This bit of blogging advice has two parts to it but both deal with the length of blog posts. Now, people often visit blogs looking for quick tidbits of information. So as a blogger, you’ll attract more viewers if you give them what they want. This is why my first part of this advice is [...]
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Mar 08 2011
Lifestyle oriented blog providers
Sometimes just doing a search in Google on a subject that I think I’m acquainted with can turn up a topic for discussion. In a world with millions of new blogs starting up every day is it worthwhile to consider joining a blogging site that is targeted to a specific lifestyle or audience. Of course, [...]
Mar 02 2011
What’s up with that font?
I followed another bloggers tweet to his posts about blogging. Now this seemed like the perfect set of posts for me to read. I wanted to see what advice he had about blogging that might help me. What he’d experienced that I hadn’t. And the site did help me with this, but probably not in [...]
Feb 24 2011
Does affiliate marketing put blog objectivity in danger?
The past few years have been marked by an upsurge in bloggers as news sources. For many this has signaled a positive change by taking the news out of the filter of the major media. Some see blogs as a source of more immediate information from people on the scene or with a variety of [...]
Feb 15 2011
Blog life, personal life, professional life
Here’s a challenge many bloggers face — say you blog on topics based on your experience. Now that experience may be a result of your profession and a day job or it could be the based on life experience and your personal life. Now, often these lines between the blog life and personal or professional [...]
Feb 10 2011
The Long and Short of Twitter
Are you a tweet deck user? I’m hoping you already have a twitter account and have been using it to direct people to your blog and communicate other messages about you and your brand, because Twitter has become a critical marketing tool and communication tool these days. But some twitter users are wondering of some [...]
Feb 04 2011
Choosing a style guide
Today I want to talk about a subject I don’t see addressed much on blogging sites or even journalism sites – choosing a style guide for your writing. Now the reason you won’t see journalism sites addressing the issue in this manner is that journalism has an accepted style guide — the AP or Associated [...]
Jan 18 2011
The blog comment spam battle
It’s an going battle in blog land. On one hand, having people leave comments on your blog is a great way to show that people read your work and appreciate what you have to say. Good comments can show other readers that you are an authority to be trusted. Negative comments can give you topics [...]
Jan 13 2011
Using Tweet chats to build an audience
Do you have a regular period of time, perhaps a couple of hours, each week that you can devote to hosting a tweet chat? Because I’ve seen bloggers and writers successfully turn these twitter events into a solid audience for their blog or their product. A tweet chat is basically a chat session hosted on [...]
Jan 05 2011
Using images to make your posts more appealing
Want one easy tip to make your blog posts more appealing to readers? Try adding an image. It doesn’t have to be a full photo display of images with a new one for every paragraph. Just a single image can attract a reader and help a post seem a bit more interesting. Now, where do [...]