CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

Does the quantity of content that you post to your blog add value to or devalue your blog? I suspect that there are many bloggers who think that by adding large quantities of content to their blog that they are adding value to it however in many cases constantly pouring ...more

A reader this week submitted the following question: “What is your take on blog posts that show only the first few paragraphs on the main site and then require clicking on “more” or “continue” or some similar link in order to see the entire post? I know I rarely click ...more

Warning – Tangent Ahead…. As I write this post I’m sitting in my favorite cafe sipping on a great coffee and getting ready to order some lunch. This cafe has been a regular part of my blogging workflow for quite a few years now. It’s just around the corner from ...more

One of the common problems that I find being made on many WordPress Blogs is the default ‘About Page’ being unchanged. You’ve probably seen them as you’ve surfed around – you click on the ‘About’ link in the blog’s template and are taken to a page that says something like ...more

Welcome to August. I thought I’d take this opportunity to walk back down memory lane to what was happening on this blog a year ago today. August 2005 was a special month at ProBlogger as I launched my first month long series with these words: “Starting Monday I’m going to ...more

Perhaps my post on remembering that blog readers are people was a touch too ‘warm and fuzzy’ – so I thought I’d balance it with another characteristic of blog readers that it’s well worth keeping in mind as you blog…. that being that…. Blog Readers are selfish! Ok – that ...more

Breaking News!!! Your blog’s readers are people. Have you ever lost sight of that fact? If you have – you’re not alone. I suspect that most of us as bloggers forget it from time to time. In the busyness of life, in pressure we put on ourselves to post regularly, ...more

Do you have a way for your blog readers to contact you? I’ve just spent a frustrating 15 minutes looking for a way to contact a write on CNET’s Alpha Blog and am left quite frustrated by the distance that they seem to have put between their bloggers and readers. ...more

Kevin at LexBlog has a post that has got me thinking. It’s called Best blogs send audience away. In it he refers to a post by Jeff Jarvis which talks about portals and how they try to lure you in to them and keep you there as opposed to what ...more