Blog Nanny
Sun Apr 24 04:14:41 EDT 2011
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Be Careful What You Call It - I just now did a quick look at my monetizing ads on my blogs, hadn't checked on them in awhile (be sure and do that often). Because I create what TypePad, my main blog host, calls Typelists to place my...

Basic Post Formats/Getting Back On Track - Darren Rowse over on ProBlogger has just completed a seven day series of posts on the basic post styles. I highly recommend you go there and study them all. He's calling the series "Rediscover Your Blogging Groove." If you've sort...

Link, Link, Link - Enrich Your posts with links to material on other blogs, news items, products, whatever you can link to that will enhance your readers' experience will also enhance your traffic numbers. Who to link to? Think first about what your reader...

Post Regularly And Frequently - How often should you post to your blog? It depends to some extent on the blog, the subject matter, area of specialty and how interested you are in the subject yourself. Some of my blogs lend themselves to more frequent...

Prime Importance: Content - If content is king, and I think it is, quality content has to be one's top priority. Content consists of selection of material, and how it's presented. Selecting useful and/or entertaining subject matter is a given. Doing one's best writing...

Find And Study Good Examples - First off, I want to share something that has been particularly useful to me. It's like having mentors without asking people to mentor you. I call it finding good models. As a writer, I collect books, have a special shelf...

How To Market Your Blog - I could title this series of posts something else, like maybe "Generating Traffic," or "Getting People To Read Your Blog." But, after reading a long and insightful guest post on ProBlogger.net by Tony Hung titled "How To Market Your Blog...

How To Set And Achieve All Your Blogging Goals - I learned a great way to set and achieve goals years ago from reading a book titled Choose Success, by Billy B. Sharp with Claire Cox. Since then I've applied and innovated with the basic tools in that book to...

Habits Contributing To Highly Effective Blogging - 1. Do it. Ideas for posts, subject areas to explore, ideas for new blogs need to translate into action in order for them to be effective. 2. Carry a notebook. I read that Richard Branson, head of Virgin Airlines carries...

Write A Series On One Topic And Add A Graphic For The Series - One way to bring readers back repeatedly to your blog is to write a series of posts on one topic. Darren Rouse at ProBlogger has a series called Battling Bloggers Block. A reader and commenter on that series has spun...

Getting Listed in Directories - Thanks to a link from Darren Rowse's ProBlogger.net (if you're not reading him regularly, you should be), here is a link to Ari Paparo's list of blog directories. Whenever you create a new blog, go list your blogsite with all...

Frequency, Frequency, Frequency - You know how they say the secret to retail success is threefold: location, location, location? Well, the counterpart for blog success is also threefold: freqent posting, frequent posting, frequent posting. Yeah, look who's talking. But, I've got the message. You're...

Blog Traffic, How To Increase It - Lots of good stuff at Darren Rowse's problogger.net site. I recommend you go there, surf around, and keep coming back to learn more. The site has a huge amount of information on it. This evening I was reading here, finding...

BLOG-L List Rules - 1. No flaming. 2. This list is for everyone. This means that people of differing levels of expertise in blogging are equally welcome. So respect for all posters is a given. 3. If you think list rules are being violated...

BLOG-L FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions Q: Are there archives of previously posted messages to the list? A: BLOG-L has recently moved from its previous hosting service. The archives from that host may be available soon, but aren't yet. Current archives will be...

BLOG-L: What it is - There are lots of blogs about blogging, but I didn't find much in the way of email discussion lists on the subject. Since email discussion lists have certain advantages over blogs for quickly accessing the collective wisdom of a large...

My Blogging Projects - Since examples are usually more useful than descriptions I thought I'd share several of my blogging projects, just as they are at this point, to illustrate how blogs might be used by writers, publishers, coaches, and service providers. I'm a...

Learning How - Most, if not all, blog providers/hosts have tutorials. So, you can muddle through with more or less ease without additional training. However, I lucked out with free training from Andy Wibbels, who was developing a pilot program for an ecourse/telecourse...

What You Can Do With Blogs - Everybody needs a website. Well, almost everybody. Certainly every author, coach, service provider, and publisher needs one. But, websites can be very difficult and expensive to plan, design, and get up and running. Mine aren't, but that's because I use...

Web Logs (blogs) What They Are - Web logs, or blogs, are simple add-to websites, either with their own domain name, or a subdomain from a blog service provider. Simple blogs consist of a single front page, with chronological or reverse chronological entries by the blogger, in...

What Is Blog Nanny? - Blog Nanny is an information site for new bloggers, particularly bloggers using TypePad's blogging software/hosting. I'll be providing useful links, tips, and info for people who want to blog but may be intimidated or confused by the size of the...