Articles About Blogging

Articles in the blogging category include topics on how to create a blog, using blog software for static websites, blogging tools, SEO for blogs, blog writing, and many more tips on blogging.

Other areas of blogging include small business blogging as well as business blogging in general. Monetizing a blog and blog advertising are some other topics you’ll find in this category.

Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips has written a free eBook titled Make Money Blogging. For those of you who don’t know Daniel or his blog, he’s been around for a few years providing valuable blog tips that include a wide range of topics; everything from blog content to blogging with WordPress to making money [...]

Darren Rowse from Problogger has a nice bundle of his 31 Days to Build a Better Blog program in addition to interviews with Leo Babauta from Zen Habits, Neil Patel from Quick Sprout, as well as additional PDFs that will help you with your blogging endeavors.  Here are 35 questions and the type of information [...]

Recently an interviewer was asking someone, “How do I know, what it is I should be doing?”  The interviewee answered succinctly, “Two things: it’s fulling and it’s fruitful.” This question was posed in the context of “How do I know what I should be doing with my life?”  Some people don’t know the answer to [...]

There are quite a few ways you can use Google Adsense.  Here are a three ways to help you get started with Google Adsense. 1. Don’t Use Google Adsense Google Adsense is great if you’re trying to make money from a website that has tons of traffic.  Don’t forget that people need to click on [...]

Question: How do I create a twitter icon/link that readers can use to promote my blog posts, scrunch up the URL of the blog post so it fits appropriately within the 140 character limitation of twitter, and send it to twitter when someone click on the icon/link? Answer: Use a TweetMeme button plugin by installing [...]

If you’re a blogger and would like to include video on your WordPress.com or self hosted WordPress.org blog, you might want to give Automattic’s VideoPress a try. You’ll need a WordPress.com account (Free) and VideoPress will cost you $59.97 per year or $0.16 cents a day.  Not too bad.  It’s available from the Upgrade page [...]

While writing about How to Stop Blog Comment Spam, I realized that all the comment policies I’ve read over the last couple years were starting to make sense.  I’ve read a few and thought I’d start implementing a comments policy myself on one of my blogs. What led to this decision was finally receiving a [...]

One of my blogs was overwhelmed last week with quite a bit of comment spam.  Luckily my host locked it down for me until I resolved the issue.  Not too much fun when your site is shut down, but here are some remedies that will help you avoid your site from becoming 403′d – the [...]