Darren has a great post series going on his blog right now about rediscovering your blogging grove. It is a series of posts that do more than just ask you to write about something specific, but also how you might want to go about completing the task, and why it is important.
With his [...]

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David Krug, a good friend of mine, has published a video asking what your role will be in the history of publishing. It is a simple question, that for bloggers can be as simple or as complex as the bloggers themselves.
For me, I’d like to be remembered. Maybe not as a huge, important or influential [...]

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David Krug, a good friend of mine, has published a video asking what your role will be in the history of publishing. It is a simple question, that for bloggers can be as simple or as complex as the bloggers themselves.
For me, I’d like to be remembered. Maybe not as a huge, important or influential [...]

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Fadtastic has put up a great post on twenty-five things you can do to improve your site today.
It is nicely categorized into Usability/Accessibility, Search Engine Optimisation - SEO, Design/Development Process, Content, Off-Site. They make mention of titles, whitespace, and images.
Here is a sample tip:
Strengthen keywords: Probably the quickest thing you can do. Highlight some [...]

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Lorelle has taken up the cause against multiple page posts. Newspapers online have been doing this for a while. I always just click their print version button to get it all in one nice, neat package with no advertising.
Bloggers don’t give me this same option, and most of the time, I only get through [...]

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Ahmed contacted me and pointed out a quick article on SEO Black Hat which shows some examples of link requests that work.
Hey man, looked at your wordpress code/html noticed the structure isn’t completely optimized, would you be interested in having it optimized in exchange for a link back to my site? maybe a post?
for [...]

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Darren Rowse, of Problogger.net is away on vacation, and one of his guest contributions, from Deborah Ng, just read my mind and talks about something I am asked constantly, what is it like to blog for others and is it better than blogging for yourself?
I have found that the more I blog for others, the [...]

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Muhammad Saleem has written on Copyblogger about writing specifically to get some traffic from Digg. Often called Digg bait, the articles sometimes are not the best written, but it is well known that they have to be formulated in a certain way to appeal to the Digg audience.
Writing for Digg is actually less about substance [...]

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John Chow is considered a great source of information on blogging, and recently was asked to appear on The Lab with Leo Laporte. In his session with Leo, he was only able to cover one of the following tips, but wanted to share others with all of us.
His tips include:

Blog About Something Your Passionate [...]

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John Chow is considered a great source of information on blogging, and recently was asked to appear on The Lab with Leo Laporte. In his session with Leo, he was only able to cover one of the following tips, but wanted to share others with all of us.
His tips include:

Blog About Something Your Passionate About
Get [...]

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Pick the Brain has a list of 27 lessons he learned on his way to getting 3000 visits a day and 2200 RSS feed subscribers.
Some of them are things I have come across myself in my blogging and others are things I had not thought about.
Here are a few from the list:

Make it as [...]

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Over on Bloggers 4 Hire, there is a post talking about the simple things you can do to get caught up, if you fall behind in your blogging. It is a typical problem. Life can get in the way, and you won’t meet the quota you’ve agreed upon. You can get caught up though. It [...]

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Darren has some tips for building online communities, one of the hardest things you can do online. Creating a community can be a few parts skill and planning mixed in with some luck.
Darren walks you through some ideas and steps to get you started on the right foot. He gets his main points from a [...]

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Ben Bleikamp, a respected designer and interesting writer has posted his reasonings for ignoring your blogs, and quite simply it is because you aren’t showing your best content.
I browse through 100 blogs a day. I subscribe to 51. That means that when I read your blog I forget about it. It’s your fault. You haven’t [...]

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Over on The Closet Entrepreneur there is a post about criticism, something that people are great at, except when it comes to constructive criticism.
The good form of criticism is known as constructive criticism, it offers valid feedback both positive and negative. Giving constructive criticism can lend much needed assistance to an individual by giving [...]

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Leo has posted an article on Freelance Switch that gives some great life hacks that you can use to get those creative juices flowing, and putting those fingers to the keyboard.
He starts off with a great bit which empathizes with his audience, and honestly, it felt like he was writing about me. I have had [...]

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D. Keith Robinson is a great writer, and having come off his latest redesign, he has some words about the current state of the web that I think holds especially true for bloggers.
He talks extensively about content and context, and those are words and concepts which most of us bloggers have to work on understanding [...]

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Ryan Caldwell over on Performancing’s blog has written up a great piece on finding good writers for your blog. It is not how we here at Bloggy Network find great writers, but its an interesting process for sure.
This is what you do. Post an ad on Craigslist describing the blogging position and the terms, along [...]

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A great blog post on Copyblogger talks about metaphor, a great way to write so that people can understand things easier and better. It is a talent I have yet to fully learn, and reading this article, it reminds me why I want to take the effort. Using metaphors can really help connect your writings [...]

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Joost, and no, not the new media thing, has put up a post on using nofollow in your content. He talks about how he, as a WordPress plugin author feels a little annoyed to see a link back to his plugin being nofollowed and understandably so.
Imagine you’re like me, and you like WordPress so much [...]

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