Blog carnivals provide a nice way to network with other bloggers, boost your awareness of other blogs on similar topics and, best of all, get some link love from blogs on similar topics. This can also be a nice way for a new blogger to get some SEO-boosting incoming links.

A blog carnival is a periodic roundup of links on a particular subject. It typically has multiple blogs serving as the hosts. Other bloggers submit their posts for consideration in an upcoming blog carnival. You can find blog carnivals on almost…

Just a quick post to wish you all a merry christmas and a happy new year.

First of all, Merry Christmas to the readers of Blogging Tips as well as to my co-authors. I hope you have a blessed one this year!

Speaking of Christmas, 2007 is nearly at its end and 2008 is just a couple of days away. I think that this would be the best time to come up with your New Year’s Resolutions when blogging which could be called as Blogging Resolutions. Here are some of my blogging resolutions for the year 2008:

a. Adhere to my posting schedule - I usually have…

Christmas is almost upon us so the perfect gift to any website owner who needs to start off the new year with a bang by bringing in great readers and permanent blog visitors to their site tenfold could really use this posting as a catalyst to figure out new ways in which to do just that.

BLOW YOUR BLOG SITE VISITORS AWAY WITH YOUR PROFESSIONAL WEB CONTENT
When you start receiving hundreds of hits from search engines such as Google and Yahoo!, your primary concern should be in converting every single one…

Retaining readership is an important part of blogging, but the next step to retaining readership is creating loyal readers.  Marketers call this driving customer loyalty. 

As part of a book I wrote that will be published in 2008, I created what I call the Three Ss of Customer Loyalty, which are just as relevant to retaining blog reader loyalty as they are relevant to any product or brand loyalty initiative.

Before I giveaway the Three Ss of Customer Loyalty, it’s important to note that a key component to customer loyalty (and blog loyalty)…