Blogging Pitfalls and Mistakes to Keep in Mind Blogging can take many different paths. You either take things one day at a time and learn new strategies along the way, or make a series of mistakes that leave you frustrated and ashamed. Here’s the kicker: Mistakes are not only made by newer bloggers, but often […]
How NOT to Pitch a Guest Post
Writing guest posts for others’ sites can do great things for your own blog. It can gain you traffic and new readers and get your name out there to people who have never heard of you, but beware! Pitching a guest post is not just cut and dry. There are a lot of unwritten rules that […]
How Not To End Up Like Yahoo!
Times are definitely not good at Yahoo!. Not only has the company fired its CEO, the latest in a long string of failed leaders, but the company is barely bothering to look for a replacement. Basically, times are tough for the company. Though Yahoo! still has some of the most popular properties on the Web, […]
Blogging Pitfalls: How to Create or Find Your Blog’s Identity
Very quickly, if I visit your blog, will it stand out and be memorable to me? Will it separate itself from any of the sixty blogs created in the last minute? What about any of the more than 86,000 that will be created today? What about the more than half a million created this week? […]
Blogging Pitfalls: Template Fail
Here’s a scary thought for most bloggers. At some point, most likely, you’re going to screw up your site in a very bad way. Computers are finicky things and your site is no different. With one wrong move you are more than liable to blow your site up, making it either extremely ugly or entirely […]
Blogging Pitfalls: How to Engage Your Readers
Last week, we talked about the difficulties and the pitfalls around building and maintaining trust with your readers online. We talked about why it is important to build trust, how difficult that is and how easily it can be squandered. However, trust is only one half of the process for building the best audience possible. […]
Blogging Pitfalls: How to Build and Maintain Trust
Trust is easily the most valuable and most fragile of all the commodities a blogger has to have to be successful. However, making complete strangers trust you and count on you is no simple task, especially when they will most likely never meet you. It can require years of tireless, consistent work, the ability to […]
Blogging Pitfalls: How to Write an Effective Review
Reviews are one of the best types of post for a blog. If done well, they are very search-friendly, extremely useful to your readers and can be great conversation starters for building comments. However, a review done poorly can be a pretty big mess. Not only can it create a great deal of needless controversy […]
Blogging Pitfalls: The Holiday Funk
It’s December 22nd, just three days away from Christmas and a little over a week away from New Years. For most Western bloggers, this is one of the slowest times of the years. Schools are closed, businesses are winding down, employees are heading off to vacation and people are spending time doing things other than […]
Blogging Pitfalls: How to Never Forget Your Best Ideas
It’s happened to virtually every blogger at least once. As you lie awake at night, preparing to drift off to sleep, you come up with a great idea for a blog post or a change to your site and promise to remember it. However, when you go to actually flesh out the idea the next […]
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