CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

This guest post is by Andrew Bart. Now that both U.S. political parties have concluded the respective coronations of their chosen candidates, it’s time for them to head into real battle in the weeks leading up to the November 6 election. What tools are both candidates arming themselves with to ...more

This guest post is by Matt Setter of MaltBlue.com. If you were with us yesterday, Part 1 of this series will have put you in very good stead for making sure the code of your blog posts is perfect HTML! As you’ll recall, yesterday we looked at: What is a tag? ...more

This guest post is by Matt Setter of MaltBlue.com. In the modern-world of blogging, there are so many blogging platforms to choose from. From the venerable WordPress, TypePad and Drupal to other great tools, such as Habari, Typo3 and CushyCMS amongst others. All of these make building a professional and stunning ...more

Tools like WordPress and Blogger and pretty much all online editors now provide us with WYSIWYG tools. That’s excellent for those of us who are less technical—like me! But visual editors like the one in WordPress can tempt us to copy and paste content from another program, like Word. Even ...more

This guest post is by Geoff Talbot of SevenSentences.com. Whether you like it not, social media is taking over Internet. Research tells us that one in five of every minutes spent online is currently being spent on a social media channel. Business has always been about getting the attention of ...more

This guest post is by Francis Santos of Benchmark Email. Blogging and email marketing are a lot alike. Okay, a lot might be stretching it, but they do share some similarities. For example, both are easy for beginners to use, are generally inexpensive, and great for business. Another quality these ...more

This guest post is by Tony Hastings of The Top 10 Blog. Whether you are blogging for profit, publicity, or pleasure, the basic building blocks of success are the same. Success can be defined as, “accomplishing an aim or purpose or having achieved popularity, profit, or distinction.” (Google Dictionary) Here are ...more

Today is blog action day, and this year’s theme is “The Power of We.” But for some of us, harnessing that power is a major challenge. One of the most common complaints of bloggers I speak to is that they want to collaborate more effectively with their audience members, customers, ...more

This guest post is by Timo Kiander of Productivesuperdad.com. What’s the one similarity between these blogging tasks? approving comments on your blog proofreading posts writing and preparing your post to be published (finding images, SEO, setting tags and categories, and so on) keeping yourself up to date with social media writing ...more