27 Lessons About Blogging

If you aren’t sure a post is good, sit on it for a day. If you still aren’t convinced, delete it. A bad post is worse than no post. Bad posts make people question if your blog is worth reading. When you make a bad post (and you will) learn from it and move on. Below you will find a summary of all the points, the full description is on his blog: Help people solve a problem and differentiate yourself Be prepared to invest 2-3 years before seeing any serious returns Make it as easy as possible for people to subscribe to your RSS feed Offer a full feed A bad post is worse than no post Be prepared...

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37 Ways to Make Blogging Easier

Plan out content with pen and paper. Dedicate time each week to think of ideas. Make it easy to record ideas. Build a life of unique experiences. Use WriteRoom for typing. Set limits on the time allowed for writing. Always have a large backlog of content. Follow a lower frequency of posts. Capture interesting tid bits you find with Evernote. Be passionate. Write about a broader niche. Take extended breaks. Don’t write till you drop – stop writing when you’re on a roll. Follow clear structures in your content (headings, sub-headings, bullet points etc). Pick a predominant medium. Ask visitors...

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18 Blog Tips to Help You Succeed in 2011

Over a week ago, we welcomed the arrival of 2010 with much anticipation. 2009 was a year many people simply wanted to forget and move on from. For bloggers everywhere, the beginning of a new year is a reinvigorating time to reflect on the past year and look forward to the promise of the future ahead. So, how did your blog fare in 2009? Regardless of the level of success you achieved there is always room to improve. Let’s take a look at 18 timeless blogging tips on how to improve your blog and stand above the competition.  1. Judge a blog by its cover – If it doesn’t look pretty, people have...

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5 Lessons I’ve Learned for Blogging Survival

When I started my blog seven months ago I was not aware of the challenges I will be facing. I thought that having the essential knowledge in building a blog and basic writing skills was enough to bring me to success. But I was dead wrong! Never would I have imagined that maintaining a blog is hard work requiring strict discipline and unbending will to keep on going. Many times I felt like giving up. I feel depressed knowing the fact that I’m the only audience of my own blog. Nobody seems to care about what I write. Not even a single comment was received to encourage me to pursue. I’m sure established...

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6 Ways to be Kind to Your Readers

Kindness can go a long way, regardless of what you are trying to accomplish. If you are trying to build a popular blog, well, you might wanna be kind to your readers, as this will improve the chances of them coming back and becoming part of your community. Below you’ll find 6 tips for this purpose. 1. Kill or shorten introductions. They are often unnecessary and can make your post longer but not better. Every time you find yourself writing an intro, ask yourself if it’s necessary for the reader to understand what you’re trying to say. If it’s not, then just cut to the chase. 2. Champion quality...

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10 Things Bloggers Should NOT Do

Every now and then I will see a list of things bloggers should do, but I notice people are not that inclined to do what they are asked to do, while they pay more attention to things they should NOT do. That is why I decided to create the list below. Here we go: 1. You Must Not Expect Results Overnight: This is happening everywhere and that is the major reason why a large percentage of bloggers fail. Many bloggers come online unprepared and with the wrong set of expectations. They think blogging is a bed of roses and they only need to write one or two posts and begin to make money right away....

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Most Bloggers Forget This Simple Rule. Do You?

When I wrote “most bloggers” in the title, I was including myself. In fact I forget this rule 80% of the time probably. Want to know what rule I am taking about? It is this one: Include one image on each blog post you publish. This rule is important for a couple of reasons. First of all adding images to your blog posts will help you capture the attention of distracted readers and encourage them to read your post. Second, having images around will improve the design of your blog and make it more...

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Why “Writing a Post a Day for 30 Days” Is a Brilliant Deception

They were so excited about starting in blogging. They tuned their themes and placed RSS buttons, they wrote their posts and submitted guest posts. They’ve done everything themselves to make their guests feel at home. The only thing that didn’t do right was outsourcing the reason to blog to the Goal. Now nobody knows their names and their blogs are sitting quietly waiting for time to take their domain names back to bits they’ve arrived from. It wasn’t just any goal that destroyed them, but a particularly appealing Goal. The Goal of “writing a blog post every day for 30 days”. At first it seems...

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15 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Blogging

I built my first blog back in 2005, and today a large part of my online income is generated from my blogs. Over these years I made many mistakes and figured some things out. Below you’ll find 15 of them. 1. The domain name matters When I started blogging I didn’t pay much attention to the domains of my blogs. As a result I ended up with some long and boring domains (e.g., FutureTechWeb.com, which was my first tech blog). This is a big mistake because the domain is one of the few factors you won’t...

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How To Build Your Credibility As An Expert While Blogging

I don’t run ads on my blog; I don’t do a lot of affiliate marketing. The primary way of monetizing my blog is selling my own products and coaching services in the area of communication skills. I’ve learned that when your strategy for making money with your blog is to sell something you have created or something you do, then your credibility as an expert is crucial. People have to trust that you are a professional and that you can provide them something of real value before they decide to...

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8 Amazing Blogging Lessons from Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein has made many amazing contributions to the scientific world, including the theory of relativity, the founding of relativistic cosmology, the prediction of the deflection of light by gravity, the quantum theory of atomic motion in solids, the zero-point energy concept, and the quantum theory of a monatomic gas which predicted Bose–Einstein condensation … and finally he brings us 8 amazing blogging lessons. Jokes apart, Einstein was perhaps the most influential scientists to ever...

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5 Reasons Why Comparing Your Blog To An A-List Blogger Can Ruin You

Almost everyone has a blog today and the three main things new bloggers want are massive amounts of traffic, tons of subscribers, and lots of money. Let’s stop right there. These three goals are all possible, but in the beginning stages of blogging, they are unrealistic. Ultimately all they are at this point in the early blogging stages are goals. Its good to have goals, but try to give yourself more concrete goals with a substantial number. Numbers are great, but you should start by looking at a monthly basis with what you would like to accomplish with your blog. So, what’s the ultimate...

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7 Tips to Keep the Blogging Fires Burning!

You know how in the beginning of a relationship everybody’s interested and interesting? How we keep up our appearance? How we interact, engage and put forth our best effort? Then with some time and familiarity we tend to take things for granted. The fun factor fizzles, or we simply lose steam. Or perhaps our attention is diverted by some other “new and shiny object.” Well, the same thing happens with blogging. Here’s the scenario. In the beginning you work hard to create posts to bring people to your spot. You appear at the popular social media sites in hopes of “making friends and influencing...

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5 Bad Blogger Habits You Need to Break

Habits are behaviors you repeatedly do day after day. Some are good, some are bad. They transcend in all different areas of your life, including when you blog. Here are five bad blogger habits that you want to avoid or stop doing to become a better blogger. 1. Checking your stats and comments 100 times a dayAs a beginning blogger it is not uncommon to be obsessed over your web traffic and comments. Of course you want a lot of people coming to your blog, a lot of people linking to you and you naturally want as many people as possible commenting on your posts. That doesn’t mean that you have to...

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How To Fake It Till You Make It In Blogging

Building an active community around a new blog can often seem like an uphill struggle. You’re constantly working to create the best possible content and to promote your site yet often the initial returns are meagre. The fact is that most websites experience a “snowball” effect where the results can be slow to start but over time you will start to see your readership, natural inbound links and commenters increasing at an ever-increasing rate. The problem is how to get to that exponential growth phase in the first place. After all, the internet is littered with “dead blogs” that have been forgotten...

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Why Blogging Helps Me To Build A Healthy Relationship

Married twice, experienced pain as well as joy and pleasure in my relationships – I’m definitely far from perfect when it comes to the ladies. I continue to strive for an ever increasing level of understanding and togetherness. The most significant gain I’ve had over the past 8 months is how I better understand myself and the growing realisation of how blogging about the subject of healthy relationships actually leads to having one. So what’s the top level advantages? You think seriously what you’re writing about – and concentrate more You’re openly expressing these thoughts to the world Honesty...

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Are You Making These Five Common Blogging Mistakes?

You’re trying to get your blog off the ground. You write diligently, you keep publishing new posts, you check your stats obsessively – but you’re just not seeing the success that you expected. I’m pretty sure that you’re doing a lot of things right. You’re showing up, you’re working hard, you’re reading about blogging and trying your best to use what you learn. It’s hard, though, to remember everything. It’s hard to always get it right. Today, I’m going to go through a few all-too-common mistakes that bloggers make when posting. None of these are hard to fix. But, for your readers, they can be...

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The 6 Ugly Truths About Blogging

Not many people like to hear the harsh realities of blogging. I didn’t want to either. Like many people, I read some of the top personality development blogs online. If there is one message everyone has to say in common, then it is “Think positive.” In my opinion something’s in life are better said than kept silent. One of those is the reality concerning blogging. It took me a long time to understand the how’s, the why’s the when’s of blogging and online business. I have given up blogging 2 times in the past. Then I started to focus on the facts. This has helped me sustain my blogging as well...

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The Most Overrated Piece of Blogging Advice I’ve Ever Heard

“Blog every day.” That’s what I was told, when I started out three years. It’s probably what you’ve heard too. And now, I think it’s massively overrated advice. Why? #1: You’re Wasting Your TimeWhen you start out as a blogger, you have very little traffic. Virtually no-one is reading your posts. Of course, you need to get some content in place before you start promoting your blog – but this really isn’t a case of “build it and they will come”. Your blog is all but invisible. Instead of pouring hours...

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Legal Risks to Be Watchful for When Blogging

What better way for one voice their opinion to the whole world than through social media and blogging? Thanks to advancement in technology, today one can voice their views and opinions in an easily accessible way at the convenience of their home or office. But just because there is freedom of speech and expression does not mean you should abuse the rights of free writing; there are some legal aspects that need to be considered before you post anything on the World Wide Web. Here are the top 3 risks that you should be very careful of when you want to start blogging. 1. DefamationDefamation can...

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12 Ways To Encourage Your Visitors to Stay

We all want more traffic, more loyal readers, and more sales. I know I do. For most of us our blog is the precious stone we chisel our artwork into. We slave over making our website as good as we possibly can and don’t want our work to go unnoticed and unappreciated. I know exactly how you feel and that’s why I’ve put together 12 ways to compel your visitors to stay. Whether you’re looking to increase your readers loyalty, improve your website’s accessibility and friendliness, or build a community...

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