This is a guest post by Michael Stevens. Blogging is a popular profession and hobby which is becoming increasingly more so as new media gains importance. As smart phones become increasingly pervasive, they are developing into rich blogging gadgets in their own right. If you are a writer or photographer, consider adding a new dimension to your posts [...]
Blogging Tips
Blogging is not an easy hobby, it takes time, hard-work and commitment. With so much-needed these days to create a popular blog it is easy to see why so many give up after only a few months. It is no longer enough to just publish create content, you also have to promote it and network with [...]
Blog contests, you have probably seen loads of them advertised around the blogosphere today already. But why are so many bloggers running them on their blogs? The fact is that blog contests have many benefits for bloggers, with the only downside being that you need to arrange a prize, this can sometimes be a difficult task if you are [...]
Over the past couple of days I laid out a challenge to my Twitter followers. The challenge: Does Your Blog Load Faster Than My Blog? After two days I am still yet to find anyone who has a blog that loads faster than mine. While running the challenge I received a tweet from Melissa Reyes (follow her) asking me [...]
I am sure many of you are aware an important part of blogging is building your email list. I want to help you grow your list so that you can use it to drive traffic to your blog and to help you make money. Most bloggers that I know use Aweber to manage their list, [...]
When starting a new blog one of the best ways of driving traffic to it in the early stages is to comment on other blogs in your niche. I rank blog commenting second only to guest blogging when trying to promote a blog. The act of leaving a comment on a blog is a pretty [...]
I can still remember the day that I published my first ever blog post. The huge sense of achievement that I felt after spending countless hours trying to set-up my blog is something that will stay with me throughout my blogging journey. I hit publish at 2am and made my way to bed, as I [...]
I blogged a few weeks back about guest blogging being a great way for beginners to enter the blogosphere. Another low risk strategy is to blog for free. New bloggers often have a couple of reservations before they embark on their blogging journey, one of the most common is ‘how much will it cost me [...]
Ever since I launched Puxee back in January there has been one question that I have been asked countless times, “How Much Should I Charge For My Blog Ad Space?” It is often the first question that crosses a bloggers mind when they decide to try selling ad space on their blog, if you set [...]
