CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

NB: this is the first in a series of posts on Strategic Blogging. The following posts in the series are – Mission – Values – Vision and Goals – Issues, Present Reality and Future Direction – Strategy – Action Plan Over the past year I’ve been meeting with a business ...more

Todd Mintz writes a very worthwhile article at How To Be A Blogging Idol Instead Of An Idle Blogger which I think is a must read for bloggers wanting to start out in ProBlogging. Whilst I don’t completely agree with everything Todd writes (I’ve never entered into a link exchange ...more

This Blogging Rhythms post should be a little shorter than the others (famous last words) as it’s focused upon a shorter rhythm – one of just 24 hours, the day. Each of us have our own daily rhythms, times for waking up, eating, bathing, relaxing etc. Blogs often have up ...more

Another Blogging Rhythm that it’s useful to be aware of is the yearly rhythm. Just last week I had an email from a reader asking me to take a look over their blog which they said was ‘in decline’. Ever since June they’d been gradually losing readers even though their ...more

Marketing Sherpa has a very useful article on Blog Copyright Theft which is full of all kinds of useful tips on how to protect your content. Reminds me of an article I wrote a while back titled What to do when someone Steals Your Blog’s Content – Blog Blagiarism. Interested ...more

Warning – Tangent Ahead! (I do get onto blogging eventually) All of my friends are having babies. It’s a wonderful thing actually – the pitter patter of little feet in our social lives is a really beautiful thing on so many levels. V and I enjoy our time with our ...more

Duncan has a good post over at Blog Herald about that talks about perseverance in building a blog. He writes: ‘Very few people find fame and fortune through launching a blog overnight, but over time most people can build a reasonable audience, or even more, based on perseverance at blogging, ...more

Thanks to Robert for linking up to ProBlogger.net while I slept last night. It’s always nice to get a positive link from a larger blogger who sends an influx of new readers into your blog. It’s been an interesting week here at ProBlogger for this reason – after the exposure ...more

Paul Chaney has a good post titled Ten Things To Do Before You Blog in which he gives…four… things to do before you start a blog (six more to come in a future post). He’s writing more about business blogs than entrepreneurial blogs like most readers here seem to run ...more