CategoryWriting Content

Rebelbagwan left a comment on my last post asking about posting goals. He writes that he intends to: “write 5 posts of some quality a day , so far starting from zilch getting currently 60 uniques a day and will try and double this every week , do you think ...more

Steve Pavlina has taken the step of closing down his blog’s comments system because they were more trouble than they were worth. He writes: ‘The main factor in making this decision was the time and energy freed up by not having to deal with comments. No blog comments means no ...more

Yaro has a good post on his experiment to buy a 100×100 pixel ad on the Million Dollar Homepage. The results were disappointing for the investment of $100 – especially when he compares the results of the ad to the results of writing a quality post on his blog that ...more

BJ has decided that with the start of October comes the start of a new routine for her as a working blogger. It’s got me thinking about the time in my own blogging journey that I made similar decisions to put a routine together in order to become more productive ...more

Steve at Micro Persuasion asks his readers whether Shorter Posts = Better Posts? ‘Would you rather have fewer posts with more depth or frequent short posts with high value information? It’s hard to combine them (and maintain a life).’ My answer is that it depends upon a number of factors ...more

Here’s a tip for how to get people to link to your blog. Write lists! I’ve been reminded by this again today by seeing just how many people are linking up to Piaras Kelly’s list of Tips on writing content for your blog. I must have seen 10 or 15 ...more

Piaras Kelly PR has 12 tips for writing content for your blog which has been linked to by a few people today. I’d actually agree with most of it – but would also recommend a little caution with a few of them. Let me make a comment on each one. ...more

Here is a free tip. If you’re going to IM me and ask me to look at your blog – don’t fill it with stolen content. I’m going to make this as clear as possible. If you are going to use other people’s content to your site: – ALWAYS reveal ...more

Dave Taylor has written an interesting piece today on story telling and blogs that has resonated with me. It’s at “Don’t sell me a product, tell me a story!”: ‘What stuck in my head, however, was that his background gave him a unique ability to tell an interesting story. After ...more