Hard facts about blogging that we should accept
Michael Evans from Site2You gives us some tough love… If we take sheen out of blogging, the bare facts will start hurting us so badly that we need to find a way to make it appear glamour job. But...
View ArticleUnblocking your blog: Things every blogger must consider
Good article about unblocking today from guest writer Alyssa Clarke. Increasing partake in social media is the next step towards digitization consequent upon which more and more people prefer...
View ArticleTop 5 myths of blogging for money
If only blogging for money was this easy. How many of you started a blog thinking it’s an easy way to make money and do almost nothing? So you start your blog and it didn’t take long for you to realize...
View ArticleBlorganic – the only way to grow!
I know, that’s my sad attempt in creating my own word. Hmmm, makes me want to patent that. Wait, should it be blorganic or bloganic? Anyway, how many of you have made a sad attempt in growing your blog...
View ArticleChoosing CMS for your blog: how it affects your Blog’s Search Engine Ranking...
CMS represents Content Management System and it is the system you use in order to update or perhaps add pages on different website managed by different companies. There are lots of diverse types of...
View ArticleDo you know how bounce rate is determined?
Are you still thinking about your bounce rate and how to increase it? A few weeks ago, I posted an article explaining why I think bounce rate is a poor metric for most sites. This indicator is...
View ArticleDon’t forget about spreading the word when you meet people (yes, in person!)
How many times have you mentioned your blog or website to a family member, a friend, or a potential customer and didn’t have anything to give them as a take-away? We all know that you have to treat...
View Article9 things you can do to speed up your site
Is there such thing as a site that’s too fast? If you’ve been keeping up, my last article was about Pingdom, which pointed to a tool that allowed you to check the speed of any of your pages. I also...
View ArticleWho needs a low bounce rate anyway? I certainly don’t!
How many of you care about your bounce rate? Generally speaking, many bloggers and webmasters love looking at bounce rates with a high level of scrutiny. Personally, not only do I not really use it, I...
View ArticleWhat separates successful bloggers from everyone else
Do you know what it really takes to run a successful site? The answers may surprise you. It’s not an uncanny technical skill or a tremendous wealth of internet knowledge or a marketing degree or a...
View ArticleWhat exercising can teach you about blogging
How many of you exercise on a regular basis? If you do, then you certainly understand that persistence pays off. But there’s more to the formula. As someone who has been blogging and exercising for...
View ArticleEven I get ‘free blog help’ on freebloghelp.com
Do you have a thorn in your side and just never bothered to pull it out? When I look at my list of things to do for this site, there are some tasks that just never make it to the top. Somehow, even...
View ArticleFound a web scrape thief – now what?
In my opinion, web scrapers are scum. Maybe not the type of scum who would do something brutally vicious to another living thing but certainly the type of scum who would reach into your open wallet...
View ArticleChatwing Chat Box: Spreading Android Gaming Tips Easily
We have a follow-up to an gaming chat app from several weeks ago. Android gaming is one of the most popular activities in the world today. Just look at public places, and you’ll see dozens of people...
View ArticleCare to see if someone is stealing your blog articles?
How long does it take for you to write a quality article? Let’s assume an hour. And let’s just say over the course of a year, you post 100 of these articles on your site. How would you feel if you...
View ArticleSwitching from wordpress.com to wordpress.org dilemma
One of my really early posts was differentiating between wordpress.com and wordpress.org. Although wordpress.org sites have the flexibility to do just about anything a blogger wants at a low cost of a...
View Article5 Reasons why Javascript can be a threat to your SEO blog
By pure coincidence, we have another list post (4 in a row!). Laura Hayes, a new guest poster here, presents quite an interesting topic today. JavaScript is one of the most common web technologies and...
View ArticleSimple tip for prioritizing your tasks
How many of you can’t find enough time to do everything you want on your blog? How many of you get distracted easily and are not as efficient as you’d like to be? How many of you get caught up in the...
View ArticleJust say no to duplicate content
What if a blogger takes his own content on a particular page and recreates that content on another page on his site? Would that increase rankings since there would be two listings for that content on...
View ArticleSo you want to be a blogger…
…but you don’t know what to blog about. That’s the number one thing preventing people from starting up. First, let’s figure out why you want to be a blogger. Here are some of the most common reasons...
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