CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

Do you post out of what you know or do you blog intuitively? On the recommendation of Brian I’ve started reading Ogilvy on Advertising (aff) over the last couple of weeks. It’s a fairly dated book in some respects but it’s fascinating to see how many of the principles have ...more

Here’s a quick observation that I’ve made (by no means is this what I consider to be conclusive research – but it’s interesting anecdotal observation). I run a number of newsletters on my blogs. On two of them I’ve noticed that on the day that my newsletters go out that ...more

I was really excited to hear about the launch of Robert Scoble’s Video Blog in the past week. It certainly caused a stir around the blogosphere as it got lots of mentions on launch and some pretty positive reviews from viewers. When I saw some of the segments included in ...more

The ‘list’ is a popular (and effective) style of blog post that appeals to many bloggers (and their readers). However in chatting to a few bloggers lately using lists can also be something of a trap at times – especially using the ‘mega list’. nb: by ‘mega list’ I mean ...more

SEOmoz blog has a helpful post with 11 Best Practices for URLs. They’re mainly written from an SEO perspective although make sense on other levels also. Describe Your Content Keep it Short Static is the Way & the Light Descriptives are Better than Numbers Keywords Never Hurt Subdomains Aren’t the ...more

Yaro has written a post titled 8 Pitfalls To Avoid When Starting An Internet Business which contains some worthwhile advice (although i disagree with a couple in part). His points in bold – my comments after in normal type: Don’t start a business teaching how to make money online – ...more

Over the past few weeks I’ve had a number of people asking me for information on how I manage my time as a blogger and as someone with a number of different aspects of business running side by side. Here’s an example of one of the questions (from a reader ...more

Denise writes 10 Things That Make Bloggers Angry when pitching them – as someone who gets pitched a lot of ideas I’d recommend it as essential reading for marketers wanting to interact with bloggers. In the same vein of #1 (Not spelling the blogger’s name right) I’d add an 11th ...more

Thoughtful post by Brian over at Performancing on 3 Reasons Why Delicious Bookmarks Beat Digg Traffic Hands Down. I have to say I’d never really given it much thought before – but Brian makes some good points. I guess I’d take a link on the popular page of either one. ...more