This is the big question most bloggers face soon after they start blogging — how often should the blog be updated? And the question that follows that is — how much time am I going to need to make this blog a success? Now there’s no single right answer to the question because there’s no [...]
Archive for the ‘blogging’ category
Dec 01 2010
Twitter tools – Friend or Follow
Today I’m going to introduce you to one of my favorite Twitter tools. A little site called Friend or Follow. Now, there is one thing that Friend or Follow does that you need. It will tell you who isn’t following you back. Well, it also tells you who follows you and who you aren’t following [...]
Nov 18 2010
Group blogging
So you’re thinking of blogging but you’re worried you don’t have the time to keep a blog going on a regular basis. You’re worried about coming up with topics and keeping readers engaged and coming back to your blog. Or maybe you just want to find a way to bring more people to your blog. [...]
Nov 03 2010
How much do readers read?
This is an important question for writers, journalists and bloggers. When readers read your work, your page — just how much do they read? How much of this are you reading right now? Okay, I’m at the beginning sentences so you might not have started skimming yet. Or you might have. It’s like a secret [...]
Oct 28 2010
SEO vs SMO and the online writer
I want to spend some time on this blog looking into the controversy between SEO and SMO and where it may take your blogging efforts in the future. Now, writers who work in the online sphere have long been aware of the trials and tribulations of SEO or Search Engine Optimization. Basically SEO focuses on [...]
Oct 20 2010
How often should you Blog?
This is the big question most bloggers face soon after they start blogging — how often should the blog be updated? And the question that follows that is — how much time am I going to need to make this blog a success? Now there’s no single right answer to the question because there’s no [...]
Oct 07 2010
Commenting on blogs to grow readership
The web is a community. Sometimes we forget that when we blog. We see our blog as a destination, a resource or source of information for those who visit it. A way of marketing ourselves and our thoughts or products. But when we do that we forget one big difference between blogs and print media [...]
Oct 12 2010
Are you allowing comments on your blog?
category: blogging author: tm.smith
In the last blog post, I discussed how to help build readership by commenting on other blogs. Now the overabundance of spam comments out there may make some bloggers feel like giving up on comments entirely. After all, it would seem that an easy way to solve the problem would just be to turn off [...]
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