CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

Dan Harper asked in the comments of my post on No Money in Blogging? for more comment on the ‘growth factor’ of blogging. He asks: ‘How long would a new blogger see slow growth for? What do you think that factors are here, any advice on speeding the growth up?’ ...more

John Taylor writes on the topic of keeping your reader in mind as you blog…. It doesn’t matter what kind of web site you have you must understand your target audience and know what it is that they want. Please notice that I used the word want and not the ...more

IT Conversations have a good recording of Malcolm Gladwell talking about ‘Human Nature’ which is well worth the read. It doesn’t directly apply to bloggers but Malcolm’s stuff has always been influential in the way I approach my blogging. ‘Malcolm explores why we can’t trust people’s opinions — because we ...more

Computerworld has a good article on the legal issues that corporate bloggers face that is a must read for all Problogger. Here’s a taster: ‘As weblogs have multiplied, a number of legal issues have arisen, and regardless of whether your company sponsors its bloggers, it may be opening itself up ...more

Digital Future Report 2004 (PDF) is a very useful report for anyone working online. Its full of useful research including the following tidbits: – In the past year of the study numbers of those accessing the web in the US continued to rise (now around 75%). – The average US ...more

I’ve been asked to submit a very short piece into a magazine with some basic tips for beginner bloggers which I thought I’d share here. They are not Rocket Science – pretty basic – but a good starting point for someone starting out in Blogging. – Keep it simple. Start ...more

Whilst I’ve been blogging for close to two years now and am fortunate enough to earn a full time (ish) living from my blogging activities I by no means know everything there is to know about Blogging. Whilst I’ve written over 100 tips so far on this blog there are ...more

With Movabletype and many other platforms categories enable a wonderful way of organizing your blog. Each post in this blog is allocated to a category (or more than one) which means readers only interested in one topic (Adsense for example) can easily find every article on the site focusing upon ...more

Simon World has a good post titled Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask. Its got some great advice on blogging for anyone starting out….or continuing in blogging. Here is a couple of his tips: 4. Prepare for the reality that the rest of the world may ...more