
How To NOT Repulse Readers And Send Them Running Scream… Um…I Mean Clicking Away
A Guest Post by Cori Padget from Write Syntax and Big Girl Branding. In a word? Engage. Engage, engage, engage, engage. Get it yet? ENGAGE! OK, I’m thinking you get it now, kinda sorta. But in case you don’t, let’s discuss it further. EN… Just kidding! If you’re a writer, ...more
Writing Content

The BEST Way to Generate Lots of Comments on a Your Next Blog Post
Last week on my Photography Tips site we published a guest post titled Three Lenses Every Photographer Should Own. The author of the guest post emailed me a few days later amazed at amazing amount of comments left on the post. While the average post on dPS gets a reasonable ...more
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Lessons for Bloggers from ChatRoulette
ChatRoulette (warning: this is often NSFW) is a site that has caused a lot of buzz over the last week or so. It’s a webcam site where you login to chat with complete strangers – you are randomly matched with a stranger and you both have the opportunity to find ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

5 Tips for Getting Readers Viewing Your Old Blog Posts
Over on Twitter last week @JapanNewbie asked me about how to get people viewing old posts on your blog once they drop off the front page. In this video I tackle the question with 5 suggestions including using: Best of Sections Autoresponders Related Links Best of Posts Repost Old Content ...more
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Stick Out Your Finger (Not That One!) and Create a Meaningful Blogging Experience
Guest post by Jenny McCoy Sometimes it doesn’t matter where you’re going; you just kinda enjoy the ride. This is true of my blogging experience. After sharing my vision of church services optimized for screaming babies and their snoring grandparents, my drinking companion responded with glazed eyes and an outdoor ...more
Social Media

8 Reasons You Might Not Be Getting Many Comments
A Guest Post by Charlie Gilkey from Productive Flourishing. No matter how big their blog is, every blogger loves and wants comments. When you’re just starting out, there are few bigger thrills than writing something and having people comment and give you feedback about what you’ve written. Veteran bloggers love ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

What Are You Taking For Granted That Might Be Useful to Others?
I recently was chatting with a new blogger and they made the comment that after 3 weeks of blogging that they’d run out of things to write about. They had written 10 posts so far but felt that they’d nothing else to share of value on the topic. What surprised ...more
Writing Content

Rock Hard Thighs and Cold Hard Cash: Robb Sutton Spills His Tawdry Review Site Secrets
guest post by Kelly Diels When I was wondering how to create an effective, money-making review site, I thought of Robb Sutton. Robb Sutton’s review site, Mountain Biking by 198 “pulls in thousands in review product every month” and in the last 15 months has received over $100,000 dollars worth ...more
General

Optimize a Single Post On Your Blog for SEO
This is an unofficial extra task for the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Workbook. Today I spent the morning working on a task that I try to do at least once a month – SEO on individual key posts in my archives. While it’s important to know and ...more
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