
Business Blog Survey
Hi everyone, I’ve been asked to see if I can get feedback on these questions by anyone who is involved with business blogging for a magazine article on business and blogging (as inspired by this article) – so I thought I’d throw these out as a Friday survey (yes, it’s ...more
Business Blogging

Canadian Professional Blogging Podcast No 2: Developing your Blogging Voice
Arieanna and I finished our next episode of our Canadian Professional Blogging Podcast on Monday. This is part 1 of a two part episode on developing your blogging voice. This part is more academic on how we developed our voices and how they have changed and matured. Part 2 will ...more
Podcasting

Stickiness
One thing all bloggers and webmasters want is return visitors. Many of us watch the stats and monitor this critical measurement of web success…if you come back time and time again, you must like me. If you like me and return enough you’ll finally heed my call to action – ...more
Blog Promotion

Can you spot the Pro Blogger?
Arieanna asks today how you can spot a pro blogger–Bloggeropoly–well since most of us work behind the scenes it might be a little hard to peg us down. For myself I try to put my “blogsig” at the bottom of many posts. It also has my contact information so people can reach me ...more
General

Pretty pictures :a question of blog aesthetics.
Is a blog that uses pictures in its posts more likely to succeed that a blog that posts identical content but doesn’t use the pictures? Sure, we know that there are many other considerations in the success or otherwise of a blog, but take a pure economists view of a ...more
Blog Design

Why Do You Write, Read, and Comment on Blogs?
Last week, Bob Bly asked a simple question on his blog – …why not just read books, periodicals, and Web sites? Why do you read blogs … and bother writing posts on them? Here was the comment I left in response to his question: I own a few of the ...more
Business Blogging

Does size matter?
No, this isn’t a post involving a dirty subject, Darren has had all of us guest bloggers sign in blood that we will behave ourselves here at Problogger, but it is a serious question. Does size matter in terms of blog layout. There is any number of different theories on ...more
Blog Design

Blogs Are an Incomplete Customer Communications Tool – How Would You Make Them Better?
Blogs are interesting tools of business and business communications. There are a lot of useful things you can do with a blog. Interestingly, they’re lacking in the one benefit most touted – customer communication. Only the blogger can open the conversation, the reader can only respond. That’s poor communication. Readers ...more
Business Blogging

Browser compatibility of your blog
I’ve put up a different version of this post up at The Blog Herald, but knowing that Darren is a Mac user I wanted to share a slightly different version on the theme here at Problogger: professional bloggers are ignoring compatibility issues. I know from experience that many of the ...more
Blog Design