1.6.10 - 27 tips for building a kick-ass blog
If you’ve been blogging for a while, you probably have certain blogging ‘habits’ and tips that you swear by. This article is a collection of such tips, designed to help you build a better blog.
Warning! You may have read some of these before – heck, all of these will be familiar to you. There’s a [...]
1.6.10 - Learn from your competition or beat your own path?
There are two popular views on ‘being successful’:
One says that you should look at the best in your industry and copy what they’re doing (and try to improve that while you’re at it). The theory goes that you can’t fail if you do what’s already working.
The second says that leaders are more successful and as [...]
1.6.10 - When do you monetize your blog?
A friend of mine asked me this morning if he should put ads on the blog he’s launching next week from the first day. There are two opposing ways of thinking about it – some people prefer to have their ads in from the first day while others tend to add them later on once [...]
1.6.10 - Blogging for the future
Shane wrote about staying motivated and staying consistent in your early blogging days when the rewards may not be as immediate or … rewarding … as you’d like them to be.
It’s sound advice and it can be extended to blogging in general. Blogging for the most part is all about delayed gratification. When you see [...]
1.6.10 - Will the Google bashers please shut up?
You can’t pass a day in the blogging / SEO / make money online niche without hearing someone complain about Google. For some it’s about getting shafted by the search ranking algorithm, for others it’s a tiff over things such as the no-follow debate and paid links mess, and still others who have a deep-rooted [...]
1.6.10 - How do you pay your bloggers?
A growing trend of consolidation in Blogging and in the online world in general has seen many blogs and bloggers join blog networks in a bid to leverage pooled resources (brand promotion, advertising rates, design / programming / promotion help, etc).
Whether you’re starting your own blogging network or just hiring bloggers for your blog, there [...]
1.6.10 - Five reasons to start guest blogging today
I’ve been thinking a lot about blog promotion in the last couple of days and one strategy that I’ve always seen being under-used is guest blogging.
There’s no downside to it – unless your blog is #1 in its niche, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t take time out from fussing over your own blog and [...]
1.6.10 - How social networks teach good SEO
When most people think about ‘SEO’, they think of link requests. While that is a basic part of SEO, it’s also insulting to the practice of search marketing. IN comparison, it’s a bit like saying that mathematics is about adding and subtracting numbers, or that playing the guitar is all about strumming a few strings.
Such [...]
1.6.10 - Promote your blog (network) using a toolbar
Admittedly, the “download our free toolbar to keep up with the latest news” gimmick got old and tiring very quickly. No one in their right mind wants screen space taken up by needless floating toolbars, and most Internet users find switching between toolbars a hassle.
However, the toolbars that ARE successful have gone a long way [...]
1.6.10 - Being #1 in your niche – One vs many blogs
How do you dominate a niche? Do you build 1 mega-resource website using categories / subdomains for your subniches, or you do you build a separate website for each niche?
Both approaches have their pros and cons.
A single big site benefits from economies of scale, is cost-effective, allows for a focused use of resources, requires less [...]
