Is your blog new-reader friendly? If you’re promoting your blog, you’ll attract a constant stream of new readers. You need to make these newcomers comfortable.

Welcome your newbies. Get them up to speed on the subject of your blog, and help them to become regular readers.

Here are five ways to help your newbies:

1. Add orientation posts to your About page

Your About page is your primary tool to orient newcomers. In addition to introducing yourself, and describing your blog’s mission, add some links to your About page to must-read posts.

This helps your…

Now that you think you are in the right time for guest blogging, the next question would be: what kind of post will you make? Aside from the fact that the blog owner will require you to post an original post exclusively for his blog, you might also wonder about its content and how you will write it. Guest blogging will be another milestone for your blog, but some relevant factors should be considered before you submit a post. Here are some of them:

The post must be related to both…

PLUGINS

1. Listdown Categories
   An extension that will display the categories as a list or dropdown list, to show the number of posts per category or hide empty categories and more. Good for bloggers who have lot of categories arranged in stacks.(Most of us do -right?)
2. Socialize Me
   A nice plugin that gives custom messages for visitors from different social medias like Digg and StumbleUpon. It identifies them as to which site they are from and prompts them with messages.
3. Randomizer plugin
   This is an awesome plugin that allows you to display random posts on the blogs footer,…

Everywhere you look, you hear advice from bloggers, would-be SEO gurus and “Internet Marketing Experts,” regarding Social Networking sites as a traffic generator.

Many of them are saying the same thing – “Use social networking sites to generate massive amounts of traffic.”

I have no doubt you have heard it all, so I am not going to repeat the same old stuff. I have experimented with many of these sites. At least all the popular ones such as Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, Delicious etc.

But, what many of these experts in generating massive amounts…

Knowing SEO goes well beyond just entering meta title and keyword data into a page, and it’s more than targeting the keywords in your titles, tags and text. The most important step is one often overlooked, and that’s making sure you choose your keywords properly from the beginning.

To do that, your SEO keyword research is crucial. It doesn’t have to be as time-consuming as it sounds. Here are simple steps to researching the right SEO keywords before you post:

• First of all, come up with your post’s topic or draft title.
• Research…

StudioPress WordPress Theme Released - Daily Blog Tips have released a new wordpress theme. Very nice.
The Butterfly Growth Model - An interesting post from Skellie.

Interview With David Airey - Graphic Designer And Blogger - Freelance Folder interview graphic designer David Airey.

How to Keep Your Subscribers - Some tips to help you keep your readers subscribing.

I Don’t Really Have 34,015 RSS Subscribers - Yaro explains how why his feed count is wrong.

and last but not least…

Start Video Blogging in Five Easy Steps - Michael Martine gives some basic tips on how to start video blogging.

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