CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

In your quest to find interesting things to blog about, you may want to consider blogging about The News. Sure, there are loads of ways to create great content — interviews, tips, opinion pieces, research and so on, but blogging about news items can be particularly useful. Why News is ...more

So in your quest to dominate your corner of the blogosphere, you might be wonder about higher order questions. How does one blog? What are the “rules” behind creating a great blog? Is there anything universal that connects the very stuff behind the truly great blogs irrespective of their content? ...more

103 bees has added a very useful tool to their search terms analysis system. Previously they enabled users to track what keywords people were using to arrive at your blog but now they’ve added questions analysis. They’ve worked out a way to tell if a search term is a question ...more

Interweb World posts a useful list that reflects upon some of the lessons that they learned in the recent re-launch of a forum that didn’t take off the first time but which did really well the second. Their lessons include inviting an audience, promotion, creating content, responding and killing trolls. ...more

Des from Business and Blogging was asked a couple of weeks ago to describe his blog in 10 words or less. His description was: “How blogs work, or don’t, to support business goals.” I guess mine would be my catch cry – ‘helping bloggers earn money’. I think it’s a ...more

Penelope Trunk has a helpful post on how to get your blog mentioned in Print. She writes some good tips in each of the following areas: Don’t pitch yourself, pitch an idea. Pitch an idea with the print audience in mind. Tailor the idea to the journalist. Sign up for ...more

Eric Giguere asks an interesting question over at his blog – Do you have an “AdSense Will”? It is actually a question V (my wife) and I have talked about and made plans for over the past year or so. It became more serious for us to talk about when ...more

Michael Moncur has written a thoughtful post asking Whatever happened to online etiquette? which bounces off (and largely rejects) the NYT piece by David Pogue of the same name. I think Michael makes some worthwhile points – particularly in his third point about Anonymity and fifth point about content inspiring ...more

Aaron just IM’d me to let me know that my post on TIME being linkbaiter of the year has climbed up to #3 on Techmeme (actually it got to #2). The irony is that my in jest (attempted humor) accusation that TIME have pulled off the most successful linkbaiting of ...more