1.6.10 - People are trying to help you: Are you listening?
Yesterday I talked about how bloggers should be more generous; how they should learn to give more instead of just asking for favors.
Before you can be all ‘giving’ though, you need to know exactly what you’re going to ‘give’. Doing favors blindly doesn’t make any practical sense – ideally you want to make a meaningful [...]
1.6.10 - Four tips for improving the conversation on your blog
Blogging is a one-to-many medium, but smart bloggers know who to turn it into an active group conversation between the readers and themselves. This requires the ability to communicate effectively – and it’s something that us bloggers can train ourselves to do better.
Here are four simple tips to help you improve your communication skills – [...]
1.6.10 - How to launch a forum on your blog
Forums (or community-style content blogs based on Drupal – think ThreadWatch) are a natural extension of blogs. Once your blog has a regular following and traction in your niche, forums (reader-generated content) offer the best solution for growing your brand and the community around it.
So how do you add a forum to your blog?
There are [...]
1.6.10 - New to blogging? Here are five mistakes to avoid
If you’re new to blogging, there’s enough advice out there in the blogosphere to make your head swim. Information overload leads to analysis paralysis and in minutes you’re back where you started – at the beginning, with no idea what to do.
In an effort to simplify the blogging process, here are 5 key mistakes bloggers [...]
1.6.10 - Using group chat to build your blog’s community
What is the best strategy for building a community around your website/blog? Forums have been, for a long time, the primary tool for building a community on a website. The downside here was that you needed considerable traffic (or heavy marketing) to get the forum going – nothing kills a forum more than a lack [...]
1.6.10 - Why won’t Matt Cutts link to me?
Do you suffer from no-links angst too?
Aaron Pratt of SEO Buzz Box writes about “circular linking patterns” and how A-list bloggers form their own ‘link cliques‘ and eschew their own advice of linking out to quality content for the sake of some friendly back-scratching.
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1.6.10 - Stop wasting time; dump 90% of the feeds you read
Continuing from our earlier discussion on testing your own blog’s success, let’s look at the different reasons you should be unsubscribing from the feeds in your feed reader.
But before we do that, I want to talk a bit about the different functions a blog performs.
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1.6.10 - Would you read your own blog?
A fair bit of blogging advice centers on attracting readers and keeping them. There is a lot of good advice out there as well.
However, along with that advice you also need a method to test whether you are on the right track with your blog or not.
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13.12.08 - Are You Making The Right Choices?
What’s Important, What’s Not?
There’s a guy down my street who lives alone. One morning he woke up, checked his fridge and realised he was out of anything to eat, so he thought about getting out of his house, walking 5 minutes down to the market and getting food for himself.
But since it was early morning [...]
22.8.08 - Five Minutes…
You have 5 minutes to change the world, one person at a time.
What’s your first reaction to that sentence? Did you think “that’s impossible” or did you think “how does he suggest we do that”? If it’s the former, you’re probably going to disagree with the rest.
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