Writing blog content for your blog or website (at least at the beginning) should be incredibly easy for you, as when you first start blogging about a subject you’ll probably have loads of ideas about what to post. I imagine that, when most bloggers first start blogging, they can rattle off at least 20 or [...]
Is posting your picture on your blog an important factor in your blog’s success? When I’m reading other people’s blogs online, I like to see who is behind that blog. I especially like to see a picture of the person behind the blog. Why?
Well, if I see a picture of the person who updates the [...]
It’s really important to develop your own writing style for your blog. On the other hand, it’s also a good idea to optimize your blog posts for the search engines, in order to rank as highly as possible with them. So is it possible to achieve both these things at the same time?
Creating your own [...]
Following on from my last post on buying a domain name for your blog, I mentioned that I bought the .com extension for $10 for a year. I am also considering buying the .co.uk extension, as I live in the United Kingdom.
There are so many different extension types for your domain name, including .com, .co.uk, [...]
If, like me, you’re using Blogger to do your blogging, then you’ll know that it’s a great free way to give yourself a real presence on the internet. It’s a simple case of choosing the name for your blog, then your blog address will be “http://www.yourblogaddress.blogspot.com/”.
If you’re serious about your blog and can see it [...]
In my previous post on article writing, I said that by writing articles and submitting them to the various article directories, you stand to gain:
- Valuable backlinks to your blog, and;
- Free exposure for your blog.
At the time of writing, I have submitted five different articles to ten different popular article directories. Once they have [...]
It’s in a blogger’s nature to want to know how many visitors he / she is getting to his / her blog. Luckily, there are many free programs out there which provide this service to monitor your blog traffic. All you have to do is go to Google and type in the phrase ‘monitor blog [...]
I’ve talked about the importance of having great blog content, which keeps your avid readers coming back for more! But the way in which you present the content will also be a huge factor in terms of your blog success. Things to think about for your blog ‘look and feel’ include:
- Font type;
- Font size;
- [...]
Keeping your blog up to date by regularly publishing new posts is a fairly time-consuming process. So I’ve been amazed (and hugely impressed) by reading about different bloggers who maintain more than one blog, from 2 or 3 blogs up to 7 or 8 blogs, or more! Wow! I mean, I tip my hat to [...]
We all know that by having incoming links to your blog from other blogs / websites, there is a higher chance of your own blog being crawled by the search engine spiders. The spiders will generally follow links from each webpage they land on, so having incoming links is crucial in being crawled and indexed [...]