CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

The following post was submitted by Mark Shead. Mark writes about personal productivity at Productivity501 where he’s experimenting with running a contests to help build a larger base of readers. Contests are a common way to try to increase your traffic. With the correct strategy a contest can really put ...more

Gabu_uy asks – What is in your opinion the best strategy, a few quality blogs, or a myriad of two nickels a day blogs? This is a question that I think you’ll find people will argue both sides of and it is something that I’ve changed my views on backwards ...more

Today’s guest post is from Chris Garrett from chrisg.com. In my last guest post here I listed some things we can learn from Darren’s blog. This time I am going to look at a blogger who many would like to emulate, if only for the fame, blog celebrity lifestyle and ...more

LintCollector asks – ‘My question relates to comments on a low-traffic blog. If there are very few comments due to lack of readers (not lack of regular posts), can this emphasize the lack of readers and reflect badly on the blog? If high activity on popular blogs conveys an impression ...more

Today’s guest post is from Chris Garrett from chrisg.com. When Darren asked if I would like to guest post on ProBlogger I had an attack of the nerves. You see, it was Darrens blog that was the inspiration (blame?) for me to become a pro-blogger myself. I still find inspiration ...more

Time for a little discussion question that emerged out of a conversation that I had with a new blogger recently. How many categories does your blog have? I’d also be interested to hear how people determined what categories to use and whether you can have too many categories (I was ...more

Anon Guy asks – ‘Probably a stupid question, but I was wondering about how cross-posting can affect the original site. I have a small political blog and was recently asked to cross-post some story I did on Myspace and politics. I went ahead and cut-and-pasted the story over at a ...more

A quick reader question: how many blogs do you actively blog on? I’m not asking about how many inactive blogs you own – but how many do you contribute to with a post of your own at least once a week? PS: I’ve previously asked a similar question – how ...more

The following post on Screencasting as a way to add great content and revenue streams to your blog was submitted by Mike Schinkel. One way to add huge value to your blog is to incorporate screencasts for “how-to” instruction sites “tours” or software products and other blogs and websites. Take ...more