CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

One of the tips that is often given by bloggers is that you should use some sort of service or plugin that shows related posts on your blog. Not only does this give readers something else to look at, it provides another way to make your blog sticky. This will ...more

Over the weekend I set up and launched my new Twitter Tips Blog – TwiTip. Since announcing the launch of TwiTip here on ProBlogger I’ve been asked quite a few times about what WordPress plugins I’ve installed to enhance and add features to the blog. I still need to add ...more

Today Jeff Chandler shares with us how FireFox 3 can be a great tool for bloggers. If there is one thing that sets FireFox apart from any other web browser, it would have to be the third party support in the form of themes and extensions. There are so many ...more

Over the last week I’ve been talking about Newsletters a little. We’ve covered reasons start a newsletter and how I’ve increased my newsletter subscriber numbers 10 fold. Today I want to finish this informal mini-series on newsletters off with some tips for actually writing a newsletter. How to Write an ...more

Almost every time I write about having an email newsletter associated with my blog (as I did yesterday in sharing how I drastically increased subscriber numbers) I get people asking me why I use newsletters? The questions on newsletters as a medium often include: Isn’t Email old fashioned? Isn’t RSS ...more

If you’re a blogger with even a smallish readership you probably get asked the same questions over and over again by readers. Oe great way to save yourself a lot of time when it comes to these frequently asked questions is to have pre-prepared answers that you can email back ...more

Here’s a cool little blogging tool to help spread news of your blog posts from readers to their networks of friends via email, social networks, instant messaging and their blogs – it’s called TellaFriend. IN essence it’s a little widget that you embed above or below your posts that readers ...more

AppLoop is a great little tool that is currently in beta that will take any RSS feed and turn it into an iPhone Application. iPhone Application Generator Demo from AppLoop on Vimeo. All you need to do to set it up is to add your feed, a logo and name ...more

Last week I spoke with a blogger who had thrown the towel in on his blog. One day he simply stopped posting with no explanation. I emailed to ask him why he stopped and his response was: “I can’t keep up with the advances in technology. Every day there is ...more