Category 10 Blog Tips

Presentation is the key to tip #7. This applies to both the appearance of your blog site as well as the standard of your writing. Picking up the latter point first, I think a good standard of writing is vital.…

Number 6 out of the 10 tips on blogging is on keeping notes. Writing blog posts that are interesting and well-informed isn’t easy. Sitting down in front of your blog editor waiting for an idea to come is pretty hard.…

Linking makes your blog grow in popularity. There are three reasons for this. One, it makes your blog posts more useful if they provide links to what you are talking about, rather than making people hunt stuff out themselves. Second,…

Two quite quick items here, so I will cover them together. Feeding frenzy I discussed earlier the importance of the feeds which other blogs produce – so you must make one available for your blog. If you want to be…

Second on my list of tips was to make sure you are using the systems that suit how you work. What sort of things am I talking about? How do you blog? A blog is of course just a website,…

So, the first bit of advice I gave was to read more blogs. How exactly can you do that? The joy of RSS The great thing about blogs is that they produce RSS feeds. And the great thing about RSS…

Here’s a list of good stuff you can do when starting out with a blog. I’ll follow this post up in the future tackling each of them in a little more detail. If you would like to discuss starting a…