things. Its really that simple. You are creating something for other people to read and enjoy. Its not a fashion show or a contest. Its something that…
If you’ve just started blogging in last few months, get ready, because you’re going to crash.
You began blogging full of enthusiasm, and what a rush it was to see your words on the internet! You’re leaving comments on other blogs, you’ve created social media profiles on what seems like ten different services, you’re reading feeds like mad, checking your visitor stats and AdSense reports every day (probably more than once per day), writing post after post and then…
You crash. Your blogger’s euphoria is whipped away like mist in a strong…
For the ancient Greeks, rhetoric was a high art. Over the centuries, its meaning has become shadowed, likened to used-car-salesmen speak and considered useful for others who will say anything to make a sale or convince an audience. In its purest form, however, bloggers use rhetoric with every post they make. At least they should. In this post, I am going to go over the three steps of rhetoric and why they are important to your success as a blogger.
Step One: Ethos
According to Aristotle, ethos is “the speaker’s power of evincing…
Sarah G from ‘Stuff by Sarah‘ has kept herself busy since the release of her first WordPress Plugin ‘What Others Are Saying‘ (check out the footer of BloggingTips to see Sarah’s first plugin in action!) and a few days ago she released her second plugin called ‘Custom Title Attributes‘.
What does the plugin do?
By default, WordPress gives the title attribute of any page link the same text as the anchor text. This plugin allows you to change the title attribute of any page you create. You might be thinking to yourself…
New bloggers’ focus is often on the look of their blog. They become obsessed by their blog’s template before they write any content. It’s as though they’re hunting for the perfect suit of clothes for a ghost.
A blog is a Content Management System, so your content, rather than the aesthetics, is what counts. Without content you don’t have a blog, and it’s difficult to judge whether a particular template will meet your needs until you have a few blog posts and a couple of categories.
WordPress bloggers are especially prone…
