Tag "blogging advice"
Analyze Your Blogging Business
Blogging I’m not much for making empty resolutions. I prefer to make plans and concrete goals and I prefer to back these up with good research. That’s why I spent some time at the end of 2009 analysing my blogging business. Kristen Nicole gave some good advice on preparing for a prediction post and some of what she suggests can be used to help you prepare for the next phase of your blogging business. Here are the steps I took and what I ...
Continue readingWriting Goals
Blogging Having a blog is a great way to get out there, but you need to do more than merely update your site with posts every week. You need to stay committed to your blog, which includes writing often and the site upkeep. However, being committed isn’t enough. You need to have goals. Most writers are thrilled when people visit their site and even happier when someone actually comments. These are, of course, wonderful things, but you should have ...
Continue readingYour Blog: A Few Notes For Survival
Blogging Blogging Tips is all about tips to help your blog thrive. There are marketing tips, writing tips, application tips, and plugins. There is even useful information on this site about more technical things such as coding, links, SEO, and software. It’s easy to say that if you need to make your blog better this site has it. But what about tips on what not to do? Most of us bloggers just do what we do and hope that it sounds good, or, if you ...
Continue readingCan Plato’s Forms add Wisdom to Blogging?
Blogging News While I participate in the alpha and beta testing for many web services, this is the first time I am writing about a pre-alpha product. However, I think that the concept behind Plato’s Forms could be key to the future of blogging. With so many blogs and so much misinformation in the wild, there is a need to create a venue for bloggers to communicate with the companies they are writing about. On three occasions, I have been asked by the ...
Continue readingWhat does the new cnn.com mean for blog design?
Blogging Usability and design testing can make a huge impact on any web site. But, if you run a blog or a small web site, the costs of wide scale usability and design testing is expensive. One of the best affordable ways to improve design is to learn from those organizations that have invested in large scale testing. Sites like Amazon, eBay and CNN are often imitated for that very reason. With CNN making a major update to their home page, it is ...
Continue readingCurrent Events and Your Blog
Blogging Blogs can go through slumps. Sometimes people just don’t visit your site or you get lazy and neglect your writing duties for a while. One possible way to get out of a blogging slump is to incorporate current events into your blog once a week. The great thing about using what’s going on in the world today on your site is that it gives your readers something to connect about and it helps you branch out of your comfort blogging topics. ...
Continue readingCreate a Following
Blogging The best way to keep your readers loyal to your site is to get them interested in what you have to say and keep them asking for more. With a few simple tricks, you can create a following and prove to your readers that your site is the only site that they need to visit. Blog viewers enjoy consistency. They like to read information that you post on your site, but they also like to read posts that have a recurring theme. Make readers come back for ...
Continue readingHelp A Reporter Out – Blog Publicity
Blogging Every blogger is always looking for ways to get publicity and links to their blog or website. Help a Reporter Out (HARO) is a great example of a site that might just get you on the “publicity” map. Each day, Peter Shankman the founder of HARO, sends our 2-3 emails with a list of reporters who are looking for experts and stories about specific subjects. If you fit the bill and reply quickly – you might get the publicity that ...
Continue readingChart your way to readable blogs
Software & Programs A few weeks ago I was writing a blog that was chock full of data. I quickly realized that my blog post would be more efficient if I could display some of the data in a graph instead of text. While once upon a time I used Microsoft Excel to create charts, that was many moons ago. However, a quick search showed me that Web 2.0 has created a wide range of charting tools that allow even a charting novice to quickly create professional quality ...
Continue readingBlogging: How to Get New Life Out of Old Posts
Promote your blog I get asked a lot of the same questions over and over again. And, while I want to answer everyone who contacts me with a question, it’s just not possible. My blog is four years old and I have a few hundreds posts. My website is ten years old, and has over three hundred pages on it. Buried somewhere on these pages is usually the answer to the question. What I used to do was Google key phrases until I find the post that answers the question. ...
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