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Keep up with your blogs while keeping your cool
Blogging You’ve taken the plunge and started a second (third, fourth or fifth) blog. Now the challenge is maintaining multiple blogs without letting any of them die of neglect. So how do you do it? Schedule your time The simplest way is to create a posting schedule and stick to it. First, write down each of your blogs and how often you’d like to see them updated. For professional blogs, this will be easy, as your clients will generally require a ...
Continue readingTime to try Tumblr?
Blogging I think a lot of bloggers are in the same boat. We’re trying to improve our stats, use more SEO terms, spice up our writing style – all the stuff that we here at Blogging Tips write about. But I know that some of you are feeling kind of baffled by all this. You got into blogging for one reason: to write down your random thoughts where your friends can read them. For you, I suggest a different kind of format: the Tumblr model. Tumblr is a ...
Continue readingShould you start another blog?
Writing I’ve been toying with the idea of starting a second personal blog. I’ve been writing my first blog for a little over five years now. I’ve got a nice core of regular readers and a fair amount of foot traffic from the outside world; everything seems pretty settled. However, my recent attempts to theme the blog have failed miserably. I keep writing posts about my life instead of sticking to my theme. For those of you in the same boat, I’ve ...
Continue readingBlogger Appreciation Week
Around The Blogosphere April 14 was declared kind of an unofficial Blogger Appreciation Day. If you missed it, don’t feel bad: there’s nothing stopping you from appreciating the blogger of your choice right this minute. Here are a few suggestions for ways to appreciate your fellow bloggers this week: Speak up Too often, too many of us feel like we’re blogging in a vacuum. You might have thousands of readers, but if none of them talk back you can easily get ...
Continue readingQuiz: What kind of blogger are you?
Blogging Take this quick quiz to find out whether you’re committed to your blog…or whether you should just plain BE committed. 1. You tried a weird breakfast cereal this morning, way different from your normal breakfast. You: A) Write a long post about it when you get to work, though your blog isn’t generally food-oriented. But see, this cereal had super weird flakes that got stuck in your throat. People need to know. B) Post an analogy ...
Continue readingSaying no: the link between blogging and dating
Writing Whether you’re crouched in a garret in Paris with a quill pen and a dream, or clacking on your sleek silver laptop at 175WPM, being a professional writer is a romantic thing to do. Thinking of this, it occurred to me that professional blogging sometimes resembles dating. Here’s the one I thought of today: Call and response Here’s a scenario: you’re casually flirting with the barrista at your cafe of choice as they serve ...
Continue readingRevisionist blogging
Writing Recently, one of my posts became popular on a forum about Windows Vista versus Windows XP, simply because the title of the post seemed relevant to the forum discussion. Unfortunately, it’s a very brief post from 2002 that hardly deals with the subject at all. In fact, it’s pretty dull. The question now is: should I rewrite this little bulletin? I could use this traffic as a chance to earn some readers by providing a really good post. If ...
Continue readingBreaking the block
Writing Writer’s block can be tough. It’s often easier to give in and give up than to struggle through, especially when you’re writing a personal blog and accountable to no one. But that’s not quite true, is it? You are accountable to someone: your readers. Your blog might only be read by five family members, or it might be read by five thousand strangers: either way, you’re providing a unique service to them that they can’t get anywhere ...
Continue readingSpice up your posts
Writing If you’re wondering why your blog’s readership seems to be lagging, it might be time to take it back to the kitchen. Even though your blog is solid and filling – you post every day with well-researched content – you might be lacking that extra spice that keeps readers asking for more. Pepper your sentences In this case, the pepper is vocabulary words. Just like with real pepper, you don’t want to go overboard – too many obscure words ...
Continue readingWho’s for real and who’s out to steal
Making Money When you’re flipping through ads in search of someone who will pay you to blog (and believe me, those clients are out there), it’s sometimes tough to tell who is genuinely looking for good bloggers and who’s trying to scam you out of a few free posts. So how can you tell the difference? There are no hard and fast rules, unfortunately. Still, there are a few indicators to tell you whether someone’s on the up-and-up. Samples A good ad ...
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