Writing Success

You Need Great Blog Content

Are you trying to build a blog to use in your own web marketing campaign? According to the folks at the Blog Success Journal, the #1 tip for creating a successful blog is to fill your blog with great, useful content. Sure, SEO is important, but if you put hours of time into SEO work centering around terribly written content, nothing will ever happen with your blog or website.

Check out this video (it’s short), see what they have to say, and take a look at your own blog. Are you throwing up a bunch of keyword stuffed crud on a regular basis or are you really trying to build a blog with a strong brand and excellent reputation?

What to Do After Starting a Blog

This week, thanks to a number of links reposting the article, we came across an incredible article written by a growing blogger named Gloson. The cool thing about Gloson, aside from the fact that he’s a blogger, is that he’s only 12 years old.

Yup - that’s right. He’s 12.

Gloson wrote this post called, 17 Important Things to Do After Starting Your Wordpress Blog. Sure, just about anyone can upload WordPress to a web server, but not everyone can optimize a blog and really get it going.

Gloson can - and he’s sharing his tips for getting your blog up and running in no time flat.

Check it out! You’ll be amazed at what this young entrepreneur has to offer in terms of knowledge!

Blogging Tips from the Pros

Are you still struggling to get your first blog off the ground? Check out this awesome video made by Darren Rowse of Problogger.net. He visited the Blog World Expo and interviewed some of the top bloggers on the web and asked them to share their #1 blog tip for beginners!

3 Wordpress Plugins Every Blogger Needs

Serious writers and bloggers using the Wordpress platform know exactly how important it is to have a well-maintained blog. In order to achieve this, we add tons of plugins to our Wordpress blogs. Plugins are designed to enhance the way a blog performs and I, personally, think there are a few no writer should go without.

The first is the Akismet plugin. Akismet was designed to act as a spam filter, but it’s much more sophisticated than allowing Wordpress to do this alone. Akismet will catch comment spam and if you mark a comment as spam once the program will automatically filter spam from the same source in the future. The coolest thing about Akismet is that it automatically installs with Wordpress, so all you have to do is activate it. …Continue Reading 3 Wordpress Plugins Every Blogger Needs

Building a Better Blog

Darren Rowse at ProBlogger has been one of my favorite bloggers for quite some time now. He regularly gives incredible tips and tricks to his reader and his blog and website are full of powerful and useful information. That’s why I was so excited to find that he is preparing to run his “31 Days to a Better Blog” project again this year. …Continue Reading Building a Better Blog

Writing Simple Blog Posts

When we first start out blogging we sometimes feel as though we need to show our audience how smart we are  - as if it will build our credibility. The problem is that we end up sacrificing simplicity for some type of complex writing format that no one really cares about.

The key to successul blogging is writing simple blog posts. This means using simple words and short sentences. Check out this video for some tips on how you can simplify your blogging process and still write great posts. You’ll soon find the task of blogging to be much simpler than you once thought!

Taking a Break from Blogging

From time to time you’re going to find yourself with a bit more work than you can handle. That or you’re going to find that you have a special project that’s been sitting on your desk for days (or weeks, or months) that you somehow haven’t made the time to finish. Sometimes these projects take backseat to money-making ventures and other times they could BE money makers if you’d just take the time to work them out.

So what happens when you’re too busy to get your work done? You may need to find areas in your business in which you need to cut back for a while. Some people, for example, find it necessary to put their personal blogs on hold. …Continue Reading Taking a Break from Blogging