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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On Eric Giguere’s blog, he has put up a post called “How to Support Your Favorite Bloggers”, and it caught my interest as I have been asked a few times how people can support Blogging Pro. While Bloggy Network pays the bills and keeps this place going, there are a few things from Eric’s list [...]

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Randa Clay has put up a post on Performancing with the same title and gives some great tips to get people to stick around or visit your blog more than once.
Things like:

Use a Related Posts plugin
List your most popular posts in your sidebar.
Make your feed prominent and offer multiple options for subscription.
Build “Flagship Content”.
Install [...]

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Lorelle VanFossen has written a huge post over on Darren’s Problogger. It covers the fact that blogging is about writing. Lorelle gives thirty suggestions on how to work your writing to create a better blog.
Things like originality will always win, teach your readers, and write with conviction and passion.
She then goes over each of [...]

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Having trouble thinking about what to write about next? Writers block is something we all have to deal with. I try to keep a few ideas in reserve for when this happens, and so that is why I really enjoy the article on North x East which lists the nine essential posts that every blogger [...]

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Darren Rowse answers another reader question today with “how many blogs should you run?”
This is a subject I have found to be quite subjective, but honestly, the best answer I could give would be to say that it is best to run one or two great blogs, than a dozen mediocre ones, and from what [...]

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Over on Tech Soapbox, Ahmed, one of the owners of the Bloggy Network, has written up a short post on why lower traffic blogs can be just as profitable as blogs getting thousands of uniques and continues to prove that it is just as much in the niche you chose as the traffic and other [...]

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Darren Rowse of Problogger.net (and .com now too), has answered a reader question about getting backlinks. This is something that many bloggers really struggle with as getting discovered and then linked to can be quite difficult.
His suggestion is really to write the type of post that is deserving of backlinks. Things like:

Scoops
How To Posts
Opinion Pieces
Group [...]

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A question many people have had is “can they post the same content on more than one blog?” Well, Darren Rowse finally takes a stab at answering that question and it comes down to the neither black or white answer of “maybe, sometimes”. He lists some reasons why cross posting can be helpful for a [...]

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Sharon Sarmiento over on 901am has put up a post detailing what you can do to work less, but get more done.
Her list includes:

Restrict your work hours to increase efficiency.
Create a map for your day.
Schedule times to check email.
Relax and don’t try to force yourself to work harder.
Cut yourself some slack.

Check out the [...]

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Over at Squarespace Insider there is a post about starting a corporate blog, and it answers the who, what, where, when and how of starting such a blog.
My favorite from the post is the how:
If putting the blog right on the company site, it can quickly be incorporated into the company plan. Consider making announcements [...]

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Darren Rowse has a post on his Problogger.net blog where he talks about growing up with your readers. You start a blog, keep it simple and as it goes on, you slowly post more and more thought provoking and “grown up” posts.
Here is how he puts it:
Start with the basics (after all that’s where [...]

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Over on Google Blogscoped there is a great post about using images in blogs. Fifteen tips that might help you better make use of them including tips like:

Use the right compression.
Use iconic images.
Upload to your own server, or use secondary servers at your own risk.

If you want details on these and other tips for [...]

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Darren Rowse recently talked about outsourcing content creation on blogs and how more and more people are having others write on their blogs. I am both on the receiving end as well as the giving end of such work. I write for the Bloggy Network on various sites, more earlier in my career than now, [...]

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Copyblogger recently posted a guide on creating a unique blog that attracts readers and revenue. He goes through each of his five points in detail, though most of his points are fairly broad and thus he can’t really drill it down.
My favorite of the five tips is number three, “Identify the Difference”:
What fresh angle are [...]

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Liz Strauss has a post up on the Blog Herald about relationship bloggers and how like other niche bloggers they all have different styles of connecting with their readers.
Take for example, the place where we meet other bloggerss. Phil meets them at their blogs. I meet them at my blog and visit their blogs [...]

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Over on Yugatech there is a post about improving your Technorati rank, and while it is focused on the Philippine market, most of the rules apply to all types of blogs from all over the world.
Here are a few of my favorites:

Develop awesome blog tools and plugins (again, mostly for WordPress).
Join contests.
Attend events.
Focus on [...]

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Paul Scrivens has put up a post on Wisdump about why blog networks have failed though he talks more about what makes a blog network successful.

Great content. Great can mean insightful or great can mean entertaining, but if you lack it then you will lack an audience. This is the basic principle of any great [...]

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Darren Rowse has posted up his thoughts on getting out of the echo chamber, and while it can be a bit complex sometimes, it is possible and I think it can be summed up in one sentence that he put near the end of his article, “It’s About Time and Attitude”.
2. Conversations are not Competitions [...]

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I don’t know if you have seen the new international symbol for radiation yet, but it was supposed to make it easier to understand that an object tagged with the symbol is dangerous.

The funniest thing I read about the new radiation symbol comes from Aurum3 NewTech which wrote:
My guess is that the new symbol warn [...]

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