The human voice can express a wide range of sound: It can be loud or soft, silky or gravelly, suave or gruff. The variety of sound has significance - how you use a given sound can help you in your conversations with others - to persuade them, calm them, express concern, and so forth.

Voice in writing is the personality and character of the language used. You find it in literature, of course - where the author or characters in a given story have their individual style of language. You also…

There is more than one way to skin a cat.

Apologies to all cat lovers, this is just an expression and in no way am I advocating the skinning of cats. Unless they wake me up with their howling at four-o-clock in the morning.

It occurred to me that most of what I see written about making money blogging tends to look at the “normal” ways of making money blogging. Andy rightly pointed out that there are four basic ways to make money on the internet, but I would like to respectfully…

This is one question that bothers every one. Now that you have setup a great blog, a great domain and a great theme, where do you find readers? Are you on the track that you had seen yourself when you started your blog? 

Finding readers to your blog can be frustrating and sometime even de moralizing. There are friends of mine who have told me that they’ve been thinking of quitting the blogging scene simply because they haven’t got any reader base.

It is very normal to feel frustrated, especially for young…

The wonderful thing about blogs is that they are such naturals for long tail SEO keyword targeting. Many blogs are already niche in focus, so they are born to target those long tail keywords. When you then get down to the level of an actual post page on a niche blog, it can be almost effortless to go after the long tail. Here are some tips on long tail SEO keyword targeting.

Long tail was a term coined in Wired Magazine in 2004, and it refers to targeting several smaller, niche…

This article is for the most ambitious bloggers who believe that their posts are worth money. Well, why shouldn’t they be? Your blog is Internet content, and Internet content has a value. How much value you realize from your blog depends on several variables, the most important of which is traffic.

If you’re making 50 cents a month to start, you might be motivated to reach one dollar, and move forward from there. In the effort, you’re likely to make your site look better and explore the marketing tricks that bring…