CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

Geeks are Sexy have a useful post on Installing WordPress Locally Under Windows XP for those of you who might like to do so (and those who have a PC). As Kiltak comments in the posts, having a local version can be ‘useful because it lets you fool around with ...more

Do you have a Blog A List? There’s a lot of talk about ‘A-lists’ in blogging circles from time to time and I generally don’t get into the discussions about what makes a blogger an A-lister or not or how a blog makes it into any such list. To me ...more

Andrew Garrett has written a very insightful post at on a discovery he’s made about blogging that I think we all need to learn (and many of us relearn) – No-one links to the linkers. He tells a little of his own previous style of blogging – linking to another ...more

We’ve been talking this week about why blogs die and factors to consider when deciding whether to end them or not. If you get to the point where you think it’s best that you end a blog there are a number of options before you as how to do it. ...more

Yesterday I started talking about how to end blogs well and today I want to run through a number of factors to consider when asking whether you should end a blog or continue with it. Hopefully in pondering some of these questions bloggers will be able to make a a ...more

There comes a time in many blogger’s lives when they are faced with the decision of whether to let a blog die or whether to continue with it. This week I want to explore the why and how of letting blogs die. You see there are many great resources around ...more

Quick Online Tips has started a Giant Blogging Terms Glossary – head over and let them know what you’d add or subtract.

I am regularly asked by readers for my opinion on one variety or another of ‘traffic generation’ programs. These programs come in all shapes and sizes – some are paid services whereby you pay money in return for a certain amount of impressions, others are traffic exchange programs where you ...more

Andy Merrett has a post on how to Blog on slow news days where he gives a few options of what to do on days when there is very little happening in your niche: Do nothing Post opinion / forum / consumer views Stray from your niche Revisit old news ...more