Find Out How Popular Your Blog Is

This site covers how to start a blog, build traffic and make money blogging. If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Since so many bloggers don’t understand how and why to use trackbacks, it’s always a good idea to use other ways to learn about who’s […]

Use A Calendar To Schedule Regular Features

Tired of wondering what you should blog about? Use an editorial calendar to schedule regular features and watch your traffic increase.

How And Why To Use Trackbacks

Recently, Donna B. asked:
I was wondering it you could write on the value or non-value of trackbacks and how to do them in Wordpress.
You bet I can. In fact, I consider trackbacks one of the most underused forms of publicity available to bloggers, second only to leaving insightful comments at other blogs within their own […]

Know Your Readers To Retain Them

Why do your readers visit your blog? Is it for your content? Or have search engine queries led most there by accident, their visits never lasting more than a few seconds?
There are advantages to knowing why readers read your blog as Wayne Liew explains in this morning’s must read.

How To Increase Readership While You Sleep

This morning’s must read entry is from Moshin at Blogging Bits.
Do you know I have picked up 50 new subscribers during previous two weeks?
That’s probably not very interesting. What’s interesting is that I haven’t posted anything in the past two weeks! (because of illness)
I bet now I’ve got your attention, eh?
He got my attention, […]

Readers Have Limited Attention Spans

Even if your blog design isn’t like a bad comb over the fact remains that 75% percent of internet users will not view or return to a page that takes longer than 4 seconds to load. Seventy-five percent.
Those huge spikes in traffic which come from someone submitting your site to StumbleUpon, Digg or BloggingZoom are […]

What Are They Saying About Your Site?

When someone else links to your site, it’s always nice to send a “Thank you” either by email or a reciprocal entry linking to something they’ve written, too. Unfortunately, incoming trackbacks are a notoriously unreliable way to keep track of who’s been linking your site.
So when I was reading David at Houmah.com’s page today, […]

Understanding Basic Link Theory

In theory, the greater the number of links to your page the better. In practice, who is linking to you, what they link to, and what anchor text they use can all drastically affect your site. Once you understand how links work you’ll be in a position to leverage your own authority when linking within your blog’s pages. But first you must understand that when it comes to incoming links ( both from others as well as cross-links in your own pages) more is not always better.

Hit The G-Spot With Your Reviews

Did you know your money-making blog entries can have g-spots? It takes time and effort, but the results can be overwhelmingly splendid. Finding the g-spot, and doing it every time, will bring more traffic, more opportunities and more income. And it’s easier than you think!

Is Your Sponsored Blog A Splog?

Your blog can stand out for good writing AND make you money, too. Here are three tips to get you started.

How To Write Paid Reviews Worth Reading

I don’t write paid reviews. I write blog entries which happen to make me money. What’s the difference? It’s all in how you do it.

What Should I Blog About?

You know you need to blog. You need the traffic. You need to keep your readers coming back. But you don’t have a clue what you should write about. How do you deal with those days? I have 8 easy tips for you!

Starting A New Blog: A Checklist

Whether you’re starting your first-ever blog or launching a new one, first impressions matter. A new blog, to the blogosphere, is like free beer to frat boys, like shoe sales to fashionistas: it’s almost as exciting as free Wi-Fi. It will get traffic, sometimes a huge surge, even. If you want to turn that traffic into a regular reading audience, you need to create a good first impression. Accomplish this by making sure you have your blog’s ducks all in a row before that first surge of new blog traffic ever arrives.

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