Apr | 20 | 2008

Are You A Blogging Addict? (Part 2)

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorials News, Tips, Opinion, Blogging Tools, Software and Widgets In the last post, we took a look at something that a blogging “addict” may obsess about – the number of subscribers. Well, here’s another thing that someone with an intense desire for blogging can obsess about – statistics. To be honest, I have gone through this phase a couple of times in my blogging life. Even if I would like to think that I have overcome this obsession, I still find myself checking my blog stats a little more than I should. Ask yourself this question – how many times do you spend checking your ...

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Mar | 28 | 2008

Gadgets A Blogger Needz Part 2

Posted by BloggurlNeedzRehab as Blogging Tools When it comes to tools and gadgets needed to keep a blogger happily typing away, one needs to look no further than the trusty all-in-one cellphone. Sometimes, we think that we may need all these tools: the Flip Video camera for vlogging, or a decent digicam like the Sony DSC series cams. But little do we realize that one trusty cellphone would be enough for your blogging, and even vlogging needs.

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Mar | 26 | 2008

Gadgets A Blogger Needz Part 1

Posted by BloggurlNeedzRehab as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Blogging Tools If carpenters have hammers, doctors have stethoscopes, what is the blogger’s trusty tool (aside from the computer)? BlogGurl’s answer: A digital camera.

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Mar | 10 | 2008

Blog Usability: Feeds

Posted by Guru as Tips, Syndication, Blogging Tools I have written about the importance of RSS and/or Atom feeds to blogs. By providing feeds you will not really be increasing the on-site usability of your blog but its overall usability. Regular blog visitors often prefer checking the contents of their favorite blogs using feed aggregators (i.e. Google Reader). The reason for this is very simple: it is a whole lot more efficient to check an RSS aggregator for blog updates than check each blog you like one by one. This is especially important to people who read blogs not just for liesure but to keep themselves updated with ...

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Jan | 22 | 2008

Are Your Blog’s Feeds Optimized?

Posted by Guru as Blogging Tools, Marketing and Search Optimization, SEO Features Everyone knows the importance of optimizing ones website and blog content. What people often overlook though is to optimize their blog feed. This is a huge loss considering that the huge majority of regular blog readers access a blog's content thanks to the blog's feeds. So what can you do to make sure that your feeds are optimised? First of all, make sure that you offer FULL RSS FEEDS. Many blogs still opt to offer summary feeds instead of full feeds. While I do understand that some do this to prevent scrapers from republishing their blog's entire content the benefits of ...

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Nov | 07 | 2007

Making Your Blog More Accessible: Offer Feeds

Posted by Guru as Promotion, Syndication, Blogging Tools, Marketing and Search Optimization Have you ever experienced being so excited about a specific blog entry you've posted that you just can't wait for people to start reading them? To be honest, I have. When I first started blogging several years back I was so excited I kept on "promoting" my personal blog to my friends. I'm pretty sure I emailed people and told practically everyone I met (who I knew went online regularly) about my then new blog. I was pretty happy with my first post since I got about 5 comments from people who I pestered enough to actually read my blog. ...

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Oct | 11 | 2007

Lazy Bloggers Get No Traffic

Posted by Guru as Tips, Promotion, Syndication, Blogging Tools, Marketing and Search Optimization Blog syndication is not the easiest thing to do. If it was then I wouldn't need to keep myself busy learning more each day about SEO and all the new things cropping up in the blogosphere. The weird thing about many bloggers though is that despite the fact that though we do want wider readership many are just to lazy to keep in touch with the trends or make a little effort to make the most out of the services we use. Take Feedburner for instance. Feedburner didn't win the 2006 Chicago Innovation Awards just because they burn feeds ...

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Sep | 10 | 2007

Blogging Indefinitely

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorials News, Tips, Writing, Blogging Tools Tips on how you can blog longer Now it's hard to maintain the level of competency in blogging, at some point you're doing this great post, but on the next week you'd been posting dull articles or not even posting at all. Ideas run up and sometimes get exhausted, so here are tips to keep you blogging for a lifetime, blog indefinitely, and to be able to blog longer and have fun doing it. Keep it simple and small, yet fascinating Ok it's best to start to blog small and simple. Don't start with a view from the top and work your way ...

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Aug | 30 | 2007

My Opinion on Link Baiting

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Creating a Blog, Linking, Submissions, Tips, Writing, Opinion, Blogging Tools Because of this post on Guru's post on succesful link baiting it came to me as an idea that there is also one form of link baiting which I do often. I post exagerated articles like this for example : A Day without Coffee at the QuickStop. I know , I exagerated a bit but heck it did give me a whole lot of traffic, I didn't lie. I just added a couple of hours, to make my post seem more exciting. Plus, another successful form of link baiting is debunking rumors or news about something which is accepted as ...

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