With hundreds of thousands of blogs being created every day, yours will take a lot to stand out in the crowd. These tips have been assembled from years of experience navigating the blogosphere. Stick to these 6 principles and you’ve got a pretty decent chance of making it.
1. Use a custom design
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At Pingable we’re all about Wordpress, which is all about blogging (and a few other things). With an estimated 900,000 blogs created every day, many of them don’t last more than a few weeks. Bloggers put tons of energy into their blogs, then get disappointed when nobody reads them. Here are our favorite ways to [...]
One of my main focuses here is blogging about blogging, or "how to blog". But I often find myself, sitting at my desk, trying to write blog posts, and ending up with nothing to show for my efforts. This article is an effort to list the worst productivity killers, when it comes to blogging.
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The month of February 2008 came and went and I just realised I never got around to making a new post on Pingable for the whole month. I have been busy starting a new job, which has kept me away from my blog a lot. When you spend all day looking at a PC sometimes [...]
Here is a quick sample of the best and most successful articles from Pingable in 2007.
In terms of page hits:
5 Simple CSS tricks (20,173) It’s very embarrassing to think that this article has got so many hits. It was just a quick list put together with some useful CSS tricks I found around the net [...]
I want to start my own niche blog site. It will be about toast. I am an expert when it comes to toast. I know the best ways to cook it. I know the best toppings to put on it. I know all the different types of toast, and I am the person to see [...]
Why You Should Blog:
To build a brand.
To build a profile for yourself.
To become an expert.
If you could pick a niche to blog within based purely on the advantages and characteristics within that niche, which would you pick? This article looks at some of the advantages and disadvantages of different blogging niches.
Blogging about Blogging – aka Blogging Tips
Advantages: There are plenty of blogs about blogging out there, so there will [...]
I read this a while ago on the now closed blog Iffect.net. What he suggested was to view other blogs you read by clicking on existing links from your own blog as much as possible. So if their site is in your links or if they have left a comment on your blog, use those [...]
As this blog is very new, I would like to share some of the start up knowledge that I have learnt, or wish that I had thought before I began. 21 Surefire Tips for a Successful Blog Launch is also a very good article if you are thinking of starting a new blog and are looking [...]
