Several of my blogs have been experiencing a horrific amount of downtime recently. Most have been down for several hours each day, for the last few weeks. My hosting company has had a string of bad luck recently, and it’s been very frustrating. However, they have fantastic support, and I believe everything should be back [...]
This is an old adage that applies to blogging very powerfully. Less is more. What do I mean? Look around at the blogs you read on a daily basis. Many of them come full of all kind of goodies - calendars, social bookmarking icons ( sometimes they include ALL of them! [...]
Most lists that you find online are 10, 20, even 50 items long. In other words, they’re a nice, round number. It’s as if the writer decided before beginning the post, how long it should be.
When I write a list post, I title it this way :
X ways to do ……….. or
X best …………
I [...]
I’ll assume that you already have your blog set up, so I’ll skip over how to choose an optimal domain name. Here are some easy tips to make your site more search engine friendly, and bring in more traffic.
Clean up your code. Search engines hate cluttered code. Everyone, even seasoned pros, should periodically go [...]
Blogging Pro asks this question, and it begs a closer look. Most blogs are of the personal variety. Most bloggers write about their feelings, experiences, and their life in general. I won’t go into the “but who would want to read that?” tangent right now. The question of the day [...]
Copyblogger has a great post on how to tell when your post has gone off-track.
What’s the point? - I struggle with this one. I have a bad habit of going off on some wild tangent.
Who cares? - You must grab the attention of your readers quickly, or they’ll never finish reading.
Bad Chi - [...]
Text Link Ads recently added some new banners to advertise their $100 in free ads promotion. I replaced the banner here at Blogging Blog with the new one -TLA says that it should convert very well. I’ll monitor my statistics and keep you posted.
For those of you unfamiliar with the Text Link Ads [...]
Everyone has heard of tagging. Some of you are already doing it. For those of you who aren’t yet “tagging fools”, read on.
What is Tagging?
Tagging is a way to organize information. If you use Gmail, then you’ve seen tagging. Google is sneaky, though, and calls tags “labels”. You can assign multiple labels [...]
When I ask this, I don’t mean statistics. I mean, what is the main, overall goal that you’re trying to accomplish with your blogging? Are you simply expressing yourself, and keeping a personal online journal of sorts? Are you trying to change the world? Are you trying to share your expertise [...]
Problogger, one of the first blogs I ever read, is having a list group project.This will be my first entry in such a project, so wish me luck.
There are no rules. -You can write about anything, any way you like.
There are rules. - If you want to be successful.
Mobility- You can blog from home, [...]
