Do you Make These Mistakes When Guest Blogging?
Blogging Image Source: cote Did you know that guest blogging will help you build a good reader base for your blog? If you didn’t, let me tell you that guest blogging is a great way and one of the most used ways to put your blog in front of other bloggers. With that being said, there are certain things (call it mistakes) that you shouldn’t do when you are writing for other blogs. Getting a guest blogging opportunity is easy nowadays. Many bloggers want to take a day off. They are always willing to let other bloggers write for their blog for a day or two. I’m not meaning freelance writing when I ...
Continue readingThe Power of Polls
Design & Coding Some months ago I added a poll to my web site, and I was blown away by the increase in activity to the site as well as the number of people who were taking the poll in comparison to doing other activities on the site. I suppose I shouldn’t have been so surprised because polls are hugely popular all around the web. Entire sites are dedicated to building and displaying polls, and numerous ...
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 ...
Continue readingOk WordPress is installed. Now What?
WordPress Your WordPress blog is installed and you are all ready to start posting to it. But wait before you do that why not do a little post install configuring to make sure everything is setup correctly from the very beginning. Before I begin I want to make clear that these instructions are specific to a WordPress install that you are hosting on your own hosting account. But thats not to say that most of ...
Continue readingBloggers Commitment to Content
Blogging Put a dozen successful bloggers in a room, and in short order the debates will begin over the thorny issues of the blogosphere. Are partial feeds evil? How should comments be moderated (if at all)? Do tags matter? And so on. In fact, you’ll find that there are few things that experienced bloggers universally agree on. One of the rare items that would be largely undisputed among this group ...
Continue readingShould You Go “Off Topic” On Your Blog?
Blogging Most of us who blog have a theme, a mission statement, a defined focus for our blog. And that’s as it should be. However, there are some times when it would help to go “off topic” on your blog. Following are three such times. 3 Times When Going “Off Topic” On Your Blog Can Generate More Traffic for Your Blog First, let me say, don’t go so off topic that your readers don’t even ...
Continue readingBlog What You Know – Blog Your Life
Blogging Most of the real blogs you create will be a marathon, rather than a sprint, because creating a popular high-traffic blog will take years, rather than months. (By “real” blogs I mean conventional blogs, which grow over time. A blog is just a Web site, so you can create blogs for any purpose – for a product launch, or an event, or as a sales tool for example.) Can you face ...
Continue readingSEO Keyword research trailing hyphens and silly mistakes
Search Engine Optimisation A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about one of my pages which seemed to be lost in google’s neverland. Not to be confused with Michael Jackson’s neverland. No small children were involved in the abuse of this page. The page is question is this one: http://hubpages.com/hub/Smoked-Trout-Creams- I have left the url rather than a link via a keyword because one thing I had failed to notice is the ...
Continue readingHow to Host a Blog Contest
Promote your blog Blog contests can single-handedly drive lots of traffic to your site, or even encourage people to take actions to promote your site (such as linking to it). It can encourage people to return, if your method of entry involves something like subscribing to your feed via Feedburner or some similar engagement. You may have no idea how to begin the process of hosting a contest, however. You might even ...
Continue readingGo On, Start blogging Now
Blogging I’ve heard many successful bloggers tell business people interested in blogging to “just jump in and start.” At first glance these experts don’t appear to be taking a careful and reasoned approach. Shouldn’t they be advising people to gather data, research the arena, establish goals, and plan their execution? Isn’t promoting the “jump in and start ...
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