CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

“What are you doing for Christmas?” I was a little shocked to be asked that question last week by a friend. It’s usually a question that gets asked in the last week or two leading up to 25 December as plans are made with family and friends for the day’s ...more

Dave Sifry’s ‘State of the Blogosphere’ posts are a quarterly occourance and generally cause a bit of a stir around the blogosphere for different reasons. Some use the stats to boast how far we’ve come – others to point out our weaknesses. Either way – this quarter’s one is out ...more

Blog Carnivals are one way for bloggers to get their name out there and make connections with other bloggers. Over at fivecentnickel today nickel has posted Five Questions (and Answers) About Blog Carnivals which some bloggers will find useful. “For newer sites, the biggest reason to participate is exposure. It’s ...more

Eric asks a question that caught my attention today – How Does A Niche Blogger Gain Credibility? He suggest a number of possibilities including: The number of comments Technorati ranking Bloglines ranking Alexa ranking PageRank Quality of the posts I’d agree that the most important of these is the quality ...more

Brian is at it again with 7 More Sure-Fire Headline Templates That Work over at Copyblogger.

One of the simplest and yet most effective tips that I’ve got hidden away in my archives is one reflecting upon Product and Brand Names being the Best Keywords. The study that I linked to that stimulated the post is no longer live but luckily I took a quote from ...more

Another post from 2004 that I regularly point readers to (increasingly so in the last 6 months unfortunately) is: What to do When Someone Steals Your Blog’s Content – Blog Plagiarism Unfortunately the problem of people misusing other people’s content is one that is increasingly common. I find that some ...more

One of the most common misconceptions that I come across with bloggers hoping to make their fortune from blogging is that it is quick and easy. As a result I quite often point PreBloggers to the following post in the hope that it will help give a bit of a ...more

This post is part of a series of posts that I’m writing while on a short vacation that highlights a few posts from this blog’s thousands of posts in the archives. Another series of posts that I wrote back in my early days was titled Generating High Quantities of Content. ...more