CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

The Blogosphere is Big! Blogs are read by millions of people every day Blogs have a global audience A popular blog post can be read by hundreds of thousands of people over its lifetime It’s very easy to get caught up in the size of the blogosphere and picture your ...more

How much would you write a blog post for? I’ve had two emails today from bloggers asking how much they should charge per post for their blogging services and one email from a blog network asking how much I think is fair to pay bloggers per post. note – all ...more

So far in this series on link bait we’ve attempted to define linkbaiting, we’ve looked at the benefits of doing it and yesterday I described a variety of Linkbaiting Techniques. The techniques I looked at yesterday are good starting points engaging in them doesn’t guarantee that they’ll succeed. Everyday many ...more

As I’ve mentioned numerous times already in this series on linkbaiting – ‘linkbait’ is a term that is used to describe a variety of practices that have the purpose of generating links to your site. It is impossible to come up with a definitive list of what these practices are ...more

This post is a continuation in this week’s series on linkbaiting. Previously we’ve talked about ‘what is linkbaiting’ and have asked ‘Is Linkbaiting good or bad?’ and today I’d like us to turn our attention to some of the reasons people do it. While it’s worth remembering that linkbaiting is ...more

BlogHelper continues a great series of posts on WordPress with one on a topic that I get asked about quite a bit – Integrating a Forum with WordPress (it’s part of the group writing project – but so on topic for this blog that I thought it deserved a post ...more

Linkbaiting (link baiting, linkbait, link bait etc) is a term that has increasingly being used around the blogosphere. You can see in the following technorati graph the increase in its use (this one is for the term ‘link bait’) in the blogs that they track over the past 360 days ...more

As a follow up to my post on 10 Steps to Conflict Resolution I thought I’d post this list of ‘Rules for Fighting’ that I dug out of one of my marriage counselling files. Again – it applies to all kinds of relationships and I can’t see why it’s not ...more

Pronet Advertising has a nice piece on building a better blog and identifies 5 areas that a blog can stand out from the rest in: Content Usability Visibility Uniqueness Readers Read the full detail on each at 5 ways to building a better blog What would you add to the ...more