CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

Today I read a post over at Robert Scoble’s blog called Things on my mind… which I found myself resonating with quite strongly. I want to share some ‘lessons’ that we can take from his situation at the end of this post – but a few other thoughts first: In ...more

Today’s task in the 31 Days Blogging Project is to so some analysis of other blogs in your niche – your ‘competition’. Note: I use the word ‘competition’ hesitantly because the thing about blogging is that those blogging on the same topics as you are potentially your biggest allies. Connect ...more

It’s day 13 in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Project and this morning I woke up to four emails from readers reporting enjoying different aspects of the month’s activities. The first had recruited 12 friends to do the project with them The second told me about how ...more

Today your task in the 31 Day Project is to Introduce Yourself to another blogger Email or IM another blogger in your niche to introduce yourself and your blog. You don’t need to ask them to link to you or anything – the point isn’t to get any specific outcome ...more

Today your task in the 31 Day Project is to dig into your blog’s metrics or statistics package. Take some time out today to do a little analysis of your blog’s statistics. There is a wealth of information in them that can be incredibly useful. Here’s a few metrics to ...more

The 31 Day Blogging Project Rolls on (we’re at Day 8) and the last 3 days have seen another great bunch of 70 reader blog tips submitted. That brings the total of reader submitted tips to 151 with still 23 days in the project. There is some seriously good reading ...more

Two good posts leapt from my RSS feed at me this morning that I think complement one another quite well. Wendy writes – How I Grew My Blogging Profits While My Traffic Numbers Went Down and identifies 6 key lessons: I have truly learned the value of a targeted visitor. ...more

Today your task in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Project is as simple as they come. In fact it’s a tip that gets included in almost every post ever written on how to grow a blog’s traffic – comment on a blog that you’ve never commented on ...more

Glen just wrote me an email to let me know about a post that he just published that researched how many times the Top 100 blogs at Technorati hit the Digg home page. There’s a definite correlation there – particularly among the very top five blogs who make it to ...more