CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

image by s-revenge If you’ve got a spare 10 minutes today check out Eyetrack III who have published some great findings in their latest eye tracking studies of news and multimedia content sites (found via Direct Creative Blog). There’s loads of juicy goodness in the full article but here are ...more

Yesterday I spent most of the day at a conference here in Melbourne called the Future Summit. My role was ‘guest twitterer’ on the official Twitter account for the summit for a few of the sessions. The presentation that I found most helpful today was by Alison Sander from Boston ...more

Today Shaun Connell from Learn Financial Planning shares some thoughts about blog business models. After managing a website or blog for a significant period of time, it becomes extremely easy to assume that because we do our business online, that we aren’t engaging in ‘real’ business, and all of the ...more

Today Patrick O’Keefe from iFroggy Network and the author of the book Managing Online Forums shares how appreciation can help grow the community on your blog. As online community managers and administrators, bloggers and general social media participants, we sometimes get so caught up in growing our community, that we ...more

Today is Day 31 in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge. Congratulations to those who have made it through to this point – I hope you’ve found it to be a helpful experience. To those just starting, part way through or who are yet to start (you ...more

Today your task in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Project is something that most bloggers who have been blogging for a while could probably benefit from doing – go on a dead link hunt. Blogging is built on the ‘link’. One blog links to another blog who ...more

This post is an excerpt from the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Workbook When was the last time you made someone else’s blog better? Today’s task in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog is to do just that – to improve a blog that is not ...more

If you’ve got 15 minutes to spare today (and want to hear a couple of Aussies talking blogging) check out this quick podcast of an interview that I did this week with Clayton Bjelan on the morning show local Melbourne radio station – Light FM. In it I talk a ...more

This post is an excerpt from the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Workbook Let me be a little presumptuous and blunt – not every post in the archives of your blog is up to scratch. I know this because the statement is true of my own blogs. No ...more