Posted in Blogging Basics on Jul 27th, 2007
I remembered reading about this on ProBlogger a while back but I only started getting around to putting this method into place a week ago.
The system im talking about is trying to reach 50 points by achieving various task during the day.
For example, I use these values:
5 Points for a blog post
3 Points for a […]
Posted in Blogging Basics on Jul 26th, 2007
Its sad to see a blogger becoming to big for the rest of the blogosphere and “going it alone”. Bloggers will usually start out by fully grasping the concepts of blogging such as, linking to other blogs, having a blogroll, commenting on other blogs etc etc. But all of a sudden this blogger thinks they […]
Posted in Blogging Basics on Jul 19th, 2007
Over the past couple of weeks I have come to hate - and I mean really hate blogs that have simply been setup to make money.
I used to be ok with the concept but some of the things these “cash only’ blogs have been doing recently has really cheesed me off. (please notice my effort […]
Posted in Blogging Basics on Jul 18th, 2007
Everyday I go speed through the blogosphere reading through a number of blogs, and one trend I am starting to see are blogs removing there comments!
I really can’t see the benefits in many if not all of these blogs removing their commenting functions. Comments are one of the distinctive features of a blog. Without them, […]
Posted in Blogging Basics on Jul 16th, 2007
Last post I asked how much time do you spend blogging and I discovered most people were spending a few hours each day blogging.
To further delve into the world of blogging, I would like to go a little more personal and find out how much money people are actually making from their blogs.
So come on, […]
Posted in Blogging Basics on Jul 14th, 2007
And know that wasn’t a retorical question - I would really like to get an idea of how much time other people spend blogging.
Personally I spend about 1 hour in total blogging. This includes research, writing, responding to comments etc. I would like to spend more time blogging but that time currently doesn’t exist.
I make […]
Posted in Blogging Basics on Jul 13th, 2007
If you are building a personal blog then you should just skip over this article because it really doesn’t apply to you. But if you are planning on making money from your blog read on!
Forget about writing content for yourself - you should be writing for your readers. Now although your readers will most likely […]
Posted in Blogging Basics on Jul 8th, 2007
I have been busy working on a local theater production and I haven’t had much time to blog and the one thing I have noticed is how much damage this lack of posting and irregularity can do to your blog.
I try and post at least once per day - and I bet the readers here […]
Posted in Blogging Basics on Jun 29th, 2007
Did you know that blogging traffic peaks on a Tuesday which is part of a weekly cycle that drops down again on the weekend. Smaller blogs probably won’t notice this cycle as much as the larger blogs do, but its still important to know what o do on Tuesday.
Of course this only really applies to […]
Posted in Blogging Basics on Jun 27th, 2007
Continuing on from my post about making your blog more personal, why not add your signature to the end of posts.
Doing this won’t work on all blogs but I have seen used rather successfully on a few. Creating your digital signature could be done either by scanning and image in or you could use […]
