February 02, 2005
How to Find Money Making Blog Ideas - Part 3
Coming up with creative and profitable Ideas for blogs sometimes feels more about luck than anything else. But in my experience there is a number of steps you can do to better your chances. This is the third and...
Posted by Darren at 04:52 PM
How to Find Money Making Blog Ideas - Part 2
More and more people are finding ways to make money from blogging but few pro bloggers are making their money from their personal, general themed blogs. In most cases it takes a blog either with a tight niche or...
Posted by Darren at 08:32 AM
How to Find Money Making Blog Ideas - Part 1
Susannah linked up to my How to Research a Profitable Blog Topic post and writes: 'What Darren doesn’t say is just how to come up with those money-making ideas. He’s clearly got the knack of latching onto current issues...
Posted by Darren at 12:00 AM
January 31, 2005
How to Research a Profitable Blog Topic
A while back when I asked you what you'd like to ask professional bloggers in my upcoming interview series MM asked: 'I want to know what kind of research they did before they jumpstart a new blog. How do they...
Posted by Darren at 12:38 PM
January 29, 2005
The Entrepreneurial Blog Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman over at GlennLog has just posted a link to an audio (and visuals of his powerpoint) at Business Blogging Summit which currently really enjoying listening to. His main headings were. Obsess Exhaust Report Choose Expand Earn Populate...
Posted by Darren at 06:11 PM
The Benefits of having a country Top Level Domain
Lee Johnson has a good article pointing out some of the Benefits of having a country Top Level Domain ie a .uk, or .au domain name: 'Most of the large search engines will give you a higher search ranking...
Posted by Darren at 03:50 PM
January 27, 2005
How Personal do you Get on your Business Blog?
There is an interesting dialogue going about how personal you should get on your business blog over at CorporateBlogging.Info and public (MIND). Hans wants to know more about Fredrik - Fredrik doesn't want his blog to go there. 'As...
Posted by Darren at 03:46 PM
January 24, 2005
Trend Watching Websites and RSS Feeds
One skill that I think is vitally important for Professional Bloggers is the ability to keep up to date with the latest trends. So much of blogging is being able observe and even anticipate what people are interested in...
Posted by Darren at 02:44 PM
January 12, 2005
InsideBlogging - The Blog Consulting Company
Leave it Behind has 10 useful tips for building a better blog. Here are the titles of each section: 1. Use Categories 2. Use Titles 3. Publish During High Traffic Times 4. Syndicate Your Entire Post 5. Click Your...
Posted by Darren at 08:34 AM
January 10, 2005
Why Comment Spam is Dangerous to Our Blogs
Comment Spam is a terrible thing. I feel like I'm constantly fighting a battle against the slime that leave unsolicited, irrelevant and often degrading comments filled with links to disreputable sites on my blogs. It comes from the automated...
Posted by Darren at 10:20 AM
Tips and Suggestions for Launching a Successful Blog from the Evangelical Outpost
The Evangelical Outpost has a great series of posts on How To Start a Successful Blog that might be worth checking out if you're towards the beginning of your blogging journey. His tips cover the topics of: Part I...
Posted by Darren at 08:55 AM
January 09, 2005
Long Term Blogging Builds Credibility
Holy Weblog Batman! T.L. Pakii Pierce is writing some great articles these days! His recent one on Cracking Credibility & Why Internet Marketing WILL Change is worth the read and talks (as the title suggests) that credibility is an...
Posted by Darren at 11:53 AM
Are Explicit Copyright Notices Necessary for Weblogs and Web Pages?
Dave Taylor answers the question “Are Explicit Copyright Notices Necessary for Weblogs and Web Pages?” and writes: 'This means that you do not need to have an explicit copyright notice for you to have a legally enforceable copyright, as...
Posted by Darren at 11:33 AM
January 06, 2005
Using your Visitor referrer logs
Wayne posts a useful tip on using your Visitor referrer logs in your statistics package over at Search Engine News Journal. 'Visitor referrer logs are valuable records to examine, from time to time. In my case, and probably yours...
Posted by Darren at 05:26 PM
January 05, 2005
26 Steps to 15,000 visitors a day
Jon from Flamin Tiki has a great common sense article filled with useful tips on building up your blog titled 26 Steps to 15,000 visitors a day. I would second everything he writes - although would want to qualify...
Posted by Darren at 02:59 PM
December 22, 2004
Moveable Type announce Upgrade to combat Comment Spam
Six Apart have just announced the release of Movable Type 3.14 which they have developed to fix 'the issue of extreme loads witnessed on servers under the strain of a massive spam attack. Its a free upgrade for all...
Posted by Darren at 06:21 PM
December 21, 2004
What to do When Someone Steals Your Blog's Content - Blog Plagiarism
What do you do when a site blatantly steals your blog's content? This is a growing problem for bloggers but thanks to tools like CopyScape its not hard to find them. The challenge comes when you want to do...
Posted by Darren at 06:51 PM
December 20, 2004
How To Post Photos to Blogger
One of the main complaints I hear from Blogger users about their blogging platform is the difficulty that they have in posting pictures to their blog. Photos, diagrams, graphs and other visuals can really lift a blog post so...
Posted by Darren at 08:18 PM
December 13, 2004
Making a Meal of Your Blog
The Washington Post has a basic article on how to blog. One of their sections is on posting regularly with a quote from Biz Stone: 'When a blogger adds new material, it's called a post. And good blogging demands...
Posted by Darren at 05:02 PM
November 30, 2004
What Every Blogger Needs To Know About Their Target Audience
John Taylor writes on the topic of keeping your reader in mind as you blog.... It doesn't matter what kind of web site you have you must understand your target audience and know what it is that they want....
Posted by Darren at 06:12 PM
November 13, 2004
Malcolm Gladwell on Human Nature
IT Conversations have a good recording of Malcolm Gladwell talking about 'Human Nature' which is well worth the read. It doesn't directly apply to bloggers but Malcolm's stuff has always been influential in the way I approach my blogging....
Posted by Darren at 09:38 AM
November 02, 2004
Watch Your Weblog - Legal Issues with Blogging
Computerworld has a good article on the legal issues that corporate bloggers face that is a must read for all Problogger. Here's a taster: 'As weblogs have multiplied, a number of legal issues have arisen, and regardless of whether...
Posted by Darren at 10:17 AM
October 03, 2004
Web Usage Figures - Digital Future Report
Digital Future Report 2004 (PDF) is a very useful report for anyone working online. Its full of useful research including the following tidbits: - In the past year of the study numbers of those accessing the web in the US...
Posted by Darren at 03:58 PM
October 01, 2004
Blogging for Beginners
I've been asked to submit a very short piece into a magazine with some basic tips for beginner bloggers which I thought I'd share here. They are not Rocket Science - pretty basic - but a good starting point for...
Posted by Darren at 02:33 PM
September 26, 2004
Submit your Blogging Tips
Whilst I've been blogging for close to two years now and am fortunate enough to earn a full time (ish) living from my blogging activities I by no means know everything there is to know about Blogging. Whilst I've written...
Posted by Darren at 08:55 PM
Add Categories to your Blogger Blog
With Movabletype and many other platforms categories enable a wonderful way of organizing your blog. Each post in this blog is allocated to a category (or more than one) which means readers only interested in one topic (Adsense for example)...
Posted by Darren at 04:36 PM
September 23, 2004
Successful Blogging - Lessons Learned from an Olympic Experiment
A few people have emailed and asked for more information about the Olympic Blog we've run. Phil asked - "what lessons did you learn about running a successful blog through the process." I thought it might make an interesting...
Posted by Darren at 07:57 PM
Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask about Blogging
Simon World has a good post titled Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask. Its got some great advice on blogging for anyone starting out....or continuing in blogging. Here is a couple of his tips: 4. Prepare...
Posted by Darren at 07:55 PM
How to Start a Blog
Jonny Baker has an Idiots Guide to Starting a Blog which is well worth the read if you're thinking of starting one but don't know how. I'm going to add it to my Blog Tips Central Register. Other good 'How...
Posted by Darren at 07:53 PM
Blog Tips - Getting Comments
What is your experience with Blog Comments? Do you use them? How do they enhance or hinder your blogging experience? How do you suggest bloggers starting out approach the issue? One of our citywide papers has a section on a...
Posted by Darren at 07:39 PM
Weblog Primer
François from padawan.info has just written a great Weblog Primer. 'Since I’ve sold the idea of weblogs within my company, I’ve been charged with the task to explain what are weblogs to people who haven’t heard of them yet....
Posted by Darren at 07:37 PM
How Blogs Work
How Blogs Work in 7 Easy Pieces is a great little piece that explains in easily understood language the steps of blogging and RSS. It even has pictures!...
Posted by Darren at 07:21 PM
How to be a Top Blogger
John Robb posts about how to build a hot/popular weblog. His suggestions of different approaches make some sense. Basically he breaks it down into a number of approaches you might take to become popular. - Connection machine - Name...
Posted by Darren at 07:13 PM
More Accessible Blogs
30 Days to a More Accessible Blog is a great series of posts that really will help bloggers make their blogs more accessible to those that may not be able to use many of our blogs. I'll let the...
Posted by Darren at 06:23 PM
Sins of Blogging
Caffinated Bliss has a great list of the Cardinal Sins of Blogging. Listed are 10 content sins and 9 design sins. I don't think I break too many of them - although might come close to the 120 in the...
Posted by Darren at 06:20 PM
Rebecca Blood on Blogging
I've been Reading The Weblog Handbook by Rebecca Blood over the past few days and am really enjoying her relaxed and clear style of writing. 'A weblog is a coffeehouse conversation in text, with references as required.' She writes with...
Posted by Darren at 06:19 PM
Blogging Books
Blogging about Blogging is happening with growing frequency on many weblogs, but writing in hard copy is also becoming more popular. Here are a few of the best selling and most popular books on the topic. (Descriptions are taken from...
Posted by Darren at 05:39 PM
Blog Ethics
Here is a great article on Weblog Ethics. 1. Publish as fact only that which you believe to be true. 2. If material exists online, link to it when you reference it. 3. Publicly correct any misinformation. 4. Write each...
Posted by Darren at 05:17 PM
How to be a Top 10 Blogger
The Evangelical Outpost is doing some analysis of the Top 10 Bloggers in the Ecosystem. He has come up with 9 things you can do to become a Top 10 Blogger. Its an interesting post - here are his...
Posted by Darren at 05:13 PM
How to Start a Weblog
Have you ever tried to explain how to start a blog to someone? Just point them to this post - Introduction to Blogging - its a great introduction including definitions of, tools and some great starting points. He's also...
Posted by Darren at 04:44 PM
Using Comments on your Blog
Human beings are relational. We like to be acknowledged. We like too participate and contribute. We like to feel that what we have to say is valuable. Most of your blog's readers are human beings. So acknowledge and interact...
Posted by Darren at 04:40 PM
Set Boundaries
I found this great page 47 key tips from the World's best Bloggers. It was interesting to see that most of them talked about establishing boundaries for the content of your blog. Here is what some of them had...
Posted by Darren at 04:37 PM
