Comments are one of the single most powerful tools at your disposal. And no, I’m not talking about you leaving comments on other people’s blogs - although that is important too. I’m talking about getting as many comments as possible on your own blog. I know what you’re thinking - if it [...]
Niche blogging has been all the rage for about as long as I can remember. You pick a niche, and stay tightly focused within that area, your area of expertise. For many, this is an excellent strategy. It helps you stay focused, and blogs such as these tend to draw very targeted [...]
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 [...]
This is one of the first questions an aspiring blogger usually asks. him or her self. It’s a question that has only one answer, and a simple one at that.
What are you passionate about? What do you enjoy most?
You don’t need to be an expert on your blog’s topic. You do need to be [...]
There are a ton of reasons to post to your blog, right? Well, there are also quite a few reasons not to post to your blog. Bloggers Buzz points out of some of his reasons - here’s my take.
1. Never post when you have nothing to say.
This is one of my big pet [...]
The title is one of the most important, but also easily overlooked, part of a post. If you don’t have a good title, the search engines will have trouble finding your posts, and that means they won’t get read. One of the simple things you can do ( if you’re running Wordpress ) is install [...]
