CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

Here’s a video answer to a question I was asked on Twitter a few days back on whether it’s good to have more than one blog or just to concentrate on one.

Here’s a quick tip that I think a lot of bloggers could learn from – run a ‘town hall’ meeting on your blog. The inspiration from this comes from Digg who are periodically run a ‘Town Hall’ webcast for their members. The idea is simple – Kevin Rose and Jay ...more

It’s been 10 days since I excitedly launched the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog workbook. When it launched I wasn’t quite sure what to expect but I was sure I’d learn a lot by doing it – I was right. Today I thought I’d share a few of ...more

Image by marie-ll Guest Post by Michael Alex Wasylik from perpetualbeta.com. A Persuasive Profession When you think of people who know you to use words to persuade, you might think of salesmen, writers, lawyers, or politicians. Few people realize that good waiters (and of course, waitresses) also know how to ...more

Lately I’ve been sharing more links to the things I’m reading via my Twitter account than here on the blog – however today I thought I’d do a ‘speedlinking’ post for old times sake. Here’s 10 links I came across in my RSS reader today: How the Web and the ...more

“What’s the most common mistake made by new bloggers? How can we avoid it?“ – asked on Twitter by @alisonkerr. Here are a few quick mistakes that I see new bloggers making (some of which mistakes I made myself). They’re listed in no particular order and I’d love for you ...more

“how important is it to buy both the .net and .com of the same domain name?” Over on Twitter TragicDog asked me this question domains. Different bloggers will have different approaches to this one but my personal preference these days is to secure the .com version first and then to ...more

Much has been written on the topic of how to get readers to visit your blog and how to make your blog sticky so that they stick around once they’ve arrived – but I’ve not seen too many written about how to lose readers. Image by Lst1984 It might seem ...more

In a guest post, Neil Matthews of WPDude.com writes about how comment spammers and trolls can be banished from your site by blocking their IP address using the .htaccess file. Are you plagued by spammers and trolls inside of the comments section of your blog? If you are, I want ...more