CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

It’s Monday morning here in Australia and even Problogger’s suffer from ‘Mondayitis’ and find it hard to get themselves going. However today has been a little different – for some reason today there’s a little extra inspiration in my inbox. You see today I had three completely unsolicited ‘thank you’ ...more

This week I’ve had four readers email to tell me that they’ve received comment spam on their blogs from someone using my name. The comments say something about how their blog is really getting better and/or that I’m enjoying it. The link left goes to a Penis Enlargement site (or ...more

Do you have a spare 10 minutes and want a thought provoking read on blogging? Download The Zen of Blogging (pdf). It’s a free ebook by Hunter Nuttall – not your typical ebook about blogging but a simple guide with plenty of areas of blogging to chew over. Oh, and ...more

We all like a joke on 1 April (and it can even be good for your blog) but some good advice to remember when playing such ‘pranks’ is that jokes that impact others should seriously be considered. My mum used to say – ‘it’s all fun and games until someone ...more

Over the weekend I decided to get serious about my email situation. I’d been sitting on an inbox with close to 10,000 items in it for months and was feeling more and more stressed by the day. I posted on Twitter that I needed to do something about it and ...more

Today in the NYT there’s a piece about bloggers blogging til they drop and the impact of blogging on health. I’ve been asked numerous times since the article came out for comment and I’ve had a few random thoughts. Let me post them as a stream of consciousness type post: ...more

Suzie has a post up on her blog which asks a question that many bloggers ask – often when they’ve started a personal blog and want to take their blogging to a new level, particularly in their quest to make money blogging. The question revolves around how many topics their ...more

The following guest post on measuring a blog’s success has been submitted by Mark Seall. A guide to systematically troubleshooting your blog’s performance by focusing on the measures that make a difference. Apparently it’s really easy to get zillions of subscribers to your blog – Just follow a few simple ...more

Just a quick post/tip to followup on the April Fools post update that I did yesterday. While in general I find the day to be a distraction more than anything else (I’m sure many of us spent more time filtering pranks than doing much else yesterday) it is one of ...more