Blogging Basics Archive

Yowch.  A painful lesson that everyone should learn from rather than having to learn it personally: http://activerain.com/blogsview/737400/How-NOT-to-steal

Many people believe that if they show only partial posts in their RSS feeds that more people will come back to their site to read the whole thing. Dumb. Let's suppose for a second that your content is as good as Shoemoney's or Aaron Wall's.  Know what they found when they went to partial feeds?  Same thing that everyone finds. People hate it, and they let you ... Keep reading »

If you've blogged for any amount of time, you've seen them: comments that strangely have no substance at all. There are words there, yes, but why did someone take the time to type something that really adds no value? It's called comment spam, and the more popular your blog is, the more of it you get. "But wait," I hear the spammers saying. "I actually took the time to write ... Keep reading »

I made my reservations yesterday for Blog World Expo, exclusively because of who else is going. If you're going to be there and would like to meet up, let me know!

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You'll never get rich blogging. 18 months ago that was the very first thing I wrote on this blog, and I still think it's true. However, that's no reason not to make some money from your blog. Depending on what you're blogging about, even 10,000 to 15,000 monthly visitors could earn you $5,000 or more annually. Not enough to quit a job on, but who couldn't use an extra $416.67 every month? So what I want ... Keep reading »

Wanted to give a huge thanks to Deepak. After updating to WordPress 2.5 several days ago, I only today tried to upload an image for the first time. Well, the only result I could ever get was a box labeled "Crunching..." and then a less-then-helpful error message that read only: An error occurred in the upload. Please try again later. After a little searching, though, I came across Deepak's post that had exactly what I needed. Thanks, ... Keep reading »

That's the title of one of the best articles I've ever read and you can find it over at Meta Best Blog Win. Great advice in a great format. A big thanks to Free Lancer for pointing it out.

Developing a sense of community among your readers not only helps your readership grow faster, but it also keeps people coming back more often. I realize, though, that some of you would rather only your mother read your blog (and through a feed reader no less), so for those readers I'm excited to present two quick, easy ways to make sure your blog grows very slowly. Don't Respond to Comments This one works great! ... Keep reading »

On some of my blogs, trackback spam has now become rampant. Not content to simply spam the comments, spammers are now scraping content from the RSS feed, posting it to spam blogs (splogs), and sending a trackback to the violated site in order to pick up a free link. The problem is that you wouldn't realize it was spam in most cases. On the surface, it looks pretty legit. Why is trackback spam a problem? Well, aside from the ... Keep reading »

I'm an admitted Iron Man nerd.  I saw it three times in the theater, and I almost never go to ...

Mark at Business is Personal generates more genuinely great content consistently than any other blog I know of.  He hits a homerun just about every time up to bat.  ...

Love this post by Alan today.  Here's my favorite part: Gurus claiming they make money from the net or whatever line they’re using is like saying the guy we buy ...