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Continuing our discussion of things you should be doing right now to improve your blog, today’s tip is: 11. Link to your hosting or blog theme provider with an affiliate link I spoke with one craft blogger recently who has a medium-sized blog and told me that her third-strongest income stream came from two links …
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A brand new week and day 8 of our 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge! Let’s get started. Today it’s all about social media, and the role it plays in your blogging. If you’re not careful, it can suck up all of your time and you’ll be left struggling to find hours in …
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In this post regular contributer Skellie from Skelliewag.org helps you differentiate your content. Blogs are now so popular that it’s very hard to find a niche that isn’t already saturated. There are probably dozens or hundreds of other bloggers writing on the topics you cover. Being unique has never been so important. We already know …
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The rumors that the new Yahoo Publishing Network (a competitor to Google’s Adsense program) have been circulating the web of the past few days on a number of blogs and forums including Webmaster World, Thread Watch and at Jensense. It looks like an announcement could be imminent. Fueling my own speculation is a comment left …
Blog Tip 20. Short Posts If you don’t have much to say, don’t say much. Resist the pressure to have to fully unpack every aspect of every topic – instead let your readers unpack a topic for you with an invitation at the end of your post. Web readers are notorious for having short attention …
Daniel at Daily Blog Tips writes 10 Requisites for Professional Bloggers and has some useful things to say under the following headings: 1. Time2. Expertise on a topic3. Passion for the topic4. Writing skills5. Technical Knowledge6. Blogging Knowledge7. Web Design Skills8. Business/Marketing Knowledge9. Creativity and Innovative Ideas10. Network of contacts While I think all of …
Today SixApart have launched Movable Type 4.2 and Movable Type Pro. MT was the first blogging platform that I experienced (after a brief stint with blogger.com) and for a long while it had everything that I needed – however in time it became a little slow and problematic and with the surge in popularity around …
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This guest post was written by Alex of ToMakeALiving. It’s pretty well established that to grow your blog you need to write well, and you certainly wouldn’t struggle to find a dozen or so posts which offer suggestions that mostly boil down to “learn to write good content.” Well, duh… But assuming you can write, …
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Evan Schaeffer posted a good list of blog resolutions back on 2 January that I only just spotted (via LexBlog). In it Evan gives 10 resolutions with quite a few good sub points under many of them. The only resolution I’d add to the list is ‘don’t post such a great post so early in …
It’s time for our first Community Blog Consulting 2.0 project. Darren previously explained what this is and it’s worth reading that post to get yourself up to speed. Your participation in the project could see you win an iPod shuffle! This week we’ll be looking at Fashion-Incubator. The blog is maintained by author Kathleen, with …
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