How To Make A Blog – Blogging Advice
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How To Make My Blog features a series of blog posts designed to walk you through tasks that you can do to start your own blog, improve it, optimize it and make it a success. It includes free online blog ideas, tips, tools and tutorials.
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Getting started with your blog
- Blogging is your opportunity and career-booster
- Planning to start a blog? Don’t plan it, just blog it!
- Blogging is dead, long live blogging – Free WordPress Ebook
Choosing a topic
Choosing a domain name
WordPress and customization of your blog
Settings for your new WordPress blog
- 9 settings I always adjust as soon as I install a new WordPress blog
- 8 additional optimization steps for your WordPress blog
WordPress Themes
- Why you should consider getting the premium theme Thesis
- Thesis Theme 1.6 Video Review – See what Thesis can do now
Customizing your WordPress theme
- How to get magazine style WordPress blog with Thesis Theme teasers
- 6 ways I customized my WordPress blog theme and how
- 8 Thesis theme design tips to make your blog better
WordPress plugins
- 24 plugins that I currently use on my blog and why you should use them too
- Top 18 most downloaded WordPress plugins ever
- Top 5 Twitter Plugins To Incorporate Into Your Blog
- How to automatically add Tweet This to your blog articles
Your Blog RSS Feed
- Is blog RSS subscriber number a worthless metric now?
- How to promote RSS news feed to your blog visitors
- Two simple tips to recover the unverified email subscribers
Track Your Blog Visitors
- What are Google Analytics and how you do track your blog visitors
- Use blog search function to learn more about your visitors
WordPress security
- WordPress Worm Attack – Best practices to keep your blog safe
- 7 simple steps to make your WordPress blog more secure
Blogging tips
Writing your blog content
- 10 elements of style of blog post writing
- Why your most popular blog posts come from the most simplified places
- How to write blog headlines that make people click
- What is great blog content? How do you know your content is good?
- How to put your best blog posts back into the spotlight
- Thoughts on writing timeless blog posts and post bylines
- 6 ways to create link magnets with every blog post
Writing inspiration
- Get inspiration from blog comments when writing your next post
- Need inspiration for your next blog post? Read!
- 13 blogging lessons learned from Stephen King’s On Writing
- 8 things every blogger can learn by studying Perez Hilton
- 9 reasons why Mashable rules the social media
- 90 awesome blog posts that inspired my blog’s growth in 2009
Using images
- Brand your blog with an eye-catching header graphic
- How to use images to style your blog posts
- Ebook cover design tutorial – Behind the scenes look at my Twitter book cover
Using multimedia
- How to make your blog stand out in a saturated blogging niche
- Thinking out of the “text is king” blogging box
- How Gary Vaynerchuk built a multi-million dollar empire around a video blog
- How Google Wave will reshape the blogging world forever
Usability, stickiness and page views
- How people surf and how they spend time at your blog and blog posts
- Link internally to increase blog page views, improve usability and Google rankings
- How to make your blog posts and content scannable and sticky
- The simplest way of increasing your blog page views
- Simple tip to improve usability, stickiness and page views
Blogging productivity
- 8 tips to optimize your time for blog writing
- Blogging consistency and keeping a regular blog posting frequency
- Are you a blog consumer or a blog producer?
- Use WordPress TimeStamp to improve blogging productivity
- How to keep your blog active while you are away on holiday
- How to be a prolific blogger
Encouraging commenting
- 10 ways to increase the number of blog comments
- 6 steps to make your blog visitors loyal commentators
- How to stop blog comment spam in WordPress
Mobile blogging
- My review of WordPress 2 iPhone App for mobile blogging
- How to optimize your blog for mobile devices
SEO / Search Engine Optimization
- Do not worry about SEO, just concentrate on your blog readers
- WordPress SEO: How to 100% optimize your blog SEO
- Google’s Matt Cutts on WordPress as the best blogging platform for SEO
Google SEO
- How I got my blog from Google PageRank 0 to PR4 in two months
- How Google PageRank affects my search engine rankings and traffic
- Get your blog article on top of Google results today
- Google changes PageRank flow: Why you should use an iframe in blog comments
Keyword research
- 7 Steps To Increase Traffic And Revenue Via Keyword Research
- 7 Steps To Keyword Optimize Your Blog Posts
- Top 33 silliest search queries people have found my blog with
Linking structure and link juice
- Improve Blog SEO With Internal Linking Structure
- Optimize Link Juice Flow To Improve Google Rankings
- 6 ways to create link magnets with every blog post
How To Get Traffic To Your Blog
- From 0 to 200.000 visitors, 8 blogging lessons learned in the first year
- Spread the word about your blog, don’t be a passive blogger
- How blogging ideas spread – 6-step plan for creating something big
- Reader Comment: Shameless self promotion or good blog marketing?
- How I got two consecutive record breaking blog traffic days
- How I got my Twitter ebook downloaded by 1000+
- How to use the year end to grow your blog traffic and subscribers
Guest Blogging
- How To Get Your Guest Post Featured At Biggest Blogs
- Case Study: ProBlogger Guest Post Effect On My Traffic
- Guest blogging discussion: To give out the best post or not
- Reader Comment: Guest posting is the blog-gold
- To feature guest posts on your blog or not to?
Commenting on other blogs
- Get Traffic By Building Your Blog Awareness
- 5 simple steps to build blog traffic by writing comments
- How one blog comment can bring you 230+ unique visitors
- How to boost your blog traffic using trackbacks
StumbleUpon marketing
- 10 Simple Steps To Increase Blog Traffic Via StumbleUpon
- How I Got 2000+ StumbleUpon Visitors Using My 10 Step Strategy
Twitter marketing
- My Twitter marketing e-book: How to go viral on Twitter
- How I got my blog post retweeted by @problogger, @GuyKawasaki and 250 more
- Twitter – the next big source of your blog traffic
- How to grow the number of your Twitter followers
- Twitter-brand yourself to increase exposure and traffic
- Make your blog go viral with Twitter ReTweets
- How to Twitter-spread your blog to 20,000+ in less than 2 days
Networking
How To Make Money With Your Blog
- Make your blog a side business, problogging comes later
- How I earned $1000+ in blog revenue last month
Affiliate marketing
- How NOT to make money with your blog
- Living the pro-blogger lifestyle by selling you the blogging dream
- Why using banner ads limits your blog’s income potential
- How I monetize my blog with Thesis Theme affiliate program
Selling your own product
- How to monetize your blog by selling your own product
- Creating your own product: E-book vs membership site
- How to choose the right topic for your paid product
- How to create a sales letter landing page with WordPress Thesis Theme
Consulting / Freelancing
Direct advertising
- Create A Media Kit To Attract Advertisers To Your Blog
- Monetize Your Blog By Directly Approaching Advertisers
- How To Setup Your Blog Advertising Management
- A simple tip to indirectly attract advertisers to your blog
- 6 ways to increase blog profits with direct advertising sales
Contextual advertisements
- Make money with Google Adsense ads on your blog
- How to insert ads in between title and content of your blog post
- How to insert ads in between blog posts on your main page
Monetize your RSS feed
Cut costs
