Interview with Keith and The Girl.
Podcasting A few weeks ago I briefly talked about podcasts and the benefits of the medium, and Andy McDonald also wrote two articles on podcasting in a series on the technical details of putting together your own. But what does it take to make it big? “You have to take it seriously.” explains Keith Malley of Keith and the Girl, one of the most popular and successful podcasts by any standard. “If you say you’re putting out a show once a week, you should do it.” Chemda Khalili (the girl) adds, “Also, it is giving a shit. If you don’t care about your show then ...
Continue readingConverse With Your Readers: Best Tip For Blog Post Ideas
Blogging Image Source: *Solar ikon* Your blog readers are the ones who know about your blog better than anyone excluding you. So why not converse with them to get blog post ideas? It isn’t tough to converse with your blog readers. In fact, they are waiting for a chance to talk to you. I like to talk to all the bloggers whose blog I read and subscribe to. This is also a great way to increase your ...
Continue readingPosting Frequency – How Often To Post?
Blogging Bloggers with passion and purpose are constantly adding new content to their sites. Why? Well, experienced blog authors know that the more often you post, the more attention your blog will receive. One of the reasons for this is that Google notices how often sites are updated, and factors this in when deciding how relevant a site is. All other things being equal, a blog that gets posted to ...
Continue readingHow to integrate a forum with your wordpress blog
WordPress As most of you know, Blogging Tips has a discussion forum, an area of the site I added to make it easier for bloggers to ask questions about blogging and a place to make contacts and friends too. Before I added the forums I checked out the possiblity of integrating the forum with the blog however the options available for integration at the time were not the best. So as it stands bloggingtips has ...
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 ...
Continue readingEffective Blog Design Tips for Successful Blogging
Design & Coding Effective blog design includes the design of a blog itself, its navigation elements, and its communication tools. Blogs have a lot of standard elements, articles, comments, categories, and archives; all of which need to be presented well within the blog template design. Those elements put a lot of constraint on what is possible with a blog design. You should be focusing on making sure your blog ...
Continue readingCreate a post to answer another post
Blogging Ever read an article and feel that you have something to add or need to respond to the author? I know I have, and most of the time a quick comment will suffice. I usually tell the author I like the points they made or ask if they could write more on the subject. But what if you have a lot to say? Why not keep that conversation going? What I mean is post your response in an article of your own? ...
Continue readingHow Does PPC Affect SEO?
Search Engine Optimisation There’s a lot of debate about how an organization should use organic keyword marketing versus the way those same organizations should use PPC marketing. And there seem to be two (and possibly three) distinct camps about what should and shouldn’t happen with these different types of marketing. The first position is that PPC programs can hurt organic keyword programs. According to subscribers ...
Continue readingDoes Social Media Marketing Really Work for Most Blogs?
Promote your blog When blogging became all the rage a few years ago, nobody gave much thought to traffic generation (except maybe the geeks who figured out long before most of us that there was money to be made from it). Now that social media sites drive much of blog traffic, much of the content written is to feed the needs of these communities. I have to say, I write this post out of a bit of frustration because ...
Continue readingBlogs for Sale: Creating Blogs and Selling Them
Making Money Many people who want a blog don’t want to go through the hassle of creating one; it’s intimidating. Therefore blog “flipping” – creating blogs with the intention of selling them – has become popular among experienced bloggers. The blog’s new owner has by-passed the startup stage; he now has an active blog which is (perhaps, unless it’s brand new) ...
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