CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

Joshua Porter from Bokardo (a blog about social web design) has written a refreshing post with his 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers. It is refreshing to me as it’s not filled with the just the ‘normal’ tips that everyone comes up with but is written from the heart. His 9 ...more

Last week I wrote a post talking about simple posts and how they can be a powerful thing to include in your blog. I followed that post up with one looking at the balancing act that longer term bloggers have when it comes to working out where to pitch their ...more

Raj writes an interesting post over at Performacing on The Dangers Of Too Many Sites: Blogger’s Dilemma where he outlines some of the options open to bloggers who have too many blogs and not enough resources to run them all. On a similar note, here’s the first post in a ...more

Three links for you today. Alex writes Technorati 100: What’s Hot in the Blogosphere – a detailed analysis of what type of blogs are dominating Technorati’s top 100. natnit shares 5 steps to spice up your free blog Shoemoney posts an email from someone trying to extort money from him ...more

After being the victim of a Spammer hijacking my newsletter for their own purposes earlier today there are a few lessons that I’ve learned: 1. People Hate Spam No really – they HATE it. The hatred and anger that has ended up in my inbox today from recipients of the ...more

One of the semi regular tasks that I set myself is to analyze the questions that readers are asking to find my blogs. I use a simple method that I’ve outlined previously that utilizes 103bees metrics. Today it struck me afresh just how many of the visitors coming into my ...more

An increasing number of bloggers are landing deals with publishers and writing books and one of the crucial aspects of a book’s success can be how it goes at Amazon. Chris Webb has put together a list of 10 Simple Ways Authors Can Help to Increase Sales at Amazon.com which ...more

Last week I published the results of an informal survey that asked for Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribe from Blogs. There’s been a lot of discussion about the results – particularly the almost contrasting most common reasons: Too many posts Infrequent Posting The above responses are fairly general and unquantifiable – ...more

Scott at Blog Herald asks Could Blogging Adopt A Paid Content Business Model? and points out a number of blogs (including ProBlogger) that could conceivably charge readers for content. It’s an interesting topic and one that has popped up as a discussion point a couple of times a year since ...more