Blogging Tips

What do you find most difficult as a blogger?

Recently I have been checking on some blogging forums and have noticed how varied the difficulties are that bloggers face (particularly new bloggers). Those with technical skills sometimes find it difficult to find inspiration for posts whereas those with experience with writing may struggle to get to …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on July 31st, 2009 and filed under Blogging
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How To Promote Your Personal Brand on SocialMediaV

If you’re looking to find companies and/or people to network with or if you’re looking to be found, SocialMediaV aims to help you with that. It’s a simple way to search for all types of brands whether large or small, as well as another great way of getting your name out there and promoting your hard work. Since …

Written by Charnita Fance from mrsfance
Posted on July 31st, 2009 and filed under Social Media
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Attack of the Serial Blogger

The eternal challenge of blogging is to lure readers back for more.  Branding helps — your reader knows what to expect so they stay with you.  Provided, of course, that you continue to deliver. 

You get about two or three shots for that to happen, then they’re gone.  When you set the bar high, it’s incumbent upon you to …

Written by Larry Brooks from Story Fix
Posted on July 31st, 2009 and filed under Blogging
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5 Quick Ways to Improve Your Blog

Let’s say that you have a few hours free and you want to dedicate it to your blog. It’s not enough time to take on a major project such as building a new theme or completely redoing your categories/tags (at least not if you have a large site), but you want to do something to make your blog better.

If you find yourself with that blessing, here are five things that you can do right now to improve your blog, all of which take less than an hour and some only take a few minutes.

Best of all, doing these things will, in most cases, have an immediate or near-immediate impact on your site. Making it more approachable with better content.

So here are some ways you can improve your site right now.

Written by Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today
Posted on July 30th, 2009 and filed under Blogging
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Hyphens: Over-used or Under-used?

The new rule for hyphens seems to be: “When in doubt, hyphenate—or just omit them altogether.”  But this is not a good rule of thumb to live by. Believe it or not, hyphenating in the wrong place, or the wrong instance, can give a whole new meaning to your words.

In this day and age of blogging, many rules of usage have gone out …

Written by Patti Stafford from Patti Stafford
Posted on July 29th, 2009 and filed under Blogging
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Market Your Tweets Locally with GeoChirp

Growing your Twitter community is a major obstacle for many new users. And doing it the right way can make all the difference in the world when it comes to appreciating Twitter or merely getting lost in a sea of spam and unrelated tweets. GeoChirp is a new Twitter application that lets you search tweets based on geographic results. This is one of many ways you can seek out other users that will be of value to you at any given point in time on Twitter.

As a Twitter/Google Maps mashup, GeoChirp provides search results on the local level, displayed on a map. Search any keyword you like, and you’ll see the results appear accordingly. From there, you can view the tweets, learn more about the users that created the tweets, and choose to follow them if you’d like.

Written by Kristen Nicole from Kristen Nicole
Posted on July 29th, 2009 and filed under Blogging
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WordPress.com Gravatar Widget

WordPress.com have added a great new widget which lets you easily add an about me box to the side of your WordPress.com blog.

The widget is called Gravatar Widget because it displays the users Gravatar image and puts it in the about box.

Many themes come with a standard About Me …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on July 29th, 2009 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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