Write for Readers not Link Listers if You Want to Have an Audience
Back in the olden days when I first started blogging. The words “Content is king,” were said so frequently that you couldn’t read ten blog posts without coming across them. You still see that sentence, though not quite as often. Yet another word was said alongside that sentence that I Read more…
Don’t Let Your Feeds Turn into the Plant from Little Shop of Horrors
Some folks have a habit of bookmarking feeds each time they read a post they enjoy. Soon they have hundred of feeds lined in their reader in no specific order. If they don’t watch out, their feeds could turn into that plant in the Little Shop of Horrors. “Feed Me!” Read more…
5 Ways to Spice Up Your Relationship with Your Blog
Okay it happens. You and your blog have been together for a while. You see each other day after day. It’s not that you don’t care, but . . . um . . . the sex has gone out of your relationship and you both have just accepted that as Read more…
Problogger — Don’t Forget the People or They Will Remind You that You Did
When we we’re children, doctors name the stages of growing up with cute names like “the terrible twos.” As a teacher, I can tell you that developmentally certain ages are, as a group easier to work with than certain others. Five year olds are gentle givers. Eight year olds are Read more…
Hey Problogger — if You Forget the People, They’ll Find a Way to Remind You
Doctors name the stages of growing up with cute names like “the terrible twos.” As a teacher, I can tell you that developmentally certain ages are, as a group, easier to work with than certain others. Five year olds are gentle givers. Eight year olds are too. Nine year olds Read more…
Blogger. Know Your Readers — 10 Traits
It never failed. When I worked in publishing training editors, it didn’t matter what their background was. They could be college grads or ex-teachers. One thing nearly everyone had to learn was how to write for an audience of readers. So many people seem to write same email for a Read more…
Six Ways to Build a Core Group of Fans to Start Community on Your Blog
A hit on digg, reddit, or any of the vote-em-up sites, will bring traffic, but that traffic is worse than fickle. Most such visitors click in and out faster than we can measure. They don’t stop to read. They don’t look around. Some don’t stop even to glimpse or gander. Read more…
Relationship Linking Part 1 — The Hows and Whys
Great bloggers are always on the lookout for opportunities to link to other blogs. Linking for traffic and incoming links is a good thing. Sometimes an idea offers more than one opportunity. In like manner, often a blogger has a choice of ideas to write about. The very word linking Read more…
What Are You Trying to Say to Me?
I’m blogging at a reasonable speed. The thoughts are coming down the blogging pike blissfully. I’m making point after point, like a basketball player. I’m in the zone. I should be in the Blogger 500 on Blogger TV. Then I go and ruin all. I stop to read what I Read more…
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