CategoryBlog Promotion

Skellie wrote this post. For more, you can follow her on Twitter. Did you know that some blogs receive over one million visitors each month? Have you ever wondered how they do it? This kind of traffic isn’t easy to attain, but the pay-off for a high traffic blog with ...more

Skellie wrote this post. She writes plenty more advanced blogging tips and strategies at Skelliewag.org. You can also get to know Skellie on Twitter. It’s ironic that arguably the biggest challenges for a blogger come when they are least experienced–when their blog is just a few weeks or months old. ...more

You’re slaved over your post – crafting titles, opening lines, adding depth, designing the post to be eye catching and more – you select the perfect time for your post to go live and hit ‘publish’! It’s over – another post ‘released’ into the wild – there’s nothing more you ...more

Do you want to grow your blog’s audience? Today Chris Brogan shares some strategies on just how to do that. It took me years to start figuring out how to grow my blog’s community such that it was steady and sustainable. A few years back, I figured out how to ...more

Yesterday I challenged myself to grow my Digital Photography forum membership numbers by 500 new members in 24 hours. I only got just over 400 in the end – but learned a few things a long the way about growing forums – some of which can be applied to blogging. ...more

Jeremiah Owyang has written a good post today on how to get noticed. Getting noticed is a major problem for most bloggers starting out (and most who have been going for years also). Jeremiah’s suggestions are great: Have a goal, Develop a unique brand, Get personal, Attend local events, Lead ...more

Does the traffic coming to your site come in a Yo-Yo like cycle of ups and downs that never really seems to go anywhere in the long run? Yesterday I wrote about a common problem that many bloggers face - spikes of traffic followed by flat-lines and promised a follow up post today on how to break this cycle by building 'sticky' sites.

Today I want to reveal 21 practical techniques for making sticky sites that new readers just can't leave.....

There’s a lot of talk that goes around the blogosphere about how PR people try to USE bloggers to help their clients – but how can bloggers USE PR people (or at least make the relationship a little more mutually beneficial)? In this post Erik Sebellin-Ross from Ready Aim Reach ...more

Steve Rubel has a thought provoking post today asking the question – should you rent or buy social real estate? In it he explores the idea of using a service like Twitter (where you ‘rent’ and build up a community on someone else’s property) versus having your own blog on ...more