Monthly Archives: September 2009
Why Improving & Increasing Vocabulary is Important
Writing 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. This will not only improve your speech, but your writing as ...
Continue readingProBlogger Community Launched
Blogging News 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 a month (which is much less than I thought it would cost). Since I signed up to receive updates about the site, I was ...
Continue readingPostRank Integrates your Blog Analytics
Software & Programs 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 PostRank Analytics as a way to help ...
Continue reading101 Great Blogs You Should Be Subscribing To
Blogging 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 to stay up to date with the latest news and discussions with your blogs topic and with blogging and web development in general. This is particularly true for those that are still ...
Continue readingFinding Your Wasted Time – Time Management Series – Part 1
Writing 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 until you know where it’s going. Take a few days to ...
Continue readingThe easy way to design an eBook cover
Software & Programs 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 eBook. I was kind of late to the party in many respects so before I could even start to write the first book, I had to do a lot of ...
Continue readingUsing Current Events to Attract Readers to Your Blog
Blogging 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 ...
Continue readingCaPiTaLiZaTiOn
Writing To capitalize, or not to capitalize, that is the question. Okay, I realize that using Shakespeare’s famous soliloquy from Hamlet for a post about grammar is next to blasphemous, but capitalization is an important thing to look at. (Maybe not as important as pondering the meaning of life as Hamlet is doing, but that’s beside the point.) An important grammar rule in the English language is punctuation and within this category there are ...
Continue readingFive Ways To Develop Reader Relationships
Promote your blog With almost one million blogs being posted on the Internet every twenty four hours, it might difficult if not impossible for you to get noticed and have your blog read by a loyal audience. So it stands to reason that what you need to do is start some kind of relationship with your readers since you’ll want them to comment and link to your blog. Here are five ways that you can accomplish this goal. Be Constant Loyal readers need you to be ...
Continue readingAre your emails doing as well as they should?
Promote your blog How many emails do you get everyday from websites or blogs and how many of those do you read? I receive a large amount of emails form sites that I have signed up to and out of those there are very few that I actually take any notice of. In fact I will often unsubscribe from the website after the 2 or 3 emails if they are not to my liking. The reason So many sites send out a weekly or monthly newsletter without too much thought about the content ...
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