CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

This post on Blogging for Yourself vs. Blogging for Others has been submitted by Deborah Ng who blogs at About Weblogs (for about.com), Simply Thrifty (for b5media) and Work From Home Momma (for Know More Media). I think she’s qualified for talking about blogging for others! While it started out ...more

Jennifer asked – “I just started a new blog a week ago. I’m writing one post a day, in the mornings before I go to work. I have a problem with obsessively checking my blog stats and comments during the day at the office. Surely I’m not the only one! ...more

One of the most popular new attempts to make money from blogging of the last few weeks has been the Buy Me a Beer – PayPal Donation WordPress Plugin that has been popping up on many of the blogs I read (the first one I saw it on was Chris’s ...more

Idle Profit writes a post with 5 Reasons you need to have a contact page – I think all 5 reasons are valid. Plus it’s just bad manners not to and can create a spammy/cheap and nasty impression when you don’t. Plus it’s just good business sense to give customers, ...more

Sometimes when I get together with my business owning friends I feel terribly guilty. The reason – I have no substantial overheads or expenses. When we get together my friends bemoan the costs of renting properties, paying staff, the cost of advertising and having to find the money to pay ...more

I was recently emailed by a blogger asking me to take a look at their brand new blog. The blog was very new (it only consisted of 3 posts) and it’s purpose was obviously to convert readers into sales of the blogger’s new e-book. The first three posts on the ...more

I’ve been having some fun with Google Analytics tonight – particularly in looking at where readers of my blogs come from geographically. It’s not something that I’ve done for a while and the stats for ProBlogger have changed quite a bit. Previously when I did this I had a fair ...more

In BJ’s post on Developing a Blogging Schedule she finishes with a short section titled ‘A Contract with Myself’ which caught my eye. It reminded me of a rough patch that I went through in my blogging a couple of years ago when I really struggled with bloggers block and ...more

After my recent post on the pressures of blogging I had some great feedback from PreBloggers (those thinking of starting up) thanking me and those who commented for giving a more realistic view of blogging. One of the pictures that comes to mind of my own experience of blogging is ...more