CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips
8 Things to do on your Blog when you’re Sick
I’ve been asked numerous times blog bloggers what to do with a blog on a day that they’re sick. As I woke up with a pounding head and numerous other flu ailments I thought today might be a relevant day to answer the question: Ask a Question – one of ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Email an Old Timer Reader
Today your task in the 31 Day Project is a fairly simple one – it’s to Email one (or more if you have time) one of your ‘old timer’ readers. Do you have readers that have been reading your blog since the ‘early days’ of your blogging? You know the ...more
31 Days to Building a Better Blog
Blog Disclosures – What Should a Blogger Disclose?
Read Write Web has a post on Blogging Ethics and asks When And What Should Bloggers Disclose? Josh who writes the article suggests the following areas should be disclosed: Financial association (investment, ownership etc) Employment Competition Personal involvement When do you include disclaimers when blogging?
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Conduct an About Page Audit
Today your task in the 31 Day Project here at ProBlogger (this is Day 5) is to Conduct an About Page Audit. One of the key pages on a blog is the about page. This page is often used by new readers to a blog to gather information about you ...more
31 Days to Building a Better Blog
Interlinking Posts
Today’s task in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog project is to dig back into your archives and do some interlinking of posts. As you add more and more content to your blog there will be more and more opportunity to link your posts together so that readers ...more
31 Days to Building a Better Blog
Search for and Join Forums on Your Blog’s Topic
Your task today in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog project is to find and become a member of a web forum in your niche. Why Forums? I find forums to be a very worthwhile type of website to join and participate in for a number of reasons: ...more
31 Days to Building a Better Blog
Learn How to Blog Better – Reader Blog Tips
Part of the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog project that I’m currently running here on ProBlogger is an invitation to readers to share what they are learning about blogging by publishing their own blog tips (you can learn how to participate here). Every few days I’ll publish a ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Run a First Time Reader Audit on Your Blog
Today is Day 2 in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Challenge and today your task is to Do a First Time Reader Audit on your blog. Get a friend or family member who has never read your blog before and sit them down at a computer. Load ...more
31 Days to Building a Better Blog
Targeting Your Reader’s Emotions
Rand has a great post over at SEOmoz on The Emotions that Make Us Link. It’s one of those ‘why didn’t I think to write it’ posts. I guess I’m linking up to it out of ‘envy’, mixed with a little ‘sharing’. PS: Actually Rand’s post reminds me a lot ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips