Weekly Links

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 for Success from [...]

Search Engine Traffic for New Blogs – Update

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

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 have [...]

13 Ways to Create Unique, Original Blog Content

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 at [...]

Brainstorming Techniques for Bloggers

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 thoughts, [...]

233 Social Networking Sites for Marketing Your Blog

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. [...]

Weekly Links

Ten Timeless Persuasive Writing Techniques from Copyblogger
7 Usability Mistakes that Bug Me from Bruce Clay
46 Tax Deductions that Bloggers Often Overlook from ProBlogger
How to Set Up Google Custom Search for Your Website and Make Money from DoshDosh
What’s Your Point? How to Write Like You Have One from Blogging Tips
29 Reasons You Need to Stop Blogging [...]

An Interview with Chris Garrett

Many of you are probably familiar with Chris Garrett. His blog ChrisG.com currently has almost 5,000 subscribers, and he also provides consulting and a variety of other services through omiq. He writes on blogging and new media, as well as other various topics for other blogs. Hopefully you can learn something from him through this [...]

3 Powerful Results from Internal Linking

We all know that internal linking to your own pages and blog posts is important, but recently I experience some proof of this fact. Many of you have seen the post from about 2 weeks ago, 77 Resources to Simplify Your Life as a Web Designer. In addition to all of the external links included [...]

12 Ways to Avoid Blogging Burnout

I think everyone who has consistently maintained a blog for any length of time has faced the issue of burnout. Sometimes it’s difficult to keep moving forward, and these situations lead many bloggers to quit. With the tips listed below you will be able to prevent a major burnout in your blogging efforts.

1 – Choose [...]