Most blogs on the internet will usually be comprised of the following components:
- Blog Title (Top Of Page)
- Blog Posts (Main Body)
- Outgoing Links / Internal Links / Advertisements (Sidebars)
- Blog Footer (Bottom Of Page)
The one component of your blog which determines how unique your blog content is are your blog posts. The way in [...]
I thought I would try to encapsulate the ethos behind blogging in the form of a poem! Have a read, and feel free to comment if you can identify with any of the verses!
An Ode To Blogging
Start a blog, post to win,
Monetize and reel it in,
Live a life of luxury,
Exactly how hard can it be?
Write [...]
…And following on from yesterday’s post on blog management, this will probably be my final post for the week
As mentioned, I try to post on my blog once a night through the week, and I’ll take the weekend off. So if I’m not back posting over the next two days, rest assured I’ll have a [...]
Why is blog management important? Indeed, what do I mean by blog management? Well, I like to look upon blogs as living, organic entities, i.e. your blog will grow over time (with new blog posts), will reach out to other blogs and websites over the internet (incoming and outgoing links) and the structure of the [...]
How many people do you know who have a blog of their own? The chances are, quite a few! It seems every man, woman and their dog have a blog, and who could argue? Blogs are a great (and in Blogger’s case, free) way to publish online. People blog for all different types of reasons, [...]
With the best will in the world, it’s going to be a long, hard journey to get your blog noticed on the internet if no-one knows it exists!
I’ve talked about different methods of getting traffic to your blog by way of things like pinging your blog, using plugboards, writing articles etc etc, and another means [...]
There’s a lot to be said for pinging your blog. But first, what do I mean when I say ping your blog? Well, imagine there was a quick and easy way to inform dozens of different websites that you’ve created a new post? That would be a good way to bring attention to your blog, [...]
The use of plugboards to promote your blog is a relatively new means of advertising, but one which has gained a lot of momentum over the past few months.
So what is a plugboard and how does it work? A plugboard is a widget which you can paste into your blog via a script. Visitors to [...]
A great way to generate traffic to your blog is by writing articles and submitting them to the many article directories online. For example, I have just written an article (around 750 words) on the subject of plugboards, and am currently in the process of signing up with a few article directories in order to [...]
When I first created my blog, I used one of the blog layout templates which are provided by blogger. I’m fairly confident that the vast majority of new bloggers will plump for one of the 16 blog templates, as by using them you can quickly get your blog up and running.
This is no bad thing. [...]