CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

How do you describe your blogging business to people when they ask ‘what do you do?’

I never did quite finish my Blog Credibility Series. Sorry about that but the week sort of got away from me with the birthday thing, catching up on some projects I’d put on hold, starting a new blog and there being a public holiday here on Tuesday. So I thought ...more

It seems that bloggers everywhere are giving up the fight against comment spam – Or it least it seems that way to me. I’m not going to start naming names but this week as I’ve read a number of fairly high profile and active blogs I’ve noticed that there is ...more

This post is part of a series of posts on building blog credibility Does the blogger actually know what they are talking about? Some might argue that ‘expertise’ is a little close to ‘experience’ but I see it differently. As I wrote in the last post, I often write in ...more

This post is part of a series of posts on building blog credibility Tangent Time – If you’ve ever done any traveling you’ll know that it’s often the advice of others that you bump into on the road that give you the best advice on what to see or what ...more

This post is part of a series of posts on blog credibility Tangent Time – I used to go out with a girl who lived in a small rural town a few hours outside of Melbourne (a long time ago). We spent a fair bit of time in this town ...more

Question from ProBlogger reader – Joshua: “My question is how to make yourself a credible source. For example, when I came across your site, I got the impression that you had no experience with blogging, but found your niche in “making money from blogging.” But since you had never actually ...more

Liz over at Successful Blog has started up a new page on her blog for New Bloggers. It’s a useful collection of her posts on topics relevant for newbies. It’s also a good example of creating a page that draws first time readers deeper into your blog. It can be ...more

Another thing that Cory Doctrow talked about last night that I’ve been pondering ever since is how he releases his novels for free online as well as in hard copy. He spoke how this has worked really well for him and is probably the reason that he’s sold so many ...more