During the Last Group Writing Project (on the topic of Lists) I was quite overwhelmed by the number of entries. The list that we ended up with had a total of 301 lists. The main problem with the final list of entries was that despite containing a lot of great ...more

Today’s the second last round of reader submissions in this week’s ‘Lists’ Group Writing Project. If you want to participate you’ve got until the end of Thursday (wherever you are). I’ll be posting the final submissions and announcing the prizes from our sponsors The Gold Pages Directory, The Umdum.com Web ...more

The following post is a list of books that would be helpful for bloggers – particularly those wishing to make a business from their blogging activities. It has been compiled both from my own suggestions as well as those of a number of other bloggers (see the bottom of the ...more

For our first product blog review, let’s take a look at SEO Book, a blog by SEO expert Aaron Wall that ultimately revolves around the sale of a continually-updated book on search engine optimization techniques that bring more traffic to websites. Like any successful product blog, it all starts with ...more

“If my blog has ((insert daily number of impressions or page views of your blog here)) how much should it be earning?” This is one of the more common questions I get asked by bloggers just starting out with making money from their blogs. On one level it’s a valid ...more

Most modern Blog Platforms come very well fitted out with formatting tools to help you to make your posts look and feel just the way you want them to. The way I describe blogging these days to people unsure whether they have what it takes is that if they have ...more

During the first year of my blogging ‘career’ I worked three jobs simultaneously and was studying part time – and blogged on the side. Sorry – that was a bit of an odd way to start a post – but I just didn’t know how else to do it (It’s ...more

Last week Jackie Willey (from Discover Walking and Amore Travel) left a comment on one of my posts as follows: ‘I own and market two blogs. As a result of my writing for these two blogs I was hired to write for two other blogs. In one case I bartered ...more

Interesting piece over at AdAge by Simon Dumenco titled a blogger is just a writer with a cooler name where he argues that blogs are just websites and that there shouldn’t really be as much focus on it (found via Adrants). He explains it better. ‘And it occurred to me ...more