Looking for some extra blogging inspiration? Each week, I pick a bunch of my favourite blog posts to share with you. Here’s this week’s: TOP READ: The Death of Google Search Traffic and What It Means for Marketers, Michael Stelzner, Social Media Examiner...
Can you start a blog for free? Absolutely. Can you keep it going – month after month – for free? Yes! While you’ll have some limitations, if you truly don’t want to pay for anything, you can still run a perfectly good blog. In fact, I’d highly recommend that you...
Confession time: I have mixed feelings about the word “blog”. That might sound a bit strange, coming from someone whose website is called BrighterBLOGging, but my reservations are: “Blog” can sound a bit technical or geeky to people who aren’t especially tech-savvy....
Where do you get typically get stuck when you’re writing a blog post? For a lot of bloggers, the first few lines of the post – and the last few – are really tough. You might have a perfectly good plan for what’s going to come later, but you just don’t know how to...
If you’re a blogger, you’ve probably been told at some point that you should “write in a conversational style.” You may be wondering what exactly this means, and whether it’s even something you’d want to do. Real life conversations, after all, have a lot...
If you’ve ever thought about starting a blog – or a website of any sort – you’ll have run up against a major decision point. It needs a name. Choosing what to call your blog tends to be wrapped up in a whole host of other problems – like knowing what topics you...
Back when I got into blogging, in 2007-08, new bloggers were often told to choose a “niche”. If you wanted to be successful – so the thinking went – you needed to have a very specific topic, to differentiate yourself from all the other blogs out there. A full decade...
A fair amount of conventional blogging advice is aimed at people who see themselves as bloggers (rather than writers – or even business owners) and who want to build and “monetize” a blog: sometimes called “ProBlogging”, after Darren Rowse’s site...
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