Blogging Tips

Why Improving & Increasing Vocabulary is Important

Are you happy with your vocabulary? I mean really happy with it? Or does it leave you feeling like you’re missing something the rest of the word has a grasp on? Are you intimidated when you hear other people use big, fancy words that you aren’t familiar with?

Having an extensive, dictionary-like vocabulary isn’t necessary, but it is good to have an expanded vocabulary. …

Written by Patti Stafford from Patti Stafford
Posted on September 30th, 2009 and filed under Writing
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ProBlogger Community Launched

Since acquiring the ProBlogger.com domain in 2007, Darren Rowse has hinted at developing the .com area of his brand a few times. Recently he announced that the domain would be used as the home of a forthcoming ProBlogger community.

I am happy to announce that the new ProBlogger Discussion Forum is now live. The forum costs $1.95 …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on September 29th, 2009 and filed under Blogging News
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PostRank Integrates your Blog Analytics

Figuring out the complete picture of how your blog is doing involves analyze your visitors, your RSS readers, your email recipients, your Twitter followers and nay other social media site where your blog is discussed or linked with.  Figuring out the analytics for any one of these systems can be a challenge, but getting all of this information in one place has extremely  difficult.  PostRank has launched …

Written by David Silversmith from Info Musing
Posted on September 29th, 2009 and filed under Software & Programs
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101 Great Blogs You Should Be Subscribing To

In order to stay up to date, I subscribe to a lot of great blogs via my newsreader. I categorise blogs into different sections to help me find the information I want quickly (e.g. blogging, marketing, domain names etc).

As a blogger, I think it is very important …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on September 29th, 2009 and filed under Blogging
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Finding Your Wasted Time – Time Management Series – Part 1

Do you find yourself running out of time more than you should? How often are you stuck time-crunching a deadline?

I’ve been looking into my own time management, or mismanagement as it sometimes feels, and thought other bloggers, writers or people who work from home may have the same issues and obstacles.

Do you know where your time goes? You can’t effectively manage your time …

Written by Patti Stafford from Patti Stafford
Posted on September 28th, 2009 and filed under Writing
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The easy way to design an eBook cover

Daniel John contacted me a few days ago to ask how I designed the stack of eBooks which you see on the right column of Blogging Tips. I thought that this was something that you would all want to know so I thought I would answer the question in a blog post

It was only a few months ago that I launched my first …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on September 28th, 2009 and filed under Software & Programs
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Using Current Events to Attract Readers to Your Blog

There are several ways in which to create interest for your blog. Just look at the world around you. Current events are the pulsing life blood of the media, keeping the world informed of things occurring right now. Whoever has a handle on this has a good grip on media coverage overall. This can mean a lot of things, but more importantly it means that this person can gain a large and dedicated audience as they have become a trusted resource for breaking news.

That is not even the end of the story. After the world receives the breaking news, it immediately wants an analysis of the breaking news. Beyond that, the world wants to share its own thoughts and opinions about the breaking news. This cycle is something you as a blogger can take advantage of, even if you are not the one breaking the news all the time.

Use current events to provide inspiration for your own blog topics, if you come across any that are relevant for your needs. Do they go along with the theme of your blog? Is this current event story well enough aligned with the principles of your blog that it warrants an article written by yourself?

Written by Kristen Nicole from Kristen Nicole
Posted on September 28th, 2009 and filed under Blogging
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