CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

Tristan Louis at TNL.net does an interesting post today which analyses 5 top blogs (Boing Boing, InstaPundit, Daily Kos, Gizmodo and Engadget) and how frequent and long their posts are. ‘The data became clearer. On that particular day, the top five bloggers created an average of 30 entries, with each ...more

Trevor Cook has an interesting post reflecting upon one of the most highly posts on his blog – a post about ‘Gmail Not Working’. ‘it leaves me wondering whether one of the best ways of boosting traffic is to write lots of stuff about products, good and bad.’ In a ...more

In my recent post on Blogging in Formation – Lessons from a Goose I promised to write some posts on how to build blogging relationships. This will be the first of numerous posts on the topic. Before I get straight into strategies about how to make contact with and build ...more

Computer Toaster has a helpful article on selecting a Niche Market for Ecommerce (update: the link is now dead so I’ve deleted it) which whilst not written for bloggers has some useful tips on how you might go through such a process of choosing a niche for your next blog. ...more

Matthew posts a useful little tip for bloggers who are Firefox users – he’s been experimenting with the tabbed browsing feature to speed up his blogging workflow. My Blogging WorkFlow – I use Safari as my browser of choice and similarly use tabs in conjunction with Bloglines to speed up ...more

Ken Smith from Weblogs in Higher Education has a good post where he attempts to describe a ‘good blog’ – he writes: ‘A good blog has a focus, a field or topic where the writer keeps up with what’s being said. The writer attends with interest to the work being ...more

“Two Heads are better than one”…. or so the old saying goes. I’ve been reflecting this week about the importance of relationships in blogging. I met up with an old university friend this week for the first time since we studied marketing together – catching up stimulated me to begin ...more

Define Blog has a good post on Managing Your Time as a blogger of multiple blogs: ‘If you run several blogs managing your time is highly important. Ideally we would like to take the hours we are awake, divide it by the number of blogs we have and have that ...more

Paul has a good post on things to consider before launching your new blog to better the chances of success for your new blog. Rather than coming up with a topic, doing a quick design and a single post before telling the world about your new blog there are a ...more