Organizational Tips for Bloggers
Published October 10th, 2007 in Blogging - 35 Comments
Keep an idea journal. When you need to sit down and write a new post you’ll have plenty of ideas. Have a few backup posts ready for when you have interruptions. Eventually you’ll run into times where it’s impossible to find time for a new post. Set aside time each week for brainstorming and idea [...]
5 Skills That Boost Your Design Career
Published October 9th, 2007 in Design - 40 Comments
This is a guest post from Chris Garrett. Chris is an internet marketing consultant from the UK. You can read more at his blog, chrisg.com – Subscribe and receive a free ebook. While I have never been a web designer, over the years I have commissioned a good deal of web design and worked very [...]
SEO vs. SMO
Published October 8th, 2007 in Social Media - 56 Comments
Search engine optimization (SEO) and social media optimization (SMO) are two of the bigger concerns for webmasters and bloggers, as they can both have substantial impacts on the amount of traffic a website or blog receives. But does optimizing your site for search engines hinder your SMO efforts (and vice versa) or can they co-exist? [...]
What Makes Good Blog Design?
Published October 7th, 2007 in Design - 247 Comments
If you like getting design inspiration by looking at excellent blog designs, you’ll love our new gallery site Blog Design Heroes. As you surf through the internet you’re bound to come across certain designs that you love and some that you hate. But good blog design has a few unique elements when compared to the [...]
Weekly Links
Published October 6th, 2007 in Links - 12 Comments
Five Post Types for When Writing Without Experience from Blogging Tips. Lawsuit Over Website Accessibility for the Blind Becomes Class Action from ars technica. TNX – The Text Link Ads Killer? from Blogging Fingers. The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building to Building Your Social Media Profile from Instigator Blog. Implement Internal Linking Within Your Blog [...]
Search Engine Traffic for New Blogs – Update
Published October 4th, 2007 in SEO - 30 Comments
Last month I posted an article with some pointers for new blogs that are trying to generate traffic from search engines. In that post I covered some of the methods that have helped me to quickly increase the traffic that comes from search engines, specifically Google. Since another month has passed, I wanted to give [...]
Running a Blog Contest: Learning from the Experience of Others
Published October 3rd, 2007 in Blog Promotion - 28 Comments
Contests are extremely popular in the blogosphere right now. A lot of bloggers are using them to reward their readers, gain new subscribers, improve the community environment of the blog, and so on. If you are thinking about running a competition of some sort you will probably benefit by getting some advice from bloggers who [...]
13 Ways to Create Unique, Original Blog Content
Published October 2nd, 2007 in Blogging - 76 Comments
One of the biggest struggles for bloggers who are pushing for growth is the ability to publish unique content. With millions of other blogs out there it can seem at times that every worthwhile topic has already been sufficiently covered. Quality, original content is one of the biggest factors in blogging success. Take a look [...]
Brainstorming Techniques for Bloggers
Published October 1st, 2007 in Blogging - 30 Comments
As bloggers, we all face the challenge of creating unique content that will keep readers coming back for more. The first step to writing a blog post is coming up with an idea, but many times this part of the process is taken for granted and sufficient time is not spend on idea development. Original [...]
233 Social Networking Sites for Marketing Your Blog
Published September 30th, 2007 in Social Media - 245 Comments
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about using niche 2nd-tier social media sites to create a domino effect of traffic with larger social media sites . Since then I have received a number of requests to compile a list of social media sites. Here is a categorized list of what I have found. [...]
