Here’s a series of articles on different aspects of blogging.
Blogging is a great way to develop a web presence that attracts lots of natural search engine traffic, but it requires some specific skills.
This series of articles looks at different aspects of blogging from the mechanical perspective – they’re more about process than promotion.
Click the headline to see the full article and leave a comment if you need me to clarify anything.
Why should you make use of the H tags in blog posts? Because, in addition to the SEO benefits they bring, they highlight a roadmap through your article. People skim read articles online, and if your article is just a load of unbroken text you’ll lose them before the 4th line. Reading unbroken text on [...]
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Bear with me while I set the background… A little over a year ago I wrote an article setting out how to install and manage widgets on WordPress. Two weeks later, WordPress released version 2.8 which completely invalidated my article because they changed the way widgets were managed. So I wrote an article on widgets [...]
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Because of the way they work, blogs are ideally suited for news type sites, where yesterday’s news is old hat and no longer interesting. But if you’re operating an information site, then a blog, while it has many, many advantages, also has a major disadvantage: It’s not long before your older posts are buried deep [...]
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… use an auto-blogging application of some kind. For people new to working online there’s a tremendous attraction in the idea of automated blogging. Everyone wants quick results, with as little effort as possible. It’s human nature. And for people new to working online, the idea of an automated business, earning money on auto-pilot, is [...]
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Interesting question from Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger today: What’s wrong with blogging? The interesting part was that although he invited responses, he stipulated that none of them should be positive. They all had to point out deficiencies in the medium of blogging. And when you’re asked to point out the deficiencies of something you’re [...]
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I have a confession: because I’m building a new travel site I’ve not had time to research, plan and write my usual article for today. So I’ve pulled together the top 5 blogs I follow on a daily basis. These are the places to which I turn for inspiration and guidance. Some of them I’ve [...]
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What do you really want for your blog? If I’m to believe Johnny B Truant’s message it isn’t your first answer. And I do believe him because, honestly, the answer I’ve given myself for a long time is not the real answer either. I’ve spent months (years, actually) focused solely on building up traffic for [...]
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