CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

In the last week I had a post which has been on a real journey. It’s a post on how to photograph fireworks that I’ve mentioned already when I spoke last week about Using Digg to Improve your Content but a post that since this time has continued to evolve. ...more

I had an email earlier today from a reader who asked an interesting question that got me thinking. He’s just started a new blog and was asking what type of posts he should put up first? He had decided upon a niche or focus for the blog and his first ...more

Brian at Copyblogger has a nice post over at his blog titled Do You Make These Mistakes With Your Blog? in which he unpacks some common mistakes of bloggers and gives some ‘prescriptions’. His mistakes (he writes more under each): 5. Do you write for search engines instead of people? ...more

Wendy Boswell has written a great piece over at Lifehacker on How to get things done working inside and outside the home where she talks a little about her approach to work life balance as a home based worker. I think that what she has to say is great and ...more

Scrivs has a good post on some of the things to consider before you launch a blog. He talks through issues of: The Design – “For a blog a great design is good, but isn’t as key as the content that is already present on the site. For more web-based ...more

A couple of months back I wrote a post titled 10 Steps to Writing a Successful Series on your Blog which was reasonably well received. Yesterday Lorelle VanFossen wrote a very helpful companion post to it exploring a variety of technical tips on how to publish a series of articles ...more

David at Blogging Pro has a useful post for those wanting to switch to WordPress but who are daunted by the process. His post is My WordPress Install Process. Similarly Rachel has a screencast of her install process – which was so simple that even I could do it! Of ...more

While we’re talking about email newsletters – Nielsen Normal Group have done some interesting research (found via an email from Ken – again) that finds that readers of email newsletters have ‘highly emotional reactions to them’ in contrast to the reactions that readers of websites have (where they are more ...more

It always amazes me how badly some businesses interact with potential clients. Yesterday I had the ‘pleasure’ of receiving three calls in 10 minutes from a tele-sales company where the callers (3 different ones) started their calls (where they were trying to sell me a mobile phone) with these three ...more